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OpenView SureFire Capital  about an hour ago:

Customer Segmentation: What Is Customer Segmentation? -

What is customer segmentation? Your first step in creating a market-dominating growth strategy and dramatically improves your company's growth, competitive advantage, and economic model.
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A VC  3 hours ago:

The IPA -

No, I am not blogging about India Pale Ale, although I must say that I am a big fan of it. I am writing about one of the best patent hacks I have seen in the decade that I have.
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OpenView SureFire Capital  20 hours ago:

Market Exit Positioning: Lessons from Yahoo’s Acquisition of Tumblr -

Here are six market exit positioning takeaways that startup and expansion-stage companies can learn from Tumblr’s successful market exit.
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OpenView SureFire Capital  21 hours ago:

3 Tips for Creating a More Inclusive Workplace for Women -

Focusing on these three factors can help you boost your hire and employee retention rates by developing a more inclusive workplace for women.
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Feld Thoughts  24 hours ago:

An Unexpected Night In The Hospital -

First things first – we are fine. Amy had an emergency appendectomy last night. She’s recovering extremely well and feeling great, albeit a little sore, this morning.
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OpenView SureFire Capital  less than a day ago:

Outbound Lead Generation Team Training: Expanding into New Markets -

Learn why an asset package is such a crucial tool for outbound lead generation team training, especially for getting your reps prepared for selling into a new market.
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A VC  less than a day ago:

Native Advertising Event -

This Thursday from 1pm to 6pm, our portfolio company Zemanta is co-hosting a summit on native advertising here in NYC.
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Union Square Ventures  less than a day ago:

Yahoo acquires Tumblr -

Yahoo announced today that they will acquire our portfolio company Tumblr. In September of 2007 we, together with Spark Capital, invested in a 3 person start-up founded by David Karp, a 21 year old coder who had not finished high.
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Feld Thoughts  less than a day ago:

Bolt – Making Hardware Easier -

Over the past few decades, the most compelling engineers and entrepreneurs I’ve met have tended to be working on problems that can be solved with software.
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OpenView SureFire Capital  less than a day ago:

Pump Up Your Employee Development Process by Focusing on Strengths -

Make the employee development process more effective by focusing on furthering your employees' natural advantages rather than asking them to improve weak areas.
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AboveTheCrowd  less than a day ago:

Grubhub and Seamless: Effecting The Elusive Private-Private Merger -

Today, Seamless and Grubhub announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge two of the nation’s premier services for ordering takeout online.
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Feld Thoughts  2 days ago:

Sometimes Failure Is Your Best Option -

This post originally appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal as part of their Accelerators Program in answer to the question “When and how should you wind down a failing business.
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The Billion Dollar Aqui-hire of David Karp -

You can do the math on Tumblr's pageviews, throw in some expected CPM, weighted average cost of capital, and try to justify the billion dollars that Yahoo! is spending on Tumblr.
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A VC  2 days ago:

Success Has A Thousand Fathers -

Back in the early days of AVC, I did a thing called VC Cliche Of The Week. There was an RSS feed of all of them powered by Delicious, but it is broken and most likely can't be fixed.
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A VC  3 days ago:

Congratulations Indiana -

We talk a lot of NBA basketball in the comments but I don't post about it. This blog is supposed to be about startups and tech, for the most part.
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BeyondVC  5 days ago:

Branding first starts with your team -

External branding starts with developing a consistent, internal message first. When you think of branding and positioning, remember that your first line of offense and the most important representation of your company comes from your employees.
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Feld Thoughts  5 days ago:

It’s Your Job To Improve Your Team -

At this year’s NVCA meeting, my partner Jason Mendelson (who was the chair of the event) interviewed Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter.
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Hey Managers! Want Your Millennial Employees To Stick Around? -

One of the biggest complaints about Millennials in the workforce is that they are “job hoppy.” Here are three tips to boost your Millennial employee retention rate by empowering them to succeed.
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A VC  5 days ago:

Fun Friday: Morning Joe -

It feels like its been a while since we did a fun friday around here. So here goes. How do you like your morning cup of coffee? I go with the Cortado, ideally in a shot glass.
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VC Confidential  5 days ago:

Costolo's Awesome Commencement Speech -

"We must be willing to let go of the life that we've planned so as to embrace the life that is awaiting us.
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