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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

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We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator? We don’t believe in it anymore.

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5 of the most famous (and effective) growth hacks of all time

The Next Web

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Why does it work?

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

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With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. In addition it is much easier to get distribution than it was in the pre Facebook, pre iPhone world. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). However after Sequoia and Ron Conway announced their investment in YC in 2009 , and after YC alumni DropBox and AirBnb raised capital on billion-dollar valuations in 2010-11, the program quickly became the gold standard among early-stage startup incubators.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series.