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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

Both Sides of the Table

We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. Let me be sure to use me some Luma Partners. Every corporate buyer of technology and/or technology companies knows the LUMAscape and uses it to figure out which vendors they should consider. Final example.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs.

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The True Potential of Cleantech: An Interview with Jason Holt

propel(x)

We had a good 4 year run with this company and built up some valuable intellectual property, which we sold to another company in 2012. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. But how do you actually make use of that data that’s now available? Bob Moore: Yeah, great question.

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