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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. Under Nadella, Microsoft has already open-sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and MSFT Edge JavaScript engine, among others.]. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. John Jantsch (05:42): Is, is as opposed to just another channel.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] John Jantsch (07:52): So I know that you talk about acquisitions in the, uh, in the book, but were, did you buy up competition or was there competition anywhere? Mike Evans (08:03): There? Get Semrush.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. Or is it?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.