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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

The list goes on.The initial Gilt userbase of successful female friends of Alexis and Alexandra, the private equity laden graph of the Doostang founders--capturing a certain group's attention goes a long way to creating that value of the service. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Is that a good thing? Can you design around it?

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

The list goes on.The initial Gilt userbase of successful female friends of Alexis and Alexandra, the private equity laden graph of the Doostang founders--capturing a certain group's attention goes a long way to creating that value of the service. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Is that a good thing? Can you design around it?

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Solve the ‘dead equity’ problem with a longer founder vesting schedule

TechCrunch

If one founder ends up quitting a year or two before the last cliff, they still own a large share of the cap table through many rounds to come. The departing founder might consider that fair, but the remaining founder(s) are the ones adding on the additional value — and resentment is not the only issue.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. Lots of great people there.

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On Patterns

This is going to be BIG.

I understand the pause people feel when you look at a startup bio page and you notice that the CTO is female. What would happen if some top tier investor came out and admitted that they'd never funded a female founder because they feared their own ability to relate to one and to be a good mentor?

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Changing the Wrong Ratio

This is going to be BIG.

Ratios--the supposed lack of black, female, or any other kind of entrepreneur aren’t the problem. Would it be terrible if we created 10 female heads of marketing of 10 billion-dollar companies instead of 10 new female entrepreneurs? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Most of them don't work.

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Try This on for Size: The Future of Retail is Social Commerce

StartupNation

Social media enables them to refine their model, explains Rachel Tipograph, founder of social commerce software company MikMak. Related: Female-Founded Afloat App Makes Asking for Help Easier. A new social approach to retail. As advertising channels proliferate, companies are spending more dollars to chase each sale. Success in China.

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