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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Oh hey I now have one more spot for client work in Q1 2020 and once that’s gone you’ll be booking Q2 and beyond. The promotion strategy for Harry Potter and Beyoncé wouldn’t have worked for the first book or album.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Oh hey I now have one more spot for client work in Q1 2020 and once that’s gone you’ll be booking Q2 and beyond. The promotion strategy for Harry Potter and Beyoncé wouldn’t have worked for the first book or album.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. These labor matches represent the exact “world is flat” reality outlined in Friedman’s book. annual GMV.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

You could read Steven Pinkerton’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined , or many, many other books that talk about that. When you talk about irrational exuberance, I’m reminded of another book: A Short History of Financial Euphoria. We do that primarily through leading financings. That scares me.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In 2001, Stewart Butterfield abandoned plans to build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) after costs became too great; he built photo-sharing service Flickr instead. Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology.

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Current Startup Market Emotional Biases

Feld Thoughts

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” It’s long but worth reading every word slowly.