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Fundraising Now? Remember Morality Impacts Valuation

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Harmonate, based in San Jose has developed private fund data operations tailored to the complexities of tracking social impact investing. One of their investors, JTC Group has developed a specialty in this arena through a recent acquisition. I’ve had the chance to work with many of them to see it firsthand.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

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Facebook Custom Audience campaigns will help you cover the gap, and get some real mileage out of your acquisitions. The San Jose Sharks used this high-value segment to successfully to drive 33x ROI on their Facebook Ads campaign. Here’s a masterful execution of reselling: The San Jose Sharks Facebook Ad.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M and Incubators - What We Have Learned

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As for the pitches, first , Eddie Godshalk from San Jose, California, presented QuantGeo , a geospatial data service for real estate investors, property buyers, banks, etc., I pointed him to specific modules within the 1M/1M curriculum to beef up his customer acquisition strategy, Value Proposition and Positioning description, etc.

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ProfessorVC: Card Counting for Investors

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In the trailer below, Brad Pitt in describing the new player acquisition philosophy, says "we are card counters at the blackjack table were going to turn the odds at the casino" I look forward to checking out the movie and seeing if RSCM can exploit the odds on early stage investing. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On The Northwest

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We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. Up last, Thomas Vellaringattu from San Jose, California, pitched Social Pulse , a service through which he is helping small businesses that are not terribly net savvy set up profiles and use social media to market and curate relevant information to help them market.

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

Besides the natural fit with eBay, he wanted the buyer to feel good following the acquisition and certainly the investors in StubHub were happy. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. All of this only helps for the next venture. Heres another bonus lesson. Be passionate about whatever it is you are doing.

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ProfessorVC: Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct

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Nope, the above quote isnt from Richard Dawson on Family Feud, but similar to a headline that caught my attention on the front page of the business section of the San Jose Mercury News this morning. Blink starts with the anecdote of the Getty Museums $10 million acquisition of a rare Greek statue dating from the 6th century BC.