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Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

Both Sides of the Table

A good friend of mine was features on the front cover of the LA Times business section with a glowing article. Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait.

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

In any case, before the process starts on your startup, you should be doing your own reverse due diligence on the investor, as outlined in this article I published a while back. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. Status of the solution. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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This article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". I recently spoke with Michael Bleigh, Co-Founder and CEO of Divshot.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

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The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community

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If you’re a developer you ought to be asking yourself the question. What websites one visits, what pictures they look at, whose FB page they checking out – are not fair game in a world where you care about trust. You can turn it off, but they defaulted it to an on setting to drive more adoption of the product.

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Driving User Engagement With FEM's Video Recommendations

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I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I worked with the head of each product area, such as YouTube, on how to drive more value for our large partners. We have our product in the market, and launched our beta in January. My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

In any case, before the process starts on your startup, you should be doing your own reverse due diligence on the investor, as outlined in this article I published a while back. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. Status of the solution. Review of opportunity and segmentation.