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The Story of How/Why K9 Invested in Pragli

K9 Ventures

Because, to rent a U-haul, put a banner on it and park yourself in South Park is about as good as it gets for Guerilla Marketing. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. And obviously it was working because Jeff tweeted it, and I saw it. ” But it wasn’t that simple!

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Minimum Wage Boost in Silicon Valley Ups the Cinderella Factor

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Let’s give that cinderella boy or girl from outta nowhere a chance to stay in the game — and create wealth and jobs for all of us. Let’s get behind raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. Venture Capital (7). Guerilla Marketing Fail – What I Learned From The Austin Police. |. Parenting (4).

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Closure

Steve Blank

Any guerilla sales tactics somebody may know for situation like this? You just can’t change this mainstream customer with a direct approach. I bet there are a lot more wasteful spending when the purse-holders are always on the risk-averse side.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Twitter Link Roundup #215 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Guerilla tips for raising venture capital | VentureBeat – crowdspring.co/P6hM3O. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. It takes 3 years [before you know if your startup can be a real business] – crowdspring.co/1kK2ZJ8. 1neVvzy.

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Putting Additional Context Around Sequoia’s Message

Pascal's View

How many venture-backed CEO's have reported that they have received multiple copies of the Sequoia PowerPoint , first from all of their VC directors, then their VC friends, and finally from random people who know they are working in a venture-backed company?