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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Team – higher requirements for caliber of team members Product – focus on truly differentiated and not me-too Market – is it really big enough to provide investor returns** Traction – need more users, partners, patents, etc Timing – are you building for yesterday or 2 yrs from now?

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A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

There are definitely some industries where due to economies of scale (which can be on production costs or distribution reach) incumbents have enormous advantages. These huge companies put pricing and margin pressure on the category, and about a year from the acquisition, Cisco shut down the Flip business altogether.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

We’re going to distribute that on a platform and we’re going to build an audience in some way and we’re going to sell our product or service, which by the way is fine. And so that would be where I would draw those differentiations. That’s great. They wanted to do a show daily. And now what are we?

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. What does that mean?

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