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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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You might like to think that a bunch of savvy venture capitalists saw a market niche for raising smaller funds or perhaps there was a generational shift where disgruntled junior partners spun out of bigger firms to start their own gigs. Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I first met Ethan in 2005. Let me not bury the lede. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

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Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. featured image source.

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Beware of Ballers on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Steven Dietz is an expert on cars (and auto startups having funded DealerTrack , TrueCar , Digital Airstrike , Uparts and others) and I called him and he said, “Decline everything. I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. We had lots of debates about the tech world and about career development.

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Is America’s Corporate Culture In The Dark Ages?

YoungUpstarts

This divide between America’s doggedly industrious approach on the one hand, and the less-relentless global approach on the other, might make it seem that a corporate culture developed for a U.S. I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

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Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. featured image source.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. featured image source.

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