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Published: 1/31/2012 9:12:06 AM, comments: 0
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The president unveiled his Startup America legislative agenda which is summarized here:
Startup America (PDF)
This is a group of common sense initiatives that will help entrepreneurs to start and scale companies by providing better access to capital, talent and improving the incentive systems around small company starts.
I urge you to contact your representative to support passage of this agenda.
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Published: 1/23/2012 3:34:27 PM, comments: 0
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Internet VC Brad Feld has good advice for companies that find themselves out of the top 3 players in a particular market:
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He says if you're not in the top three, that you should "re-segment", which involve stepping back and redefining the market segment you are going after by changing your customer, product focused distribution channel or other dynamics.
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Published: 1/19/2012 2:42:29 PM, comments: 0
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John Lilly is a relatively new VC at Greylock Partners and he's got a very good post up about his thoughts on how entrepreneurs should approach VCs:
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He succinctly explains the many factors and elements that VCs face when dealing with high volumes of entrepreneurs seeking funding. A good quick read.
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Published: 1/17/2012 10:46:16 AM, comments: 0
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Covester, a social networking service for tracking financial strategies of proven portfolio managers, has performed a complete site redesign:
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What they've done is to simplify their message utilizing research into what their users want. It sounds easy but it's a hard thing to get right while at the same time making technical improvements to their service.
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Published: 1/12/2012 1:02:12 PM, comments: 0
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Noted Internet venture capitalist Brad Feld writes and engaging post about why he and his partners travel to the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas each year.
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While he says that they don't travel there to search for new investments, he does think that it's valuable to get a "forward view of what the broad consumer electronics industry will be releasing and shipping over the next 12 months."
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Published: 1/9/2012 9:16:49 AM, comments: 0
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Great post by Ouriel Ohayon on what he thinks is the future of media consumption:
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He says the period of just listening to music or just watching a movie or just reading a book - doing one thing at a time - is over. All of our small connected devices are changing that.
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Published: 1/3/2012 10:03:45 AM, comments: 0
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Internet VC Charlie O'Donnell has a good post up on how to handle professional setbacks:
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It includes 10 "lessons" as takeaways from inevitable failures that we all experience.
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Published: 12/28/2011 8:37:47 AM, comments: 0
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Fred Wilson is the hottest Internet company VC in the business and has great advice in his latest post:
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He basically says that you should look for ideas that are the most mocked and misunderstood to find some of the greatest successes in technology, at least Internet technology.
Food for thought.
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Published: 12/21/2011 10:49:41 AM, comments: 0
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Interesting but short interview of Koleman Karleski of Chrysalis Ventures over at the WSJ:
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He characterized 2011 as "survival of the fittest" and says that 2012 will see continued difficulty in the fundraising environment amid challenges in achieving liquidity from their investments.
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Published: 12/15/2011 12:20:16 PM, comments: 0
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Good post over at the WSJ that shares a few prognostications by venture capitalists on their view for 2012:
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Predictions for Internet companies understandably focused on Facebook and its potential IPO for 2012.
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