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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

ReadWriteStart

Adrian wants to build a location-based service focused on assembling, and then reviewing and rating various services from fixing roofs to plumbing. Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. What accounts for the difference? Is that a lot?

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. It has continued to offer technical capabilities at the forefront of online video. Wistia has been around since 2008.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. So I started a gig economy job site, with a focus on transparency of pay estimates and user reviews.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

Songza demonstrates great use of technology, but not in an in your face look at how smart we are way. the reviews. Read their invitation to get you to write a review. Then some reviews (they float by). or 1345 hrs or 2200 hrs. They deliver delight. I smile every time I see the home page they create for me. I love this.

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