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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo!

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

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. This post has a bit more than the serialized version, but if you prefer an even shorter version I created the ADAH version , which is < 50% the length. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 The Past (1985-2002).

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds.

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

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Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Realize you are up against an outdated system. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences.

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4 Steps to Hiring a Rock Star COO (Plus, Why You Need a COO!)

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A version of this article first appeared on Feliks’ Medium blog. . Building an amazing company requires more than vision. Many people have good ideas, but few can execute and build a great company around it. The Integrator tends to work on building the organization and maintaining business harmony.

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Less Noise, More Signal: Web3 Marketing In A Bear Market

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How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. Web3 projects worldwide are laying low and waiting for the market to pick up to do more marketing. and their budgets?—?have

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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

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The “system” as it existed at the time broke down, with every point of failure costing innocent lives. The “system” as it existed at the time broke down, with every point of failure costing innocent lives. I couldn’t resist calling the company “AirB&E” after that— look it up.)

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