Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce world hunger. Word-of-mouth and viral marketing are popular terms these days, but are rarely adequate to initiate a new business. Sales/Marketing.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. This will continue as more role models, mentors and capital are created from the resulting success stories, thereby creating more support for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2013

And all our eyes green it only means one thing. It’s an honor, a privilege and so supremely awesome to announce that our newest General Partner is Lars Dalgaard. And if you are an entrepreneur doing business internationally, Lars speaks 7 languages. Andreessen Horowitz People General Partner Lars Dalgaard SAP SuccessFactors'

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The Index is red if under this mark, and green if above and the % change is indicated. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. pts and is dynamically updated via GoogleDocs.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. As an entrepreneur, the basic question you must ask yourself is whether the prospective board member can help you achieve the upside – and also manage the downside. The light can be green, yellow, or red.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2013

It''s the dream team meets the supreme team And all our eyes green it only means one thing You ain’t f **g with my clique —Jay-Z, Clique. It’s an honor, a privilege and so supremely awesome to announce that our newest General Partner is Lars Dalgaard. Lars is spectacularly qualified. billion acquisition by SAP in 2011. He holds a B.A.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I'm general partner at MarsBio VC and Director of The Corona Initiative. I saw him just work so hard on this diagnostics company where he partnered with this scientist that had developed a called it a risk assessment or a diagnostic to basically determine one's risk of stroke and heart attack. Robert Rhinehart : Hi.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. That website gave me money to play with. Yaro: 58,791.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

David Cowan , the Bessemer Managing Partner who pioneered early stage investments in automated subscription services ( Verisign , Postini , Netli.), Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. World of Warcraft. Newer Post.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. Do you “entrepreneurs” really think a guy or gal that can compile Linux on a bicycle wants to write a secure payment processor on an iPhone, or a Flash app that runs on every browser?

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