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Look Out, Investors: Cryptocurrency Values Slide As Warnings Take Off

Xconomy

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have seen dramatic but volatile price surges during the past year. But this month their billions in estimated market value are eroding , amid widening suspicions against one trading platform, a half-billion-dollar heist from another exchange, and an awakened global regulatory community.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. This involves a person who leads a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter feels more comfortable racing through pre-practiced slides and rattling off charts & bullet points than having a discussion. We used to do this in our sales slides.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Present at trade shows and network with your ten-slide pitch to build your following. Make sure your solution is defensible and unique.

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Bio Roundup: Cholesterol Check, J&J’s Opioid Hit, AbbVie’s Flop & More

Xconomy

But in Paris, this cardiologist will be in a conference center, walking an audience through a slide deck packed with Phase 3 data for a new cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran. You might be camping, barbecuing, or sleeping on Monday. It’s Labor Day, after all. Inclisiran’s owner, the Medicines Co.,

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

Both Sides of the Table

We led off with a discussion about Slide being acquired by Google, which was breaking news in the time slot where we filmed this episode. Specifically we talked about Slide having gotten a $550 million valuation before being sold to Google for $182 million. Prices are creeping up and angels are feeling bullish. Minutes 11-13.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. It is a HUGE MF distraction. It’s human nature.

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