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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren’t interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5% of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better. I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. It was impressive.

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It’s Not How Big It Is – It’s How Well It Performs: The Startup Genome Compass

Steve Blank

More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition. They believe that they can crack the code of innovation and turn entrepreneurship into a science if they had hard data rather than speculation of why startups succeed or fail. 74% of high growth Internet startups fail due to premature scaling.

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

Both Sides of the Table

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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The right way to position against competition

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There's no competition because this is an industry that has never used software to solve this problem.". I know that sounds like a good thing, but what this also implies is that you'll have to convince computer-phobic people to trust software, and that's a disadvantage. New attitudes towards the Internet (e.g.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. The “Internet of Things”.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

While you may be able to offer a price & terms for your service and not ever negotiate (especially if you’re an Internet company that sells cheaply to small businesses over the web and without onsite support & service) – you’ll still likely have to negotiate on business development deals. Your IT Reviewer.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet. Apparel is currently one of the most fascinating categories within the Everyday Economy.

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