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Nov

'08  

5

Obama’s Victory Speech - Exemplary Copy

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Full-text transcript of President-Elect Obama’s Victory Speech here.

 
 

Oct

'08  

30

Doerr’s 10 Tips for Start-ups

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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ own VC, John Doerr, presented his 10 Tips for Start-Ups at VentureBeat’s four-hour, roundtable conference at the Stanford Park Hotel, Palo Alto, CA, on 10/29/08. Intended to provide context and advice for start-up CEOs and founders facing the recession , its panel of nine included names such as PayPal co-founder, Max Levchin, and early Google VC, Ram Shriram.

Condensed, Doerr’s tips included:

  1. Act now!
  2. Protect the vital core of your business. Use a scalpel instead of an ax.
  3. Get 18 mos or more of cash in the biz against a conservative revenue broadcast.
  4. Defer any facilities expansions and be frugal in captial expenditures.
    – instead of buying more PCs and software, use web-based technologies
    – reprioritize all
  5. Negotiate with vendors / others.
  6. Everyone in organization should be selling.
  7. Offer equity instead of cash when dealing with bonuses.
  8. Pay attention to where your cash is.
    – put it in most secure instruments
    – consider treasuries
  9. For revenue planning, use leading indicators.
  10. Over-communicate.

Watch the full 4m 12s video, made available by BoomTown, below:

(note… audio adjustment required after BoomTown intro to hear fully.)

 
 

Sep

'08  

7

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Aug

'08  

1

Stealth Viral Video Marketing

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Donny Deutsch, host of CNBC’s “The Big Idea,” and Chairman of Top Ad Agency in NYC, joins Meredith Vieira on the Today Show, and talks about the impact of Stealth Viral Videos. Although the impact can reach across all demographics, virial videos are ideal if your target audience is young. This YouTube generation enjoys the raw, editorial, entertaining, and often amiturish feel of these “smart” videos, and overlooks the fact that they are being “sold” a produt when the segment is smartly done.

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Jul

'08  

30

NYVideo 2.0 share online video choices 4 U

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The New York City Meetup group, NYVideo 2.0, held its June 25 event at Columbia University’s Webster Hall for a special town hall style meeting with some of NY’s top Internet TV innovators. Over 500 members came out to participate where the group screened clips and discussed what’s working, what’s broke, and where we’re headed with Internet TV. View a clip of the event below.

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