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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. In my days as a product manager, the conventional rule for user generated content was the 1% rule. Copyright, or the lack thereof – it’s hard for creators to prevent illegal distribution of their IP.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over. This might just change.

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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

ReadWriteStart

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Two-time entrepreneur Jordan Eisenberg, founder of UrgentRX warns that, “Few things in a start up are more important than carefully managing cash. Non-Monetary Incentives.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Ceedo Technologies – Founded in 2005, Ceedo AppCenter allows fixed and mobile operators to deliver PC software applications over the web to the subscriber’s desktop, to manage those applications remotely and us the platform to provide additional services direct to the PC. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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