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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

Both Sides of the Table

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” He or she has worked at some very successful big technology or media companies and went to a great school.

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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How you convinced them to pay up when code review at that stage was nonexistent? But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. I think you meant this ? It’s rarely true that your first customer will be big. I had a $39.95

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

Feld Thoughts

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. After I published Avogadro Corp, I knew that I wanted to send review copies to newspapers, bloggers, and other folks in the tech industry. For my second novel, I hired someone to research Amazon’s top reviewers for me.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Genius, Power, and Magic

Growthink Blog

Try this on for size – an analysis of over 300 patents acquired between 2002-2008 found an average price per patent of $383,000 ! The lesson is clear - whether you are in a low or high-tech business, ask yourself daily what is proprietary about what you do and how you do it and then work to protect it. #3. They Are Lucky.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” At a tactical level, companies can improve their customer segmentation and personalize marketing and sales experiences. And the privacy debates surrounding online advertising suggest that technology will keep outpacing regulation.