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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. Mentorship.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Google’s own research , done “in cooperation with our publishing partners,” showed that “even minor changes to the current sampling levels could degrade user experience and, as user access is restricted, unintentionally impact article ranking in Google Search.”. The New York Times ) can be undone simply by disabling JavaScript.

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How Technology and Training Fueled One Ad-Based Company’s Growth

ReadWriteStart

Young applied for internships and interviews, hoping to land something before graduation, hopefully at one of the big New York ad agencies. Such techniques work across all verticals, for companies large and small, because these checklists, which we’ve built with Facebook, are using the system the way it was intended,” Yu says.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We collect more data on an individual business than, to our knowledge, any other RBI investor, through our application process, data partners, and various public sources online. Bigfoot Capital.

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How to Run a Tech Conference in NYC

This is going to be BIG.

The biggest thing that conference organizers don’t seem to understand is the following: New York City is not one tech community. New York is a multi-industry town. And if you’re going to do a fundraising one, it needs to have real check writers—partners from known VC funds with deals in their track record people know.