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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I’m in my seventh year now as a leader and an angel investment group where we just announced an investment last Thursday, and I’m very familiar with how this works for angel investors. Tell your angel investors a story about need. Depending on who the investors are, some want more, some want less.

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The Introvert Economy, the Case for Longer Founder Vesting Cycles, What Happens When Your Product Goes Viral on TikTok, and More [link blog]

Hunter Walker

Here the focus is on Pink Stuff, a British cleaning paste, which was #CleanTok mainstreamed to a quadrupling of revenue ($125m annually) and distribution to 55 countries. Many times we’ll never know, but the random products that end up popping because of a TikTok trend are always pretty fascinating anthropological stories.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing.

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Monetisation is Key to drive The Second Renaissance in the Creator Economy

VC Cafe

Consider this: Jack Conte , Patreon’s CEO summarised it beautifully in the video below (or on this blog post if you prefer reading) by breaking down the evolution of the creator economy. They already distribute over $100M a month amongst their 200,000+ creators. Billion in 2020. Finally, a small plug to Remagine Ventures.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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If you have an hour to watch the TWiVC video of Seth I promise you won’t regret it. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman. He’s open and insightful with his knowledge. For Meebo 1.3% What is your mobile strategy?