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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

Both Sides of the Table

I buy dead magazines.” You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. I buy dead magazines. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. We buy dead magazines. He’s a master.

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Entrepreneur's Brilliant Companies List Pinpoint SoCal Startups

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At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators. READ MORE>>.

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My hard-earned lessons from negative exits.

Berkonomics

In aviation circles, we read in our pilot magazines about “Never again!” Email readers, continue here…] We who invest look for patterns from previous experience. Some of those patterns help us to spot and avoid problems we have seen play out in the past, often to disastrous conclusion. We ask ourselves “what if?”.

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Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything.

Berkonomics

I was the original investor and helped to grow GameSpy Industries, attracted to the fledgling company because of its million users each month, even though at the time there was no monetization to the traffic. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail. AOL paid $40.00

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Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

Both Sides of the Table

He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. Just notice how many VC emails you get after your TechCrunch article or after you were on stage at TC50. PR has helped us to drive our numbers faster than we had planned and has gotten us to our 300,000 registered users.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Turning out the lights is a type of exit.

Berkonomics

In aviation circles, we read in our pilot magazines about “Never again!” Email readers, continue here…] So that is why we devote just one of our exit focused insights to just this subject. Some of those patterns help us to spot and avoid problems we have seen play out in the past, often to disastrous conclusion.

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