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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

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And I’m sure everyone remembers the video that put them on the map – the one I first saw – which was the Bush/Kerry video This Land is Your Land (“you have more waffles than a house of pancakes), which was part of the 2004 elections and both candidates were asked about while they were campaigning.

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Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards

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Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. The advice comes at a reflective time for the industry. Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Khosla has a history of criticizing some of the mainstream wisdom by VCs.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. Good when you’re testing and trying to learn the initial findings – is this a real business/good investor business, concept, replicable model but when you do let it go and GET BIG FAST.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

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I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Tags: Startup Advice. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company. Thank you, Justyn, for bringing up this important topic.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Advice on startups raising capital: if you raise your first round at a super high valuation and don’t grow into your valuation, it makes it very hard to live for the long game. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time.

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How to Launch a Podcast: Advice for Entrepreneurs

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You may be surprised to learn that the first podcast dates back to 2004, when former MTV video jockey Adam Curry and software developer Dave Winer developed what is largely considered the first podcast. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO ENTREPRENEURS WHO WANT TO LAUNCH A PODCAST? ANY SPECIFIC ADVICE TO FIRST-TIME PODCASTERS? .

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

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. “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.