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A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY DECEMBER 5, 2012 Rethinking Mobile First I wrote the Mobile First Web Second blog post a few years ago. In that post, I talked about apps that were designed to be used on mobile primarily with the web as a companion. There have been a number of startups that have taken that approach and done well with it. Most notably Instagram, and also our portfolio company Foursquare. Typing is easier. | FELD THOUGHTS DECEMBER 5, 2012 Startup Visa – One Step Forward, One Step Back On that same day the White House announced A New Front Door for Immigrant Entrepreneurs President Obama said that he was not supportive of the STEM Jobs Act of 2012. Infuriating. This morphed into the Startup Visa Movement and I’ve written extensively about it over the past three years on my blog in the Startup Visa category. Jailed! | REDEYE VC DECEMBER 5, 2012 Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit You can imagine the scene in the board room. The CEO of our portfolio company, Techforward , is discussing a “make the company opportunity" -- Best Buy wants us to to power their nation-wide buyback program. And Best Buy is talking about launching it with a Super Bowl commercial! Fast forward a few months and many more meetings in Minneapolis. | | | | | | | | |
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YOUNGUPSTARTS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012  10 Reasons Why Now Is A Great Time To Be A Woman In Business
by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “. The legend goes that prior to becoming the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina (now former CEO of HP) stuffed her pants with socks for a male-dominated meeting. Her message was clear: “I have everything it takes to compete.” But the times they are a-changin’. Not in my book. MORE >> -
THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012 Tips on Approaching a VC
Raising money is hard. VCs give out money for a living and put their email address next to it, so that should give you a sense of what their inboxes look like. So how do you get in front of them? Once you do, how much badgering is ok? Is it persistence or annoyance? 1) Please stop introducing yourself in self-effacing ways. 4) Do your homework. MORE >> -
 Biggest Mistake? Mistaking Business for Life
(Note: I’m posting here my latest column for the Eugene Register Guard Blue Chip monthly magazine. These are not new themes for this blog, but I like what I say here. This is reposted here with permission.). Let’s put startups, entrepreneurship and life in proportion. That made me think, and here’s what I came up with. And So I did it. MORE >> -
BLOG.TEAMTREEHOUSE.COM | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012  A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks
Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Get 1 Month of Gold for Free! 49 value). Learn More. ␡ ← Back to Treehouse. Websites. Coding. Android. Business. 👤 Membership. 🔎 Search. Facebook. Twitter. Google Plus. YouTube. RSS. Post navigation. ← Previous. Dec 3, 2012. check. MORE >> -
 Why I Deleted Half My Email List
Picture this. You’re logged into your AWeber control panel looking at your different email lists. You’ve spent years building up nearly 80,000 subscribers , but you’re about to do something that seems drastic… You’re about to delete half of them. MORE >>
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- Old People BEN'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Series A Crunch, Seed Blues FRED DESTIN | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- From CRM to CXM: Walking the Customer Journey VENTURE CHRONICLES | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Validating Business Ideas Before Finding Technical Cofounders – Forbes SCALABLE STARTUP | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- More New Florence DEAL ARCHITECT | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- After the Thrill Is Gone NUMERATE CHOIR | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- EU Commission announces The Europioneers: The European Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Awards THE NEXT WEB | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- [Review] Return On Influence YOUNGUPSTARTS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Yup, News Corp’s The Daily was the antithesis of what “digital magazines” should be JEFF HILIMIRE | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- The Struggle of Lego CONSTANTLY LEARNING | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- [Asia] JFDI Asia Bootcamp 2013 Applications Now Open YOUNGUPSTARTS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Book Short: Culture is King ONLYONCE | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Walker Twitter Highlights: November 26th – December 4th SCOTT EDWARD WALKER | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Why Didn’t I Do This? BEN'S BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- 5 things a non-technical founder can do HIPPOLAND | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Distribution, Distribution, Distribution MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- Why I Love Tumblr and Barely Tolerate Twitter MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- "Treason is a strong word, but not too strong, rather too weak, to characterize the situation which." MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- "First, I think you can’t abandon mobile. It is the future like it or not. And second, I think." MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
- MID-WEEK METAL SLUDGE: Romulus and Remus by High on Fire - The. MARK BIRCH | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012
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