Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We ran ad campaigns against every single product we could think of in an adjacent market space to ours. Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 INTEL-ISRAEL DEVELOPS NEW CHIP “SANDY BRIDGE”. . Koor is controlled by Discount Investment Corp, a subsidiary of IDB Holding Corp.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. NET CREATIVE MIND TEAM [link] February 17, 2009 2:32 AM Anonymoussaid. February 4, 2009 10:40 AM James said. Hello Eric Ries , Thanks for the great blog. Your post is really knowledgeable.

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