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The ABCs of Starting an Investor Pitch Meeting – Always Be Credible

Seeing Both Sides

For example, ZestCash CEO/co-founder Douglas Merrill is a charming character and, even putting aside the shoulder-length hair and tattoos, you can’t help smile when he introduces his background (raised dyslexic in Arkansas, followed an unlikely path of earning a Princeton PhD, leading Google engineering and IPO in his role as CIO for 5 years, and now (..)

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Ride a New Set of Unwritten PR Rules to Coverage in the Largest Blogs and Publications on the Planet

Duct Tape Marketing

You can go down to Arkansas and try to get the buyer to listen to your compelling story or you can get dozens of would be consumers to go ask dozens of Wal-Mart manages why they don’t carry your awesome product. Think of it this way. Let’s say you have this awesome product that you want to get placed in Wal-Mart.

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Don't drink the startup Kool-Aid – find a problem and try to solve it

venturevillage.eu

However, putting all that to one side, it feels to me that parts of our internet startup culture are becoming ever increasingly delusional. Let’s take a little trip back – way back, before the internet. Then the internet came along and beat the stupidity out of everyone with its all-knowing, interconnected, pipey genius.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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

online.wsj.com

INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet. Internet Services. . - Passenger Transportation. - Pet Care & Grooming. Social Services. Storage & Warehousing. Travel Agencies. Business Services (B2B). Consumer Services (B2C). Domain Name/Basic Site. ISP/ASP Services. Software. - For Lease. -

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

Arkansas 100