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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

But I believe that if you go down this road you will struggle to simultaneously serve the SMB market. The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. Or they have products that cost $40 / month but that require a direct sales person to close them. And know that VC will be hard to come by.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. they released a new 2.0 If you can just be friendly enough and get your users to party with you, the rest is really easy.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

socalTECH

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos. There are also others who are doing advertisements with short video. Using this content model, we've made two sales.

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Interview with Alex Aydin, Icanbuy

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Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 A friend of mine was in the residential construction business, and at the time the market environment was pretty good for starting a home construction company. It was at the heydey of both the housing and mortgage market.

Startup 100
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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

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I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. He researched his market, he thought hard about how he thought it might ultimately monetize, he built a prototype and he created a very compelling vision for where he thought his market would head.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

Startup 40
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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