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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. What do we like about OpenTable? And we wanted a head of global marketing. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. What about if elderly people never had to ask a relative or healthcare worker to change the batteries on their hearing aids?

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

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We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. What is Jukin Media?

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. I thought to myself, “OK, they were willing to F me when they thought I had no idea what I was talking about. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

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We always had the added advantage that I have never met a single person in my life who ever said anything positive about their storage provider or experience. Parts of the city still didn’t have power restored when we met. I wrote about that experience here without giving away the details of the business.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference.