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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

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No VC Fit - Match your venture with appropriate funding source. What does your pain reliever look like, how is it implemented by the customer and what future products do you expect to roll out? How much money are you looking for, what will you do with it and what other funding sources (if any) do you already have secured?

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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Deal Hair: Is Your Startup More Like Russell Brand Or Bruce Willis?

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Bruce Willis deals command hefty valuations, as new injections of capital are typically applied to growing a self-sustaining business, rather than funding an ongoing burn rate. Such deals are ideally funded by customer dollars until the opportunity is adequately proven and/or management accrues an adequate level of experience.

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund

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some of the money was spent by YouTubers to purchase homes and not create videos), the majority of the funds were properly deployed by the emerging community of professional YouTubers. I encourage you to check out each of these artists, as you may be surprised by the production values and overall entertainment quotient of their material.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

InfoChachkie

Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks.

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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

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I was in a board meeting recently at Connexity when Dave Gross, the company''s Co-Founder and CEO, made an insightful observation regarding the shortage of Series A funds. Their demise, albeit painful in the short term, frees the employees (and in some cases the underlying technology) to pursue more productive opportunities.