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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

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This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons &#. Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation. I know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many. So when I started my first company I naturally went for elephants.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). And then came AOL.

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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. I learned that he was originally with William Morris as a junior talent rep but wanted to be more in the business of helping digital startups. Great guy, I wonder WTF he’s up to?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. We all wanted intros.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

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One of the things we really wanted to do was address that, and make our platform more flexible and versatile to help artists and others monetize this without having to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars up front. We're about a week or two from launching version 2.0, which will allow users to open up their own Insteegram stores.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs.

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