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

David Teten

“Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. 2) Business model-defined funds.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com

INFOGRAPHIC] How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets [INFOGRAPHIC] Global Internet Traffic Expected to Quadruple by 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Advertising on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] What Makes the Modern Media Agency [INFOGRAPHIC] How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition? Publisher Platform (P3). startupcto

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Fake Ad Rips Internet Explorer 9 in Most Devastating Way Possible [VIDEO]. Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Facebook Is Like Bananas and Boxes, Says the Internet. Mashable France. Trending Stories.

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Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered

Occam's Razor

That seems so trivial common sense that I am wondering if France is not in a parallel dimension. Oh, and nothing is weird about France. Fruition Internet Marketing. As a B2B marketer looking to get more heavily involved in web analytics, I'm looking for a place to start – specifically your books. Josh Thomas.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" I understand why people would think that a consumer internet service like IMVU isnt really mission critical. Or variations thereof. Or variations thereof.