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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

Genuine VC

The firm is solely focused on capital efficient business sectors, most frequently but certainly not always internet-enabled companies. Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. That’s no secret.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. So is the internet.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

HubSpot – HubSpot is an Internet marketing suite that integrates with your website to track your online marketing efforts. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Scrobbld – PayPal and eBay order management app that keeps all your transactions in one place.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.