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How we can improve the odds of finding unicorns

Version One Ventures

This makes it laboriously difficult to identify rising stars and make comparisons within a specific vertical. At Version One, we have 6 investment themes (and more to come – stay tuned): Vertically integrated commerce. Vertical SaaS. The ubiquity of mobile makes it quicker and cheaper to connect buyers and sellers.

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Simple But Powerful Tips for Naming Your Business or Startup

The Startup Magazine

As an entrepreneur or business owner, your brain child deserves a befitting name. Think frugal entrepreneurs would splash millions on such on an “unimportant” thing as a name? Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. Source: Pixabay.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “ Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. So people bullish about drones are pointing to that as a potential seminal event. We’ve decided to share these publicly.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

I’ve seen online B2C startups use Dave McClure’s Startup Metrics for Pirates as a starting point for measuring what marketing is doing. Nov, 2010 Come See Me at ProductCamp Amsterdam or Entrepreneur Week in Waterloo 29. If you enjoyed that, you should subscribe! Nov, 2010 The Dangers of Outsourcing Content Creation 01.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! But while many people have written about the topic, few have actually codified the process to help entrepreneurs succeed in the endeavor. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Events Lists.

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