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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

I think it’s important in this era of building audiences and living in public to acknowledge that no one actually needs to explain the reasons why they’re making career moves or leaving a company. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal.

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Start Your Marketplace Engines

Genuine VC

And with an audience of hungry buyers circling, supply is much easier fill. It’s perhaps an older example, but Bitpipe ( sold to TechTarget in 2004 ) did just that in becoming the largest distributor of IT white-papers which attracted CIO buyers. Often this focus can be on a specific geography or vertical.

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Sponsored Poolfunding: A New Way To Think About Maximizing Advertising Dollars

YoungUpstarts

It works by compiling a list of the best vendors in a specific vertical that share some commonality – location, for example. Essentially, multiple competitors in a space are pooling their funds together to invest in otherwise inaccessible and costly advertising space and audience.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. Anyone can create a website, register a business but creating one that connects to the right audience is key, that is my area of expertise.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

The thesis of our current business model (startups are all about testing theses) was that there was a need for video producers and content owners to make money from their videos, and that they could do that by charging their audience. A couple of friendly amendments: * Two commenters on a May 2004 blog post, Whither Trepia?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. It was the wrong audience. And, the audience that did actually read it likely has none of the people he is complaining about in it. Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. It is ironic.

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