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Praying to the God of Valuation

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There were startups and a software industry but barely. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There was no money train.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. The video banner than Hollywood prefers won't work.

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Buy.com: December Sales Up

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Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is continuing to report good sales this holiday season, saying today that it has seen its revenues grow over 40 percent for the first 15 days of December, compared with 2007. Buy.com also reported that average customer orders are up by over 20 percent due to bigger purchases.

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Interview with Paige Craig, Betterworks

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We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

In some ways having seen these trends before and being a bit more mature (code for I’m 47) I think I feel just a little bit less pressure than I did when I was younger. I spend more time an executive recruiting of key talent for portfolio companies in which I’ve invested and more time in product reviews. Year in, year out.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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We are focused on the investment in and acquisition of software firms that are generating $2.5M They've grown their businesses through word of mouth more than through a large, established sales organization and they have done that by building a software product that is very well received, and unique in their particular niche market.