Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Your friends and advisers tell you that this means you need revenue because in this economy VC’s will only fund businesses with revenue. So if it’s not necessarily revenue that’s preventing an investment, then WTF is traction? They get positive product reviews on TechCrunch, GigaOm or Paidcontent.org.

Technical Review 309

Technical Review Term Sheet Venture Capital Revenue 309

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

Advisory Board 368

Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor Cofounder 368

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. we would support 6.0

China 333

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. we would support 6.0

China 328

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Customer feedback, including blog comments, usability reviews, and early user testimonials, build relationships and provide credible marketing to the broader customer community. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide. Collaborate with customers to tune your solution.

Merger 386

Merger Acquisition Software Review Social Media 386

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

Advisory Board 312

Advisory Board Startup Dividend Angel Investor 312

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Mentorship. And here’s the thing.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

Institutional Investors 271

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

You get to have interesting conversations with founders and review business plans and then see how these businesses evolve over the years. A firm like ours has almost 100 different investments across all the various partners so we get to see some businesses very intimately. Some even grow "bad" revenue just to show growth.

Founder 242

Founder Dilution Software Review Later Stage 242

The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Partnerships share income and losses among partners, affecting individual tax brackets. Maintaining diligent records is paramount to ensuring these deductions are accurately captured and substantiated in the event of an audit.

Small Business 154

Small Business Software Review Technical Review Limited Liability Company 154

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 28, 2012

At Smart Bear, Code Reviewer started at $34.95/seat Most people are reasonable and in fact want you to succeed, both personally as a small-business owner and professionally in that they want updates to that software. In fact, the extra revenue from the majority who stay will outweigh the loss in revenue from the others.

Software Review 240

Software Review Technical Review Email Revenue 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility.

Non-Compete 241

Non-Compete Merger Technical Review Software Review 241

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To grow your brand and increase revenue, here are some handy tips on how to optimise your affiliate marketing strategy. You can use affiliate recruitment software which can help you find suitable affiliates for your brand. You need to know the risk factors when picking affiliate partners, otherwise you run the risk of losing revenue.

Affiliate 197

Affiliate Marketing Technical Review Software Review 197

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). What does it do? it has built in iPad support from Day 1.

Mobile 282

Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

For those hundreds of people who downloaded your software and never bought — is the reason "not enough features?". If you had zero revenue from now on, on what date would you run out of money? Finally, knowing "The day my business could die" helps focus your attention on activities that bring in revenue.

Startup 315

Startup Revenue Cofounder Sales 315

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Most of the great software startups that I’ve been involved in have at least one technical co-founder (and many have more than one.) You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone.

Technical Cofounder 241

Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Equity Sweat Equity 241

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Partners leave the industry. Here’s my take: 1.

LP 311

LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Steve Blank

JANUARY 19, 2011

has evolved an entrepreneurial ecosystem with two of the most unlikely partners – venture capital investors and technology entrepreneurs. In fact it sounded great: three major versions of the product shipped, multiple iterations and a few pivots under their belt, revenue was growing even faster than plan. Uh oh, I thought.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 237

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

Entrepreneur 266

Entrepreneur Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor 266

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. I assure you of the need to really listen to customer feedback, both proactively in market studies, as well as after-the-sale reviews.

Acquisition 250

Acquisition Cost Customer Sales Cycle 250

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and. This is true whether the company is concept stage or ramping revenue. The Bend Experience.

Early Stage 295

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 295

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

by TX Zhuo , managing partner at Karlin Ventures. Because of these nuances, startups selling to enterprise customers must be even more diligent in tracking the right growth metrics. Revenue Growth. Enterprise startups must have processes in place to monitor revenue growth. Cost of Acquisition/Annual Contract Value.

Metrics 219

Metrics Churn Rate Startup Acquisition 219

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? To reduce the impact of dilution, the expectation is that startup valuation should more or less double between the pre-seed to the seed, and seed to series A (ideally backed by reasonable traction/ revenue multiples). A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

Valuation 186

Valuation Software Review Generative AI Technical Review 186

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Partnering with outside entrepreneurial efforts is discouraged. In enterprises, performance objectives are usually tied to internal processes, rather than beating competitors, customer acquisition, and revenue growth. Internal legal reviews and required new processes were slow to finalize.

Technical Review 214

Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Burn Rate 214

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. To generate greater revenue, one could adopt three key principles: Price one’s product or service in relation to its benefit and not costs of production; Offer customers a limited range of prices; and. Nuts and Bolts.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup 100

Feld Thoughts

JULY 20, 2020

I recently was in an email thread where a Black founder had a powerful and clear response to the question from one of her corporate partners. The question was: How can our (the corporate partner’s) team better support diversity in our work, particularly in our sourcing, diligence, and onboarding efforts?

Entrepreneur 221

Entrepreneur Software Review Metrics Community 221

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

Google is focused on expanding its already broad reach into the advertising market by increasing the span and coverage of its digital and mobile platforms, and the company’s 4Q14 results highlight how the company’s efforts to buttress its core services is paying off: Google’s revenue and gross profit climbed 15.3% billion and generated $4.1

Advertising 100

Advertising Revenue Mobile Intellectual Property 100

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Regardless of the defined contribution approach you decide to take, your company should utilize third-party administration software to ensure compliance. For many, it’s been a struggle.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

Reasons for a business valuation run a gamut from selling the business due to retirement or health reasons to financing expansion efforts to adding shareholders to a buyout situation. Capitalization Factor – This can be defined as a multiplier used for converting projected future earnings and revenue into present day value.

Valuation 162

Valuation CPA Software Review .Net 162

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2024

The Power of Verified Reviews: Why Agencies Thrive with Clutch written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Katie Hollar, the marketing lead at Clutch , a leading global marketplace for business service providers.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Software Review B2B Demand 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful.

Technical Review 286

Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 billion in revenue last year. Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. In Newzoo’s l atest report , analysts predicted that in 2021, 2.8

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2012

I’m seeing more people using credit cards for financing,” says David Worrell, founding partner of Rock Solid Finance , which helps business owners find solutions to their financing problems. So far, Herman has put about $60,000 on his credit cards, using them mostly to finance software development.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Software Review Angel Investor Startup 118

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2020

Some food banks saw demand 3-4x normal, just as their volunteer base shrunk due to worries about COVID-19 infection. I was in the group due to my involvement (with Brent Summers) in launching GiveLocal, a site where customers could support their favorite restaurants through COVID lockdowns by buying gift cards.

Lean 128

Lean San Francisco Technical Review Software Review 128

The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. American entrepreneurs get to enjoy an enormous market for their products, with multiple software-loving and integrating cities and a population that is literally 300 times as large.

Estonia 143

Estonia Software Review Europe San Francisco 143