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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. I was humbled by our talented team who went the extra mile for customers, working long hours to enable clients to pivot and meet their consumers' changing needs. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding

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We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The longer I do this the more humbled I become.

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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

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We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. How Do I Advise People When Raising Money in a Hard Market?

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Startup 360-Performance Review Result – Improved Time Management - Finding Founder Time

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Part I of this series describes the 360-review that I conducted at a growing, dynamic SaaS business which has recently graduated from the startup stage and entered the early-growth phase. A = Product Strategy. D = Overseeing Product/Feature Stories. C = Product Coding. Patton, US Army General. Competency.

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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”. This humble innovation resulted an entirely new line of footwear, the Teva sports sandal. Three decades later, it has matured into a multi-hundred million dollar product category. UCSB alum Doug Otto had two.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Most big companies initially rejected use of the cloud, just as they rejected SaaS solutions when we launched GoToMyPC in 2001. 6) You epitomize what I always tell my students – “A Humble Pride based on ethics and honesty is an entrepreneur’s strategic advantage, not a handicap.” From day one we focused on customers.