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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Time will tell.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. Building and populating databases of user-supplied information and content (copyright). Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

After the product’s developed, the startup employes marketing to get attention, Sales to close deals, and perhaps a Director of Customer Service to field customer issues. Existing companies can segment their email database to reveal their most loyal customers. million in sales and selling an average of 1,000 items per day.

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

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In a blog post at DBMS2 , database veteran Curt Monash explains when its still best to use a relational database. Monash gives the following use-cases as examples of when a relational database is best: Youre building a low-volume, medium-complexity suite of applications that will evolve over time.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

After co-hosting MicroConf in early 2011 I was on the prowl for the next big thing. Even through the five day outtage in early 2011, and the semi-regular downtime throughout 2010 and 2011. It was a clean deal as deals go, and at the end of August, 2011 I was the new owner of HitTail. Aaaah yes…the search.

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Monitoring Relationship Status :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing? All rights reserved.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year. There are 2.9

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