Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. As a VC, the biggest challenge in evaluating LTV models is that metrics can dramatically change at scale.

Churn Rate 168

Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

10 Essential PR Tips for Startups. Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. Read on for my startup tips.

PR 103

PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Would you sell an ebook version on this site for all the rest of us trying to incorporate your model in our startups? What did I learn so far? Very much in addition to the text. mahmoud , on March 28, 2009 at 1:53 am Said: Steve, I want to buy your book but its not available on amazon.ca

Silicon Valley 161

Silicon Valley Marketing RSS California 161

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Anupam has serious segmentation issues.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). Peter Coles. Jon Russell. Jonah Peretti. Lauren Leto.

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

which features do you believe your customers care about and where you’re try to differentiate? For starters, here’s the two most common approaches that startups take to discuss competition and also a section on the common pitfalls – even for experienced presenters. “Our competition sucks&#.

Hockey Stick 313

Hockey Stick Differentiation AJAX Vertical 313

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. – Execution.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Growth hacking is a term that emerged from the Silicon Valley tech community and the lean startup methodology. One of Qless’s core verticals is the retail industry. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. Image source.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). The entrepreneur’s story and what brought them to their startup business. 6:00 – 7:30). 16:35-19:35). 22:00-33:00).

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As a mentor, you are expected to bring to the table real experience, sound advice, relevance, customer and/or funding connections, enough technical grasp to speak the language, and adequate availability to see the startup process through. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach. No founder has time to train you.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

The startup market evolves, and so do we as VCs. However, most businesses are looking for network effects, so they are less of a differentiator than they were a decade ago. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. Technology changes.

Founder 213

Founder Vertical Differentiation Portfolio 213

VC Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments – based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. Despite the VC’s obvious disadvantage in the early stages, marketing and differentiation of venture capital funds is limited today. Can they teach each other something?

Venture Capital 90

Venture Capital Differentiation Incubator Angel Investor 90

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. The take-away rule of thumb here is that as a startup, learn to invest early, then reinvest the profits when you find a good opportunity. There is a myth among first time tech founders that product is everything. Asset valuation.

Founder 143

Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 143

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

11:29] What’s the strategy for a startup to take on a really big entrenched industry that doesn’t want to go away? [16:08] But there are certain ways in which the digital age is having maybe differential impacts than what we've seen in the past. 16:08] There are some social implications and policies when talking about AI.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review ChatGPT Generative AI Technology 91

Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability.

Open Source 62

Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I learned that he was originally with William Morris as a junior talent rep but wanted to be more in the business of helping digital startups. I figured it would be a great outcome if we could get both East Coast money and somebody who viewed startups and the world in a similar way that I did. might have been a lot less differentiated.

Term Sheet 303

Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

The Equity Kicker

MAY 11, 2016

Andy Dunn, the founder of Bonobos and one of the most thoughtful writers I know on ecommerce, penned a good piece yesterday entitled Digitally Native Vertical Brands. It’s a brand, and that brand is vertical. Personalisation is a common way for vertically integrated ecommerce companies to differentiate their physical product (e.g.

Vertical 60

Vertical eCommerce Differentiation Distribution 60

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

While not all of our investments will pay off in the long run, we are willing to take these risks in an attempt to create the best and most differentiated products in the market.” The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

New domains would include attracting business customers as well as individuals, taking your online business into retail, and diving into verticals. Expand the market to new domains. This strategy opens up new growth opportunities without the dogfight of taking territory away from existing competitors.

Vertical 167

Vertical Differentiation Restful Audience 167

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As is the case in other countries with a relatively new, rapidly growing tech sector, e-commerce is Russia’s fastest growing vertical. However, in terms of the complexity of deal making and buoyancy of the Russian VC market, there is little to differentiate it from the West. Russian tech: Sectors to watch.

Russia 140

Russia Europe Government Vertical 140

Hippoland

MARCH 19, 2017

One of the biggest components of this is differentiating your product / your company from others. Differentiation is very difficult — there are so many entrepreneurs who are doing something similar to you and also so many alternatives that achieve the same results as your product / solution. This, in itself, may be a small number.

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Differentiation Lead Generation Algorithm Search 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. It is easier to do this than it may sound.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, this is not to say that I don’t spend time on nor invest in AI, dev tools, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, etc. (as We all know it’s important to differentiate ourselves individually and not just as a fund. The startup journey is never straight…in fact, some of our best performing companies are pivots.

Cofounder 180

Cofounder Portfolio Capital Gains Vertical 180

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

These acquisitions tell us very clearly that the world’s largest software companies now clearly understand the benefits of leveraging social in their enterprise software and new startups in these markets will need to cleverly navigate the existing players if they are to succeed.

Acquisition 94

Acquisition Vertical eCommerce Flash 94

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Instead of funding or founding enterprise software companies – these new startups are increasingly hybrids. From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. For a long time, software was viewed as an enabler and accelerant for competitive differentiation for incumbents.

Software 107

Software Silicon Valley Los Angeles Columbus 107

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2018

A good business or startup name sets the right tone for your business and comes with some of the following benefits: Brand awareness. Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. Differentiation in this case is key. Brand recognition.

Naming 85

Naming eCommerce Startup Database 85

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

and e-commerce businesses, so I would love to work with Kelly to help her figure out the various nuances of building a successful e-commerce business, especially one that differentiates on personalization. However, I'd like to see a more focused, vertical specific go-to-market strategy in Udemy.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical Massachusetts 114

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Slopestyle runs are judged on the difficulty of the tricks being executed, the vertical height achieved, and the overall execution of the run. When it comes to startups, we know it is the idea that counts. The more complicated the trick, the more breathtaking the vertical height, the greater the risk will impress the judges greatly.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Vertical Small Business Differentiation 91

Start Up Blog

JULY 31, 2013

Read about technology, write an article, build a new presentation, help a startup, work on an upcoming lecture at Melbourne University, go to a hackers event… but most recently work on the Super Awesome Micro Project with Raul. More valued to the market and most importantly differentiated. or whichever hours work for you).

Vertical 87

Vertical Differentiation Technology Demand 87

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

I love learning and for me founding my own ed-tech startup is like learning on steroids. Customers will order from a specific vertical only so often, so we started thinking like our audience to address their expanding needs and keep them engaged and doing business with us. #9- The learning. Photo Credit: Kitty Stevenson.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Asia LLC Community 54

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 25, 2023

But it might be a different story when it comes to enterprise software as there’s an opening for start-ups to create more value for their customers with vertical-specific AI products. If that’s the case, how can an AI enterprise company create a differentiated product on top of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI?

Artificial Inteligence 78

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Azure Balance Sheet 78

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

And the startup ecosystem is dependent on those wild Barry-Bonds-juiced-up-on-a-million-steriods-style home runs to keep functioning. Fab’s differentiator is taste and you don’t develop taste overnight, the two argue. ”We’ve been successful, because we’re not kids,” Shellhammer said. Dave Winters.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. 20 years ago, a majority of “Sand Hill” venture capital went into enterprise-focused startups. Only the most daring and risk-tolerant investors bothered with consumer startups.

Vertical 60

Vertical Widget Distribution China 60

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

And it’s harder than ever to differentiate consumer goods. Dominant players like Walmart will continue to call the shots, and eat into suppliers business via backwards vertical integration. . • We can no longer buy an audience on demand. It’s no longer a brand built monologue. Consumers and are now connected and in control. •

Australia 93

Australia Distribution Asia Channel 93