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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. . Secrets deliberately withhold information—briefly or indefinitely—for company benefit at consumer expense. Does a “CLASSIFIED” stamp make information more persuasive? That was all most people knew. Image source ).

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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. . Secrets deliberately withhold information—briefly or indefinitely—for company benefit at consumer expense. Does a “CLASSIFIED” stamp make information more persuasive? That was all most people knew. Image source ).

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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. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. We will hopefully close on a $2-3 million financing round at some point in January and I can get back to the full time work of running my business. Folksonomy.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

” This was around 2001. Even though we have all this information online, not everybody is aware or have access to this, and (on top of this there) is lack of role models … especially for underrepresented entrepreneurs. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. …

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. We do that primarily through leading financings. They know that in a Power Law distributed business, if they create value, it is going to be an exceptionally large quantum of value. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. That scares me.