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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. And this is true outside of games.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so.

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Beware The Consultant

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Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. Performance-based deals are healthy for all parties. Get A Company on The Fringe. Cheers, Brian.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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John Greathouse is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. He is also a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. from the Wharton School. Note: All of my advice in this blog is that of a layman.

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