Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. I agree with Robert E. Find summer internships and part-time work in your field of interest.

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Chad Incubator Dilution LLC 279

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. I agree with Robert E. Find summer internships and part-time work in your field of interest.

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Entrepreneur Chad Incubator Dilution 120

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

What works for first-time customers might have less of an effect on (and be diluted by) people who are returning to buy again. TIm Stewart offers an Internet Explorer browser example to illustrate how data segmentation after your test can tell you about your site’s functionality: Tim Stewart, TRS Digital. So, we’ll ignore it.

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Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Besides the future potential earnings youre forgoing, youre also diluting your own ownership in the company. The offering to a consultant may affect your securities compliance in later offerings and will certainly add to further dilution to founders," Durkin says. Leadership. Strategy and Planning.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Season 4 of week 10 of Shark Tank was interesting because two of the pitches were for internet businesses that I could imagine seeing in my day job as a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalis t. The first 15,000 units sold out in six weeks in specialty retailers that distributed it in the Quantico area, and another 80,000 are being made now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Cars Direct / Internet Brands.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 14, 2012

for consumer internet companies, breaking through user based thresholds – e.g. successful public beta with thousands or tens of thousands of users, 1m monthly uniques and so on. signing distribution deals. demonstrating that signed distribution deals are working. signing distribution deals. achieving first revenues.

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Finance Valuation Venture Capital Dilution 118

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

You could make a case for the fact that the Internet in general is little more than a really, really big marketplace – containing everything that has ever been made along with everything that’s ever been said. Today sellers can find viable marketplace distribution in places like Amazon, Buy.com, Newegg, Ariba as well as eBay.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Like any other form of diluting your focus… it occasionally works, but usually doesn’t.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. It will also minimize future dilution. I get that you want to grow and I want you to grow, but let’s internally finance that growth by spending gross margin dollars rather than new dilutive dollars of equity. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.”

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Co-founders are the highest form of dilution to a business. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? The way I do it.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company takes a starkly different approach than its closest competitor by offering ad-free, subscription-based search that does not track users’ internet activity. It’s a massive distribution advantage. In the case of Facebook and Twitter, and LinkedIn, they reach a lot of users. Hindsight is always 20/20.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company takes a starkly different approach than its closest competitor by offering ad-free, subscription-based search that does not track users’ internet activity. It’s a massive distribution advantage. In the case of Facebook and Twitter, and LinkedIn, they reach a lot of users. Hindsight is always 20/20.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

If your site receives high volumes of traffic that are globally distributed, third-party solutions can be a tremendous help. Additional elements like that dilute the central CTA. 10 Ways the Internet Is Destroying You” (ListVerse). For AWS users, a network optimization tool such as Datapath.io seconds to 1.6. John Capes).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The pro is that it’s cheap capital and it’s not diluted. Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. My name is John Bates. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of.

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