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What is the biggest enemy of a startup?

K9 Ventures

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. At the end of this post I’ll tell you what he said.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances. Why brand matters more than ever.

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Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns

sixrevisions.com

Site navigation has a wide variety of common and familiar design patterns that can be used as a foundation for building effective information architecture for a website. But including a search option isn’t an excuse to ignore good information architecture. Used for multi-level information architecture. February 15th, 2011.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable. Were in a new wave of platform evolution. yeah, its awesome.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Technologists are now aided by sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and domain experts in every field (from media to fashion to art to architecture) to create products and applications that will appeal to this expanded target audience. In the West, we have been living in relative prosperity for decades.