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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. Algorithms and data are required to compete. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly. These tolerate negative cash flows for growth.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. National Venture Capital Group endorsed it.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. Just about anything can be patented : circuits, hardware, software, applied algorithms, formulas, designs, user interfaces, applications, systems. Scientific principles or pure mathematical algorithms cannot be patented.

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Lessons from Facebook on Recruiting Elite Engineers

David Teten

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. 6) Use algorithms questions. You have an array of N unique numbers distributed uniformly at random. 5) Network the candidate’s contacts.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

I’ve also shared my insights with Techcrunch, in “ 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more “ As venture capital investors, one question we think about a lot at Remagine Ventures is “where are the opportunities for startups in the Creator Economy?”

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. Distributing content. Today, I do this manually.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

There’s been lots of buzz for the need for a shared, distributed ledger but 2018 is the year we see production level use cases in the wild. This includes choosing best of breed by cloud vendor (Google for tensorflow, AWS for s3 and serverless, etc) and also distributing workloads over multiple clouds.

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