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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. But what I do see in the market in 2011 is way too many “me too&# solutions where a bunch of founders have brainstormed a way to do a better GroupOn, a better GiltGroupe, a better Twitter or a better Quora.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. While he is publicly saying that he expects a modestly improved economy in 2011 , it’s hard to be too sanguine when you look at the data. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. raise money now to weather any storms).

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. He pinged me for advice. August 2011. That can only come through education, training and investment in regions of the country that are not IT centers. We did not.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. So my only advice to Huddle was pick a narrow enough scope to have a product category where you can be the BEST and you can scale in that category. Tags: Start-up Advice. Competitors: Knewton.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

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2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events. And why I still made it to breakfast at 8.30am with Christina Cacioppo the next morning (although I’m not sure she found me too Haimish of a conversationalist that day ). Examples in My Life & Work.

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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

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Back in 2011, Ammar used to work for a company called Be Sport. In exchange for a stake, they could get advice from The Family’s team and network with other people in the community. Over time, The Family diversified its activities with an education business and a digital transformation business.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. StockTwits) where you really want to know more about the person giving you advice. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad.