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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

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In The Art of One-line Pitching: A Study of AngelList , Chris Eleftheriadis reviewed 1,700AngelList postings and identified the nine most common categories of positioning pitches (Chris'' list is edited here for brevity): 1. Google x Facebook x Amazon) + (Universal Reviews). Yammer for Education) & explanatory (e.g.,

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. It was originally called Twttr and didn’t initially get rave reviews from TechCrunch or GigaOm. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Geni.com beget Yammer. I could go on and on.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). The new entrant keeps margins low but suddenly has a lot of profits due to large volumes of business. How does the incumbent respond?

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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