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7 Ways To Preclude The Most Common Investor Rejection

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. Free and freemium products need a solid base. Average transaction size and revenue per customer. First of all, a definition.

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How Much Traction is Enough for Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. Free and freemium products need a solid base. Average transaction size and revenue per customer. First of all, a definition.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.”

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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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. 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.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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“In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. But consumers don’t always want to buy that way.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. What does that mean?

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