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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Or seen a review of an iPhone app hung up on pricing trivialities: “It would be pretty good at $0.99, but it’s not worth $1.99.” Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business. simple enough to be self-service). . $1/mo

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Folksonomy. Free product.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. We were post product and had viral growth, albeit at very small scale and still had to evangelize the concept of a vital coefficient w/ most investors. How To Think About The Future.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process: The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt.

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

Cracking the Code

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. So were do we go from here?

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You Think You Screwed Up? Have I Got a Story for You!

Babbling VC

I believed them when they promised something and it would all pan out in due time. These business would scale on the sheer virality of their communities. Technically, co-investors would fall under the "People" heading above but here I'm focussing more on the funds themselves and not specific partners or people at that fund. .