Gust
AUGUST 10, 2014
'Image via pixabay.com. Most entrepreneurs struggle with financial projections, not wanting to commit to numbers they cant deliver, and having no clue what investors might consider reasonable. However, making no projections, or non-credible projections will get your startup marked as unfundable. I recommend a simple set of guidelines, which work for at least 80% of the business domains I see.
Berkonomics
AUGUST 14, 2014
'Over the years, as I managed my several computer companies as CEO or executive chairman, I made the decision to go to market with a brand new product that had never before been exposed to my customer’s marketplace. In each case, after overwhelming publicity, certainly noticed by a great number of potential decision makers, and after record-breaking sessions at industry trade shows to introduce these to the potential buyers, the products failed in the marketplace.
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Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 11, 2014
When I started in the venture business and met software companies, I never heard the words customer success during pitches or throughout diligence or in board meetings. A few years later, customer success has become equal in importance to sales and marketing and engineering and product within SaaS companies. The steady increasing drumbeat of the Customer Success mantra is reflected in Google search traffic, whose volumes have tripled since 2009.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 15, 2014
'The other day, I found this neat inbox stats tool from Front App called Inbox Checkup. (Thanks Product Hunt !) I''ve been wanting something like this for a while. Apparently, I respond to 18% of my e-mails, way above the average of 11%, and was #62 out of over 4,000 in terms of e-mails sent. It was happy to know that I''m getting to a lot of things.
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Gust
AUGUST 13, 2014
'There are a [very] few companies, mostly on the West Coast, that have done convertible rounds with differing caps, but it’s unusual, hard to do, and not something that will endear you to the less-fortunate investors. If you find yourself in a situation where (a) you absolutely need/want the $4 m investor, and (b) those are the only terms on which s/he will come in, then typically you would unilaterally lower the cap for all other investors in the round as well.
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Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 14, 2014
Earlier this week in a post on Quartz Mark DeCambre asks the question, Are IPOs Dying Because of Huge Growth Rounds? The chart above shows the 36 year trend in the number of tech IPOs. And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. To paraphrase Mark’s question, can startups raise just as much capital in the private markets as in the public market, without the hassle of public market regu
Gust
AUGUST 9, 2014
'Take your choice (these are both real, honest-to-God pitches, and I’ve got the originals in my possession): Contestant A. CluelessCo is an internet startup company seeking $2 million of equity financing to fund our company for at least one year. CluelessCo will become the main consumer outlet for the internet, digital cable and satellite TV, and cell phones and PDAs.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 10, 2014
More than 100B mobile applications have been downloaded since the launch of the Apple iOS and Google Play stores. As the number of users, downloads and apps have exploded, the dynamics of the app store have also changed. During the past 18 months, the competitive behavior within the Free Apps section of these app stores has evolved substantially in four meaningful ways: First, the Android Play store has become substantially more welcoming to startups/new entrants than 18 months ago.
Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 13, 2014
Yesterday, I spoke to a small group of people at Google. By coincidence, the presentation was held in the same building I used to work in, and a wave of nostalgia swept over me. Participating in Google’s speaker series brought back memories of when I was in the audience seven or eight years ago. I’ll never forget the first time I met Paul Graham in that very same room right after the first Startup School.
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