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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Now, given our current economic crisis and VC ‘challenges’, the barriers to funding have gone up significantly as well. Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! We talked about patents. To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement.