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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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Of course back then it literally was sold in a package and stored on a shelf! You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.” I know, I know.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Did he want to see whether a strategic buyers made sense in the next couple of years? Of course it’s not literally a memo but that’s a metaphor for knowing that things have dramatically changed. But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

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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. Same as strategic – hard to reach, hard to get to know easily. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans.

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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. Same as strategic – hard to reach, hard to get to know easily. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. Tags: Entrepreneur Strategic Planning The Fringe. Copyright © 2007-9 by J.

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

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Of course, in terms of how it will impact us at home and ultimately in business, as we’ve seen with Enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, open APIs, and other major advances, the ideas in software these days are increasingly coming from the consumer world and then pushing their way into the enterprise realm. There are others as well.

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