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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Wildfire Interactive. These are all “billion dollar industries” he says.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

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For instance, the research conducted by The Economist revealed that searches for environmental goods have grown by 70% since 2016. TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 Catch your customers with all the means you can utilize: social media, paid search, targeted ads, marketplace, and other dark magic practices.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Thus is venture capital. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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Be Honest About Whether Your Product Really Makes a Difference

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” I have seen many companies move rapidly up-and-to-the-right by Google search rankings only to crash when they rewrite the algorithm or start competing by offering the same service directly on the SERP. If venture capital is propping up your business performance – good luck when the spigot slows one day.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This never existed a decade ago.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In search of Europes next tech stars. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. Venture Capital. (3). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

Often you can't tell if something like a search engine or matching algorithm is really going to have better results until you use it. As Steve Blank likes to say: A Startup Is a Temporary Organization Designed to Search for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model The unfortunate reality is - an MVP is not the above!

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