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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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We are building a lot of stuff now that has no longevity. If you’re building a startup today I would encourage you to think harder about how you’re going to win the battle for share of mind. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

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That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers. We've created an easy process for big companies to build a living knowledge base. It's no longer Phil the micromanager, it's workign with the team, and creating a team of rock stars.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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There are many investors who are not looking to build enormous businesses who value the fact that you can run a business profitably). While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. Internet scale. Amazing growth!”

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” They have 15 channels of categories with publishers like Alloy Digital, U.S.