Volatile Market Notes – Startup Portfolio
I’ve never been good about posting a multipart tweet… When there are more comments on Twitter about layoffs and funding uncertainty than Series A (monster) rounds of funding, it’s time to pay attention. I sent this email to our portfolio companies as a three-minute read. Portfolio Company Notes – May 6, 2022 As we continue
Read MoreOpportunity Hub x Activation Capital Ideation Bootcamp and Startup Bootcamp
Ideation Master Class What Makes a Great Startup Idea? 11 Frameworks for Ideation Session Two Session Three How startups make money. Pricing, Product/Market Fit. Session Four – Go-to-Market Session Five – Final
Read MoreRed Bull Basement – Ideation Bootcamp
Thanks to Red Bull Basement and Emily Thompson for the invitation to talk with founders at The Collective in Seattle on October 22, 2021.
Read MoreDefining The ‘Best Possible Outcome’ For Startups
This Article was originally posted at the Huffington Post June 10, 2013. By Dave Parker, VP of Product at UP Global Every startup founder I’ve met starts with a huge dream of some kind. Some want to change the world, others want a huge exit and a red Ferrari. But understanding how your startup might change the world
Read MoreWhat Elon Musk Can Teach Us About Time, Risk, and Commitment
By Dave Parker, VP of Product at UP Global – This is a repost of an article that was posted originally on the Huffington Post. Time. It’s one of the dimensions of a entrepreneur’s journey that’s difficult to forecast. Yet, it’s the dimension that every critic fails to acknowledge when armchair quarterbacking a startup’s success and failure –
Read MoreA/B Testing Example
I had a chance to speak at the Tampa Bay Tech Forum last night at The Wave in downtown Tampa. Thanks to Heather Kenyon, Kimberly Wander and the team at TBTF, as well as Mike O’Donnel for invite and the attendees for a fun event. One of the items I talked about was how to
Read MoreWhen Inbound Marketing Doesn’t Work
Don’t get me wrong, I love inbound marketing. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are awesome marketing tools. But this specific tool won’t work for every type or stage of business. I hear too many startup companies talk about Growth Hacking and Virality as if it’s an app they can deploy after
Read MoreThinking About The Mobile Apps Biz – Read This
If you’re thinking about building a mobile smart phone app for consumers or for business you should review this deck by Henry Blodget. You can answer a number of your business model questions about platform and monetization strategy. Some of the conclusions: Mobile monetization lags behind for a number of reasons – intrusiveness and small
Read MoreIs your Startup Hot or Not? (Session Slides)
Thanks for coming to last nights session with Michelle Goldberg, Bill Bryant and Andy Liu. The following are the slides from the session. The application deadline for the Founder Institute Seattle is March 17. Apply online at www.fi.co/apply/135 Hot or not session from Dave Parker
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