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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

It’s developing a differentiated product in a market where you can demonstrate value to your customers – whether they’re paying or not. My argument as an entrepreneur and my thesis as an investor is that I’m looking to get to basecamp. I define basecamp as an attainable goal in the 2 year time horizon.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

One of the differentiators of Snaptu, is that the company chose the feature-phone market as its core audience. The application works on 2,500 device models and is available to 80% of the world’s phones.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. This turns out to be one of the real differentiators for Twitter. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses.

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