A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. Invest in two dozen ideas containing this sort of potential and a few might make the cut. Improve the odds by selecting products with traction backed by a team with the ability to both build and learn.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But assuming it’s a fair exit, a venture capitalist, and I’m explicitly not saying angel because we could talk about angel and they’re sort of special so that might work out. Edwin: No, I do think, and I realize that very much, that if I were to take venture capital, the whole game changes.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Mark: But Dan, I want to say, your language, you have to be careful about not coming across as a grumpy entrepreneur. Let me say this to you. 99%, maybe 99.8%

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How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Analysis shows this rule holds across a wide range of phenomena, from intensity of wars, solar flare activity, moon crater size, email address book size, and most importantly for our purposes here, business success , for example in the distribution of success in books sales, movie ticket sales, and venture capital returns.