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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Google and enterprise SAAS

BeyondVC

For more background, I suggest reading a recent Red Herring article and one of my posts from Oct 2004 about goffice and specifically about a Google/Salesforce partnership. This would allow Google to leverage its strength – online distribution and a huge user community.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. ” Thanks to Ajay Prasad, GMR Web Team ! #16)

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. A few years ago Jonah acquired Ze Frank’s video production company and the two of them have really built an enormous video production & distribution business.

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