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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. Pragmatic.

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Going Global At Launch: Tips For Building A Micro-Multinational Startup

ReadWriteStart

In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Managing Partner , Tangent Capital. I have the purchase history to prove it. CEO , Gust.

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Starting A New Business Venture Is Not As Daunting As You Might Think

YoungUpstarts

They can point you to funding sources and assist with finding capable business partners for payment processing, for example; 3. Can you “mentor” employees about you to perform above their expectations? Emotional Control. This last factor is more important than most people want to believe.

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Taming The Multi-Cultural Butterfly – Leverage Diversity To Create Unity

YoungUpstarts

Other employees scrambled around, and the room soon filled to capacity. So what can you do when your team is comprised of people who are like butterflies of many colors and don’t partner well? Exercise 2 – Teach your employees how to apologize when they let a teammate down. BJ came eager to help. He wasn’t a happy camper.

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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?

Ben's Blog

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. As founding CEO, I remember being quite excited to meet our financial backers and talk about how we could partner to build a great company. That question tortured me for months.