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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. I believe you reward investors who make an early call just like on the public stock market. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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My favorite two quotes of the weekend were: “Never trade your cat for somebody else’s dog” (referring to selling your company for stock to another privately held company – quote was from Alan. The Greycroft event was a 10 out of 10 so I’ve diligently taken notes. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

This means that personalization and related technologies left the “nice to have” category for good. While in the media, the words recommendations and personalization are pretty much used interchangeably, they’re not at all the same thing. The Difference Between Recommendations and Personalization. Rating-Based Recommendations.

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Note to Gordon Gekko: 1985 is Gone For Good

Growthink Blog

Gordon Gekko may have a new movie coming out, but the days of the jolly old stock market he once knew are gone forever. public stock market performance over the past 11 years has been. market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. And if so, what to do about it? Invest in U.S.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Would that be perceived as “better enough” to get them to change their media consumption behavior?

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