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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

It seems obvious but strategic investment only makes sense when that corporate VC is providing technology, market access, or other aid that cannot be obtained through a simple business relationship or from a startup’s other investors or advisors.

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#KillerSaaSPitch in 10 Words (Part 2)

Cracking the Code

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. But this discipline also means that the product fit to market tends to be very good - you don't end up with solutions looking for problems. Photo by LotusHead.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Well.thats probably why Salesforce market cap is 4.9x Did he really "accidentally" made several hundred million dollars by investing in a company (NetSuite) that raised $120m and turned it into a $1B market cap… What an unsuccessful outcome! 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 Europe Consumer. (1). for Lawson?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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While.NET can no doubt service the enterprise market, so can everybody else. Its called flamebait marketing, and this is *exactly* how it’s done. Big ideas and creative stuff either aren’t coming out of the.NET world, or.NET based projects/startups suck at marketing. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Help your business out.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

So without further dues, here is the list: 1) Demographics are destiny creating opportunity (Steve) Every 11 seconds a baby boomer turns 60 and they already represent a market of 75 million people today. Steve believes these baby boomers will become a large market of internet savvy people up for grab. Europe Consumer. (1).

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. At the time, virology was not thought to be very interesting because we didn't have good ways to diagnose specific viral infections except antibody responses.