American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Omnidian is a category creator addressing one of the clean power sectors biggest pain pointsuptime and maintenancewhile offering a world-class customer experience, said Ichiro Miyoshi, CEO and CIO of Marunouchi. to Australia, Omnidian is setting a new industry benchmark for integrated, intelligent post-installation solar services.

energy 98

energy investing investment accelerator 98

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 20, 2022

Following are the common influencer tier benchmarks categorized by number of followers: Nano influencer = 1,000 – 5,000 followers. They’re also the second most popular category of influencers on Instagram and have a follower count between 20k and 100k. That means most influencers fall into this category. . Mid-tier influencers.

media 289

media mix-use strategy creativity 289

American Entrepreneurship

JULY 2, 2025

The round also included participation from prominent firms such as Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, 01A, New View Capital, and World Innovation Lab. Battery Ventures General Partner Neeraj Agrawal , a notable SaaS investor and creator of the “T2D3” growth model, has joined Levelpath’s board of directors.

accelerator 56

accelerator innovation entrepreneurship SaaS 56

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. I believe that.

real estate 309

real estate entrepreneurs financing finance 309

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Bill Gurley , a well known VC from Benchmark Capital, seemed to have a 2-year hiatus from blogging and has now picked up the pace. Robert Scoble has also started blogging again as outlined in the link in point 1. The same article refers to several other people who are coming back to blogging: Liza at Maui Blog and the futurist Chris Saad.

VC 219

VC creativity networking media 219

TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We hope you’ll upload your own thesis to benchmark yourself. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. For the first time, we are sharing here our initial conclusions. 36 theses pulled directly from U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2025

With an emphasis on business innovation, technological advancement, and visionary leadership, the awards spotlighted trailblazers from around the world who are setting new benchmarks in their respective fields. The 2026 edition will also introduce new award categories targeting sustainability, AI ethics, and social impact entrepreneurship.

innovation 52

innovation ventures peer-to-peer mentorship 52

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Thus, this ranking serves as a tool to identify and understand category trends, and not as an exhaustive ranking of all consumer AI platforms. Alongside ChatGPT, this category includes Google’s Bard and Quora’s Poe, all ranked in the top 5.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One of the big hits is Varos’ Monday morning report of trends, where users see their weekly data versus weekly benchmarks. This is a new category of data analytics that helps users understand their own performance as it compares to direct competitors, Yarden Shaked added. Image Credits: Varos.

peer-to-peer 114

peer-to-peer SaaS creativity advice 114

TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

In our experience, we found these risks fall into three major categories: market risk, execution risk, and founders’ risk. Annual revenue of $100 million serves as a good benchmark for achieving that valuation level. Finding low-risk investments that lead to lucrative business opportunities remains an important goal for these firms.

venture capital 96

venture capital startup incubation leadership 96

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The new funding was led by Glade Brook Capital Partners, with participation from GV, Tao Invest, Finistere Ventures and Rich’s, as well as previous investors Benchmark Partners, Index Ventures, S2G, DNS Capital and Obvious Ventures. .” Good Eggs CEO Bentley Hall. Glade Brook’s J.P.

board 109

board accelerator capital ventures 109

AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This project is part of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ initiative, which selects 50 outstanding companies in four categories based on technology development success, support from the ministry over the past five years, performance verification, and expert evaluation.

development 97

development startup health innovation 97

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

While large swathes of the tech community focus on comparing model performance to public benchmarks, enterprise leaders are more focused on comparing the performance of fine-tuned open-source models and fine-tuned closed-source models against their own internal sets of benchmarks. Use cases: more migrating to production 14.

opportunity 145

opportunity innovation support development 145

Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Since then, many major categories of software have been saasified. But it’s not the MRR milestones or the payback period benchmarks that have changed. Machine learning, broad consolidation, category creation, and new distribution models each will change the SaaS ecosystem in fundamental ways.

SaaS 75

SaaS incumbents financing finance 75

Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

These customers leverage SecondMeasure to analyze and cross-analyze how consumers are spending their cash, but going deeper, the platform enables customers to analyze rate of growth, cohort retention, benchmark against category competitors or regional performance, and much more.

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investing investment financing finance 106

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

They are the clear category leader in an important and emerging field of data and standards at the intersection of climate, public health and the economy,” Ahn said in a statement. “Both governments and industry will need Aclima’s critical data and analytics to benchmark and accelerate progress to reduce emissions.”.

development 99

development accelerator communities networking 99

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

[03:08] Data wars [04:28] Big vs. small LLMs [08:13] Fine-tuning [13:52] Open source AI [17:51] Benchmarks are b t [19:30] Why Ali isn’t afraid of AI Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? I kinda think all the benchmarks are b t. For instance, MMLU is what a lot of people benchmark these models on.

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strategy energy board technology 110

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

(*) Benchmark is/was an investor in companies labeled with the asterisk. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017).

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opportunity enablement networking education 88

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When it comes to building and scaling a cloud business, leaders at all stages wonder what “typical” and “best-in-class” look like — and, while they’re some of the most helpful financial data points in the world, private market financial benchmarks remain some of the most elusive. How to Scale with Usage-based Pricing.

pitching 87

pitching SaaS health construction 87

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It creates a system of record for SaaS in an organization, showing how a company’s portfolio, licenses and pricing stack up against industry benchmarks. “Zylo helps CIOs and CFOs collaboratively manage the strategy around the most important and most distributed category of spend: subscription software,” he added.

SaaS 91

SaaS incubation ventures collaboration 91

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Following the evaluation, each applicant receives a Digital Analytical Scorecard experience that provides an overview of how their application scored against the World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees in key categories.

peer-to-peer 90

peer-to-peer culture consulting entrepreneurship 90

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Using data provided by an emerging venture firm, Revere uses 20 categories to verify, aggregate and research into the quality of the firm across 5 areas: sourcing, team, value add, track record and firm management. Over time, if demand increases, it will get harder to turn around reports in that same timeframe.

venture capital 85

venture capital capital ventures disruption 85

TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. By handling large amounts of data to analyze and benchmark lines of business, BI promises to help identify, develop, and otherwise create new revenue opportunities.

opportunity 86

opportunity collaboration health capital 86

TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

That’s how the $20 million Opportunity Fund, Urban Innovation Fund’s first in this category, came about. Within the second fund, the company has made three investments within the vertical supply chain, a category she said the firm was “particularly excited about.” We were shocked by how fast it went.”. billion earlier this year.

innovation 84

innovation venture capital real estate frameworks 84

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That will lead you to ultimately become a Partner at Benchmark, one of the top venture capital firms in the entire world. It was pretty clear that, within our budget, we weren’t going to get better in any one of those categories than what we found. Easy peasy.

VC 150

VC venture capital opportunity networking 150

TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

And now others, of course, have built that functionality as well, but because that was our primary focus, we delivered a best-in-category experience with higher conversion rates when benchmarked to other solutions,” she explained. And that is appealing because from there we build other use cases with our customers.”.

financing 89

financing finance SaaS collaboration 89

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

But recently, a few savvy consumer founders have found ways to improve retention by applying specific methods — in some cases, increasing their N-Day D30 retention by a whopping 10-15% (which our benchmarking study identifies as going from “okay” to “great”). Users can compete in categories ranging from “Poses” to “Comedians” to “Critics.”

creativity 104

creativity strategy communities collaboration 104

TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

Hippocratic’s benchmark results on a range of medical exams. To evaluate bedside manner, Hippocratic designed a benchmark to test the model for signs of humanism, if you will — things like “showing empathy” and “taking a personal interest in a patient’s life.”

hospitality 112

hospitality health mix-use advice 112

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Spryker is part of that category of e-commerce businesses known as “headless” providers — by which they mean those using the tools do so by way of API-based architecture and other easy-to-integrate modules delivered through a “PaaS” (clould-based Platform as a Service) model.

mix-use 76

mix-use incumbents B2B marketing strategy 76

TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Redpoint Ventures led today’s round, with help from existing investors Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Icon Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures. Timescale , makers of the open-source TimescaleDB time series database, announced a $40 million Series B financing round today.

ventures 89

ventures financing finance communities 89

TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sessions will include DeepMind and Benchmark. For founders and investors curious about an emerging category, these sessions are a chance to cross-pollinate. Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities.

disruption 96

disruption funders peer-to-peer networking 96

StartupNation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

” Depending on how this question is scored, group individual responses into the following categories: 9-10 – Promoters: Happy and motivated. We’ll start by examining the responses to eNPS: “ On a scale of 0-10, how likely are you to recommend [company name] as a place to work?” Key takeaways.

strategy 124

strategy startup culture disruption 124

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We’re launching our own scout program and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: There are a number of VC funds that share the carry earned in their co-investment to the referring party.

VC 93

VC peer-to-peer consulting board 93

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

But the picture doesn’t brighten even after broadening out to all categories of advertising. As Paul Roetzer writes for Marketing AI Institute, AI without rich data sets can quickly fall short of accuracy benchmarks — especially when executives have unrealistic expectations.

capital 88

capital collaboration investing investment 88

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

AI is just like a new and interesting piece of infrastructure that lets you solve a new category of problems or solve an old category of problems in better ways. Quantitative benchmarks like GLUE and SUPERGLUE have long been used as standardized measures of AI model performance. I kind of think all the benchmarks are b t.

development 139

development technology creativity accelerator 139

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In Africa, for instance, fashion has held the top spot in Jumia for the largest category of items sold over the years. This means there’s no shortage of demand for fashion items across the continent, and the supply is picking up steam even in the high-end categories.

mix-use 95

mix-use culture creativity VC 95

TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

But what Ward and Geer realized was that you could take standard advice like “walk more” or “drink more water” and actually benchmark this stuff to a real-world population. You then get a “Humanity Score” (H Score) in the app under one of four key categories: movement, mind, recovery and nutrition.

health 127

health enablement strategy advice 127