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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. What the big studies have shown. Promotion.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. This is an awesome trend and will further lower the cost of startup development.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Its easy to see where Graham is coming from.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.