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A Crash Course In Startup Labs: What Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

The rub is that a startup likely has the ideas to take it straight to the top, but it’s also likely that the company lacks the business skills to make it truly successful. A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. The solution: Startup Labs.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

There is no social media or marketing content that you have to create. They are just big markets, and this is why they are so useful. Therefore, the first thing to do is to find the best possible market for your business. B2B Marketplaces in Asia. It also offers marketing services for contacting selected buyers.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement. productivity – Evernote).

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Investment in Wool and the Gang

The Equity Kicker

As with every investment we will make it is the combination of team, product and market that got us excited. In this case the market for fashion is huge, and within that wool has been on a good run for about ten years, but on its own that wouldn’t be exciting because the competition is fierce. Wool and the Gang Woo'

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. I started a real estate business because I needed more freedom and to be in a career where I had full control of my schedule, my growth, and my income. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Current round allows RockYou (US) to obtain a majority position in RockYou Asia. TechCrunch article.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? 2) Business model-defined funds. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . 3) Geography-defined funds.