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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

InfoChachkie

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

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. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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How I Promise You One of the Most Meaningful Days of Your Life

Both Sides of the Table

Defy teaches them personal finance like how to keep a checking account, the difference between debt and equity, what cashflow is and so forth. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. She was smart (she started her career in private equity!) Yeah, yeah, whatever Mike.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru. I love the web and love Internet marketing. So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome. We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”.

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