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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Founded in 2007.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Business / Finance.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but.

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Startup Pivot Stories #1: How TokBox Changed Its Business Model

VC Cafe

After reading lots of posts on ‘ lean startups ‘, listening to Eric Reis in Seedcamp and devouring Steve Blank’s “Four Steps to the Epiphany&# , I wanted to see real examples of companies that went through a pivot process. This series aims to inspire and help startups that going through tough decisions.

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Big Opportunities for Startups Providing Big Data, Data-as-a-Service

ReadWriteStart

Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense. Factual is an open platform for developers and publishers to build apps with its data, accessible via its APIs. Data as the Next Layer of the Cloud.

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Would You Outsource Your Startup to a SaaS?

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