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Love and Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

I was chairman and we has three product lines at that point: NetForm (an HTML form filler that was getting its but kicked by Allaire), NetThread (which was super cool but getting its butt kicked by something – maybe again Allaire), and NetAnalysis, which was the first weblog analysis tool and became the focus of the company.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 The emerging HTML 5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic element and into specialized handlers. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? -

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How To Recruit A Great Designer For Your Startup

David Teten

ff Venture Capital just invested in Tackk , a new platform which allows you to creatively share anything on the web with no barriers to creation. Demonstration of Designing + Building: A great designer can show lots of examples where they both designed and built out (coded the HTML/CSS) their solutions.

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Twitter Link Roundup #276 – Patriotic Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Here’s Why the Venture Capital Crash Will Hurt – buff.ly/1LWPOi3. Things I’ve Learned About Building & Coding HTML Email Templates crowdspring.co/1GWfkE4. Growth Minded Entrepreneur on Instagram: “Less talking -> More doing.” ” crowdspring.co/1cWbcrx. crowdspring.co/1LaM931. 1GHx9a4.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. That’s OK. of people aren’t. If you can’t do wireframes, learn how.

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Instagram

Ben's Blog

Technologically, it was also different: an HTML 5 application rather than a native app. Since we were less than a year old ourselves at the time, this kind of conflict—which happens frequently in the venture capital business as companies evolve—was brand new to us. When we invested in Instagram, it wasn’t actually Instagram.

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David Norris joins us as Partner

The Equity Kicker

In the early days I had to apply myself to learn HTML and CSS (I built a hobby website), set up Adwords campaigns, learn SEO tactics and so on. There are few VC firms in the US taking this approach and at Forward Partners we intend to lead with this approach in the UK and reinvent venture capital.

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