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The Changing Venture Landscape

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I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

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We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. That doesn’t work.”.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. There are 2.9

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BLOGGER ALERT: How to Start a Blog and Make Money Blogging

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One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion. Most bloggers wouldn’t turn down the opportunity to make a full time income from writing their blog. Who are you writing to…What are their fears, their dreams, their lifestyles? Write your content.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. And being populist helps that. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. It’s hard to say.

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Proven | Founder Interview with Pablo Fuentes. Job Markets, & The Future of Mobile

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Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. Reading what people have to say about us like how we changed their lives and helped them find a job is a rewarding experience. The email says, “Your app helped me find a job that was better than my current one and allowed me to have a better life at the moment.

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