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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. I remember when I first started NextView and I was giving a talk to an audience in Boston about innovative new consumer businesses and internet business models.

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

Business Insider had a good presentation if you’re looking for a primer. But a couple of data points for perspective… Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs they sold in the combined 28 years previously. The growth of internet connected smartphones and tablets is truly astonishing.

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Betting the Future of Commerce = Apps

Austin Startup

But exactly what business model companies adopt to exploit this opportunity is subject to a great deal of innovation, with the corresponding trial & error, in the coming months and years. For now, terms like eCommerce and AppCommerce provide us with useful bridges to represent new ways of conducting business. Thanks to C.