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Tobacco Settlement as Addictive as Tobacco Itself?
Remember when the states settled liability claims with the tobacco industry for the staggering sum of $200 billion over 20 years? That was 1998 and there were high hopes to use a meaningful amount of the money to fund tobacco prevention programs. Instead many states seem to have become as dependent on tobacco money as smokers are on tobacco itself. The overwhelming majority of funds are diverted to general revenues rather than attacking the problem at hand.
Four states, including North Carolina actually budget nothing at all for tobacco prevention. North Carolina pulls in more than $400 million from the settlement and tobacco excise taxes and used to spend tens of millions of dollars on successful prevention programs, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. But no longer.
Some public health advocates are campaigning to restore the funding. It's interesting that they are doing so from a city whose name is the source for two major cigarette brands.
There was always something funny about the tobacco industry funding its own demise so it's not so surprising how things have ended up.
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And here we have a gorgeous manga/anime-style poster by the ever-brilliant CDMalcolm1!
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Nathan Schaper of North Dakota hangs on to win PBR event in OKC
Schaper, who at 6-1 is the tallest bull rider on the Built Ford Tough circuit, won more than $34,000 during the weekend event.
Finishing second was Brazilian bull rider Joao Ricardo Vieira, the reigning 2013 PBR Rookie of the Year, who earned more than $22,000.
Vieira was the leader heading into Sunday's final two rounds but was bucked off by the bull Iron Man on the first ride of the day.
Former PBR world champ Mike Lee of Decatur, Texas, finished third in the event to remain the season points leader on the tour.
Defending PBR world champ J.B. Mauney of Mooresville, N.C., was two for five on bulls over the weekend, including being dusted by world champion bull Bushwacker in Saturday night's bonus round, to finish 11th in Oklahoma City.


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1. This illustration of the miserable rollercoaster that is traveling to and from Jersey.
Check out more of illustrator Christoph Niemann's brilliant maps here (or buy a print of it here.)
2. This interpretation of the subway map as concentric circles.
By Max Roberts, a psychologist in the U.K. Check out his work here.
3. If New York City were Middle Earth.
As seen on The Colbert Report.
4. This map of the country through the eyes of a New Yorker.
5. This map showing what New Yorkers in different neighborhoods complain about most.
Lots of graffiti in Williamsburg, street lights are never working in Staten Island. From NYU's Furman Center.
6. This map made of hand-drawn directions from pedestrians.
Artist Nobutaka Aozaki pretended to be a lost tourist, and combined all the directions he got into one map.
He explains: "I ask various New York pedestrians to draw a map to direct me to another location. I connect and place these small maps based on actual geography in order to make them function as parts of a larger map."
7. This movie map.
By Bernie Hou. Get a print here.
8. And this other movie map.
By Alex Vitti.
9. ExtendNY, which extends the Manhattan grid to the whole globe.
L.A. is at 20,200 Street, Mumbai is at 74,723 Avenue. Play around with it (it's so fun!) at ExtendNY.com.
10. The ice cream map.
11. Stefon's New York.
12. This map of Bushwick if it were in Super Mario.
Check out more of Ken's work here.
13. And this map showing that as many people live in Nevada as they do in Brooklyn.
- Bill Cosby testified in 2005 that he obtained sedatives to give to women he wanted to have sex with, the AP reports.
- The South Carolina legislature took a key step toward removing the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds.
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It was sure to be only a matter of time before the great Dutchman Bart Brentjens stamped his winning seal on the 2009 Crocodile Trophy, and that occasion arrived promptly today when the former Olympic and World Champion made easy work of the second stage to Granite Gorge on Australia's Tropical Tableland.
The victory came at the end of a relatively short, though nonetheless eventful 71 kilometre stage, which featured a climb to the 1,200 metre summit of Mount Edith shortly after the race start.
That was where the fun began!
The course for stage two needed to be cleared of fallen trees over the weekend after bushfires swept through the forest country. What riders and organisers hadn't counted on was an overnight downpour at the Lake Tinaroo campsite that brought down more trees over the track, blocking the path for riders after the first ten kilometres of climbing.
At the point that the race was re-started, five riders were in the hunt for stage honours after watching most of the peloton disappear from their rear view on the lower slopes.
The select group was stacked with class and included Brentjens, race leader Urs Huber and ultra-tough Slovenian Jure Robic. Also showing their talent were Belgian Mike Mulkens and the youngest rider in the race, Josh Prete of the Tropical Tableland Discovery team, who had scouted the stage several times in training.
The decision by organisers to re-instate the time gaps at the restart meant that the breakaway group still had every chance of success. By the summit of Mount Edith, it was down to a group of three riders in contention for the stage as Prete and Mulkens struggled to stay in touch.
With just 50 kilometres of undulating country roads remaining on the transitional stage before the Crocodile Trophy heads seriously outback, the finale came down to a technical sprint finish on dirt, which suited Brentjens to a tee.
"I'm very happy it wasn't that difficult as yesterday, the last 10 kilometres was real fast with a tailwind," Brentjens said.
"Most of the time in mountainbiking it's always hectic, especially with some turns at the end, so I was leading the last kilometre and took some risks in the corners very fast, and they couldn't catch me before the line."
Bart Brentjens wins stage two
As for the unique set of circumstances that led to the race re-start, the Dutchman enjoyed the experience in a place where mother nature serves up climate in extremes.
"It was fun to see all these guys have to clear the trees so we can pass," said Brentjens.
The stage result brought little change to the overall classification, with Huber still leading Brentjens by just over 2 minutes.
Tropical Tablelanders Impress
A major talking point from today's Crocodile Trophy stage was the performance of the local Tropical Tableland Discovery team who now lead the teams classification, after all three of its riders finished inside the top ten.
Their best performance was a fourth placing to the youngest cyclist in the field, 19-year-old Tablelander Josh Prete, who is still finding it hard to believe he's in the same race as the likes of Bart Brentjens.
"Yeah, it's good, they're definitely very talented, they just sit on the front riding on tempo and I'm just hanging on the back," Prete said.
"It's awesome riding with them, especially riding with the Olympic champion."
The amateur team, cobbled together at the last minute for the Crocodile Trophy assault, has performed beyond expectation and put the visiting Europeans on notice.
It's a remarkable effort, given two of the team's riders Steve Rankine and Isaac Tonello work full-time and have been training at night on indoor trainers or under lights in the early hours of the morning to prepare for the race.
Monique Takes it Easy
With such a commanding lead in the women's race, Dutch cyclist Monique Zeldenrust decided today to leave some petrol in the tank, before the Crocodile Trophy heads towards the Outback.
Zeldenrust again showed she could ride at a level above her fellow competitors, but remains cautious, given the Trophy's brutal reputation for bringing even the best riders unstuck.
"I took it very easy today, relaxed and found a comfortable rhythm," Zeldenrust said.
An interesting battle looms for the minor podium placings with Austrian Lisa Pleyer maintaining a solid lead over Australia's Abby McLennan, who has based her training in the Outback in recent months, to make sure she is ready for the extreme conditions.
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China has evacuated more than 3,000 of its nationals from Vietnam after a wave of unrest in the Southeast Asian country following China's deployment of an oil rig in contested waters.
Sunday's announcement to send five warships and fast-track the evacuation came after Vietnamese civil society groups called for fresh demonstrations against China, following riots earlier in the week which left two Chinese workers dead and more than 100 injured.
The violence in industrial parks has heightened tensions between the neighbours over sovereignty in the South China Sea.
Vietnamese authorities followed up a warning they would "resolutely" prevent any further outbursts by breaking up small protests in two cities on Sunday.
Vietnam's communist rulers also flooded major cities with police to avert Sunday's planned anti-Chinese protests as they stuck to their pledge to thwart any repeat of last week's violence in three provinces in the south and centre.
Worker demonstrations spread to 22 of Vietnam's 63 provinces, according to the Vietnamese government, with angry mobs burning down foreign-owned factories.
Several arrests were made on Sunday in the capital Hanoi and commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City within minutes of groups trying to start protests, according to witnesses.
Police dragged away several demonstrators from a park in Ho Chi Minh City, the AP news agency said.
In Hanoi, authorities closed off streets and a park close to the Chinese embassy and pushed journalists and protesters away.
Police were posted outside well-known dissidents houses, preventing them from leaving, according to activists.
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In a related development, China has sent the first of five ships to speed up the evacuation of its citizens.
The Chinese government is also arranging for a chartered plane and vessel to evacuate the staff of China 19th Metallurgical Corporation, a contractor of one of the plants badly hit by the recent violence, Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said.
"Recently, there was an explosion of violence in South Vietnam targeting foreign companies, provoking injuries and death of Chinese citizens and damaging companies' properties," China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement in Chinese on its website on Saturday.
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Separately, Hong Kong updated its travel advisory on Saturday, warning its residents to avoid "non-essential travel" to Vietnam.
Earlier on Saturday, Xinhua reported that Guo Shengkun, the security chief, had spoken to his Vietnamese counterpart and urged the authorities there to quell the violence.
Xinhua also said Gao Hucheng, China's commerce minister, had called on officials to "bring relevant issues under control".
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So, with not much else to talk about, we'll cast an eye over football played in the lesser European competition, the Europa League.
After losing their last two league games on the bounce, Manchester City were hoping for a change of fortune against Lech Poznań. The Polish side are currently 14th out of 16 in the poor Polish league, having lost half the games they've played this season.
Roberto Mancini (who is currently two points worse off than Mark Hughes was this time last season, 7 matches before the club sacked him) decided to play a weaker side away in Europe, although, you would have to argue every player on City's team was better than every player for their opponents. On paper.
Shay Given (£5.9m), Micah Richards, Wayne Bridge (£10m), Pablo Zabaleta (£6.45m), Joleon Lescott (£24m), Dedryck Boyata, James Milner (£26 million), Shaun Wright-Phillips (£8.5m), Adam Johnson (£6m), Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Adebayor (£25m) were in the starting team, with Vincent Kompany (£6m) and David Silva (£25m) coming off the bench, at a total cost of £143m.
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Minority enrollment is 52% of the student body, which is more than the CA state average of 44%.
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VacavilleBethany Lutheran Elementary School
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA 95688
(707)451-6683(Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod)359 students | Gr. K-8
VacavilleBridges Of Solano
5063 Midway Rd
Vacaville, CA 95688
(707)678-5614Special Education School (Non-sectarian)9 students | Gr. 9-12
FairfieldCalvary Baptist Christian School
600 Gregory Lane
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707)422-7037(Baptist)52 students | Gr. K-12
Suisun CityChildrens World Learning Center
40 Buena Vista Avenue
Suisun City, CA 94585
(707)425-1817(Non-sectarian)88 students | Gr. PK-10
FairfieldCommunity United Methodist Jr Kindergarten
1875 Fairfield Ave
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707)425-9310Daycare / Preschool (Methodist)70 students | Gr. PK-K
FairfieldFairfield Montessori
1101 Utah St.
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707)427-1442Montessori School (Non-sectarian)20 students | Gr. NS-PK
VacavilleFaith Academy
Po Box 340
Vacaville, CA 95696
(707)446-868425 students | Gr. K-11
FairfieldHoly Spirit School
1050 N Texas St
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707)422-5016(Roman Catholic)346 students | Gr. KG-8
VallejoJesus Is Alive Christian Academy414 Tennessee St
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707)643-5483(Christian)19 students | Gr. 1-12
VacavilleKiddie Academy
880 Alamo Drive
Vacaville, CA 95688
(707)446-4222Daycare / Preschool (Non-sectarian)87 students | Gr. NS-PK
DixonNeighborhood Christian School
655 S 1st St Box C
Dixon, CA 95620
(707)678-9336(Christian)131 students | Gr. PK-8
VallejoNorth Hills Christian School
200 Admiral Callaghan Lane
Vallejo, CA 94591
(707)644-5284(Baptist)279 students | Gr. NS-12
VacavilleNotre Dame School
1781 Marshall Rd
Vacaville, CA 95687
(707)447-1460(Roman Catholic)319 students | Gr. KG-8
Suisun CityOur Christian Scholastic Academy
211 Marina Ctr
Suisun City, CA 94585
(707)422-3314(Christian)6 students | Gr. K-2
VallejoReignierd School
380 Contra Costa Street
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707)644-0447(Non-sectarian)36 students | Gr. PK-12
VacavilleRoyal Oaks Academy
201 Beard Street
Vacaville, CA 95688
(707)446-5570(Non-sectarian)57 students | Gr. PK-6
FairfieldSolano Christian Academy
2200 Fairfield Ave
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707)425-7715(Church of Christ)186 students | Gr. K-9
VallejoSonshine Preschool & Kindergarten
210 Locust Dr
Vallejo, CA 94591
(707)643-1726Daycare / Preschool (Christian)112 students | Gr. K-1
VallejoSpecial Touch Learning Academy
902 Nebraska St
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707)557-1102(Christian)13 students | Gr. PK-1
VallejoSt Basil Elementary School
1230 Nebraska St
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707)642-7629(Roman Catholic)380 students | Gr. PK-8
BeniciaSt Dominic Elementary School
935 E 5th St
Benicia, CA 94510
(707)745-1266(Roman Catholic)361 students | Gr. PK-8
VallejoSt Vincent Ferrer School
420 Florida St
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707)642-4311(Roman Catholic)366 students | Gr. PK-8
VallejoSt. Catherine Of Siena School
3460 Tennessee St
Vallejo, CA 94591
(707)643-6691(Roman Catholic)289 students | Gr. K-9
VallejoSt. Patrick-St. Vincent High School
1500 Benicia Road
Vallejo, CA 94591
(707)644-4425(Roman Catholic)451 students | Gr. 9-12
FairfieldSt. Timothy Orthodox Academy
4593 Central Way
Fairfield, CA 94534
(707)864-6236(Greek Orthodox)8 students | Gr. 5-11
VallejoStarting Gate School
579 Couch St
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707)643-4283(Christian)167 students | Gr. PK-12
VallejoThe Benjamin Banneker Preparatory Academy100 Dogwood Lane
Vallejo, CA 94591
(707)554-10942 students | Gr. 6
All-boys (Non-sectarian)
FairfieldTrinity Lutheran School
2075 Dover Avenue
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707)435-1123(Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod)102 students | Gr. PK-3
FairfieldTutor Time Learning Center
3354 Cherry Hills Ct
Fairfield, CA 94534
(707)422-4105Daycare / Preschool78 students | Gr. PK-KG
VacavilleVacaville Adventist School
4740 Allendale Rd
Vacaville, CA 95688
(707)448-2842(Seventh-Day Adventist)21 students | Gr. KG-8
VacavilleVacaville Christian Schools
1117 Davis St
Vacaville, CA 95687
(707)446-1776(Christian)964 students | Gr. PK-12
VallejoVallejo Center For Learning
Po Box 4485
Vallejo, CA 94590
(707)649-06656 students | Gr. 5-11
All-boys | Special Education School (Non-sectarian)
FairfieldWe R Family Christian School
1004 Utah St
Fairfield, CA 94533
(707)428-1838(Christian)23 students | Gr. PK-2
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I watched the first episode of HBO's Silicon Valley last night. Yes I know I'm several weeks behind at this point, but I wasn't sure if I was going to get into this series (still not sure actually). FWIW I'm a big fan of Mike Judge's films like Office Space and Idiocracy, and also enjoyed his prior TV shows. But as I said to my wife, I suppose it's a little like a doctor watching ER back in the day or a cop watching contemporary crime dramas.
In that very first episode we have a brief glimpse at the aftermath of a successful exit worth "hundreds of millions" and then also the main character's dilemma of whether to accept a $10 million offer for a fledgling side project. And it occurred to me that tech entrepreneurs' success is a little like alchemy to the average person.
Picture this… some people that seem at the fringes of the mainstream (developers & entrepreneurial types) do some stuff that you don't really understand (innovation & company building) and then poof the entrepreneur possesses vast riches. Today's journey from startup to $19B acquisition by Facebook must seem comparable to turning base metals into a pile of gold for the average 13th century man on the street. Regardless of how important one thinks luck may be in entrepreneurial success, and it undoubtedly plays a material part, most people know that startup success is not exactly the same as hitting the lottery. But the success of software entrepreneurs it is less understood and probably feels less intentional to the average person than most other forms of accomplishment. And perhaps those of us in the entrepreneurial ecosystem could do more to foster a broader understanding.
Most people can grasp other forms of success in some way. Few will ever achieve the investment success of Warren Buffet, but wide swaths of society have at least tried their hand at buying a couple shares in a brokerage account or allocating their 401k in some way. Lots of people played little league or tried out for sports as a kid, so while few of us will ever be A-Rod, Tiger, or Tom Brady we have some sense of what it must take to climb to the heights of professional sports.
But relatively few people have written a software application. Few have quit secure jobs and gone without paychecks to pursue an entrepreneurial dream. Few have mapped out a market opportunity in detail, and then fought and scrapped to bring an innovative product to that market. And even fewer have done all three and been successful in the process.
The easy thing to do would be to simply say "most folks don't understand tech entrepreneurship". But those of us who live and work in "Silicon Valley" could probably do more to help the broader world understand what entrepreneurs actually do and also don't do. Tech entrepreneurship and building innovative, successful businesses should rightly be celebrated by our own ecosystem and society more broadly. But we can also hopefully admit that not every startup is truly changing the world. Perhaps we're a little commercially minded in addition to disrupting a market and improving customers' lives. Hard work is always involved but occasionally we simply get lucky. And all of this is ok to admit.
Hopefully those of us in the startup ecosystem can speak truth to all these, in addition to highlighting the determinism, brilliance, and effort that goes into entrepreneurial success. Perhaps then it won't feel like alchemy to the rest of world.
Like most folks in the tech ecosystem, I'm still slightly slack-jawed this morning by the announcement late yesterday that Facebook is buying WhatsApp for approximately $19 billion in total consideration. There are so many remarkable aspects of this event… from the sheer size, to founder Jan Koum's personal story, to the way it caught most people by surprise, to Sequoia's stunning return (more on that below).
As a thought exercise though I thought I'd try to put the valuation in perspective. Clearly Facebook is buying WhatsApp for both offensive reasons and defensive/strategic reasons, as described by others.
But what if Facebook decided to monetize WhatsApp through advertising as the core Facebook service is? I realize this may never happen and is an imperfect analogy even if it did. WhatsApp was conceived and operated with a deep conviction opposed to interruptive ads. Facebook has committed to keeping the WhatsApp service and brand, plus Koum will now be a meaningful shareholder and board director of Facebook so he retains far greater influence than most acquired companies. Also there's a number of reasons why even if Facebook inserted ads into WhatsApp that they may monetize at lower rates… straight messaging services have historically monetized worse than content sharing (think ICQ & AIM). Furthermore WhatsApp users are predominantly in markets which have lower mobile ad spend, though Facebook similarly has a large portion of it's base in these markets.
With that said, Facebook's acquisition price is <10x the conceivable revenue for WhatsApp. In it's most recently announced quarterly results (for Q4 2014), Facebook generated approximately $5B in annualized revenue (1) from mobile ads across 945 million MAUs (monthly active users) on mobile. This works out to $5.25 in annual mobile ad revenue per MAU. If you apply that to WhatsApp's 450 million MAUs you'd get $2.4 billion in annualized revenue. Viewed through this lens, Facebook's acquisition price of $19 billion is something like 8x conceivable revenue.
Again I'm not predicting that Facebook is just going to insert its existing ad formats into WhatsApp, and it may never monetize the service to this degree. I'm also not suggesting that we should apply Facebook's revenue/user as a "conceivable" revenue metric to every mobile messaging service… most will never monetize at anywhere near that high a level. But a lot of people also underestimated Google's ability to monetize YouTube when they paid $1.5 billion for it. That's no longer the case… estimates range from $3-5+ billion for YouTube's ad revenue in 2013.
Lastly, hats off to the folks at Sequoia. Not just for backing an exceptional team or generating a stupendous return (>$3B proceeds). They had conviction about this company and concentrated their capital in it, and as a result no other VC had the opportunity to see it after Sequoia's initial investment. It would have been easy to let another firm lead the $50M round at a $1.5B valuation and still have a hugely valuable stake in WhatsApp, but Sequoia just tripled down on a company they believed in. This takes deep conviction and the willingness to do what some others may not. Kudos to them.
(1) $2.34B in quarterly revenue, of which 53% was mobile is $1.24B, which is $5.0B on annualized basis
It's widely known we VCs focus on just a couple of key dimensions when making our investment decisions: team, market, product / technology, and investment parameters or "deal". While all of these parameters are loosely connected and there are many paths to "yes" at the end of the day market size is the prime reason VCs pass on otherwise credible opportunities.
It's well known VC's love markets that are huge in size, but what's sufficiently big for a market to be attractive to VCs? It starts with an honest appraisal of TAM.
TAM = "Truly" Addressable Market –> Wikipedia would have you believe that TAM stands for total addressable market. But as a VC, I typically think of it as "truly" addressable. If market is the chief dimension on which VC's pass, market size is the chief element of that. VCs invest in disruptive startups that have the potential to build large ($100M+ revenue, enterprise value of hundreds of millions to billions) and durable businesses. It's hard for startups to capture more than a small fraction (10% or less) of a market, therefore a market must be measured in the billions for a VC to believe there's a credible chance a startup can be a "venture scale" business.
But in the abstract, anyone can say that the market for X is some astronomically high number. What matters is the amount of money truly spent on a startup's product or service. There's $100B+ spent each year on plane flights, hotels, and rental cars in the US… but if you're an upstart online travel service, you're not competing for those dollars unless you actually own a fleet of planes, rental cars, and a bunch of hotels. You're typically competing for the dollars spent by companies that own fleets of planes, rental cars, and hotels to promote their services to travelers. It turns out that itself is a pretty big market which is why many big businesses have been built there (Priceline, Kayak, TripAdvisor, Expedia, Hotwire, etc). But conflating the market for hotel rooms with the market for online promotion by companies that offer hotel rooms will hinder your chances of raising capital.
Understanding and pitching the market size which is truly addressable for your startup is critical, and VCs only love markets that are large in "truly" addressable size. A marketplace's true revenue potential is the % of the total GMS (gross merchandise sales) they can charge (typically 5-10%), not the total GMS. A payments company's true revenue potential is the % of the payment volume they can charge to process those transactions (typically 2-4% on a gross basis, <1% on a net basis), not the total payment volume. Conversely when a startup's service truly is a substitute in a monstrously large market, these companies can be massively valuable (e.g. Uber, AirBnB).
VCs will not ignore adjacent markets or the possibility of expanding beyond a startup's home country, but will tend to discount both in the short run. While it's certainly possible for a startup to build new products to serve adjacent markets and it's easier to expand internet & software businesses globally today than a decade ago, neither are easy to do in the first 0-5 years of a startup's life. Some services, both consumer & B2B, face localization challenges or cultural differences in expanding or building a strong brand in one market segment may actually make it more challenging to expand into others. So highlighting adjacent or international markets can be useful examples of how a startup's truly addressable market expands naturally over time, but typically VC's will focus on the core/home market.
So think honestly and hard in defining your startup's TAM. That which is truly addressable is what will increase the chances of getting to yes with VCs.
Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company's lifecycle before shifting to monetization. This is a logical thing to do… when we started LinkedIn, my mentor Reid Hoffman instilled a mantra of Growth –> Usage –> Revenue which still holds for many consumer companies. This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc), where scale is a necessary condition for even the first dollar of revenue, in addition to maximizing long term enterprise value.
But B2B startups need to take a different tack. We invest in internet enabled companies at NextView and our portfolio is roughly equally split between consumer and B2B businesses. Business facing companies typically provide software or an online service for which their customers pay a fee.
Arguably revenue is the best signal of product-market fit for B2B startups. In the early days of a B2B startup's product, all of the following will come into play:
- If a business customer is willing to pay something for your early product, even nominal or beta pricing, that's a pretty healthy indicator the product has value in terms of features and functionality.
- Potential customers' willingness to pay will help you segment your target market (by customer size, vertical, geography, etc) more effectively than simply "researching" your market in abstract.
- Some potential customers won't take your product seriously unless you're charging for it.
- You will be benchmarked on revenue and paying customers when you seek Series A funding… conceivably even at seed stage.
The early goal isn't to maximize near term revenue… it'll take time to fully understand your market and establish P-M fit, let alone optimizing the sales & marketing engine. And this is not to say that there's no place for having an unpaid product. There's a myriad of pricing and payment structures for B2B companies – subscription, transaction-based, term/perpetual licenses, OEM/embedded services, etc. If you're collaborating very closely with alpha customers, you may give away the product during initial development phases. And even as they mature B2B companies may offer portions of their software for free either as a basic tier of service, or a free trial period, or lead-gen products that help fill the top of the funnel.
So if you're in the early innings of building a B2B startup, embrace early revenue rather than putting monetization off until the distant future. FWIW this largely holds true of commerce and transaction based consumer startups too (think of the beginnings for Uber, Airbnb, et al).
Change Collective announced their seed round today, in conjunction with their broader launch of the company. I thought I'd share a little of what makes us enthusiastic to partner with Ben, Derek, and their team to help them as they build their business.
I first met Ben about 5-6 years ago. This was before we started NextView and at the time Ben was still building Zeo, the prior company he co-founded. It was great to get to know him and offer informal input, and though I wasn't an investor in Zeo we stayed in pretty close contact over the years and then more recently in 2013 as he started to think about his next project. We signed a term sheet with Ben for Change Collective's round shortly before the holidays and he did a great job bringing in our friends at Founder Collective as a co-lead and Eniac Ventures and a small set of angels in a short time.
Change Collective's own announcement, website and the press do a good job describing what they're building. My partners and I are excited about the company for several reasons:
1) Authentic & Experienced Team – Ben and Derek understand behavior change and personal improvement to their core. Zeo pioneered consumer sleep tracking in an era before anybody talked about "quantified self" and both of them have thought very deeply about the necessary ingredients for enabling consumers to effect real behavior change.
2) Self Learning Market is Enormous – We're bullish on online learning generally, and the self learning market in particular. We've met with many startups working in this area over the last 2-3 years. Self-improvement content alone is a $10B+ market and self learning more broadly is a couple times that, so there's ample space to build a very large, transformative company.
3) Mobile Is First Major Platform Shift for Self Learning/Improvement – Most of the consumer-facing companies we've been investing in are "mobile first" and we've been talking about ubiquitous computing for several years. It's easy for a startup to pitch itself as "mobile first" just as entrepreneurs pitched "cloud" a few years ago and "web" more than a decade ago.
But Change Collective's founders didn't use this as a catchphrase… they understand that mobile platforms' very nature transforms how consumers experience self improvement content. This was historically static content delivered via books, DVDs, podcasts, blogs, etc. Software makes static content interactive, the social layer makes consumers accountable, and mobile's real-time/ubiquity helps the experts with whom Change Collective collaborates reach users in a radically more scalable and continuous fashion than before.
We're thrilled to help Ben, Derek, and the rest of the Change Collective team as the continue to build the company and help millions of consumers create a better self through real, lasting behavior change. This is NextView's first investment of 2014, and we've got two more lined up that will be closing soon. We've got a lot of things cooking for 2014 and glad we can start it off with Change Collective.


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Wedbush analyst David Nierengarten says Dendreon's (DNDN +4.2%) chances with Provenge in the EU are practically zero. While the EMA is likely to grant approval, Nierengarten asks "Who's going to make it?" He points out that no European manufacturer has yet stepped up to work with the company. "All-in," he concludes, "we do not estimate any sales for Provenge in the EU, and we do not believe the European opportunity, if there is one, would be profitable in any significance." [View news story]
Stay tuned.Jun 28, 2013. 03:07 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
European Committee Adopts Positive Opinion On Dendreon's Provenge [View article]
Sales data may continue to be lackluster but the science and promise is not going away.
With any good sales bumps, will come a short squeeze, so have at it- this company is not going away and not selling itself.Jun 28, 2013. 11:47 AM | 3 Likes |Link to Comment
Question Posed To Dendreon Investor Relations [View instapost]Jun 12, 2013. 10:36 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Can you make a citation to the fact that Provenge is being evaluated by the EU for post-chemo? Given that the USFDA indication is for a disease state regardless of chemo status, I can't see why the EU would limit the patient population to those with significantly worse disease who have received immunocompromising chemotherapeutic agents.
May 24, 2013. 09:58 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
I agree, this argument is baseless when the treatments are NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE and evidence supports and NCCN Guidelines publish that Prevenge can and should be used first.
The problem is, the studies that will make a significant impact on the rate of prescription are not yet available- and without STRONG guidelines including alternative therapies, even the BENIGN nature of Provenge immunotherapy falls to the decision to choose the EASY RX with Xtandi and Zytiga (even with their associated risks of significant side effects) The potential that studies showing solely continuing antiandrogen therapy WITHOUT using immunotherapy, shows INFERIORITY to adjuvant therapy with Provenge first, would BOOST PROVENGE! We NEED INFERIORITY STUDIES and these will evolve.
DNDN management recognizes this, and if not, they are reading it here (one would think)May 23, 2013. 11:33 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Not impressed by sell recommendations WITHOUT ANY CONSIDERATION TO THE POWER OF THE CLINICAL ASSET.
May 22, 2013. 12:38 PM | 5 Likes |Link to Comment
Agreed, especially since moving to another agent is going to introduce side effects almost universally with any other therapy, in a patient population (post-Provenge) who are currently nearly universally without any side effects whatsoever!
May 16, 2013. 10:26 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
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"When patients have not been exposed to PROVENGE are not educated or familiar with the drug and there is questions between them and the physicians depending on the physician, we see a great connect rate or we can see some of them, because PROVENGE does not affect biomarkers, it isn't something that you are able to tell the patient after they've taken it."
"We've got a lot of clinical activity and investigated initiated trials. Everything from looking at mechanism of action, biomarkers, combination studies and sequencing studies."
So, about those biomarkers? Unclear answers, more mystery. Just scan the article for the word "biomarkers" and you'll see the lack of clarity.May 15, 2013. 10:43 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
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Otherwise, maybe he was just super nervous. I'll give an example.
"I mean, it is fairly – it is the most, second most common cancer in men. 30,000 to 35,000 cases diagnosed each year and that's pretty consistent with what you see in terms of morbidity rate. You see higher incidents in African American males compared to Caucasian males."
Really? 30,000 to 35,000 cases diagnosed each year? And that's consistent with the morbidity (not mortality?) rates? False. Many more men are diagnosed, like 250,000 or so. One in six men are diagnosed with prostate cancer.
But don't take my word for it. http://bit.ly/YMqfZk
He does little to reassure me of the most important threats to their business model, and I would fire him.
Read this, verbatim, and you will see what I'm talking about.
I think this rise in the last few days is essentially a bounce after hitting bottom, as many folks start investing at near 52-week lows. There is little reassurance coming out of Healthcare Conferences like this one.
The real meat would have been the American Urological Association's clinical plenary sessions and guidelines about the treatment of metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer, not these blabbering executives who continue to fail the investors.May 15, 2013. 10:29 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
A patient moving to agents that can be immunosuppressive (chemo, namely) only a few weeks after Provenge? Really?
May 15, 2013. 10:00 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Perhaps the time to progression to other treatments is important, could be a surrogate marker for how well the treatment worked, but again, this is not objective nor reproducible enough. Patients being "sold" on other therapies as the PSA rises, or their level of concern, are HUGE variables in that regard.
May 15, 2013. 09:56 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Progression to other treatments after Provenge is not a concern to Dendreon, but I totally understand your point.
May 15, 2013. 09:23 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Johnson is not wrong about co-administration with other agents.
The most important clinical variables are the lack of development of a proper assay or array of tests that prove Provenge is working. If PSA and radiologic progression are not able to track life extension, and conversely, the only thing we are supposed to go on is the time to death, then I can tell you patients will be treated with additional agents i.e. Xtandi and Zytiga, then chemo.
Dendreon's new motto, advertised at the AUA in signs at the convention in San Diego, was "Provenge: A Strong Start"
More psychological than anything, so far. When I asked their science liason(s) about clinical lab science efforts to track retardation of the progression of the disease, I was not given any good answer, instead they scanned my badge and promised someone would get back to me.May 14, 2013. 02:30 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Bracing For Dendreon Q1 2013 Earnings - All Eyes On Provenge [View article]May 10, 2013. 10:30 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Bracing For Dendreon Q1 2013 Earnings - All Eyes On Provenge [View article]
Or is your opinion on the company so negative that you would not even care to research this?
Just FYI, direct to consumer advertising is just one piece of the puzzle, and I am not sure that will lead to sales. The company mentioned several avenues into which they have spent money, not burned it. They are investing in themselves with things like advertising.
I think it would be more valuable if you were able to delineate wasteful expenditures, but again, this would require a real analysis and not the conjecture of "cash burn" as you put it.
I believe that would help investors decide on investing in the company, not simply the numbers.May 10, 2013. 10:28 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
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Independent Muslim women have achieved great milestones throughout history and continue to break social barriers by using their beliefs as a source of empowerment.
Sukina (my band member) and I often joke about performing to new audiences and how it takes about three songs before they get over the shock of hijabis running across the stage, telling them to throw their peace signs up.
Modern Britain has a problem with Islam. This may not come as much of a surprise to some readers. For many in Britain, Islam is considered an isolating force, and its followers are somehow externalised from British identity, regardless of their birthplace or what passport they hold...
Religious satire causes offence, but it is one person's right to express their view and another person's right to express that they are offended. Sadly, there are plenty of religious targets that are worth hitting - from paedophile priests to bloodthirsty imams to rogue rabbis.
As an LGBT person of faith, it is important to me to continuously build cohesion between the LGBT community and faith groups - and this extends to our campuses. It is not conducive for students who may wish to reconcile their LGBT identities with their faiths or are struggling with these two seemingly contradictory aspects of their identities to see the two groups at war with each other.
It is inevitable that the Western world is still recovering from the horrific images of British aid workers and American journalists being beheaded in orange jump suits, by a masked executioner with a London accent. But as difficult as it may be, there must be a genuine attempt in creating a nuanced approach to understand what leads individuals like Adebolajo and Emwazi to resort to such extreme measures.
As a child, I experienced directly the violent consequences of prejudice and hatred, and understand all too well the serious effects of keeping silent in the face of bigotry. So I stand united with the people of Newcastle who are coming together positively to show that there is no place for Pegida on the streets of Great Britain.
Perhaps the so-called "radicalisation" of these schoolchildren has more to do with being groomed, or acting out to be a rebel, as opposed to well-thought-out politicised acts. The societal/familial background contribute just as much to their actions, something that is entirely overlooked in debates surrounding the radicalisation of British Muslim youth.
If we are to prevent radicalization, Muslim disenfranchisement, and a generation of disengaged youth left vulnerable to fundamentalist ideology, we must find a way forward, and engagement and mutual cooperation lie at the heart of the answer.
The reaction from the Charity Commission on these cases was in my eyes exemplary. Not only did it act swiftly to remove a charity that should have never been on their register in the first place but it also was quick to reassure the public on social media and elsewhere that the programme did 'not reflect the vast majority of charities that are properly run by honest trustees'.
This problem needs to be dealt with properly, and must be tackled with caution. However, to resolve it, we must first acknowledge that the problem actually exists. A massive step for the vast majority. Then again, to acknowledge a problem exists, we must first feel that the grief it causes matters.
The great political truth of our time is this - Islamism is a problem by itself and there are progressives from various Muslim communities across the world waging a life-or-death struggle against it. It cannot be excused or explained away by blaming Western imperialism.
The idea that the entire Muslim community should be watched for signs of adherence to Islam, which will then lead to potential criminal activity, underpins Prevent and the CTS Act. It would be expected that with such policies and matching rhetoric, the public would begin to see the Muslim community living by Islam as a problem, criminal community that should be ostracised.
Speaker after speaker last Saturday warned of an Islamist agenda of stealthy, creeping, subtle Sharification. This involves sustained attempts by Islamists to pressure public institutions, in the name of religious freedom and multiculturalism, to make special allowances for their reactionary sectarian clerical values.
31 European countries haven't made prostitution illegal, which reiterates it to be a global problem, free from association of colour, creed or nationality, rather than the actions of the 'insidious Muslims in the far East'.
n Jordan, a moderate yet socially-conservative country and for long a beacon for religious co-existence in a turbulent region where intolerance and hate speech is on the rise, a Sharia court has allowed a minor to convert to Islam.


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