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Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. Or maybe you got booted from your job, like a lot of people got laid off in, I don’t know, 2006, 2007, 2008. Market vertical would be what you said, dentists.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content.

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Cracking The Code: Cracking the SMB code

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 02, 2006. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If software. (10).

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Interview with eFounders

Cracking the Code

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). From then on, I remained convinced that SaaS was a much more efficient model, for both ISVs and customers — although many people remained skeptical on the viability of the model for a long time.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. The companies I was involved with as board member, such as Inxight Software (sold to BOBJ), were living on a high through the hype phase and had to relearn and retool themselves to make it on scarce resources and raw talent.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? software. (10). Software 2.0: ► 2006. (7). Cracking The Code. Thursday, November 13, 2008. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev. internet. (6).

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Transcript of Using Story to Win on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

So I mean I basically ended up as an early employee at Twitter after becoming an early user of the platform back in 2006. And if you had a blog back in 2005 2006 you probably were blogging on blogger.com on Blogspot. And for a while I was working on the vertical of religion. March of 2006 or seven. Was it seven?