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[ADV] Young Entrepreneurs Emerge From ideas.inc Business Challenge 2011

YoungUpstarts

Their interest in innovating assistive equipment for Singapore’s ageing population has gained the team recognition and awards prior to joining ideas.inc Business Challenge 2011, and still hopes to share the benefits of using the Intelligent Walking Frame to more clinics and hospitals.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

In 2011, Salesforce.com cut traditional lead generation spending by 69 percent while increasing spending on customer videos (by 1,300 percent) and social media. One early result from that was an increase in contacts generated by social media of 400 percent. Companies often say that ‘customers are our best assets.

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Planning for a Harvest - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

Planning for a Harvest. And in businesses that are not on a "harvest path," this system, (combined with a constantly updated market map) should work well for a long time, potentially providing a lot of positive cash flow for the company and its owners. Planning for a Harvest. November 2011. September 2011.

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QuoteRoller.com – Proposals On The Roll

YoungUpstarts

Quote Roller ( www.quoteroller.com ), created in 2011 by Mikita Mikado, Serge Barysiuk and Gabriel Cuevas, is aimed at helping companies reduce that bottleneck when trying to develop quotations and proposals in the process of prospecting clients. Here’s an online service that can simplify all that – Quote Roller. ”

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Solar power–a case study in exponential growth

The Equity Kicker

in 2011, and at 63.4 gigawatts ended 2011 ten times greater than its level of five years previously (graphic below). Humanity’s energy requirements could be satisfied by just 1/10,000 of the sunlight falling on the Earth’s surface harvested by solar panels on an area equal to a few percent of the world’s unused deserts.

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Quickly Unpacking Two Recent Acquisitions (of Cylance; of PlanGrid)

Haystack

If we rewind the clock back to 2011/2012, the announcement of the iPad was largely viewed through the lens of consumer apps — a notable example being Flipboard. Notable seed funds like SV Angel and Initialized backed the company early, and of course Sequoia led a large Series A in PlanGrid a few years after YC.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference.   You can see how these affect the harvest proceeds and investor multiples achieved at various levels. March 2011.