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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. B2C Companies We talked about how some companies saw an immediate decline in purchasing (for example if you’re in travel or hospitality). million people EMPLOYED in California. 22 million filed in just 4 weeks?—?for

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. And so they never got consumer adoption.

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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

ConversionXL

Most of them are from California (8.56%), New York (8.16%), Florida (7.40%), Texas (6.16%), Pennsylvania (5.71%) and Illinois (5.71%). B2B Affiliate Programs Look a Little Different. According to the benchmark report, most affiliates work in the B2C space (79.45%). Still, they are active in the B2B space as well (20.55%).

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Did the partner have a good or bad day, etc. We were able to raise a Seed round from Bessemer Venture Partners on a powerpoint idea, and never found the repeatable customer model. Anything that is not a standard VC dozen format will get thrown away by a junior associate with MBA before it is ever seen by a partner.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. We pitched everyone from Angels to partners at Andreessen Horowitz on Sand Hill Road. We got real close a couple of times to great investment partners. Thank you Ifundwomen supporters !)

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I know that in B2B world you are dead in the water without CRM tool… We are using our own stuff – [link] Reply Josh , on February 28, 2011 at 12:12 am said: Thank you for all the great links, how can i get an invite to quora? Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code.