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JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Scaling Your UX Strategy | Robert Fabricant-Harvard Business Review - [link]. Ad agencies are discovering products like Columbus discovered America - [link].

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. They are nerds.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. Don’t Give Your Users Shit Work – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Save Asia for post-IPO.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO – [link]. How Facebook killed the big IPO – [link]. Does Your Company Pay For Social Media Reviews? - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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