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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

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Advertise Advertise. In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Entertainment. US & World. Watercooler.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. conference happened at the end of 2004). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. link] leehower. quite encouraging.

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5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!)

crowdSPRING Blog

Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. In April of 2004 Burger King and their agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky had an insight that led to what was, at the time, the most successful viral effort ever launched by a business: the Subservient Chicken.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

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He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. AngelList is brilliantly designed to make it easy for investors to write checks to entrepreneurs. Every startup, entrepreneur and investor has a profile similar to a Facebook profile. What is your viral coefficient?

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. False negatives would be an issue, but combining ad words with other forms of advertising, such as guerrilla marketing, might yield a more robust answer.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.