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Silicon Valley Will Suffer a Shameful Legacy for Introducing Inequality to the Great Equalizer

Austin Startup

This is what Silicon Valley contributed to the Internet and no amount of media spin or PR crisis campaign is going to change what Silicon Valley done to a great technology such as the World Wide Web and the digital economy. This Silicon Valley bigotry and exclusion culture must never happen in history ever again.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc. The goal is you to learn enough so you can’t be BS’d by a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and golf score. In the perfect world this happens when the founder(s) actually close the first few (3-3000 depending on market) paying customers themselves.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Consultant.

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Twitter Link Roundup #257 – Fresh Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Keith Rabois about Venture Capital and Business | by @trengriffin – buff.ly/1AxbgY1. A Clever Way To Hide An Ugly Elevator Shaft | Co.Design | business + design crowdspring.co/1Ffr18E. Most Innovative Companies 2015 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1L22nZJ.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding.

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Twitter Link Roundup #139 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years – [link]. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Brand Logos: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – [link]. – [link].

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

A CEO of a company doing expense reports, which cannot get more of a McDonalds overall stamp as far as a general idea, is egotistical enough to spend all his venture capital scouring through resumes to hire coders without.NET backgrounds because.NET is cooking in a McDonald’s kitchen???? So let me get this straight.

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