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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). << we then discussed the need to do trademarks on your company and your key brand names. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. I eventually needed more money. Tough, but true.

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The Best Free Email Marketing Tool for Startups and Small Businesses

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A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Social networks come and go, but people always have an inbox—and they want to be connected with people who bring them value.

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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. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. No matter the name?—?the the business was the same and through acquisitions it became to be worth $1.33

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! If you are a technology consultant and your name should be on this list, add a comment to this blog entry or contact me directly. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup?

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Making the NYC Community Smaller

This is going to be BIG.

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. It was a time before the widespread use of social networks, obviously. When you see too many faces, you might not take the time to learn the names that go with any of them.

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