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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. Great quote.

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Optimizing Your Website For Better Business: Four Tips To Getting It Right

YoungUpstarts

These optimization tips can help companies at early and even later stages make great strides to optimize the potential of their website… and business. Patrick Llewellyn joined 99designs in 2009 after a decade in boutique corporate advisory primarily working with Australian technology and new media companies.

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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

Feld Thoughts

My partners and I have continued to invest aggressively in what we believe is social media’s secret weapon which we refer to as the comm channel in a hat tip to the TV show 24. Our investment here is in SendGrid , a company that came out of TechStars Boulder 2009 and is one of the white hot companies in Boulder.

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Weve also found that potential clients find us through LinkedIn.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. So in 2009, as the economy came to a screeching halt, I took the leap. Eventually, it became too much.

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Finding (And Keeping) The Right Advisors For Your Business

99u.com

Founded in 2009, the 99U takes its name from Thomas Edisons famous. Jeffrey Bussgang General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, Author of "Mastering the VC Game ". Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures. Web Development. Its not about ideas. Its about making ideas happen. Hard, honest advice.

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