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Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags

Both Sides of the Table

Trilegiant Corporation , (who is owned by Avis Budget Group (yes, that Avis & Budget), in turn owned by the private equity group Apollo Management ) does business as PrivacyGuard and has engaged in the most unethical of business practices I have come across in years. But I’m also sending this to a couple of class-action lawyers.

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Choosing A Bank For Your Startup: Here’s Some Things To Consider

ReadWriteStart

A well-detailed business plan, a launch plan, early funding, and the right talent and equity from founders are all among the basic ingredients that can help get a startup off the ground. As a newly established startup, there are some key elements that your business requires to ensure your short and long-term success.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services.

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6 Clever Strategies to Grow Your Real Estate Business

Up and Running

In peak tourist season, owning a property you can rent to tourists may seem like a no-brainer—you build equity in a great location and have an opportunity to capitalize on that demand. In fact, it returns the same ROI as social media marketing. But what happens when the tourist season ends?

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4 Student Ventures Present @ Pitch Dingman 7 Oct 2011

Campus Entrepreneurship

Students participating were from engineering, liberal arts, and business and the six judges represented a variety of different industries (from commercial insurance and direct marketing to private equity and staffing). The four teams split $2750 in prizes.

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Transcript of Tips for Attracting Local Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

David: Exactly and I think your website is still at the center of your overall digital marketing presence right. How is Google going to learn about your business if not from the data that you’re presenting on your website.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy.