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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. 2009 – Back to The Future The bad news is that since the bubble most VC firms haven’t made a profit. So what’s left?

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Founding Date: 2004.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Transaction Processing.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. Great post!

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Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

Do you know have they distribute their product? Reply np , on August 20, 2009 at 2:06 pm Said: Rule 4: Custormer compares our product to a big comapny say BC they start to ask why should we use your product insted of BC. An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.” Do you know how they create demand?

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?