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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

in Ireland—despite being behind a paywall. Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. At the same time, organic traffic, for many news sites, isn’t the primary acquisition source, in part because most news-related queries are new and never searched before.

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

How Telefonica Ireland Uses Business Intelligence To Reduce Churn. Before 2007, O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica Europe , had a ton of disparate data and very little insight as to what it all meant. Make changes to your acquisition, onboarding, support, and more to drive that score up for each and every customer. The Research.

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Branching out: Why you shouldn’t limit your startup to just one location

The Next Web

Nicholas Petri is a market research analyst at OpenView Venture Partners , where he helps portfolio companies by providing in-depth research into their prospects and customer segments. The team opened up a second office for US sales and support in Plano, TX, while the engineering team and CEO stayed in Ireland.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – April 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. SWX: ORIDN) an Israeli manufacturer of capnography respiratory monitors and modules was bought by Ireland’s Covidienplc.(NYSE: Following the acquisition, the company will become part of Covidien’s oximetry and monitoring product line.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

Cyprus and Ireland. Oh, or your main traffic sources and the visitor acquisition metrics? Our partner and co-workers will take over our lives from then on through our 50s. I love my spouse, regardless of who goes first, I felt very sad after staring at the Partner and Alone graphs. UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.

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