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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

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In 1999, my brother Aaron and I started InternetSafety.com. It seemed as though venture capitalists were throwing money at any Internet idea they could find – no business plan required. Our idea was to build a dial-up Internet service to compete with AOL, MindSpring and EarthLink. The best part was that it was a blind review.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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There were startups and a software industry but barely. The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. It was 1991.

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Hyperlocal Marketing: A Tried And True Method For Successful Online Marketing

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These companies that own these websites spend billions of dollars on advertising and are regularly visited by the most Internet users. By implementing local SEO and marketing to local niche markets, you’ll reach your customers and clients faster and cheaper. You should also spend a chunk of time generating reviews for your business.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. I call this “using your balance sheet as a strategic weapon.”

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

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I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We were unprepared.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take.