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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. We had no clue what our market was when we first started.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Mergers and Acquisitions. Publication. Booth-related Services.

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E&Y Journey 2011, The Great Debate: Go Public or Stay Private

VC Cafe

And don’t forget to invest in costly R&D, which turns many private companies to the public market. Below we bring you the main soundbites from the event: Larry Leibowitz took the lead: ‘In 2010, there were $270 billion awarded to IPOs; but in the first 9 months of 2011, IPOs only generated half that much.

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