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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. Mistakes we made?

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The internet deployment phase

The Equity Kicker

Over the weekend Chris Dixon wrote the following in a post about her work and his view on where the opportunities for innovation will most likely come going forward: Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Innovation in the installation period is in the core technologies (e.g.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). We have simply taken a structured look at how traditional human car transportation can change as a result of today’s technology.

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Drinking from a Firehose

thebarefootvc

Huobi’s venture capital arm also recently funded Terra, a Singapore-based company that is developing stablecoin technology to better allow cryptocurrencies to be used in ecommerce, targeting Asian economies first. The writer would have probably written a similar piece about the internet in 2000.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment.

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David Norris joins us as Partner

The Equity Kicker

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). Most of the technology we now have in the digital space wasn’t here 15 years ago. Nor does most of the technology of the future already exist).

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.