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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Enjoyed this post? The Holy Grail of.

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Ecommerce Sales In Q4 Breaks Records

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billion for Q4 of 2010. The firm, which measures retail e-commerce sales, said the sales were up 11 percent versus a year ago. The sales numbers are the fifth consequtive quarter of year-over-year growth, and the second quarter of double-digit growth in the past year.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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One year ago I predicted that in 2010/11 the economy, far from being on the path of permanent recovery was on a temporary resurgence and there was a strong possibility of a “double dip” recession. The housing market is not recovered : Sales in existing homes in the US fell 27.2% between June and July 2010 (and 25% from a year ago).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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-Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Total raised: $16.0mm.

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

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Investment professionals tend to fall into the following categories: Not an investment partner. All of this, of course, is Sales 101. In 2010 I didn’t know a single thing about LPs (the people who invest in VC funds). Borrowing from that post: “Remember that fund raising is a sales process. So best to be humble.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ). And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. Arthur Andersen was embroiled in the Enron scandal and forced out of business.