Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

Think of your motivational materials as a marketing strategy to generate one-on-one clients. You can’t sell happiness directly, but you can sell strategies designed to help individuals cultivate happiness from within. Tips, tricks, processes, strategies, and tools sell. Packaging is everything. You can thrive and be happy.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016. We just want to continue with a persistent, consistent strategy. We were jammed with generalists, but we like exploring new sectors as entrepreneurs start to think about how to disrupt new things. Hippeau: Consistency is the key for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Business model: o They bought a lot of ad inventory (banner ads/advertising) driving people to signup forms, converting (fill out form) and sold leads, o Initial strategy was first comparison shopping and then monitoring and upselling on more savings. On Entrepreneurship: What makes a great entrepreneur? combination of factors –.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

During the 2004 election he was accused of having made up material facts from his service in the Vietnam War in an election against somebody who didn’t serve in a war. The most tempting thing for inexperienced entrepreneurs to do is to attack the press. Have a PR Strategy. He’s verbose, often off message and wooden.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. Well, I joined Google, I guess now fairly early, but it was 2004. We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. I’m Travis Bryant.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. First Round did not include their investment in Uber in their analysis we reference above on the grounds that it was an outlier.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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