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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. Where David is Totally Right. And Twitter wouldn’t exist.

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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

In The Art of One-line Pitching: A Study of AngelList , Chris Eleftheriadis reviewed 1,700AngelList postings and identified the nine most common categories of positioning pitches (Chris'' list is edited here for brevity): 1. Better than Amazon''s customer experience for any brand" and "LinkedIn on Steroids.". Customer Segmentation.

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Happy Anniversary Make It Work – 8 Years Today!

Eric Greenspan

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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Happy Anniversary Make It Work – 8 Years Today!

Eric Greenspan

From TweetDeck to Yammer, WordPress to Twitter, Google Adwords to Yahoo Search, Facebook to LinkedIn, throw in a little AllTop, MyYahoo, Outlook, Powerpoint, Quicken (had to pay some bills)…my head is spinning. I think our customers will appreciate it. are all soon to be found on our blog in one centralized place.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. Geni.com beget Yammer. I could go on and on.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don’t have the money to spend on the expensive product. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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