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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

He previously founded N&N Investments LLC, a real estate investment holding company; and is a program leader and fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. . He stressed that your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding: One thing that we learned very early on was, have a plan for fund-raising. …

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Well it’s not that unusual for a patent troll or “IP holding company” like Leader to pursue patent litigation against a large number of targets, regardless what the merit. It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo! link] leehower. link] Harry.

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Isidoro Quiroga: “South America’s Warren Buffet” Mogul Makes Next Move

The Startup Magazine

a holding company from which he has made some of the most lucrative investments seen over the past few decades. Among his many investments and acquisitions are Banco de Chile, Enphase Energy, Entel, Australis Seafoods, SQM, PIlmaiquén Electric Company, and Minera Fuego.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

7 Companies That Totally ‘Get’ Their Buyer Personas | Hubspot – [link]. There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks – [link]. Why Ad Holding Companies Should Act More Like VCs | Advertising Age - [link]. Does your startup require a miracle? Advertising Age - [link].

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

A second learning for me with Expedia: Expedia was a holding company of a bunch of different operations – Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelscape – and Expedia.com was our biggest problem asset. Because that’s something that we all in Silicon Valley [need to do]. Again, you know, we don’t have it perfect. It’s like, “No, no.

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