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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico).

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

Founder 48
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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit Career Expos. In my first company, people liked our product but were embarrassed to share it because the design and presentation was so poor. Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral.

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