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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Aggregate America’s startups. in aggregate commitments.

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The Long Economic Case for Snapchat

Both Sides of the Table

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. I’ve heard the new media doubters before as nobody thought Google, Facebook or Twitter would ever make money. From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

It was my mother's birthday and I was seeing her before I was supposed to go down to DC for the Code for America summit. She, by the way, was busy on social media. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. My mom really wanted me to come and I went. A lot of it is similar.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. A successful startup strives for this latter case. Sorry about that.)

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7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++

Occam's Razor

More on that here: DC-DR-DA: A Simple Framework For Smarter Decisions.). We are all aware that the best companies in the world have an optimal DC-DR-DA allocation when it comes to time/money/people: 15%-20%-65%. And because all data in aggregate is crap , segmented trends are even better! All well and good. Then back down.

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