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

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve written about the “elevator” pitch before. I buy dead magazines.” 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. My partner was in product management at Demand Media.

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The Loneliness of Success that Nobody Talks About

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Yesterday I saw two biopic films: “ Amy ” about the life of Jazz sensation Amy Winehouse who died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27 and “ Montage of Heck ” about the life of Kurt Cobain , the grunge-rock generational voice who died of an overdose of heroin and valium at the age of … 27.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth.

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Products I Love to Use

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And every year I think about doing the same. I’m not trying to say my picks are great and other products aren’t and I’ll certainly forget some. I’m not trying to say my picks are great and other products aren’t and I’ll certainly forget some. I wrote about this years ago.

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My hard-earned lessons from negative exits.

Berkonomics

In aviation circles, we read in our pilot magazines about “Never again!” or “I learned about flying from that.” How about the entrepreneur -founder? What if the hardware manufacturer had serious problems with product quality on site? And these were emotional experiences to say the least.

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Want to Know How to Better Partner With, Raise Money From or Be Acquired by a Big Media Company?

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They are best known for their magazine titles such as The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair and Vogue. He also covered how “traditional media companies” think about the future and how they view disruption. Key moments: 16 minutes in: Transitioning magazine readers to e-formats. And they invest n select VC funds.

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How You Talk About Competitors Speaks Volumes

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. Don’t say “Product x is more expensive and hard to use.” The best defense is a dynamic product line.

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