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Reason #4 Why Your Consumer Startup Will Succeed: Product/Market Fit

This post is the fourth in a series of ten posts about the 10 key reasons your consumer startup will succeed. I speak with hundreds of aspiring consumer entrepreneurs and review thousands of executive summaries and pitches each year. From all this activity, certain patterns emerge that remain consistent with successful
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Reason #3 Why Your Consumer Startup Will Succeed: Culture

This post is the third in a series of ten posts about the 10 key reasons your consumer startup will succeed. I speak with hundreds of aspiring consumer entrepreneurs and review thousands of executive summaries and pitches each year. From all this activity, certain patterns emerge that remain consistent with successful
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Reason #2 Why Your Consumer Startup Will Succeed: Founding Team

This post is the second in a series of ten posts about the 10 key reasons your consumer startup will succeed. I speak with hundreds of aspiring consumer entrepreneurs and review thousands of executive summaries and pitches each year. From all this activity, certain patterns emerge that remain consistent with
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Reason #1 Why Your Consumer Startup will Succeed

This post is the first in a series of ten posts about the 10 key reasons your consumer startup will succeed. I speak with hundreds of aspiring consumer entrepreneurs and review thousands of executive summaries and pitches each year. From all this activity, certain patterns emerge that remain consistent with
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Welcome

I am excited to announce the official launch of my personal blog for Maven.  I’ve been writing and blogging informally for many years and look forward to building a community of engaged readers curious about consumer startups and investing.  This first post is a brief synopsis of my career along
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Interview with Jim Scheinman ’88 of Maven Ventures

This interview was originally published by the Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network on August 28, 2012. Jim Scheinman T ’88 is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor to start-up companies in Silicon Valley. He is a pioneer in social networking and engagement marketing, a relatively new form of marketing and
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Co-founder of Bebo leaves to join venture firm: Q&A

This interview was originally published in VentureBeat on November 13, 2007.   Jim Scheinman, one of three founders of Bebo, is leaving the company he helped start to become an Entrepreneur in Residence at the VC firm, Charles River Ventures. We talked with him to discuss that decision, his days at
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