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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition. The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC. Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. Assuming a marketplace rake of something like 11%, this would imply gross room revenue of over $9B for the quarter — which would be $36B annualized. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Top 3 Mistakes New Businesses Make

YoungUpstarts

by Elisha Tan, founder of Learnemy. Boyd Au is the co-founder of Enzer Corporation and served as the CEO from 1984 to 2007. No Compelling Differentiation. Many new founders don’t know why they are starting up (besides making lots of money). It will be great if the company has more than one source of revenue.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. Instead, our strategy was to steer immediately into the revenue question because that was the top concern of investors in 2004. We made the mistake of listing three different revenue streams.