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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Later, Michiewicz partnered up with someone much older (not 15) who had the business know-how to take WebmasterResources to the next level. Consider partnering up with forums and pay forums who send customers your way. He told me that one dating website had over millions of users and he asked them how they did it.

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

thebarefootvc

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.