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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. They sponsor TWiVC. LibreDigital.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. It’s possible to outgrow other competitors who have a lot more funding than you.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Mobile advertising became more targeted and user friendly by adapting to the small screen — but advertisers are slow to adopt , with much upside still to come. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. What’s Next in 2012….

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Advertising. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. The offering to a consultant may affect your securities compliance in later offerings and will certainly add to further dilution to founders," Durkin says.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. Keep teaching!

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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The Lightspeed Batphone?—?Welcome Brian Kasser and Meredith Kendall

Lightspeed Venture Partners

It allows our founders to have a direct line to us, and lets us respond with urgency and engage with founders when, where and how we can be most impactful. Over the years we’ve had the privilege of working with amazing founders and helping them grow from infancy to IPO or acquisition in many cases. And it works.