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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. There are 1.4m-1.6m

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. billion), and 33 percent lower than proceeds in 2007 ($3.79 The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. We definitely see continued growth in impact investing beyond what’s captured in the survey,” GIIN CEO Amit Bouri told Karma.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Their proceeds are delivered net of the banker fee of 5-7%! Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal?

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek. So at a fund level (e.g.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

This single number is the key to determine your level of sales and marketing investment and is very simple to calculate by looking at a quarterly GAAP P&L: you just have to divide the annualized net gross margin added during the quarter by the sales and marketing costs of the previous quarter. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law # 4.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

Hyper Focus Your Digital Marketing: Ensure A Clear Line Of Sight To Net Income! Web Analytics Success Measurement For Government Websites. Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! The Awesome Power of Visualization 2 -> Death and Taxes 2007. 2007 Predictions: Web Analytics. Misc Articles.

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