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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 years ago. I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel.

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Best Tips For Working Virtually – Setting Up Your Business To Work From Home

YoungUpstarts

Your computer from 2007 might not cut it today so if you have to get a new one. Diana Ennen is the President of Virtual Word Publishing , offering PR and marketing services. Those who have worked from home for years (I’m at 35 years) know that things happen and how you deal with it is what can save you. and test all features.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute.

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When Should You Allow Exclusivity in Deals?

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I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software.

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Do Less. More.

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There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Back in 2007-08, I remember when not a week went by without Twitter going down. Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. by Shankar Ganesh, Marketing Analyst at Freshdesk. In fact, sometimes, the fail whale would take ages to load. People grumbled, But those were the dark ages.

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Twitter Link Roundup #212 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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Tech hubs have better inequality performance since 2007 than other large cities. Solve existing problems - crowdspring.co/1oI7svX. Keith Rabois on the Role of a COO, How to Hire and Why Transparency Matters - crowdspring.co/1bCtGfO. PPI analysis of Brookings data – progressivepolicy.org/?p=34822. The Next Web – crowdspring.co/OeIdnu.