InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

Even the organization''s lexicon reinforces its startup mindset. Rather, the organization provides ongoing support of its "portfolio," including strategic planning, recruitment of Board members and public relations expertise. Our fantastically inefficient Federal Government could learn a great deal from the folks at ABC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. In the Early Days. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. If it doesn’t come easily, don’t force it.".

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 30, 2015

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we''ve rolled almost everything back into the company.". However, Gates and company realized that there were far more productive uses of Microsoft’s cash than to expend it to ensure the temporal comfort of a handful of traveling Executives.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Some channels will be expensive but highly scalable, such as direct response radio, while others will be less expensive, but more difficult to scale, such as search and affiliates. In addition, you must consider your customers’ lifetime value by channel , as there can be a great deal of variance between various clusters of customers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

“You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized qualifications, the only company you ever launched went bankrupt and you have just been sentenced to one year in jail.”. Source: Harold Evans, They Made America. The answer is at the end of this entry.

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