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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Kayak Software Corporation.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. In this article on stock photos , I described a study illustrating that power: “ Bateson, Nettle, & Roberts (2006) provided customers with an unsupervised ‘honesty box’ to pay for their lunch. Among their findings, one primary factor was efficacy. The problem?

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. So now what? Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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How to Create a “Luxurious” User Experience (and Avoid Looking “Cheap”)

ConversionXL

Stock Photos and Other Inauthenticity. Stock photos tend to be a credibility killer, and when done really poorly, they make your site look cheap. Stock photos, in general, aren’t a problem. You can certainly find good quality stock photos and fit them to your purpose. Image Source ). Remember the Everywhere Girl?

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Thus, the process of negotiating taking back stock from founders is not rational and inherently very difficult. Company : Wesabe.