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VIDEOs There are lots of them. The slides to any of the presentation are also available here.
DAVE’S SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION DECKS Again, these are some of the classics. All of them online here.
StartupMetrics for Pirates (Sep 2010 version)
The Lean VC: How VC Industry is evolving
Blogs:
Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital
Startup 2.0: A Silicon Valley Story (slides)
Startups & VCs: Design, Market, & Eat Your Own Consumer Internet Dogfood
How to Pitch a VC (aka Startup Viagra: How to Give a VC a Hard-On)
Your Solution is Not My PROBLEM.
Fear is the Mind Killer of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE (about Customers & Products, not Great Entrepreneurship)
VCs & Tech Lawyers: INNOVATE, AUTOMATE, SIMPLIFY.
1000 Startup Flowers in Continuous Bloom = The Destruction of Venture Capital
Top 5 reasons PR doesn’t work (for Geeks)
Startup Metrics
Startup Metrics for Pirates (Haas Business School, Apr 2010)
Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! (Startonomics SF 2008)
Startup Metrics: The 1-Page Business Model
Startup Metrics: Sample User Conversion Dashboard
Startup Metrics: Example Marketing Channels
Startonomics.com (SF 2008)
User Engagement: Depth, not a Breadth, metric
Facebook-aholic
Facebook isn’t AOL; it’s Visual Basic
The Zen of Poke: A Facebook Story
Facebook’s #1 Problem isn’t Privacy, It’s Monetization
Facebook Big Pimpin’: Using Social Networks & Platforms to Drive Distribution
Facebook Newsfeed Optimization is the New SEO & Renaissance 2.0 Has Arrived
7 Steps to Your Facebook Strategy (TechCrunch)
Creating Engaging & Viral Facebook Apps (Stanford / BayCHI video, Dec 07)
Facebook Ads Suck? Nope, CPM Sucks.
Fanboy to Facebook: I Don’t Know How to Quit You
Search & Social Networks, Platforms & Apps
Subscriptions are the New Black. Why Facebook, Google, Apple own your Wallet.
Check-Ins are Coupons. Game Mechanics are BullShit. Gimme $5.
Successful Developer Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money.
Memo to GOOG/YHOO/MSFT/AOL: Facebook Platform & a Crapload of Revenue
Web 3.0 = Hailstorm 2.0 & How MSFT-YHOO could beat GOOG
Channeling Crowds: social networking + prediction markets = new startups (Release 2.0, O’Reilly Media)
The Other World-Dominating Platform: Google Analytics
Other People’s Platforms: You Down Wit OPP? Yeah, U Know Me (O’reilly Radar)
Designing for the “3rd & 4th browsers” (Search & Social Media)
Google Open Social vs. Facebook Platform (aka: Open Standards are for Losers… er, Underdogs)
Business Models for Social Networks: Monetizing Social Capital & The Long Tail of Cool
Blogging & Web Publishing
Resumes are for Sh*t. The 4 Things You Really Need (LinkedIn, a Blog, Keywords, Social Media)
Publishing 2.0: it’s not what you think.
Publishing 2.0, Part Deux!
Securitization, Microfinance, & Social Entrepreneurship
Taking “Me, Inc.” Public: Market Caps for Individuals
Securitizing Happiness: Making Trillion-Dollar Markets for Individuals, Small Business, & Natural Resources
MicroEquity = MicroVC? (Using Real Estate as a Synthetic Liquidity Hack for Small Business Equity)
Securitization Examples for Social Entrepreneurship
Unitus: Helping Small Entrepreneurs Grow Tall (Microfinance)
Google.org: Accelerating Growth of SMEs / Small Business Finance
Beth Kanter: Give it up, **censored**es… NOW.
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