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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Total raised: $17.0mm.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

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My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. Univect Education Solutions.

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10 Tips To Help You Build A Successful Small Business Brand

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Your brand lives in everyday interactions with your customers, the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, and in your posts on social networks. How can a small business develop a strong brand on a tiny budget? Here are 10 tips to help you get started: 1. Deliver value.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Armed with this knowledge, you’re able to operate a customer-centric business that never loses sight of its North Star: fixing customer pain points. In 1997 at just 42 years old, I suffered a massive heart attack that landed me in the ICU. 30- Social network for ideas. Thanks to Evian Gutman, Padlifter ! #5-

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

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The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! billion MAUs for the top four social networks. billion MAUs for the top four social networks. Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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Note that I didn’t say there will be total “convergence&# – but I believe the services will inter-operate. Attempts at “moving up the stack&# – In 1997 I led a project to help senior management at British Telecom define its Internet strategy. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example).