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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. As a result VCs who didn’t want to only compete on price began looking for ways to differentiate their money from the money of other investors and started deploying the strategies listed above. Low handicaps weren’t good!

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages. All of this personal and professional development combined with a deep desire to help others let me to create a business where I draw upon marketing, PR and sales principles to help people find, give and keep love.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Generally the rights of citizens are protected by The Constitution and by the government.” “I

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