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August 2008 - Posts
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06:02 PM Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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TechStars is a startup incubator based in Boulder, Colorado. TechStars selected 10 teams and provided funding of about $15,000 per team, free office space, operational support, and mentorship from former entrepreneurs and business leaders. This Read More...
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10:27 AM Friday, August 15, 2008
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YCombinator provides seed stage capital and a 10 week startup boot camp for budding entrepreneurs. At the end of the 10 week session Y Combinator invites VCs and angels to an investor day / demo day. Today YC unveiled 20 new startups to about 80 Boston Read More...
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01:50 PM Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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Lots of startups and VCs are betting their business on web advertising as a business model. They point to Google, Yahoo, and other big sites as examples of success and assume they will have proportional success. Not likely. In a previous post " Is Ad Read More...
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09:44 AM Monday, August 11, 2008
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Have you seen the amazing Olympic final in the men's swimming 4X100 relay? World records were set by many swimmers in this race and it all came down to the final touch at the wall. The Americans beat the heavily favored French team by .o8 of a second. Read More...
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02:15 PM Wednesday, August 06, 2008
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Better targeting equals higher ad rates - Lots of startups and VCs are pinning their hopes on this simple premise. It seems obvious, but there is very little evidence to support it. So what is wrong? Is the ad serving technology not able to take advantage Read More...
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01:27 PM Sunday, August 03, 2008
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Venture Capital investing is a very tough game...and very lucrative if you are good at it. Part of my job at Microsoft is working with VCs, so I have learned a lot about the way they think...and why they say No to 99% of the deals they see. Fred Read More...
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11:16 AM Sunday, August 03, 2008
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VCs want to invest at least $5M in startups that have potential 10X returns. That is because it takes as much time to manage a $1M investment as it does to manage $5M. Secondly, every startup looks like a winner when they write the check, but Fred Wilson Read More...
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