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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. some founders lose their life savings.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Spartan Media is a web design and online marketing firm that was named after a historical group of warriors, the Spartans, which you probably remember from the movie 300. This is a reference to the founder and CEO, Jeremy Knauff’s background in an infantry unit as a United States Marine. 1 – Modern Warriors.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

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While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either).

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Transcript of Honest Startup Advice From Somebody Who’s Been Through It

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John Jantsch: If you’re a founder of a startup, maybe you need some brutally honest advice from somebody who’s been there. He is the founder and former CEO of Moz. But we’re going to talk a lot about his new book called, “ Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World. Transcript.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Lessons Learned.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. We as marketing people and people that use the web tend to over-estimate homepages in terms of their importance because they’re the front page of your site. John: PR wants some event calendar.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5%

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