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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. They have to make the tough decisions about where to allocate scarce resources, what the future business model will become and how to compete with other large platforms out there.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Small Business. Advertising. Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Find Small Business Software. » More.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. as an example of why I shouldn’t be investing in the Twitter ecosystem any longer. So they went after controlling the user clients.

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