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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. Exactly right!

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You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

Most content sites are currently monetized using display advertising, most commonly on a Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) basis. That incentive removes a focus from the important entity, your customer, and places it on the secondary entity, your advertiser. But it gets worse. The web is littered with examples of this awfulness.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Advertise Advertise. How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Every VC will tell you that they will take meetings with 100% of the companies that their existing portfolio founders recommend. About Us Jobs Advertise Subscribe Privacy Terms.

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