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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. Even identifying as a demand-gen marketer or branding or B2B or B2C leaves a lot of decisions still on the table to actually execute. When do you start to double-down or evolve the playbook into a way of operating? Where do you start?

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. This particular company, as a B2B SaaS business, would definitely benefit from driving traffic to convert into subscribers or leads on their email list.

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boldstart ventures in 2014 – our ethos

BeyondVC

Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. finally, this theme is also applicable for b2b. There is also a b2b theme as companies like ooomf and emissary.io Storing and scaling tons of data cheaply and efficiently is already done.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

They’re both fruit, but they’re very different in terms of how they operate. Obviously sometimes you want lock-ins that say, “Well, you can command a price point or an operating margin that’s hard for competitors to do.” And to me, a much more common occurrence is looking at the structure of how a well-placed incumbent operates.

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Taking on Tech Titans

Reid Hoffman

They’re both fruit, but they’re very different in terms of how they operate. Obviously sometimes you want lock-ins that say, “Well, you can command a price point or an operating margin that’s hard for competitors to do.” And to me, a much more common occurrence is looking at the structure of how a well-placed incumbent operates.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.