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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Same as strategic – hard to reach, hard to get to know easily.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Same as strategic – hard to reach, hard to get to know easily.

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Don’t Try to “Pull an Instagram.” Here’s Why …

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You’ve found yourself in a super hot category and – let’s face it – it’s still a very frothy venture capital funding market so you may have loads of VCs chasing you. to justify a “strategic” price. We plan to double-down and build the huge company we know we can.” Let me explain.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. As long as you have a well architected site that allows Google to properly spider your content, spend the rest of your time and money focusing on maximizing the remaining marketing tools listed below.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

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