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All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces

abovethecrowd.com

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You sell a product that requires an internet connection and a web browser for access, which means your prospects are online! Stay local - Prove your business in North America first. Cracking The Code.

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

Annie is interviewed by a16z managing partner, Jeff Jordan, who was previously CEO and then executive chairman of OpenTable, former GM of eBay North America, and much more. I was cleaning up offices a couple years ago, and I found sheets in different places, and aggregated my career decisions. Jeff: Yeah. That resonates a lot.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Grew up here in the Central Valley of California, left for early work and career in college, bounced around North America for a while, returned home to start this company. I was not in a city center, and so things like internet and reliable vehicles, all of those things were hard to come by at first.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). The company is currently unprofitable, though generating meaningful free cash flow.

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Why You Must Change Your Content Marketing Approach

Duct Tape Marketing

Over the years my email newsletter has become more of a place to filter, aggregate and share other people’s content in snack sized versions. With more networking going on via the Internet, people are actually craving more in-person, face-to-face time. Actually, the opposite has happened. Joe Pulizzi. Content Marketing Institute.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Flash Networks’ Harmony Content Control enables safer, more productive mobile use of the open Internet for consumer or business use.

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