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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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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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Jeff Pulver and I have co-founded a new studio network. And so begins Abbey Corps.
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But no one besides MobiTV has an existing, battle-tested platform, with distibution deals and relationships already in place. That is a large competitive advantage. So what’s the $100 million for? Maybe its to pay off the people who need to be paid off.
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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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but the truth is that, across 20 major deals, those 3 stand out as the exception and not the rule. It appears that, on average, deals are generally below $50 million and, in most cases, lower than $10 million.
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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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Videoegg Zuschauer sind das doppelte Wert, weil sie häufiger auf Werbung klicken. A smaller audience may be more valuable than a big one, if the small one does the sorts of things that advertisers like—such as clicking on ads, buying products, or visit
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Separate distribution from virality. Distribution is not the same as virality. Viral means that a product is so compelling that people are involuntary users of it.
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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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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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Analyse der Geschäftsmodelle der meisten Web2.0 Bubble Unternehmen. Prinzipiell sind sie schwer zu unterscheiden lösen keine Probelme sondern sind allein für Features zu haben. Außerdem ist die Strategie nur gekauft zu werden.
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Wie man es nicht machen sollte. Welche Fehler beim del.icio.us vorgänger begangen wurden.
