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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. Max entered Stanford in the fall of 2010 as a freshman, took as many of the engineering entrepreneurship classes as he could and independent study with me. (He

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

Consumer Facing B2C. For e.g. platforms, market places, aggregators, advertising networks… chances are you are a B2B2C company. [Finding: Sales Oriented companies tend to start and do well regionally and not globally] E.G. Brandtology, Stream Media (Movend), FlightOffice, Identifi etc. E.G. Reebonz, BuzzCity, Groupon Singapore etc.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. When would you ever try to produce less sales in B2C eCommerce? There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80). 6) Negotiate deal.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. But these barriers are showing some wear and tear.

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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

It feels like we are in the early/mid 1990’s again, or, more appropriately, like we are on the cusp on the second industrial revolution where we saw massive developments centered around the foundational innovations of steel, the internal combustion engine, and electricity. But this is happening in massive areas that we never think about.

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Why Paid Search Must Be Part of Your Mix

Duct Tape Marketing

Some business owners have written off the concept of paid search because they’re not a retailer or B2C. And it doesn’t matter what kind of business it is—B2B or B2C, retailer or service provider—people are opening up a search browser to find you online. Paid Search is Taking Up More Real Estate.

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