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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . VCs tout themselves as tech-savvy, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . VCs tout themselves as tech-savvy, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

In Search Of… So that’s an intro to my startup philosophy, but where was I? Aaaah yes…the search. After a few weeks of soul searching I determined I was going to build a SaaS app. In the top 3 was the following problem: entrepreneurs need more organic search traffic to their websites.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. ” “Yeah, Ma.

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Telling Your Brand Story Through Packaging Design: These 3 Businesses Are Doing It Right

crowdSPRING Blog

Ever since President Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1971, cannabis has gotten some pretty bad PR. In 2003 owner Paul Canella began selling biodegradable dog waste bags and he’s never looked back. Well, when I was walking my dog in the summer of 2003, I laughed too when I first thought about the idea….

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. That’s how Adam & I learned about search marketing and 10 years later both Doctor Computer and Price World Publishing still stand strong today.