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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. I was leading the analysis with a team of 14 people: 12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk. It was originally COBOL and DB2 – so what?

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

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The VC industry in shrinking – Paul Kedrosky was early on the scene with this prescient prediction that the industry would shrink. She laughed and said, “Our predictions are for a much larger drop.&# Gulp. PEHub followed up their analysis with this. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Think about the math.

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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

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I still think they follow predictable behavior with power users, casual contributors and lurkers. T-shirt can be ordered here: Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. Therefore more people contribute as they are communicating in an IM like way with other people rather than looking to contribute community content.

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SEO for Startups

SoCal CTO

It tells you all the basics and the importance of things like: Titles URLs Anchor Tags Site Navigation Content Quality Once you've skimmed this, you'll have a pretty good idea of all the things that you should do to get your pages in good shape. They only very briefly mention how you can effectively promote your site.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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It’s just not reasonable to expect startups to pick an optimal round size in advance, because that depends on the reactions of investors, and those are impossible to predict. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. Violent agreement.

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Henry Blodget Loves to Blog: The remaking of a disgraced Wall Street analyst

From the Venture Trenches

The Bezos investment brings Blodget full circle as it was Blodget’s prediction that Amazon would be worth more than $400 a share back in 1998 that prompted Merrill Lynch to hire him as their Internet analyst, when Amazon’s stock shot up more than 128% a little over a month after Blodget made the prediction.

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Startup “Solution Looking for a Problem” Syndrome

Startup Professionals Musings

A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Tackle the global warming problem, predict where earthquakes will occur, find alternative energy sources, cure cancer, and unlock the keys to aging. Marty Zwilling.

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