Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. This was followed by another $500 million investment (along with Goldman Sachs) in 2011, at a $50 billion valuation. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2012

TackThis ( www.tackthis.com ) allows businesses to set up a full e-commerce solution on any website or social network, and even lets them manage that online retail shop with a centralized inventory and customer management system. TackThis is incubated by NUS Enterprise.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 However, they have failed to generate profits and the stock has since sunk to less than $3 per share.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

After the product’s developed, the startup employes marketing to get attention, Sales to close deals, and perhaps a Director of Customer Service to field customer issues. The Pebble Smartwatch itself comes stock with a fairly standard feature set – email, clock, heart rate monitor etc. But is this really step one?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. March 25, 2011 at 7:00 am. March 25, 2011 at 12:58 pm. March 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Michael Lazerow, CEO and founder of Buddy Media , spoke about how companies can power social connection to drive a brand’s business and use of power of social media to create shareholder value in a world where the difference between a good and great company is how much customers are willing to be brand advocates.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Ceragon Networks. Crescendo Networks. Crunchies 2011. Mailing lists/groups.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 1, 2011

2930 (the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act”), a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. House of Representatives passed H.R. As I discussed in my post, “ FAQ: What the new U.S. What Should Startups Do?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A By Richard Nieva.

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

“The Senate is the place where bills go to die.” – Bill Maher On November 3, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

The process should have the sales and influence component that work to improve the likelihood of top candidates accepting. Social networking applications (SNAs). Networking. Sep 23, 2011 at 4:15 pm. [.] Sep 25, 2011 at 3:08 am. Sales and Guest Relations Manager for CIS, Eastern Europe & Greece.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011. A stock acquisition is a bet that would provide significant upside (and possible downside) opportunity. I was curious about the sale price (not announced in any of the acquisition articles), but was disclosed in Linked-Ins S1 filing at cash proceeds of $2,394,000. March 8, 2011 11:15 AM.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

Now consider that in Google’s Zero Moment Of Truth report, they found that the average buyer in 2011 used 10.4 According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. image source. So don’t be shy.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? do something else.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. August 2011. Eventually you have to invest. It’s your job. M&A returned.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations. So entering 2011 why does this matter?

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