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Twitter Link Roundup #178 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Damaging Psychology of Down Rounds | by Mark Suster – [link]. Dashboards Inspiration For Mobile User Interfaces – 34 Examples – [link]. Designing Websites For Mobile Apps – Techniques And Inspiration – [link]. What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Management and Leadership – [link].

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

Mobile technology is ubiquitous, software is eating the world, sensors are proliferating – and with much of the world yet to come online, the bulk of tech growth is ahead of us. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved.

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Twitter Link Roundup #212 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round: When Taking Venture Capital Doesn’t Go as Planned – crowdspring.co/MvF29W. The Pros and Cons of Responsive Web Design vs. Mobile Website vs. Native App | Designmodo – crowdspring.co/1oIcwjY. Facebook and WhatsApp: The Nineteen-Billion-Dollar App – crowdspring.co/1jOdRlK.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

Both Sides of the Table

Luckily we were never a unicorn so we didn’t have to have a destructive massive down-round that makes it harder (but not impossible) to get done. They had to focus on getting a “W” one day over the short-term dilution impact of raising at a price lower than they had set out to achieve.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Alexia Tsotsis: Oh, the mobile –. Marc Andreessen: The mobile billing. Alexia Tsotsis: Are you seeing down rounds because the NASDAQ is down? Are there any that I have missed?