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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Startup Lessons' Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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7 Hints for Entrepreneurial Success from Hint Water Founder Kara Goldin

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As we finish the week of International Women’s Day, what better story to share than one of a woman who created a whole new beverage category while pregnant with her fourth child, with three kids under the age of 6 and a US$50,000 budget!? And then apply those lessons to your company.”. When you lose, gain a lesson.

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When VCs Play Defense

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The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

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It takes on many of the lessons MBA programs and Corporate America have been teaching about business for the past 50+ years and questions whether lessons from Apple might be more applicable in thinking about the future. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.

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How a Little Bit of Fear Breeds Innovation

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For instance, SKU #L122UV from Bausch+Lomb was categorized as Intraocular Lens (also called “IOL,” one of the test categories our customer assigned us) and had the following attributes: Optic Shape, Optic Material, Haptic Material, Pieces, Optic Diameter, Overall Diameter, Power, Haptic Design, A-Constant, AC Depth and Haptic Angle.

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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. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog.