Wed.Nov 14, 2012

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CMO CTO COO Equity and Compensation

SoCal CTO

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate. I know a lot more about CTOs specifically CTO Salary and Equity Trends 2009-2011 , Visualization of Startup CTO Equity and Salary Data , Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data , but I've previously written about the issues with Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups.

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ITV results cast light on way forward for traditional TV companies

The Equity Kicker

UK broadcaster ITV announced their results yesterday and the differing fortunes of the two halves of their business show the way forward for traditional TV companies everywhere. The two parts of the ITV business are content production and content distribution. The production business is doing well with shows like Downton Abbey getting large audiences in the UK and selling well abroad, but revenues at the distribution business declined.

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10 Key Metrics To Take a Startup to the Next Level

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Many, however, don’t know how to take their small business to the next level. What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics.

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Time for Thanks!

Rembrandt Communications

It’s almost Thanksgiving, and that means we are getting ready for the upcoming holidays. Things will get hectic with year-end deadlines, sales and meetings… not to mention all of the activities you have planned with family and friends. But while all of this is going on, don’t forget this little word that can mean a [.].

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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[Review] Beam, Straight Up

YoungUpstarts

What does it mean to create and dominate an entire category in an industry? Fred Noe may know a little about it; after all, his family – with the surname Beam – pretty much created one, and proceeded to build one of the largest and most iconic companies in the alcohol business. Still need a hint? It’s Beam Inc , makers of Jim Beam bourbon whiskey.

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Amazon Top 10 Business Books of 2012

Feld Thoughts

I just found out that Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City made the Amazon Top 10 Business Books of 2012. I’m not a huge “made that list person” but as a writer this is a very cool thing, especially when I look at the other books, and writers, on the list. I’m downloading all of the other books right now and taking them on my two week vacation which is coming up.

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Can enterprise SaaS products be viral?

Version One Ventures

Yammer sreenshot “Going viral” is often the holy grail for Internet startups, who hope to quickly scale to hundreds of thousands of users (then hundreds of millions) with relatively low user acquisition costs. However, in a recent blog post and presentation, Andrew Chen argues that SaaS products aren’t viral: “For consumer internet entrepreneurs that are working on big markets, getting to virality is hard enough.

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Invention vs Innovation

Start Up Blog

When the personal computing era started to thrive in the mid 1970′s it was juxtaposed against a strong anti-corporate counter culture. Many hippies saw computers as tools of oppression designed, built and used by large corporations. But there was another angle, another truth about the invention of this technology, and pretty much every other technology.

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Some thoughts on your ABBA round

VC Adventure

I’ve noticed an ongoing trend over the past year or so that’s worth highlighting and commenting on. As valuations have risen (become “frothy” in VC speak, which is our nice way of saying “too high”) companies have started raising much larger Series A rounds. This is anecdotal – I’ll try to validate it when the numbers are released – but where companies used to raise $3- $ 5M for their Series A, one response to higher valuations has been a muc

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Book Short: The Challenger Sale

OnlyOnce

Book Short: The Challenger Sale. I’ve written a couple times in the past about how we sell at Return Path. I’ve written about our principle sales methodology for the past decade, SPIN Selling , by Neil Rackham (and Major Account Strategy , also by Rackham, which is basically SPIN Selling for Account Managers), which focuses on a specific technique for solution selling by using questioning to get the prospective client to identify his or her own needs, as well as Jeffrey Gitomer’s two short book

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Power Seduction War and Mastery

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with Robert Greene. photo credit: gnackgnackgnack via photopin cc. It’s funny how pretty much everything is instructional in one way of another. When Robert Greene published the now cult classic The 48 Laws of Power people were a bit polarized. According to LA Times the book, “turned Greene into a cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike.” But for some, a thorough explanation of laws such as – Never outshine the master.

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Some thoughts on your ABBA round

VC Adventure

I’ve noticed an ongoing trend over the past year or so that’s worth highlighting and commenting on. As valuations have risen (become “frothy” in VC speak, which is our nice way of saying “too high”) companies have started raising much larger Series A rounds. This is anecdotal – I’ll try to validate it when the numbers are released – but where companies used to raise $3-$5M for their Series A, one response to higher valuations has been a much

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A touching story from the usually irreverent Betabrand.

Bryce Dot VC

A touching story from the usually irreverent Betabrand newsletter yesterday. Recently, one of our all-time favorite Model Citizens passed away in his native Italy at the age of 92. While we didn’t know Salvatore Tribuiani personally, we loved the photos of him wearing his Black Sheep Sweater , a gift from his niece in America. She said he liked his sweater for its wool smell and anti-conformist metaphor, which apparently jibed well with his colorful personality.

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Excellent fantasy football parody video

Jeff Hilimire

So funny, especially for people like @interpolate who are having a monstrously terrible fantasy football year. Thanks to my bro-in-law for passing this on.

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I’ve made no secret of my interest and belief in wearable.

Bryce Dot VC

I’ve made no secret of my interest and belief in wearable computing. And we’ve been putting our money where our mouth is in this category over the last year. . Today, Misfit Wearables , one of our portfolio companies, is pulling the wraps off their first wearable computing device- the Misfit Shine. Shine is a beautiful personal activity tracker that monitors and scores your different types of activities (I can now get more credit for cycling than sitting at my desk and typing- sorry FuelBand).

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Competition, It's a B h

aweissman.com

Yesterday it was reported in the Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s most popular newspaper, that Samsung has raised the price of processors sold to Apple by 20 per cent. It is well known that Apple has been making strides to reduce its reliance upon the South Korean company’s components ever since the flaring up of the acrimonious court cases these pair are now famous for.

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Found A Startup And Found A Family, Just Not At The Same Time

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Jonathan Barouch ( @jbarouch ) is founder and CEO of location-based startup Roamz. Roamz is a mobile app that intelligently curates location-based social content to show people what’s going on nearby. Now, before you jump up and down to disagree, hear me out. I have two beautiful children for whom I am grateful every single moment of the day.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) For Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Monica Shepherd, TradeGecko. For SMEs (small-medium sized enterprise), efficiency and integration are key to managing time and processes. Enterprise Resource Planning, or ERP, integrates internal and external information across your entire organization. It allows for the transfer of information between all areas or departments of your business, from finance, manufacturing and HR to sales and service, through a single streamlined system.

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92% of GNP is Done the Night Before the Trade Show Opens

Up and Running

Do you know who Adam Osborne was? You could look up his book Hypergrowth, with co-author John Dvorak. At its height, in 1983, Osborne Computer was shipping more than 10,000 computers a month. As a guest speaker at a class I took in business school, Osborne shared, as a joke, his “trade show theory of economics: 92 percent of the gross national product is finished the night before the trade show opens.”.

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How to lose at meetings

The Startup Toolkit

Every meeting is either won or lost. There are no “good” meetings. You’ve lost the meeting when you leave with a compliment or a stalling tactic. The parody version is “Let’s talk again after Christmas… Don’t call me, I’ll call you[1].” Still, we accept the more subtle versions every day: Compliment + stalling tactic = They don't care.

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Every Entrepreneur Has Foundation Beliefs from Which They Operate?Most of Them Just Don't Realize It!

Small Business Force

Almost every entrepreneur started their company after spending the previous part of their career with bigger companies.During that time, they often learned, by example, what they liked about a company culture� and what they disliked.Additionally, how they grew up, family, personal experiences frame their value system, and, ultimately define how they behave in society and in business.

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Memories of an Unconnected Era: Searching for Sugar Man

Both Sides of the Table

Many people reading this will be digital natives. These are people who don’t remember an era in which we were unconnected. There is no doubt that technology brings benefits to our lives and I have been a heavy user of tech since I was 13 (in 1981). I was connecting to online communities as a teenager on a 9,600 baud modem which is considerably slower than you can even imagine connecting today.

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Every Entrepreneur Has Foundation Beliefs from Which They Operate.Most of Them Just Don't Realize It!

Small Business Force

Almost every entrepreneur started their company after spending the previous part of their career with bigger companies. During that time, they often learned, by example, what they liked about a company culture and what they disliked. Additionally, how they grew up, family, personal experiences frame their value system, and, ultimately define how they behave in society and in business.