Startup Management is a manual selection from the hundreds of weekly articles being curated. Previous issues are available here. There are 23 links in this edition. Forward to a friend, so they can sign-up and benefit too. Venture Capital David Teten of ff Venture Capital just announced the availability of a 13-page paper, The Lower-Risk Startup: How Venture Capitalists Increase the Odds of Startup Success. It was published in the Journal of Private Equity a few months ago, and you can download the complimentary pdf from this link. There’s another new 112-page report, the New York Venture Capital Almanac, published by CB Insight. It tallies the funding activities of the top VCs in New York, and their relationships with one another. Toping off the topic of Venture Capital, I wrote this analysis, Battle of the Tech Ecosystems: Boston vs. New York, relying on Mattermark data. Finally, Fred Wilson asks Are Universities the New VCs?, an idea he has promoted to a number of universities for some time now. Entrepreneur/VC Relationship Tony Ruckert describes the
Startup Management is a manual selection from the hundreds of weekly articles being curated. Previous issues are available here. There are 23 links in this edition. Forward to a friend, so they can sign-up and benefit too. Venture Capital David Teten of ff Venture Capital just announced the availability of a 13-page paper, The Lower-Risk Startup: How Venture Capitalists Increase the Odds of Startup Success. It was published in the Journal of Private Equity a few months ago, and you can download the complimentary pdf from this link. There’s another new 112-page report, the New York Venture Capital Almanac, published by CB Insight. It tallies the funding activities of the top VCs in New York, and their relationships with one another. Toping off the topic of Venture Capital, I wrote this analysis, Battle of the Tech Ecosystems: Boston vs. New York, relying on Mattermark data. Finally, Fred Wilson asks Are Universities the New VCs?, an idea he has promoted to a number of universities for some time now. Entrepreneur/VC Relationship Tony Ruckert describes the
. He has been studying Facebook since 2008. He says,
“Remember that Facebook is no different than any other firm; crazy ideas go nowhere unless a compelling ROI business case is first made to executives.”
This is Part 1 of 2.
B2B Advertising
Eric Wittlake says
“your audience has no intention of giving you their attention, you must earn it with everything from design to headlines”
“that most subscription companies are NOT doing anything special and are just adding unnecessary clutter to the ecosystem and our mailboxes.”
Customer Retention
Des Traynor says
“blaming your customer support team for unhappy customers is like blaming weathermen for the rain. Sure, they’re involved, but only on the receiving end”
“The role of the mentor is not to replace the founder’s business model assumptions and market guesses with his own. The mentor should teach the founders how to test and validate (or likely invalidate) those assumptions.”
. He has been studying Facebook since 2008. He says,
“Remember that Facebook is no different than any other firm; crazy ideas go nowhere unless a compelling ROI business case is first made to executives.”
This is Part 1 of 2.
B2B Advertising
Eric Wittlake says
“your audience has no intention of giving you their attention, you must earn it with everything from design to headlines”
“that most subscription companies are NOT doing anything special and are just adding unnecessary clutter to the ecosystem and our mailboxes.”
Customer Retention
Des Traynor says
“blaming your customer support team for unhappy customers is like blaming weathermen for the rain. Sure, they’re involved, but only on the receiving end”
“The role of the mentor is not to replace the founder’s business model assumptions and market guesses with his own. The mentor should teach the founders how to test and validate (or likely invalidate) those assumptions.”
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