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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners.

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How To Use Immersion To Create Amazing Experiences

Duct Tape Marketing

Once you've been in love a couple times, you can really be a much better say spouse or romantic partner. I'm burning neural bandwidth that takes away from that person really enjoying the experience. And so if you haven't been in love, then you don't really know how to be in love. So, um, there is an evil plan here, right?

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

Businesses large and small are still figuring out how ubiquitous computing will impact their employees, customers, and business partners. As my partner Rob (an eBay alum) put it in his post Why Mobile Works for eBay the “power of mobile has very little to do with mobility.”

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Retooling Marketing in a B2B Company

Venture Chronicles

The demand center teams would respond to product & solution marketing, as well as partner marketing to drive campaigns, content, events, and interactive (SEO/SEM) for the specific outcome being targeted.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. a deal in which you gain valuable, incremental bandwidth while mitigating your cash outflows.

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Where is Cloud Gaming headed post Google Stadia

VC Cafe

Cloud Gaming wanted to take advantage of cloud computing power and improvements in bandwidth/connectivity to enable gamers to play multi player games on their mobile, PC or Television without the need for physical games copies, or consoles. And what does it mean for the future of Cloud Gaming from here on? The premise of Cloud Gaming.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). link] for Microsoft ISV partners Posted by: Arthur Hu | September 10, 2007 10:30 AM Very fresh article Posted by: Adi | September 10, 2007 10:37 AM Good luck!