Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Machine learning models predict code, synthesize images, author blog posts reducing composition time by a factor of 2 or 3. Most categories slow down meaningfully, including Defi. Marketing becomes the first broad use case of web3 after Defi, catalyzed by the death of the third-party cookie. The Fed tames inflation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. In statement about its investment, Saison Capital partner Chris Sirise said, “Retail investing in Vietnam is at an inflection point and we have seen multiple other emerging markets reach this break-out point.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.” We detail below the major categories of VC: Funder category.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. With the crypto winter in full swing for several months now, marketers?—?and and their budgets?—?have

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

But my specific point is that while everybody is busy telling you that “kids don’t use email” or “email is dead” I have actual data from portfolio company CEO’s showing the efficacy of email as a communication and marketing channel. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes! And so it goes again.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the 2-way web. My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. 2% of cash raised, with larger percentages for smaller funds. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: Monetizing our deal flow. We list all of them below.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Challenge 1: No Need in the Market. A report from CB Insights found that the most common and significant challenge is in the market. As entrepreneurs, the task at hand becomes creating the market need even when there isn’t one. Become a market disruptor. Challenge 2: Unsustainable Funds.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Grow your business with marketing automation Learn how But for this article, I'll focus on creating a content style guide: the editorial guidelines for tone, structure, voice, and values. You see it in the copywriting on your landing page, in your social media captions, and all over your content marketing. It depends.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If I have an event in the evening or am traveling for work then I can easily get through 2 days without sending any non-essential email. You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?).

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Which of the 16 major start of categories in information technology will reap disproportionate share of investment dollars in 2016? Using Crunchbase data, I analyzed share of dollars commanded by each of these 16 categories over the last five years to understand the trends in both the seed and series A fundraising markets.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 2, 2023

That's why the app's developers have worked on robust privacy features , which include SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, CCPA, and VPAT compliance. Journalists and marketers can run impromptu interviews on the spot. But still, something to keep in mind. YouTube creators and scriptwriters can save time when preparing new videos.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Learn more about how to use AI at work Get the Zapier blog in your inbox. There are three broad categories in this list. Video productivity apps that use AI to help you create content faster for multiple marketing channels or platforms. Video editors with AI editing tools , meant for speeding up the editing process.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. The global advertising market is estimated at around $475 billion / year with only 12% of this online and measurable. And market research seems to confirm this. I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. Holy Shiitake ! In Image Ads.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Instead, we built an innovative business for an underserved market that didn’t rely on hoping for a buyout, which has ended up working really well. This strategy can help you separate tasks into their relevant categories and give you a tangible outline of what your daily schedule may look like. Focus on the “Right Now” Tasks.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This data can be used to feed your stock forecasting but also contribute to planning your Black Friday marketing campaigns. Understanding which products your customers were most interested in during previous years will allow you to focus resources into these areas and maximise sales for these categories.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

While being female and being black are clearly not the same thing, they do fall into the category of "not white men", which the fundraising environment favors--but perhaps not in the way people assume. 2) Yet, the vast majority of investors would back anyone they thought could make them and their investors money. Thanks for listening.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). This question runs from about minute 2 – minute 8. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

Srijita Ghosh Represented East Central University in 2017 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup 2 nd place in Small Business category and Pitch Competition winner Currently Venture Advisor at i2E Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea. The second lesson was understanding the commercialization process.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Among the positions it is hiring for are Real-Time Analyst and Lifecycle Marketing Manager. ” Among the roles it is hiring for are Head of Data Science / Credit, Fraud, & Pricing and Partner Marketing & Enablement. The firm, valued last year at about $2 billion, has raised over $500 million in equity.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . After the grace period, the return payments begin, often lasting until a return cap is hit, such as 2-5 times the original investment. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I recently survived Hurricane Irma as she unleashed all the fury of a Category 5 storm on South Florida. We started our businesses with a clear market need in mind. The post How Hurricane Irma Defined My Minimum Viable Life appeared first on THE BLOG. By Davide Frau, an EO South Florida member. What is your “Hurricane Moment?”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . After the grace period, the return payments begin, often lasting until a return cap is hit, such as 2-5 times the original investment. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Funder Category.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

2/ Putting labels aside, there is a string of examples historians can cite about huge companies raising very small, modest rounds at low prices. It’s hard to launch a new event in today’s crowded market for attention, but Afore did a great job getting folks together and let the crowd drive the conversation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 17, 2022

Alchemy of Finance presents a fascinating philosophical discussion about what drives markets?—?and is that there is a feedback loop between market participants and market prices. The basic idea is that market participants’ perception of a given market situation will influence and shape how that situation plays out.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

This is the third “iteration” of this blog. 2/ I wanted to get a professional developer team involved that I can rely on from time to time to help me with technical issues. 3/ I wanted to improve search so that we can all find those old blog posts that we know exist but are no longer on the front page. Welcome to the new AVC.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I have always advised startup companies against letting valuations get massively ahead of market norms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I get to watch 2-5% of my investment immediately squandered on a banking fee for the introduction. What price?

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