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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. But I digress?—?this

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. term has evolved to become muddled since I first read what analysts in 2011 meant by it.

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Denouement

View from Seed

2009-2011: Retrenchment. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Seeking CEO+Cofounders for Spinoff of VC-Backed Startup, W. 36th St.

David Teten

Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., alongside our team and a few other portfolio companies, but will move out as the company grows. Head of Engineering: Strong experience with B2C businesses. If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading.

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Denouement

Agile VC

2009-2011: Retrenchment. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart.