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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions? 3) Geography-defined funds.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

Bridgette: What are you investing in South East Asia at Golden Gate Ventures? . Some of them got funding, when you’re in a nacent market, you’re builidng the market. Bridgette: Jehan, how is Pakistan unique as a market? . We started with unique projects to the local market with the first projects we funded.

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

online.wsj.com

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Loading… Asia. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Consumer Services (B2C). WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. América Latina. Deutschland.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

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. The CAC ratio determines the payback time on your sales and marketing investment: a CAC ratio of 0.5 Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:09 AM. 16 comments: BdH.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Ceedo Technologies.

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Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps!

Occam's Razor

You'll notice they are a mix of Marketing, Design, Analytics, Critical Thinking blogs. If an institution near you provides a course in quantitative or qualitative analytics (even traditional analytics such as direct marketing or market research) then that is also well worth the investment. Two blogs are not overwhelming.

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