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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management

Both Sides of the Table

But I thought I’d use the situation to talk more broadly about some PR lessons you might learn for your own business and also incorporate some situations I’ve faced recently with some portfolio companies. Find other media outlets to tell your story. With portfolio companies I’m always involved in the planning phase.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Your brand values should permeate through your entire business and marketing strategy , from external interactions (including social media content) to internal culture (more on that in a bit). In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. The solution: build a brand.

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What do investors REALLY want?

Up and Running

Simply leave a comment below or get in touch on any of our social media accounts – Twitter , Google+ and Facebook. That’s what you’re supposed to be doing and what your partners and employees are supposed to help with. In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. Investigate your investor’s portfolio.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. I was proud of my performance and our rocket ship trajectory, but internal politics and personalities led to a division between the owner, me and a third equity partner.