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Building An Autonomous and Virtual World: Softbank Teams With Mapbox

Feld Thoughts

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. In the years since, with massive customer launches like Snapchat and the Weather Channel, the horizontal scale of Mapbox’s platform is now much more obvious.

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VC Governance FAQ: (9) Does an anemic IPO market deter VC investing?

Pascal's View

America had this structure in place prior to 1997, and we should take a hard look at what has changed to render the small company IPO extinct (contrary to popular belief, it first became an endangered species before the technology bubble). I believe that the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997. the FEC deals with campaign finance information, regulating and disclosing all that information. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

On many boards, both the CEO and CFO have direct channels with the board so that they can provide the yin and yang (in a well-coordinated way). For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. WHY IS A STARTUP BOARD SO IMPORTANT?

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

07:00 PM: TechSet Party Speakeasy – This Friday SXSW kickoff party unites the digerati as they channel their inner Fame Monster by reviving a decade of style and glamour that made the social elite go ga ga. Hilton D – Only a fraction of business financing comes from Sand Hill Road. Hilton A/B ([link]. Gary Vee knows wine.

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

abovethecrowd.com

Warren Buffet, 1997. They return the favor by doing more banking business with said banks, and some of the windfall-money comes right back to the bank via other channels. “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff.

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