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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. 2009 – Back to The Future The bad news is that since the bubble most VC firms haven’t made a profit. So what’s left?

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Portfolio. (3). ► 2009. (9). We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question. anecdotes. (13). internet. (6).

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

We could do this in several ways: Cross sell to add additional products Up sell to add seats, or premium features Develop a scalable pricing matrix that does a better job of charging higher end customers that are willing to pay more. At OpenView, we try to instill this discipline and capability in each of our portfolio companies from Day 1.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Develop a Smarter Understanding of Your Audiences. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. Learn how to use this metric to drive those two changes: marketing portfolio – people thinking.