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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And we’re growing our sales organization. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. It’s pure irony.

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Hyperlocal Has Great Potential And Real Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Watch out for local sales force requirements. Local business price points have to be low.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. It was a great learning time for me. Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy.

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