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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 10 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. — This is due to the very definition of “average” — you’ll spend half your time before the half-way point, and half after.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care? Image Source.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. Angel investors are people too.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Regardless of the defined contribution approach you decide to take, your company should utilize third-party administration software to ensure compliance. For many, it’s been a struggle.

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Millennials got Mail: 6 ways to successfully target the ‘always connected’ generation through email

The Next Web

age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 2012 report The Millennial Generation Research Review cites 80 percent of millennials sleep with their phone next to the bed.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev. multiple fell down to ~2.2x

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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?