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If You Don’t Respect Your Customers You Won’t Be Successful

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I had dinner this week with a top new customer at one of our enterprise software investments. I wish I did more enterprise software investing because when I attend meetings like this I realize that this is my core DNA – rolling out business software solutions to customers. The press don’t get your financials.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

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” The post talked about how to find the lowest acceptable price & terms in a deal through testing. You’ve got to have some wiggle room on price and on terms. Your IT Reviewer. She got you to drop price and include more licenses for free. I think most of us feel this way, really. Wants their pound of flesh.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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LG Thrill 4G Review | 3D And A Whole Lot More

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We answer these questions and really dive into the LG 4G Thrill in our review below. A sleep/power button on the top and finally a single button on the right side of the phone can be pressed to quickly enter the phone’s “3D Space” application. Sporting a 4.3-inch inch 800 x 480-pixel screen that can displaying both 2D and 3D content.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. You’re only reading our competitor’s press releases. We were unprepared.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I suppose I should have imagined that this line would get more press than all other comments combined. But that doesn’t mean that people are paying rational prices as investors based on intrinsic value. Rational people can disagree and some may argue that today’s prices are rational and under-pinned by economic drivers.

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How to Talk to a Journalist When You Only Have 30 Seconds

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In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. It was a surprise knowing these start ups have spent $1000s for the chance to be noticed by the right influencer, whether it be a venture capitalist, early adopter or the press.

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