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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

He wasn’t consciously giving a glib non-answer; he was understandably, desperately avoiding it. Here’s the most common one which I got just this week: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. click and competed with no other advertisers.

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18 Steps Your Startup Must Take to Protect Itself in 2021

The Startup Magazine

Email hygiene is the set of practices that reduces your startup’s vulnerability to email-based attack as well as non-malicious (read: accidental) data loss. Don’t apologize for this — you’re only doing your due diligence. You’ll feel more capable once you have it under your belt, too. Adopt Strict Email Hygiene Standards.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner.

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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

Software By Rob

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

If you’re a non-profit…. Kiva is a non-profit organization that partners with microfinance institutions (Kiva’s “field partners”) in third-world countries to offer small loans to budding entrepreneurs. EarlyShares is a pretty sophisticated fundraising platform looking to compete with traditional venture capital firms.

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