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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. That was all most people knew.

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Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.

ConversionXL

The New York Times, January 2001. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. That was all most people knew.

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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. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names. Folksonomy.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. 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. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

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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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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. On Describing His Current Work without Naming His Fund/Investments. This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. Dan has a B.A. That scares me.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Ann Miura-Ko on being a founder, representation, and the future.

Startup Lessons Learned

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. To begin with, I'm curious about the company name and how you came up with it. He then said he had no attachment to the name and wanted to set up our partnership for success, so we started looking for another name.

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