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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices.

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JUNE 20, 2014

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself. I wasn’t.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In this article the focus will be on how to successfully attract media attention. In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. With booth prices up to $9,500 , it blew my mind how vague the taglines were.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

But subsequent statistics have also shown that “online coupon access [has] increased 92 percent and redemption of Internet deals [has] leapt up 360 percent;” with more growth predicted in 2012. It has been predicted that this method will continue to increase in popularity in 2012. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As "As important as school was, I found that it could be very disruptive to a steady income." " [Tweet this quote]. Look around.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. This is cheaper for them than waiting for big competitors and buying companies at big prices.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2013

If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Once someone tries on an expensive dress which is outside of their price range, it is often difficult for them to be satisfied with dresses that conform to their budget. Reality Selling. The show's format is fairly straightforward.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. October 5, 2012. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. When convertible debt first started being introduced as a “faster, cheaper way to get startups funded” they didn’t have pricing built into them. They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.”

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MAY 23, 2012

This article originally ran on PEHub. 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. They compete on features, price and execution. Fast forward to 2012 and none of these conditions hold.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Ryan Born is the Founder of AudioMicro , which provides a collection of royalty free music and sound effects at affordable prices. Great article – good stuff. © 2012 IdeaMensch. Idea Mensch. Subscribe to RSS. Publishing.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. I predict this will come before the end of 2012.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Here is the Wikipedia definition of a bubble.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Otherwise, grab a cup ‘o coffee … Clicking on any graph below will take you to that article. The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. We took $2.3

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AUGUST 9, 2011

This article was originally published on TechCrunch. My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. The full articles are linked below. Why is that? Yesterday was a Monday.

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