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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

Goldman Sachs (an investor in our company) told us we’d IPO within 18 months for $1 billion so not to take any offers. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. We were hot.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. Other customer audiences are laggards in adopting the internet.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. Other customer audiences are laggards in adopting the internet.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Startup Resources

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Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Internet trends. Internet TV.