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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. This approach generally works well with customers because I find it much easier to build rapport when we talk like humans than when we all stare at the PowerPoint slides being projected on the wall.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better.

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5 Apps To Get The Most Out Of Your Philips Hue Lights 

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To help you get the most out of your Hues, I tested 20 of the most popular, highly rated iOS apps to come up with a top 5 list of must-have apps for using your Hue light bulbs (iOS is the dominant platform for Hue control, and all these below work on both iPads and iPhones): 1. Sliding left or right changes the brightness.

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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

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It’s a pain that we’ve all experienced with “4-6 hour” delivery windows and prehistoric online, tracking, and customer service experiences. Famebit is the world’s first full service platform to connect brands and marketers to Youtube content creators. Their solution is ingenius in its design.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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They’re up to date on the latest platform decisions whether it’s understanding Spring , Hibernate and Lucene. somebody needs to be sure that customer service is alerted to the new features and are trained in how to handle these functions with customers. -

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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If you’re a financial services firm blog about personal finance. First, you’ll need a platform. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation. Since there are 10-12 slides this gave me my first few weeks. I’m very particular to Disqus as my commenting platform.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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The money slide is the graphic below. The surest sign of a market inefficiency is when solutions emerge to help developers get around the bottlenecks of platform development. Developers are now able to build apps in native languages such as Javascript or HTML5 that can run in multiple platforms. He’s right about this.

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