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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies.

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

They connect buyers and sellers in creative new verticals, helping merchants and non-profits interact with customers or donors. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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5 Ways To Make An Email Newsletter Your Best Sales Tool

Duct Tape Marketing

No matter how enamored you may be with social media, email still outpunches just about every tool out there when it comes to cost effective lead conversion. Most email service providers have added social media sharing options that you can embed in your content so that a reader could tweet that they just read your article. Serve Snacks.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary.

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The New Bottom-Up Economic Revolution

YoungUpstarts

Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees.

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

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It’s like arguing against vertical software. Any perusal on Netcraft.com will show the (vast) majority of major Media companies, Internet Services Providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies and Mobile communications firms use UNIX/Linux as core OS and technologies. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. What’s your little shop making?

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