Mon.Nov 26, 2012

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The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

I can't take credit for this meme, even though I've already invested in it.twice. (Once with Docracy, once with a super cool company launching in the first quarter of 2013.). I was chatting with Thor Muller a couple of weeks ago about web trends--and he made a very insightful point as I talked about how I see more and more models around getting people to work together in different ways.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. I’ve written about this before, but it’s a mysterious subject, and I’m always learning more.

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Cubes Are For Squares: The Startup/Corporate Matrix – Where Do You Fit?

YoungUpstarts

By Melissa Thompson , CEO of Talk Session. Everyone wants his or her dream job, but few have the courage to take big risks. Two years ago I attended my Business School reunion and it was clear that I was part of the 1% who effusively loved her job. I was also in the 1% of alumni who had a salary of zero dollars per year. Now, eighteen months after graduation, my classmates are leaving their jobs in droves to similar roles that with a slight change in name, title and uptick in optimism.

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KQED Forum + conference update + a chance to win tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

I've done a seemingly endless stream of TV, radio, podcasts, webinars, hangouts in the past year. And I've mostly refrained from posting about them here, but today I'm making an exception. Plus, I have very cool conference updates (our full conference program + more than 300 simulcast locations!) and a chance to win free tickets, if you keep reading.

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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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[Infographic] Global Trade Set To Grow More in 2013: Alibaba

YoungUpstarts

The world is already very well connected, but we’re set to become even more global than before come 2013. According to a survey by online B2B commerce platform Alibaba of 399 global business professionals who attended a recent trade show in Hong Kong late October, four out of five of those interviewed said they already find buyers or supplies via e-commerce, and an overwhelming majority (71%) has increased their international trade in 2012 over previous years.

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Metrics and Compensation for SaaS Inside Sales

For Entrepreneurs

The Bridge Group have recently published a report titled: Inside Sales for SaaS Metrics and Compensation Report for B2B technology companies The report is based on a survey of 197 B2B technology companies, and covers topics such as: Ramp and Retention Compensation and Quota Activity and Infrastructure Inside Sales Management Management’s top challenges They [.].

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The changing dynamics of consumer internet investing

The Equity Kicker

Fred Wilson wrote yesterday about changes in the consumer web and their implications for startups. Frist he observed that the large platforms (Google, Facebook, Amazon, MSFT, Twitter, etc) are ‘starting to suck up a lot of the oxygen’ making it ‘harder than ever to build a large audience from a standing start’. Secondly, he notes that the move from ‘desktop/web to mobile/app’ makes it more expensive to build a large user base, principally because of the need to develop for multiple platforms.

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How Entrepreneurs Should Dress

Mike Michalowicz

Clothes, Will Make Or Break The Man. Mark Twain was right about a lot of things, but one of my favorite truths was what he had to say about clothes: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” While we’d all like to think that what we wear doesn’t have much influence on what people think about us, the truth is that’s like saying Apple pie would taste as great whether it smelled like last week’s garbage or not.

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“How My Blog Business Works” Web Strategy Summit Video Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Last week I presented at the Web Strategy Summit in Brisbane. The organisers of the event, Adam and Toby , invited me to come in and do a short presentation of 18 minutes, then a 10 minute question and answer session. The event featured panel discussions for about 45 minutes and several 18 minute “keynotes”, so they could get through … Read the rest of this entry » Last week I presented at the Web Strategy Summit in Brisbane.

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Don't Ever Use Fundraising Advisors

Babbling VC

I was on stage this weekend at the Slovak Startup Awards and was asked a question I've heard many times. A founder asked whether they should use an advisor to help raise their first round of external money and if so, whom? My fellow panel member answered positively, recommending advisors and specifically if trying to raise money internationally. Then I chimed in and said "Hell No!

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Austin Tech Happy Hour on Thursday

Austin Startup

Does it seem crazy to be talking about holiday parties already? Especially since it’s going to be 82 and sunny in Austin today. We’ve scheduled ours for Thursday, November 29th so that we can set the bar for all the other holiday parties you will attend this season! Plus we’re pretty sure that we won’t [.].

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Is Your Business Giving You the Results You Want?

Growthink Blog

Take this short quiz to find out: Are your revenues growing month after month without fail? Are your profits rising, and allowing you to pay yourself enough money to spend freely on the things you want? Do you have plenty of customers, with no need to get more? Do your employees care as much about the success of your organization as you do? Do you have enough cash flow to radically grow your company?

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Clothes Or The Lack Of Them Will Make Or Break The Man

Mike Michalowicz

Clothes, Will Make Or Break The Man. Mark Twain was right about a lot of things, but one of my favorite truths was what he had to say about clothes: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” While we’d all like to think that what we wear doesn’t have much influence on what people think about us, the truth is that’s like saying Apple pie would taste as great whether it smelled like last week’s garbage or not.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: November 12th – 25th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Getting Back to Work - Multi-Dimensional Entrepreneurs

Seeing Both Sides

"I can't wait to get back to work. This fundraising is a real drag on my day job.". - Startup CEO raising capital. We have a number of portfolio companies that are raising money. When I talk to my CEOs that in the midst of this process, almost all of them complain about the same thing. They dislike the fundraising process and can't wait until it's over.

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Early Stage Entrepreneurs Don't Need a Business Plan, They Need a Battle Plan!

Small Business Force

It never ceases to amaze me, the amount of time early stage entrepreneurs spend creating a business plan that's, often, a combination graduate thesis, Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, with graphics that would dazzle the folks at Pixar. It has detailed forecasts, typically, based on Excel models, not on real-life understanding of costs and timing, and strategies and tactics based on "best guess.

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Ranking — And Understanding — The World’s Top Startup Hubs [Video]

ReadWriteStart

New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world. Startups based in the region stretching from San Francisco to San Jose raise more funding, make more money and have smarter people than startups in any other place. And in other news, the sun will rise in the east tomorrow. But the Startup Ecosystem Report 2012 does a lot more than reiterate the obvious, it brings to light the very real differences between the world’s top spots to start a company.

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How to Communicate Your Core Difference

Duct Tape Marketing

Every effective marketing strategy lives and dies by the ability to capture and communicate the strategies core point of differentiation in a simple, yet compelling, manner. When your market can actually understand and perhaps even feel how your business is different from every other business that says it does what you do, then you have a recipe for both greater business and greater profit.