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Disturbing

Austin Startup

I must take a moment to acknowledge the many kind greetings upon my return to Atlanta and the many well wishes as I departed Austin. Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. We all need some disturbance to keep us operating at our potential. Think about that.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

So everything from a retail operation to, you know, a dry cleaner on the corner to a consultant, it's really typically most of our business owners are less than 10 employees. Air is the leading platform for marketing teams to manage and automate their creative operations. They're, we always say small and growing businesses.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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I‘ve founded and run marketing agencies for 20 years, I’m running one now, and yet I hate the agency industry. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Jeff Hilimire

Clients also can start/stop relationships for all sorts of reasons, including good ones like the agency isn’t producing excellent work, but also bad ones such as a new leader comes in and wants to shake things up by cutting all agency partners, or the CEO had dinner with a person and now suddenly, that guy’s agency is forced in. Seasonality.

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Music Entrepreneurship: Portland rap legend Cool Nutz addresses the secrets of his success

Up and Running

A rapper, tour manager and talent manager, Cool Nutz has generated a lot of buzz and revenue for himself and other local artists. A lot of the ways I was operating my business was based off what I saw indie rock artists doing from a do-it-yourself perspective. For 20 years now, Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott has called music his job.

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. What that meant is that six companies a year could achieve a hundred million in revenue or a billion in valuation. Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I'm general partner at MarsBio VC and Director of The Corona Initiative. I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta.