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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Folksonomy. Free product. Page 3: Competition.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. Plenty of headroom there!

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

Always adapt to what’s most important and sensible for you (and remember that nothing is free, every measurement decision you make has a cost!). There are multiple points of value from the Trailheads program (lower support costs, higher retention, faster time to value for clients etc.) Yet, you won’t notice it in my KPIs.

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Transcript of Using Technology to Build Connections in the Real World

Duct Tape Marketing

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. And it lowers commuting costs, of course. John Jantsch: And you know what’s interesting, there’s so many companies today that have distributed workforce. It’s those who distribute it freely.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.