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The most valuable thing you can do is actually build your product. When in doubt, focus on that. The next most valuable thing you can do is get customers -- or, for a consumer Internet service, establish a pattern of page view growth.
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in the first quarter of 2007, some 19 video software and services companies have raised $210.7 million. Put another way, American video startups raised $1.96 million per day over the past 15 months. And there’s been one exit to write home about: $1.7 bi
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Kiptronic1, a San Francisco-based startup that coordinates dynamic ad insertion for audio and video podcasts, will announce today or tomorrow that it has raised $4 million in venture capital funding. The Series A round was led by Blueprint Ventures and Pr
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Grouper developed video indexing and search optimization tools that gave a big boost to traffic in the time before every major internet portal, especially Yahoo!, had its own video area.
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Venture capital still plays an important role in financing web entrepreneurs. But the need for capital comes later in the company formation process. And that is a very good thing for everyone involved. Because VCs can scale their capital (ie risk) exposu
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ExpoTV, an NYC-based consumer-generated video product reviews site, has received $6 million in first round of funding. The round was led by Masthead Venture Partners and Prism VentureWorks,
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And as large firms try to go small, they are encountering a new crop of competitors who are happy to bankroll start-ups on the cheap and are fueling the current Internet boom. They include a large pool of angel investors and a number of small venture fund
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Venture capital investments into “Web 2.0″ Internet companies this year are on track to double last year’s levels to about $500 million, according to a new report on the bubbling sector. The report shows investors pumped $263 million into Web 2.0 co
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I think its a smart model. Build a network of web services (Evan calls them web apps), use the popularity of one service to launch another, keep the services that are small but successful, shut down the ones that don't work, and spin off the ones that rea
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You’re street wise, so you know that you can’t depend on patents. You understand that very few companies are truly defensible for reasons other than because they either achieved critical mass or had a nine-month head start.
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"With $10,000 to $15,000, you can start a Web 2.0 company," Krishnan said. "If your site is compelling enough, you'll get users. And if you get users, Google is watching."
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So what this says is we are starting our investment positions in our portfolio companies with $1mm and under investments almost half of the time
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Wie können Webstartups sinnvoll skalieren: Rather, look for companies that can disrupt the existing market structure by doing one thing well and then we work with those companies to discover novel ways to scale in the restructured market.
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There is a definite bubble with many web video businesses," he said. "There are some businesses being built that I'm not sure could be stand alone businesses.
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With that in mind we prepared a comparison of VC portfolios. We included VCs that we think are most active in the space, but please note that this is not an exhaustive list.
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It is unlikely that MySpace would have grown as fast as it did without employing this more traditional marketing tactic. MySpace musste in den ersten Monaten massiv um User kämpfen.
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And so it struck me that the most long-lasting, most self-delusional bubble of all was the one that protected monopoly newspapers in America for the last 50 years, since television did them the favour of killing their print competitors.
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As Paul noted, we have a bubble in company creation - there are far too many companies with very similar models and market niches. Das Problem ist das die Unternehmen geringe Burnraten haben und deshalb nicht so schnell kaputt gehen.
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Scoble: "There are simply too many companies chasing too few users." The important thing is to develop a feature in a unique and defensible way at just the time there is a real need for it in the market.
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Es wird eine Marktbereiningung geben, weil es einfach zu viele Startups gibt aber es gibt momentan keine Blase sondern einen Boom. Dieser ist längerfristig und resulitiert in vernünftigen Ergebnissen. Verlieren werden die VCs.
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Interessante Überlegeungen, wie viel Konkurrenz und die vielen Nachahmer den Erfolg sowie die Exits der VCs beeinflussen. Je mehr Nachahmer desto steiler wird die Kurve, der Gewinner bekommt mehr die 2-Ende weniger.
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Analyse zu Craigslist. Momentan machen sie zwischen $10-20 Mio im Jahr könnten aber bis zu $200 Mio machen, wenn sie wollten. Außerdem ist die Firma mit ihren 19 Mitarbeitern knapp 1Mrd wert. Craig will aber nicht verkaufen.
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Liste der VC fundings in der ersten hälfte 2006. Geordnet nach Sektoren. Inklusive der Beträge: Video Sharing: 14 companies; total: $60.2 million, 5 undisclosed; Social Networking: 21 companies, total: $95.8 million, 8 undisclosed
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Es gibt nun 173 YouTube Clones und allein im April wurden 3 neue mit $30 MIo an Venture Capital vollgepumpt. Das geht ganz sicher nicht gut und fürher oder Später wird es opfer geben. Die Meisten unterschätzen die Kosten (Traffic)
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Eine Liste der Investitionen des Venture Lending & Leasing Funds. Dabei sind Firmen wie Facebook und andere Internetstartups. Maximal ca. 10 Mio pro Firma.
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Ein Techcrunch Review kann einer Web2.0 Firma schnell 5-25000 Benutzer bringen aber es sind immer die Selben und diese Zahlen dürfen nicht interpoliert werden. Außerdem haben selbst die etablierten Web2.0 Dienste keine große Reichweite in den Mainstrea
