most funds don’t necessarily like investing in markets that are dying…), the typical sales cycles for the product(s)/serivice(s), and who the players are in a given market (i.e., potential patent infringement issues), and any product life-cycle issues. Where is the fund in its life cycle? License. MORE >>

Slow sales cycles. Business Insider wrote about our investment in the company yesterday. I'd bet that anyone who looked at this company's early sales traction would have asked her, "Wait. Tweet. There are a lot of reasons not to like the space that Publicstuff is in. Ugh, right? Except that its working. Just you? MORE >>

The first step in Blank’s model is “ Customer Discovery.&#    This step seeks to answer this fundamental question: Are there customers who are experiencing a problem severe enough that they are willing to pay for your solution. You assume this to be true or you would not start the business. Businesses fail all the time.  MORE >>

The company’s assets will be put on sale as the company only retained five employees for maintenance reasons. The partnerships enabled reach to over 100 million mobile users, but the local advertisers were not technology-inclined which made sales cycles longer and more complicated. Pudding Media's Behavioral Targeting. MORE >>

Atlassian produces tools that help technical and business teams collaborate, plan projects and build software. Subsequent to this talk, Scott's company, Atlassian, has achieved the remarkable accomplishment of reaching $100 million in sales despite employing no sales people. Scott was talking at Business of Software 2010. MORE >>