Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Global PR powerhouse Cision announced today that it is acquiring Dreamit alum TrendKite in a deal valuing the startup at $225 million. TrendKite’s suite of analytics tools uses artificial intelligence to help brands monitor and measure their PR efforts. With Trendkite, brand marketers can understand how their earned media and communications marketing efforts affect corporate reputation, website traffic, revenue growth, and other business outcomes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2019

Have you ever had a business mentor? If you have—and your experience was positive—then you understand how much you can gain from regular contact with someone who has been where you’d like to go. Now, have you ever thought about mentorship from the flip side? Most mentors say they get as much from the experience as their mentee does. In fact, some say it helps them build their leadership skills or emotional intelligence.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

When I started out investing (via a fund — not my money), I was just investing based on a simple schedule: About once a month, invest $25K into one company I liked. Pretty easy. Over the years, that check size grew slowly to $50K, then a few $100Ks, and I followed-on into a few at the $250K level, with two outsized pile-ins at $400K and $600K total exposure, respectively.

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Deskmag

JANUARY 23, 2019

How many people plan to open a coworking space in the future? What kind of people use coworking spaces and what is important to them? How many spaces are profitable? Knowing the answers to such questions helps us better understand the coworking movement and ensure sustainable growth. Good news - we publish the answers every year as part of the Global Coworking Survey in a variety of reports.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 25, 2019

How much can a customer success manager manage? I’d heard the wisdom of $1-2M in ARR per year and around 80 accounts. But I hadn’t come across any data. Last summer, Gainsight posted the results of their survey on the topic. The truth is most CSMs manage between $2-5M in ARR and somewhere between 10-500 accounts. But it varies by segment.

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Haystack

JANUARY 24, 2019

More often than not, I believe it is largely impossible to predict the shape of an outcome when making an initial venture investment. Investors, of course, will conduct significant due diligence, investigate sources, study trends and the competition — and much more. But, at the end of the day, the future is unknown and needs to unfurl naturally.

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Turnkey Office Space

JANUARY 22, 2019

With all of the exciting new developments in the startup world – from disruptive technologies to apps that make your life easier, to the world of raising money – an often overlooked topic is startups and companies giving to charity – the social responsibility that successful startups have to giving back to the community.

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Health Tech Capital

JANUARY 21, 2019

For the last 30 years, I have been attending the Healthcare Conference started by Hambrecht and Quist that is now hosted by JP Morgan. Honestly this year I had very mixed feelings about its value!

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Entrepreneurs tend to remain in the business niche they know best. Usually that means one they once or recently spent time in as an employee or manager within a company where they had little or no ownership. Are you one of those? Some of these entrepreneurs starting a new company are alumni from companies that would be a competitor to the enterprise being created or joined.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2019

In the car yesterday, I listened to an interview with Eugene Wei, who described the dynamics of consumer technology as if they were plain as day. It’s rare to hear someone lucidly describe complex topics like the reasons for Twitter’s success and struggles. Eugene wrote many of his ideas in this post though there are some ideas that I found only in the podcast.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2019

Written for EO by Nigel J. Bennett, co-founder and principal owner of Aqua-Guard Spill Response Inc. a global leader in controlling oil spills and protecting water, the world’s most precious resource. . During my start-up years at Aqua-Guard Spill Response, Inc., none of us had any formal business training. I was so focused on our day-to-day survival that I didn’t have time to look up from the current crisis of the moment to seek any outside help.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Entrepreneurs tend to remain in the business niche they know best. Usually that means one they once or recently spent time in as an employee or manager within a company where they had little or no ownership. Are you one of those? Some of these entrepreneurs starting a new company are alumni from companies that would be a competitor to the enterprise being created or joined.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 24, 2019

Last year, I talked wrote 1% of Salesforce’s Revenue Makes a Unicorn. The post talked about the potential in the SaaS ecosystem for startups to identify underserved customers in existing installed bases of incumbents and build big companies serving them better. Kustomer is a customer support software business based in New York that is doing just that.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2019

I’m thrilled to welcome Travis Bryant as an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) to Redpoint. I first heard Travis speak at a technology conference a few years ago. I noticed then that his thinking on go-to-market strategy is among the most modern in Startupland because it combines all of the key aspects of SaaS go-to-market in novel ways. Travis started his career in technology as an Oracle database administrator but moved into sales.

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