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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. That distributed print cloud enables a speed of iteration that most marketers would not expect is possible. What is a print cloud?

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How Surfing Made Me A Better Investor

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Biggest Sets – No matter how flat the water may currently be, there is always another wave brewing further off the coast. Unfortunately, investors and surfers can be lemmings, which results in good breaks getting over surfed and market sectors attracting too much capital. Gnarly Corollaries Between Surfing And Investing.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

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Yet if you look at some very successful market changes in the last few years it does point to technical prowess in the number 1 seat. In many ways that might be one way to interpret even Facebook where Sheryl stepped in as COO but by all accounts ran much of Facebook for a few years (other than product).

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So What is The Right Level of Burn Rate for a Startup These Days?

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This has led VC & entrepreneur bloggers alike to similar conclusions: start raising capital early and be careful about having too high of a burn rate because that lessens the amount of runway you have until you need more cash. But the hardest question to actually answer is, “What is the right burn rate for your company?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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However, they seldom acknowledge their mistakes. What’s The Worst Mistake? Mistakes can be categorized as “false positives” or “false negatives.” Despite our business model reservations, we were sufficiently intrigued by Jeff and the opportunity to seek technical and market feedback from a VoIP expert. > -jeff.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. One of the big questions, probably the biggest questions that I get from reporters, is 'what trends do you see?

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Erik Deutsch, ExcelPR Group.

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