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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution, what is it?

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Go-to-Market Tactics for Category-Defining Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Eddie Yoon’ Superconsumers In virtually every market, there is a subset of customers whose pain is the most pronounced, who will be your most important supporters on the zero-to-one journey. These tremendously insightful and influential consumers will pay more, explore more and advocate more.”— How to find them?

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Tips for the Kiddie Table: What to do when you didn't make that list or get that invite

This is going to be BIG.

Instead of running a series of interviews of everyone in the NYC tech community, I'm going to use proxies--media lists, suggestions from others. It would have garnered a lot of crowd support, and that would have made me feel "right". But what would it have accomplished? Aim to be the obvious invitation.

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Signaling tough times ahead, ChowNow lays off employees

TechCrunch

We are deeply grateful for their contributions and they will receive our full support during this time of transition. These actions are never taken lightly, but we believe they are necessary in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of the company and our commitment to supporting local restaurants.”

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

abovethecrowd.com

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. Then came client-server, which also launched new winners at the expense of older incumbents. The game is about to start, and you forgot to record it. It’s like magic.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. And how much do others providers make? Market Structure.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Ones that offer amazing value (low relative margins) at high volumes that makes it nearly impossible for high-cost incumbents to compete. How does the incumbent respond? Does your product dramatically reduce costs in an industry with large incumbents and fat margins? How do existing incumbents compete with that?