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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

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. But eventually two syndicates emerged. Both syndicates competed on the distribution and marketing that they could bring to the table. About 50 of their friends were using it.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

Manage a marketing budget that will drive the most qualified leads through paid programs such as content syndication, pay-per-click, and events. The answers to these questions differentiate those who are well-read versus those who are well-read and have their own hands-on experience to build a unique perspective on.”.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

And so that would be where I would draw those differentiations. That show daily turned into the Red Bull, which now has two million subscribers and then all the videos and the syndication and they’re having The New York Times and Wall Street Journal pay them money for some of their content. They wanted to do a show daily.

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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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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2) Design ethic vs engineers - Over the course of the last 5-10 years, many software-based startups are being built on competitive advantages of design and business model rather than technical differentiation. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

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