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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They had a very expensive burn rate at the wrong time. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. 37:00-40:30). 49:35-51:30).

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How Can Venture Capital Funds Differentiate Themselves [VC Wish List Part 2]

VC Cafe

10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments – based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. Despite the VC’s obvious disadvantage in the early stages, marketing and differentiation of venture capital funds is limited today. Can they teach each other something?

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Fab’s differentiator is taste and you don’t develop taste overnight, the two argue. ”We’ve been successful, because we’re not kids,” Shellhammer said. .” It’s fun because it draws on who these guys are, on their entire life experience and because no one else could run Fab the way they do.

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Libox Wants To Manage All of Your Media and on Any Device (Interview with Erez Pilosof)

VC Cafe

VC Cafe: What would you say are your killer differentiators? Our burn rate is very low and the technology is very scalable. We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. It took me 10 years to build Walla. I’m not here to make a quick buck. It takes time. I don’t want to put my files in all the folders.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

O problema é que, devido à grande estrutura criada por antecipação e o consequente nível das despesas (burn rate), a Startup fica com pouco tempo e agilidade para iterar e descobrir o que estava de errado no plano. Isso sem mencionar que, dependendo do problema, em alguns casos fica bastante difícil “voltar atrás&#.