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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Finance | Tuesdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. SALES & MARKETING. Internet and Online Business. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix'

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. Venture Financing. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. 1 party = low price.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Internet pioneers.

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

But even Walmart (the epitome of brick and mortar) changes prices on some items daily, based upon sales and competitive intelligence. So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). This is about how behemoths adapt to Coase's Theorem now that the Internet is making that a practical consideration. ( In a consumer Web venture, the hustler/sales guy is non-core (a few biz dev deals are important but not core). Photo by LotusHead.

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