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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.

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7 Must Have Features If You Sell Products Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I suspect if you’re a net addict as I am, you spent more online last year than ever before too. That’s up 15% from 2011. You’re a crazy person if you have a product to sell and you don’t look at the World Wide Web as one of your top priority distribution channels. According to Comscore, over $43.2

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 billion in total industry sales. So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it.

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Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware!

Scott Edward Walker

In other words, in the event of the startup’s “acquisition” (which is often broadly defined to include a merger, change of control or sale of substantially all its assets), the maturity date of the note would be accelerated, and the amount of the loan, plus interest, would become due at the closing of the acquisition.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. So they have about 60 million customers now, and they have a view of the net present value of each customer when they’re onboarding them and their models to show it. Jonathan Siddharth. Sounds great.

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

www.readwriteweb.com

NET SDK The AppUp developer program launched support for.NET applications by releasing the.NET SDK, along with anIDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008. NET SDK The AppUp developer program launched support for.NET applications by releasing the.NET SDK, along with anIDE Plug-In for Visual Studio 2008. startupcto

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I Wish I'd Sold More - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

" Distribution is everything. But it isnt the same as having the sales instinct down so well that he can taste it. He used to sneak out every now and then and go on sales calls with GE sales guys, often from Plastics, where he grew up at GE. Sometimes the leader caves to the sales manager hes hired.