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LiveOffice Claims Record Revenue

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Torrance-based LiveOffice , a provider of hosted email archiving and related services, reported today that the privately held firm had "record-setting" revenues in Q2. LiveOffice is backed by private-equity firm Summit Partners, which invested in the company in 2007. Tags: software email hosted lifeoffice. READ MORE>>.

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Why You Should Give Before You Get

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I see it on email even more. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. When I joined GRP Partners in 2007 I was offered a role as a General Partner. Who cares what my equity is. It seems we live in an era of “ask.”

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

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It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing. Enter the famous Sequoia “RIP Good Times” presentation and Ron Conway’s publicly leaked emails calling for big slashes in burn rates.

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Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First

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It’s a bit like if you bought a $1 million home in 2007 and want to sell it for $1 million today. One is slightly better and priced at $1 million, which you know from Zillow is what they paid for it in 2007. Another is slightly worse but priced at $700k and was bought in 2007 for $1 million. The list goes on.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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Just a month ago they were all email you! One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. We’re just going to have to change our focus a bit. Team losing a bit of confidence in you. VCs pushing out your meetings a few weeks.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Be Best at Something

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It results in a lack of focus and diluted brand equity. We can solve so many different problems with email delivery ranging from performance to reliable email delivery to dynamic content. We focused on proving that StrongMail is the best way to get email reliably delivered to the Inbox. . ► March (1) Office 2.0:

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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Just a month ago they were all email you! One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. We’re just going to have to change our focus a bit. Team losing a bit of confidence in you. VCs pushing out your meetings a few weeks.