Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. Both have worked. Most are still confused about the right priority.

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Revenue Valuation Viral Retention 434

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. Third, as Tom Treanor explains , “[C]hanging your marketing materials, email addresses, and online and offline references, and links to your old site is a long, painful, and costly process.”

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Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

3- Social media Photo Credit: Tom Miller In my professional view, social media will continue to play a crucial role in the digital marketing strategies of successful businesses. billion in 2025, the market for coworking is expected to grow. In the upcoming month automation will be adopted by many marketers.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Media 127

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. A huge untapped market opportunity.?. Never, ever, choose your investors based on valuation.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Mobile Marketing Comes of Age: Retailers finally began to see the promise of location based applications and consumers changed their shopping behavior using their mobile devices. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Assuming you have tested the product and have some users, it would be a good idea to review your channels to market and how effective they are. So if your product is not getting a decent amount (or any) traffic, then it’s worth looking at your marketing strategy before changing the focus and strategy of your entire company!

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Technical Review Architecture Revenue Channel 157

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

It goes like this, “If your next round investor can see how fast you’re scaling then you can raise money based on your user traction and your valuation can hit the sky. Delaying going out of business gives you way more chances at product / market fit than any other strategy I know of. The market. The choice is yours.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The goals were “first mover advantage,” “grab market share” and “get big fast.” Carpe Diem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space. Too little focus on marketing. Execution skills are weak.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral Early Stage 274

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

” How can businesses not incorporate information into their marketing and sales funnels? No other vendor in the market allows a single API, a scripting language and a visual query builder and it’s these and other feature sets that have seen DataSift grow at the astronomical pace it has grown at. Asymmetric. Location Aware.

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Iran API San Francisco Nigeria 358

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space. Too little focus on marketing. Execution skills are weak.

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Intellectual Property Startup Viral Early Stage 251

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with free services to increase their valuation. Traditionally, it was simple.

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Revenue Entrepreneur Valuation Viral 246

Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our major challenge was how do we compete with companies that have billion-dollar valuations, millions in investor funding, and millions in revenue? Of those competitors, a few of them have marketing and sales budgets equal to millions of dollars which are used on paid advertising, media mentions, influencers, and more.

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SEO Software Review Search Acquisition 104

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

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Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space. Too little focus on marketing. Execution skills are weak.

Intellectual Property 183

Intellectual Property Startup Viral Early Stage 183

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. Both have worked. Most are still confused about the right priority.

Revenue 145

Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The financials immediately jump out when we talk about term sheets: what’s the valuation? If you over-perform, then you would have raised on better terms in the free market. Deal 2 is marketing-driven. I’m a little burned out on chasing the market.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2019

I believe it’s more important to optimize on the right lead investor vs. the highest valuations at the seed stage (within reason). This makes sense, because it’s more likely that a firm with a weaker competitive position is willing to stretch and pay a price way above market in order to win what they think is a competitive deal.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Lead Investor 202

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

By saturating one market or sub-market at a time, we started building the best marketing channel there is: word of mouth (WOM). We created virality in small pockets, such as Venice Beach, California, and the virality spilled over to the next pocket, Santa Monica.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Our average check was larger than we expected as a result of increasing valuations and round sizes. There are several Homebrew investments going to market for their Series A this year. In bull markets we’re told to expect a seed failure rate of ~40% and closer to 50% in typical markets. We love our founders.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Season 4 week 9 of Sharktank was another fun episode, showing the importance of failing fast, being prepared for your pitch and how selecting an investor is about more than just optimizing valuation. He thought that a toy company would have the resources to bring something like this to market at scale and would pay a 7-10% royalty.

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Valuation Post-Money Valuation Viral Algorithm 107

The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Vision for B2C, virality-driven community. The financials immediately jump out when we talk about term sheets: what’s the valuation? If you over-perform, then you would have raised on better terms in the free market. Deal 2 is marketing-driven. I’m a little burned out on chasing the market.

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Term Sheet Dilution Participating Preferred B2C 20

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. The game has started getting some traction already, and has a good virality index.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

They tend to come when it’s time to go to market, or they’ve launched (not well) and need to grow audience or customers. If you’re building a product that can grow virally—a social network, for example—brand is almost certainly less important at launch than product. Unfortunately, too many startups come to us way too late.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2015

I think it’s much better to think of things in terms of company milestones , which are: Inception –> Early Product-Market Fit –> Strong PMF –> Scaling Growth. For consumer social, you need amazing virality, engagement, and hundreds of thousands of DAUs. Some still happen fast.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

It seems obvious but strategic investment only makes sense when that corporate VC is providing technology, market access, or other aid that cannot be obtained through a simple business relationship or from a startup’s other investors or advisors.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

My friend Jordan Cooper wrote an interesting post a few days ago about some of his predictions of the venture market in 2012. Really smart people end up writing thoughtful posts on the future of the venture market pretty much every year – and I often agree with many of them like I do Jordan’s. Valuation Discipline.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Marketing 49

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 10, 2020

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Sales Marketing Framework Pennsylvania 87

Start Up Blog

MAY 26, 2022

There are very few times in corporate history where offering more product options has performed better financially, in contrast to careful market curation. Market reality bites. Since its peak in late 2021, Netflix has lost US$230 billion, which is 73 per cent of its market value. We can include Tesla into this category as well.

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Forecast Viral Stock Curation 62

Rob Go

MAY 26, 2016

Because you recover your marketing and sales expenses up front, this allows you to start generating cash much more quickly, whereas recurring revenue businesses often consume cash to grow and recover that marketing investment over time. Non-recurring revenue businesses might consume less cash to grow.

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Revenue NPV Valuation Forecast 53

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

While statistics are weak on startup success rates, the worst one I’ve seen suggests that 2 in 1000 venture backed startups will ever achieve $100-million or more in valuation. . ——————-. Another stat puts that number at 2% rather than 0.2%. What’s the honest trajectory?

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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