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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

It took us three months to sign up the first 100 customers when we launched (we now do that every 20 minutes) and when we hit 100 customers, we went to Las Vegas with the whole team to celebrate. And then we used the same list to find the first customers. Today we have over 2 million customers across the whole platform.

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Explaining Net Neutrality to My Dad

Feld Thoughts

It’s late Saturday night after an awesome day in Las Vegas with my dad. Don’t ask my why we ended up in Vegas – it’s a mystery to both of us, but we are having fun. Over ice cream (#3 for this trip) I drew him a detailed picture on a napkin of how the Internet actually worked. Bad assumption.

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The Net Neutrality Napkin

Feld Thoughts

A few weeks before the FCC vote on Net Neutrality, I spent the weekend in Las Vegas with my dad. Right after we got back I wrote a post about explaining Net Neutrality to him and referenced drawing a picture on a napkin as I explained how the Internet actually works and why Net Neutrality is important. Bad assumption.

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Weekend Reading on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

It also ends just as the rise of the Internet begins, so it’s the long arc of Silicon Valley is not overshadowed by the last twenty years. The next book I read was Screw the Valley: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of America’s New Tech Startup Culture.

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Dispatches from SXSWi

crowdSPRING Blog

In a few days we travel to Las Vegas for the MIX10 conference and I’ll share some of the goodies from that show next week. “ Monkeys with Internet Access: Sharing, Human Nature, and Digital Data &# Clay Shirky writes and teaches about the “social and economic effects of Internet technologies.&#

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Trade Show Checklist: How To Successfully Sell Your Product At Trade Shows

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I remember one brutal season doing the January accessory show in New York, flying to Hong Kong to walk their trade show and meet with suppliers, then back to the US to do Magic in Las Vegas, back to NY to do Coterie , and then to Paris to do Premiere Classe. It was crazy!

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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