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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. Watching User Interactions – One of the biggest problems in technology is that systems are designed by people who are technical by definition.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. Each quarter you should review your model. You get the point.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad on blogging.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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There were startups and a software industry but barely. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). It was 1991.

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11 Small Business Grants and Loans to Apply For in 2024

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Since 2006, NASE has handed out almost $1,000,000 through the program. Create a membership here Deadline: Applications are reviewed quarterly 3. Due to its lower lending cap, businesses with a slightly lower credit score of 620 can be eligible for the loan. Learn more and apply here 3.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. But everything has intrinsic value.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.