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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Ben Schippers is the co-founder of HappyFunCorp , a Web development company that has built sites for TeePublic , Of A Kind , Postography and Yeah TV! “If

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Lean Analytics: The Best Numbers for Non-Tech Companies

Startup Lessons Learned

Alistair and Ben, co-authors of the book Lean Analytics, will help you sort it out in our next webcast, Lean Analytics for Non-tech Companies. In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. Alistair: There are plenty.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. If you’re starting a new media company, does it make sense to charge from day one?

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. If your launch is not immediately successful, you quickly fall into oblivion.

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What Kind of Workspace Is Best For Your Startup?

mashable.com

August 20, 2011 by Lauren Drell 1 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Have an account?