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How a Seed-Stage Startup Should Think About Brand: A Conversation With Jesse Derris

View from Seed

Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. And try to listen to the people you’re hiring as experts.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. This never existed a decade ago.

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

reidhoffman.org

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video – otherwide Web 2.0

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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

I’ve been on so many different boards now that I need to go back and count them up to name the number of different boards on which I’ve served. One of the reasons I joined Greylock is that I shared the firm’s philosophy on investors and entrepreneurs: namely, companies succeed because of the entrepreneurs and executives, not the investors.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

You can imagine the dealers advertiser on auto trader and cars.com, and their website, and all these different places, and sending that data, in all those different places and updating it every day would be a lot of labor to do manually. You name it, we’ve got it. The guy I originally started the company with was no longer there.

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Twitter Link Roundup #125 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Billion Valuation, Multiple VCs Say – [link]. Digital advertising is broken – [link]. Interesting perspective on truthiness in advertising – [link]. Will CPE (Cost Per Engagement) advertising ever take off? Google spending big money on traditional advertising – [link]. – [link].