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How to Start a Podcast

Tech.Co

A few high-profile acquisitions put Spotify into the running against Apple, while buzzy new startups like Luminary jumped into the pool as well. But where can a total newbie get started? Here, we'll offer a quick overview of how you can start your own podcast for free (or at least, as cheaply as possible).

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

Marten began his story by explaining that MySQL was originally founded as a research project and how it was a nascent startup for nearly a decade before he joined the team. I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then. I was ready to give up. and we managed over time to turn it (the acquisition) into a strength.".

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Combustion Matters More Than Scale

InfoChachkie

In the business world, a fire subsisting on fuel wood is equivalent to a startup that has achieved scale. Scaling normally occurs after a startup achieves product-market fit. Such fit exists when a profitable customer acquisition model can be repeatedly executed with consistent results and without the need of heroic efforts.

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8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

InfoChachkie

In many instances, investors simply do not have the patience to wait for an entrepreneur to sufficiently clean up their deal once a significant issue is identified during the due diligence process. Geographic Dispersion – Significant physical separation of the startup's Tribe. Such deal breakers come in a variety of colors and styles.

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Creating An Innovative Corporate Culture, Citrix Style

InfoChachkie

Mark framed his comments around the culture he built at Citrix, which has been augmented (and complicated) by the significant number of acquisitions the company executed during the past decade. You wake up and two phones ring. According to Mark, it starts with people. "We Humility - Obligation Before Opportunity.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Early evidence is good.

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. Public relations at a startup is a sales process.