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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% It is also a result of pent-up demand.

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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. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references. Startup executives have three documents to guide their hiring and staffing; a business plan, a product development model and a revenue forecast. Eager to read the next post.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? July 9, 2009 7:32 AM Peter Kane said. July 9, 2009 8:46 AM Anonymoussaid.

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The Mobilization of Marketing

Jeff Hilimire

The root of my theory is that I believe social will see its biggest impact coming from mobile devices in 2011, and thus companies will no longer be able to pretend that “next year is the year of mobile.” Social, in effect, is going to force the mobilization of marketing in 2011.

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The Ascent of Q&A as Community

Venture Chronicles

More recently Q&A sites have morphed into a variant of social network where users build profiles and interact with other members and topics by following them and cross posting to Facebook and Twitter. I am most interested in the generalized Q&A communities, not the expert networks.

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Did Twitter Kill the Blogger Star?

Both Sides of the Table

So with the metoric rise of Twitter now forecast at 45 million as of August 3rd, 2009 (and rising fast), has Twitter Killed the Blogger Star? Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. Suddenly it was about very frequent commentary in a bite-sized format. Now we could all sleep more. Or could we?