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

Agile VC

That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Facebook’s leadership takes a scorched earth approach to fighting Yahoo! New CEOs often like to take a bold step early in their tenure to establish their leadership, appease restless shareholders, or otherwise tell the broader marketplace that things are changing.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. Demonstrate thought leadership to potential employees.

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Demand Generation: Turn Ideal Buyers Into Superheroes

ConversionXL

They also did a lot of self-directed research checking all sorts of sources, from social media to syndicated content to category- or industry-specific resources.” – Beth Caplow, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester [via Forrester ]. Focus on thought leadership over hard selling. Trust is earned through thought leadership.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

It wouldn’t exist were it not for the internet empowering buyers to do their own research and make informed decisions. Manage a marketing budget that will drive the most qualified leads through paid programs such as content syndication, pay-per-click, and events. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle.

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Looking Backwards and Forwards – NextView in 2013 and the Year Ahead

Rob Go

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. Sector: We invest in internet and mobile innovation. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of. Surprisingly few seed funds operate this way.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Dividing economic pies and handing leadership off between different cohorts of individuals is rarely easy, but the nature of the VC business makes it particularly tricky. Should there be a notion of “founder equity” for those individuals who put in the hard work to start a firm and build the brand? What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. BBC MOBILE – Alex Pressland.

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