VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. His real job – the action – was to get the software moved onto our machine.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. million to date and has managed to sign partnerships with some of the web’s leading video publishers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The first step was to recruit a new management team. When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. Why they were looking to me to run marketing wasn’t clear.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Most businesses use spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel to track their revenue and expenses when they first start operating, but this system requires a lot of manual data entry, so it can be time-consuming and easy to make mistakes. Don’t underestimate the importance of your chart of accounts; invest time in setting it up properly.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known? Armstrong was a god! Farnsworth was also bullied to an early death by Sarnoff and RCA.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If these technical challenges weren’t enough for drivers to manage, these autonomous driving features are appearing at the same time that car dashboards are becoming computer displays. auto-throttle – to manage engine power in order to maintain a selected speed. We never had cars that worked like this.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

I spent a chunk of my career as a product manager in search (Shopping.com, GLG, Ask.com, AOL and Google) so I find this particularly interesting. Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 11, 2010

Why I Chose To Go Vertical. The system I teach to people, which Craig touched on when he mentioned creating consistent quality content, is to go vertical in your market (or “go deep&# as I have previously written about ). Transitioning To A Vertical Model. The Best Of Both Worlds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He is currently on a mission to empower 1,000 agencies to become vertical-market specialists, leveraging his extensive experience and insights. Key Takeaways Corey Quinn underscores the significance of vertical market specialization in transitioning from founder-led sales to scalable growth for agencies. This is John Jantsch.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking the SMB code. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. Brightcove includes: Interactive content; Transcription (with their SubPly partnership); Digital rights management. Brightcove. Implementation is technical (i.e.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

And since the card was useless without any application software, what other software products did they use on it? What reviews did they trust? Instead they managed rep firms (independent sales companies that carried multiple, non-competing products) that called on computer resellers that sold to the customers.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. In the past, we invested in brilliant architecture, code reuse, refactoring, modular design, etc. I have detected a secret virus in your CPU. The curse of prevention Beware!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. Business processes span industries, both vertical and horizontal, and can include any type of business operation. Some examples may include: Automotive – managing parts and/or suppliers. Health – a medical assessment, a drug approval.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. 6- Datafication Photo Credit: Edward Mellett Datafication, in my perspective, is the transformation of everything in our lives into data-powered devices or software.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Inside the covers of these publications our customers had said that it was the product reviews that most influenced their buying decisions. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. Is Government a good idea?

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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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

For instance, I’ve been warned when being introduced by other entrepreneurs not to trust certain older VCs due to their disposition towards using young startups to do their friends favors, prove a point, gain some insight, etc. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

With marketing and analytics becoming increasingly complex, businesses need to know how to track and manage their data, and they need to know what to do with it. While suitable for web applications and mobile use cases, the general consensus based on digesting hundreds of reviews is that they are strongest for web applications.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

In the early days of business plan software, when I first developed and sold templates to do business plan financials in the middle 1980s, I was the first to do that. In the case of the management plan, you can skip the details and look for the high points. You’ll also see positioning maps set up with two axes, vertical and horizontal.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Here are five easy ways you can influence your business’ culture and create a place where employees want to stay: Choose an effective management structure. Introducing an efficient and smooth-running management structure is crucial to your business’ success – but it’s also easier said than done.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

Despite the fact that many decision makers understand the necessity of masterfully managing their cash flow, two-thirds of all small businesses still experience cash flow problems from time to time. 10 tips for better cash flow management: 1. 10 tips for better cash flow management: 1. Know when to lease and know when to buy.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

I’m going to assume you disagree with this but how do you manage through a changing environment and try to keep a team steady during a business cycle like the one we’ve experienced over the last year? When you’re hiring at Ethena, how do you assess whether a candidate is stage-appropriate? The first product was around Harassment Prevention.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

at the time and best highlighted in our end of 2015 review: SaaS 2.0, Cost of getting message to market has increased due to the noise from the many competitors in a particular space. When we started boldstart in 2010, a core thesis of ours was to invest in next-gen SaaS which we called SaaS 2.0

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SVPG

APRIL 14, 2015

From your feedback I know this is a subject that is important to many of you, and I realized there was one more dimension to this discussion that I should also put out there, and that has to do with the trade-offs between autonomy and the concept of ownership, especially code ownership. First there’s the strategic product question.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

By aggregating thousands of licensed limousine drivers, and overlaying that with a new-age supply chain management solution, Uber gives it users an experience that is drastically improved compared to the previous alternative. At oDesk, the platform enables the planning, development, and transfer of code from the supplier to the purchaser.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. emotional rather than technical) and a lot harder to manage than a startup. What is your advice to someone who has financial strain due to a startup? The angst continues.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some five years into an early stage technology company, I found myself, an experienced technology manager, as a CEO in search of competent manufacturing. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. Thanks Pamela. Where is the innovation workforce? –

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

The need for software and services to accommodate this group looks nothing like the bank accounts, benefits, and tax software we use today. This one directly pulled from Range and the original Game Boy that has the infamous spinach colored screen and still dominated against full color competition due to these constraints.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Have appropriate expectations, listen to the professionals in your employ and don’t micro-manage a design or development project. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Another good resource is Appolicious’ directory.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

You may also want to consider measuring social media engagement and keeping an eye on your online reviews. UserTesting.com is one of the better-known services that help companies run usability tests, and there are also many companies that specialize in testing how usable software or a site is. Understanding your customers. Typography.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. Because one of the most important things for me is that it helps me to communicate with the other person that I manage my money with, who’s also spending out of those same accounts, my wife. Ryan: No that’s great advice.

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