Sat.Jul 27, 2013 - Fri.Aug 02, 2013

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Why I support Chris Quinn

This is going to be BIG.

'I first met Chris Quinn in person three years ago. She came to a Startup Weekend and gave a speech about how New York wasn''t doing such a great job supporting tech entrepreneurship. It was frustrating, because we had come such a long way, and having a public figure deride our progress and tell the world we''re not doing a good job wasn''t going to help the situation.

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Measuring your power in the Internet marketplace.

Berkonomics

'There are a number of key performance indicators that help new generation company management see more clearly their progress and corporate health. The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. But businesses that expose their story to tens of millions of potential customers through the Internet need additional tools.

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Community Marketing: Starting A Movement For Your Product

Tomasz Tunguz

How should a successful marketing initiative for a startup operate? It’s possible to jump right into performance marketing immediately after launch, optimizing conversion funnels and squeezing every cent out of ad spend. But I think there’s an important step that precedes performance marketing: community development. . Yesterday, I met with an entrepreneur who was researching how best to build a marketing team for her business.

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Getting Back Your Series A Mojo

Both Sides of the Table

'Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. I think it’s an important read. A chip on one’s shoulder as in, “F**k the system, it’s broken and I want to fix it” is exactly the energy I look for in entrepreneurs. My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Daily Basics

This is going to be BIG.

'Sometimes, you sit and stare at your computer--overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff you need to do. How are you ever going to get it done? Well, you know what? You won''t. As soon as you get this stuff done more stuff will follow. In fact, the more you do, the more people will give to you to do--or that you''ll notice can get done. So what do you do?

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How CrowdFunding Embodies Amazon’s Product Management Process

Tomasz Tunguz

Crowdfunding platforms solve three key problems for startups, two of which are obvious. Kickstarter and Indiegogo, among others validate demand and provide short term financing by marketing product ideas and accepting pre-payment for future delivery. Consumers vote with their dollars to catalyze product development. The third, less obvious benefit, is the platforms cajole startups to follow a product management process similar to Amazon’s process, described below by Ian McAllister in his Quora p

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The 3 Different Strategies of Venture Funds

Tomasz Tunguz

As I wrote about in a post on aligning founder and VC incentives , it’s important for entrepreneurs to understand their own ambitions and the ambitions of investors. The most important part of that is understanding the financial motivations and the dynamics of the industry VCs face. Typically, VCs adopt primarily one of three strategies with a fund [1]: Small fund , small ownership positions, many investments in markets that will consistently generate sub-$100M acquisitions.