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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Naming a Business. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. And let’s remember that, at the time of these IPO’s, few if any of these companies were household names. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Which Investors Are Glad To Pay For Mediocre Performance?

David Teten

Chernick : However, it should be noted that some outstanding asset allocators, just like some outstanding stock pickers, do beat the odds and indices. Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. It wasn’t helped by the fact that marketers seem fond of giving their personas silly names, such as “Social Butterfly Brenda” or “Value Hunter Valerie,” that attempt to collapse nuanced research into a single concept.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

One of the best definitions I’ve found, which expounds a bit more, comes from Tony Zambito circa 2002 : Tony Zambito: Buyer personas are research-based archetypal (modeled) representations of who buyers are, what they are trying to accomplish, what goals drive their behavior, how they think, how they buy, and why they make buying decisions.