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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services.

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

You can pour your heart and soul (and life savings) into a venture, do all your due diligence, toil 80- and 90-hour weeks, and just when you’re on the verge of a breakthrough, a dark horse competitor sweeps in and decimates your market share. Or a partner defects with your top client. Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Find road-trip partners on Zimride. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark. Sports Weekly. Travel Tips.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. When you read stories of successful startups in the popular and business press, you usually hear about how the founders anticipated several of these challenges in their initial vision.

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Episode 44: Communication and Credibility with Scott Spiro and Tony Lillios

Mike Michalowicz

Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”. Tony Lillios is a serial entrepreneur and most notably a co-founder of Speck Products, the protective case maker for mobile products, which was acquired by Samsonite in 2014. Corporate Partners.

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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Debbie Howard. Listen to marketing, its grain, wherever you get your podcast. (00:55):

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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

This feature was crucial to direct marketers who did not want to send multiple ads to the same address.) And no amount of sales and marketing hand waving was going to fix the problem. Founder Too. My engineering co-founder and I had a great relationship. You’re An Idiot. What Do You Mean Page 6?