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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. There is nothing viral! Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

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Cracking The Code: Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007

Cracking the Code

Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. I make the most of this time by listening to my favorite tech and venture podcasts. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. My Yelp reviews.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

In search of Europes next tech stars. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Cracking The Code. Wednesday, August 03, 2011.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. To justify a 60pts difference, we have to believe that the current growth rates of 10% for technology and 20% for SaaS will continue to hold for the next 9 years before converging.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews. The first is explained articulately in the book “ The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail ” by Clayton Christensen. We often get asked about negative reviews. it was amazingly prescient.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Friday, March 23, 2007. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. In search of Europe's next tech stars. ▼ 2007. (10).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches. Founded in 2007. Time will tell.

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