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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Failing at that business, terminating my employees, and shutting the doors was the most challenging thing I had done. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. Photo Credit: Ryan Niddel. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners.

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Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief

Duct Tape Marketing

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And now we've got technology coming in. Like this show?

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Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs - from Guy Kawasaki

Startup Lessons Learned

Key employees will join us as soon as we get funded." When investors contact these key employees who are supposedly set to join a company, the response is often, "I vaguely remember meeting the CEO at a cocktail party." If you''re going to tell this lie, make sure that these potential employees are locked and loaded and ready to join.

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On Human Capital & Venture Capital

thebarefootvc

No matter how capable and experienced, an entrepreneur needs as many trusted, networked and experienced eyes and ears to help her navigate through this dynamic market. So as an investor, I find myself passing on opportunities at the early stage that I know could become strong businesses, simply due to bandwidth constraints.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 In response, the company initiated a new training program for employees that focused on retaining customers and overcoming easy objectives. image source. communication.

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