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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”?

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Internet and Online Business. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era.

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

But even Walmart (the epitome of brick and mortar) changes prices on some items daily, based upon sales and competitive intelligence. So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era.