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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Thus is venture capital. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Today we’re online 3.1

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In search of Europes next tech stars. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

A startup called Corpora made headlines for all the wrong reasons after tech bloggers ran an image search to find the company logo. Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your service on mobile and/or via apps, and because type-in traffic is declining.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: Europe Consumer , internet. internet. (6). Venture Capital. (3). In search of Europe's next tech stars. How the use of internet is transform. Explore Venture Capital.