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Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift

Genuine VC

So rather than going into the details about how the combustion engine works (which you can begin to read about on their product page ), better to share what they’ve already powered: Triple Lift has delivered successful campaigns for brands like Gucci , Martha Stewart, and Puma just to name a few.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. Just as Erin mentions above -- replace content with games -- the same dynamics are at work in the advertising world. Eric, First of all, great post.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

In fact, in college I used to joke that Electrical and Computer Engineers could write better code that Computer Scientists (not something I would argue about as voraciously now). And 2 seed stage companies that haven’t launched yet. Launch/Pre-order/Crowdfunding: Do you do a Kickstarter campaign for crowdfunding?

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

While all of these factors are true to an extent, the truth of the matter is that the reduced costs of hardware and software are easily offset by the expense of engineers and experienced business people. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Building for Massive Mobile Success: An Ex-Bleacher Report PM on Creating Their Hit App

View from Seed

While we had BR engineers building the APIs that power the app and designers creating the look and feel, we didn’t have any mobile app developers in-house to put the pieces together and make a beautiful user experience. .” What other tough choices besides iOS versus Android did you make to gain early traction?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions? I think actually actively selling your stuff is very important for a startup these days.