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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

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We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. Of course not. As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. Laughable now. We once thought the merger of AOL/Time Warner needed to be investigated by the DOJ. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. Is Facebook unstoppable?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. We missed our sales target by more than 66% for the year but we had great slides explaining why. Good entrepreneurs are wrong often.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Slides, please.” I was wrong.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

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had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago." Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. gave him my favorite, "keep it to six slides. Twittering.

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

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Of course tech companies with free products don’t want to take a phone call from end users. You’ll note, of course, that Apple will happily take calls from you. Higher conversion rates (10-15x online conversion) and higher value at closure (up to 2x higher) due to up-sell & cross-sell potential. Believe me.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.).