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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

He illustrated his talk with regulatory horror stories in the telecom market , electronic health records , and Covid antigen tests. Unfortunately, for startups entering a regulated market following this advice this might not be the optimum path. But regulated markets are different. Regulation What’s regulatory capture?

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Top 10 Tech Skills to Learn in 2022

The Startup Magazine

Multiple organizations are now offering work on real-world projects to build your portfolio and gain experience. 2- Digital Marketing Management. Even though conventional marketing still has significance worldwide, digital marketing is taking over traditional marketing due to its price and analytics.

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15 Proven Business Ideas To Make Money Online

YoungUpstarts

All you need is just an internet connection & some ABCs of what you want to do! And in some cases, only the internet connection is enough to start making money. It is kind of similar to affiliate marketing, but you can join with multiple shops or even sell your own products. Get Started with Affiliate Marketing.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. IPOs dried up.

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The Worst Advice We’ve Heard For SEO Services

YoungUpstarts

by Sheryl Jones, Senior Marketing Specialist at Uplers. The internet is an excellent resource for learning and acquiring knowledge. Since we believe that prevention is better than cure, here’s a lowdown on some of the worst SEO advice doing the rounds over the internet. This problem often plagues popular, hot topics. Conclusion.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

More interesting, however, is reflecting on what “rhymes” across multiple investments within our portfolio. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable. The “Internet of Things”.