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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

View from Seed

The top quartile has distributed 2.03x (vs. 1.68) and the median fund now has distributed 1.27X (vs. The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. Based on that metric, the top quartile fund has now distributed 2.03X after 12 years. 2 years ago).

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Learn how to identify what your customers want from your brand, how to build momentum with content, and then explore some brands that excel at brand marketing. For most of 2021, CXL didn’t have a marketing team. For example, let’s say you’re building a new tool for content marketers.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. It becomes increasingly difficult when you’re trying to scale your business both from engineering perspective and market penetration.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Getting Serious: The next billion-dollar market in games

VC Cafe

The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming.

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4 Key Tips For Getting Your Product Or Service To Launch (And Why Launching Reduces Startup Fear)

YoungUpstarts

As long as your offering receives a positive response from its intended market, you’re on the right track. Often, there’s plenty of room for you to offer a variation that will find a healthy market niche, especially now that online technologies are revolutionizing everything from how we shop to where we stay on vacation.

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