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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money. It was a way to make it hard for your competition to compete. Until we weren’t.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

2007 was the watershed year. The value capture in the private markets has also led some hedge funds and other major non-private-market investors to become late-stage VCs. But the biggest changes in our industry have been driven by technical changes themselves to which we are just observers and fortunate beneficiaries.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

You can find more ideas here: Product Pricing Strategies and Techniques Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From Should I Lower My Prices To Compete? Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example. What does a thoughtful campaign look like?

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation. Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation.

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What is the Definition of a Seed Round or an A Round?

Gust

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.).

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Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon.

Occam's Razor

Instead, focus on the non-normal and the unexpected. Take this image from my January 2007 post: Analytics Tip #9: Leverage Statistical Control Limits …. The latter also happens to be their core competence, not the former. percent lie within three standard deviations. Wikipedia ]. There are many ways to do approach this.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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