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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Title: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

A bit like Silicon Valley. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% Read more on TechCrunch [.]

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.