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by asanwal 14y ago
I completely understand that it is fashionable to predict startup bubbles (people have been doing it every year in this current cycle since 2008), but the arguments in this post are flimsy and essentially boil down to "it's a bubble cuz it
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by asanwal 14y ago
This strikes me as a strategy to build an impressive sounding company vs. actually building an impressive company. Namedropping, attending parties, hiring non-clued employees, etc all seem like very non-core activities that people trying to
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by asanwal 14y ago
I think you're overstating the importance of investors. With the exception of a few firms (Sequoia, Accel, Union Square and maybe 10 others) whose mere name probably brings you some advantage, most VCs are not all that special (look at the
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by asanwal 14y ago
CB Insights - NYC (www.cbinsights.com) Data Journalist - looking for someone to lead our data-driven content efforts. If you like Excel pivot tables, are an emerging company/technology junkie and are a decent writer, we'd love to talk. Also
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TechCrunch is a bully (lanewood.me)
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by asanwal 14y ago
Without wading into this drama, the below article on pricing experiments is a fantastic resource as it provides a lot of different perspectives on pricing (I'm not affiliated with the site). http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-
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by asanwal 14y ago
I agree with second part being a pitfall, but re: ask someone/anyone, let me illustrate why this is problematic. A friend of mine was starting a subscription ecommerce site targeted at women (clothing & makeup primarily). She asked me a
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by asanwal 14y ago
Pricing is def a dark art but this seems like the exact opposite of what to do. Asking people who are not your target customers what the price should be should get you an answer to price it to be free. These people will not think it is wort
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There are plenty of failures in Silicon Valley, thanks(nickoneill.com)
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Zynga not interested in being acquired but investors think they should be(bloomberg.com)
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by asanwal 14y ago
I left a similar comment below. I believe it's different because returns data for seed investing is so opaque In the stock market, you have a very public scorecard at the end of each day telling you and those who know what you've invested
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by asanwal 14y ago
Agree actually. The problem with seed stage financing is the opacity of the returns data. In the stock market, you have a very public scorecard at the end of each day telling you and those who know what you've invested in how you are doing.
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by asanwal 14y ago
There really is no Seed Stage bubble because there is no market mechanism that will force a "correction". First, if you add up all the seed investments happening in tech and assume that 100% fail, the money lost would be the equivalent to a
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by asanwal 14y ago
I don't fully understand acqui- hires especially points like this "For example, don’t be afraid to say “I’ve raised $X dollars and my investors are looking for a 2x return.” If the company is flatlining, why arent acquirers just poaching ta
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by asanwal 14y ago
Great point. And for early stage investors, I'd say that exit is def a trailing indicator in terms of where to invest. That said, they still care about valuations, multiples, etc on exits as that helps them value their existing portfolio.
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by asanwal 14y ago
Dave does a nice job of articulating some of the forces changing VC. We are a data company that sells data to many of the top VCs so here are some observations based on how we see them work. First, there are a good # of VCs who are evolvin
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Groupon's problem is not its business model(medium.com)
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Data-driven Venture Capital - Moneyball for VC?(mattturck.com)
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by asanwal 14y ago
CB Insights ( http://www.cbinsights.com/mosaic/ ) is assessing the health of private companies using public data. B2B sales teams, supply chain/procurement professionals and investors use CBI's private company analytics to sell more, purcha
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Reasons a 23 year old shouldn't manage your social media(inc.com)
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Belief in mythical 10x developer hurts your whole team(moz.com)
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by asanwal 14y ago
But demo day really isn't their market is it? Demo day is YC companies with tons of amazing access to capital with pretty great terms (Milner, A16Z and Ron Conway cash) and a group of other attending investors who aren't interested in writi
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by asanwal 14y ago
So besides the YC connection, I am genuinely curious what is different / better about FundersClub than any of the other 100 crowd funding "platforms" that have emerged? These types of exchanges connecting companies with investors have been
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The secret online gun store that will arm anyone(m.gizmodo.com)
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SocialCam's sale deflates social video sector(pandodaily.com)
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Peter Thiel dubs Eric Schmidt Google's "minister of propaganda" during debate(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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by asanwal 14y ago
Uncertainty in pricing is terrible so in my view avoid the how many users watch your tutorial pricing. It can also inhibit usage which you don't want. I'd charge based on number of tutorials. For upto 3, it's free but your branding is there
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Let's draft our kids - reinstating the US military draft(nytimes.com)
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by asanwal 14y ago
Interesting challenge, but it seems they look for a lead investor as the first signal of quality for the investment. As a result, it's questionable how much additional value their algorithm is uncovering/adding to their decision as a follo
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SAS spurns IBM and other acquirers to stay independent and private(finance.yahoo.com)
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