article thumbnail

Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts. That was a quick meeting!!

startup 304
article thumbnail

Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

TechCrunch

The team is in the process of creating a desktop-sized instrument that can automate the processes used to get genetic samples ready. What I noticed was that the existing technologies for moving, mixing and heating fluids were archaic,” he said. “I Those reactions are performed by liquid manipulating robots , or in some cases by hand.

mix-use 94
article thumbnail

How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ‘n’ mix. A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open. 16 years later, seven other companies globally use that same name! I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old. I killed it, everyone did.

article thumbnail

Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

Both Sides of the Table

Your goal is to increase the top end of the funnel (more people using the free product) and increase the rate of conversion to paid. They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. This video discusses issues like: 1.

mix-use 303
article thumbnail

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

article thumbnail

“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. If you were a U.S.

health 59