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The Stock Dive: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market

This is going to be BIG.

If your business model literally can’t work without you raising $50-100mm more, then you’re playing a pretty dangerous game that was always obviously heavily reliant on friendly capital markets that might disappear. Grow the f**k out of the business while making sure you’re making money on each customer, client, etc.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. He says they are just as selective on seed investments as they are in later stage deals. Venture Financings we Discussed.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

(PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What's the business model? Reader beware.). Open Government.

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

An example of such a business is Salesforce, which defined a new category for SaaS and continues to be a benchmark for SaaS companies to follow. When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B. Not too shabby!