InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

I just read the Q1 2010 report from CB Insights , which shows some interesting trends. That doesn’t mean that you have to live there to be considered, but it helps. It also helps to keep track of the business sectors VCs are focusing on. First of all, investors put $5.9 Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Your loyalty program members are your most engaged consumer and chances are they have a social media presence on Twitter, Facebook etc. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. For the past four years, TECH cocktail has been journalistically covering and helping rally together. Joel Bush, Amplifier.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices. Because they are anti-competitive most countries ban cartels. The model I would look to?

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com.

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