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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. More like a temporary VC just to get some experience and of course we’d pay him. I said, “This category is going to be huge. Supply and demand. I’ll leave the year out. I saw it as win-win. Like oDesk.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Summary notes, as always, provide below. Shopping.com.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Of course I have. I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week. Can’t list them all.

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Small Ideas, Big Benefits

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One way to grab some cash and learn valuable entrepreneurial skills along the way is to launch mini-ventures or Venturettes. Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. Nostalgic Graduation Poster.

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