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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. But with media-based businesses, the distribution of outcomes is markedly different in part because the value capture by new disruptive startups is different. From Google Finance. A couple things factor into this.

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Playing Startup

View from Seed

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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Podcast Strategy: A Roadmap for Businesses

ConversionXL

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Podcast distribution. To support distribution, the show title should be unique, memorable, relevant, and, of course, keyword optimized. Let’s get started. . Podcasting as a marketing channel.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. If printing and binding the documentation is important, is his the best tool? If you have only six FAQ entries, should you buy his tool?

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