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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”.

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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

In The Art of One-line Pitching: A Study of AngelList , Chris Eleftheriadis reviewed 1,700AngelList postings and identified the nine most common categories of positioning pitches (Chris'' list is edited here for brevity): 1. Better than Amazon''s customer experience for any brand" and "LinkedIn on Steroids.". Customer Segmentation.

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. Where David is Totally Right. As I point out in my video.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. It was originally called Twttr and didn’t initially get rave reviews from TechCrunch or GigaOm. Geni.com beget Yammer.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark.

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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

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If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. Use the fact that you were on an anointed list to build credibility when you eventually approach journalists (and VC’s, customers, employees). Many other great companies are not. - They see journalists as a means to and end.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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Initially their only customers are people who can get by on the reduced functionality or perhaps don’t have the money to spend on the expensive product. The new entrant keeps margins low but suddenly has a lot of profits due to large volumes of business. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete.

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