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

This is going to be BIG.

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. Consider this.

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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

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Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the exact…same…photograph. The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when competitors Dell and Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. But did it stop there? Image source ).

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Start Your Marketplace Engines

Genuine VC

The most often I’ve seen this approach work is through a fostering community of sellers, where these sellers find benefit in just interacting with each other. 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.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

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Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the Exact. The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when PC competitors Dell & Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. Photograph. Meet The Everywhere Girl. But did it stop there?

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. As one of our big service offerings was to be SEO, we wanted one element to be organic (the chili) and another to represent our quality (smoking – as in smoking hot when combined with the chili).

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

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In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. image source.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. image source.

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