TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Its platform, the company says, houses all workplace data — including strategy, design, pricing and portfolio analytics — in one place. JLL Spark invests in companies that it believes can benefit from its distribution and network — hence the firm’s agreement to sell Saltmine’s software directly to its customers. “As

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

That was in 2000, right before the internet bubble busted. They also listen to podcasts, attend webinars and networking events, and take online courses to expand their knowledge and skills. By running experiments at scale, entrepreneurs can quickly identify what works and what doesn’t and adjust their strategy accordingly. “If

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Read more: PaidContent.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Investing Strategy. CEO Network – CEO’s from the portfolio companies are introduced to each other. Management should communicate how the board can help - strategy, markets, key hires, introductions. and Half.com. They have sixteen people on staff.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Hedge funds on average have underperformed on a net of fees basis in both US equities and bonds since 2000. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

That said I worry that V1 of the strategy isn’t a home run. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). and many, many more) plus Howard Morgan.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Scouts are typically hired because they are well-networked and credible in an industry, geography, and/or community that a VC is focusing on. This role helps augment the candidate’s profile with personal branding, networks, track record, dealflow, and industry best practices. HOW TO GET A SCOUT ROLE. Solo GP Training. Hawke Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Allow untrusted network participants to trade If you started a business 200 years ago you could mostly only trade in your local economy and you relied about “traders” who could transport your products great distances to those who might like to buy them in foreign lands. That would be like Turkey’s voting to have Thanksgiving dinner.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first is Momentum Investing , “a strategy to capitalize on the continuance of an existing market trend”, which usually meaning that the price has been rising in the recent past. You identify the “hot” companies; network into them; and sell them on the value of accepting your capital. Why, yes, they are.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. So you rush to develop a new monetization strategy which means rebuilding your app. There is a strategy for that. Why does iPhone only come on the AT&T network? Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I remember this attitude really well from working in consulting where people took too much credit for “creating new strategies&# and deny any responsibilities for failed initiatives. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled. It was 2007. Let me explain.

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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). In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

MMC Networks filed in 1998 with $14M in ttm revenue and $0.5M Without significant barriers to entry, new entrants use lower prices and freemium strategies to win market share. Such strategies ultimately reduce price points and decrease the value of a market reducing profitability for all market players. Small IPOs. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I remember this attitude really well from working in consulting where people took too much credit for “creating new strategies&# and deny any responsibilities for failed initiatives. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled. It was 2007. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. They picked apart holes in our strategy and they were right. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

Network effects win: the revolutionary power of free While the MP3 was genuinely better than the competing MP2, it was not as good as the AAC, which was designed to be its successor. Consumer adoption created a de facto standard that was then impossible to bypass due to network effects. But you didn’t need any of that stuff anymore.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Founded in 2000 by Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Kumar Arora and Rajesh Agarwal, Micromax first started life as a small IT firm, making its first move into phones only in 2008. The third big blow came in September 2016, when billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries introduced Jio, its 4G network. billion from Alibaba.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans. There are very few truly novel ideas so talking in broad themes certainly wouldn’t give away any grand strategy. I know because I did this in early 2000. It went down like a lead balloon.

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