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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. The reason that marketing resonated so much for us as a 2016 priority is: Portfolio. We can help portfolio companies with announcements, PR strategies, crisis management and so forth.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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There’s No Such Thing as an MCN. It’s a Figment of Your Imagination

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We helped talent with O&O (owned & operated websites) and with ad sales. But if you’re not on FB in 2016 you’re crazy. We built great assets for tracking analytics and royalty management. We built creators tools and website builders. We sold brand integration. We had a studio and invested in content creation.

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