Mon.Jan 07, 2013

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the

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Concentrated Production, Diversified Consumption

Growthink Blog

Watching the disaster of a process that was the D.C. fiscal cliff drama this past week, I found myself with a curious reaction. And maybe even a little bit of a selfish one. It was, by golly, how happy am I that I get to work in this so dignifying world of business and free enterprise and not have to waste my precious life energy on such nonsense? And then feeling a bit more generous, I felt happiness for the hundreds of millions if not now billions of people worldwide that are able to do likewi

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7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed

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ShopAtPlaces.com – Replacing The Middleman In India’s Retail Scene

YoungUpstarts

E-commerce is getting huge in India – according to industry watchers, the industry is expected to grow a compound annual growth rate of 57 per cent and is likely to reach US$34.2 billion by 2015. This trend is spurred by the surge in the use of mobile devices across the country (the number of mobile users in the country is expected to hit over 1 billion by 2015), and as consumers choose to bypass various middlemen and go directly to producers.

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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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The product design sprint: prototype (day 4)

www.gv.com

'At the Google Ventures Design Studio, we have a five-day process for taking a product or feature from design through prototyping and testing. We call it a product design sprint. This is the sixth in a series of seven posts on running your own design sprint. On day 2 you drew concept sketches. On day 3, you made a plan and a storyboard for your prototype.

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Launching Startup Life: Surviving And Thriving In A Relationship With An Entrepreneur

Feld Thoughts

The second book in the Startup Revolution series, Startup Life: Surviving And Thriving In A Relationship With An Entrepreneur , is shipping in the next week or so. My wife Amy Batchelor and I wrote this one, with contributions from about 20 other entrepreneurial couples. Amy and I have been friends since we met in college in 1984. We have been together as a couple since 1990.

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Financial Freedom Is Costing You Your Life

Mike Michalowicz

Financial Freedom? I love money. It is a powerful tool for getting lots of things done. And it provides that all so valuable financial freedom. But I’ve learned that it’s not the only kind of financial freedom there is. For instance, take the popular parable about “ The Tourist & The Fisherman.” It goes something like this – an American businessman visits Mexico and sees a lone fisherman bringing in his catch for the day.

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PostalPix – Photos From Phone To Doorstep

YoungUpstarts

We take tons of photos with our mobile phone. Most of them are destined to remain trapped in the deep recesses of our devices’ internal memory storage and never seen again. But some of these photos have deep sentimental value – so how does one quickly and easily develop these into actual printed pictures? That’s where PostalPix ( www.postalpix.com ) comes in.

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How to detect if you are slightly brainwashed?

Life Beyond Code

Ask yourself a few questions below: 1. Are you open-minded? 2. Are you a team player? 3. Are you a good leader? 4. Are you a quick learner? 5. Are you a lifelong learner? 6. Can you communicate well? 7. Do you come up with good ideas? 8. Are you likeable? 9. Are you passionate about your work? If you are like most people, your answer to almost all the questions will be Yes.

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CES 2013 Preview: What Happens in Vegas, STAYS in Vegas

VC Cafe

This week marks the annual orgy of PR excess known as the Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 (mostly male) visitors, many sporting T-shirts with mysterious acronyms like “4K in HD3D”, will. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Ad-blocking by ISPs

The Equity Kicker

I’m just back from an extended Xmas break and have been enjoying getting back into the news flow and thinking about markets and opportunities. The juiciest titbit this morning is undoubtedly the news that upstart French ISP Free is now shipping ad-blocking software and hardware to its customers with defaults set so all ads are blocked. Free has 5.2m subscribers and is the second biggest ISP in France, making this a significant move.

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That new era of Venture Capital is here

VC Adventure

A couple of years ago I posted about what I thought would be the “new era of Venture Capital.” Specifically I was predicting that we’d see a strong barbell effect in VC fundraising. From that post: I believe what we’re going to see in the venture industry is a bifurcation of fundraising– basically a barbell on the graph of fund sizes.

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New Report: There’s Tech Jobs In Austin But Others Lead In New Tech Growth

Austin Startup

A recent report shared by the Austin Technology Council and sponsored by Engine Advocacy, was part reinforcement and part surprise. The Bay Area Council Economic Institute prepared the report, “Technology Works: Patterns of High-Technology Employment and Wages in the United States,” and shows Austin and the Austin-San Antonio corridor is a favorable hub for high-tech employment.

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Built-in QR/Barcode Scanning?

Andrew Payne

I wish Apple (and Android) would build QR code / barcode scanning into all phones, either in the camera app or as a dedicated scanning app. QR codes are so helpful for connecting the physical and digital worlds: imagine scanning the bottom of a product to see the current owner’s manual, or to get reorder information. Or scanning codes at a museum or park to get more information about an exhibit.

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That new era of Venture Capital is here

VC Adventure

A couple of years ago I posted about what I thought would be the “new era of Venture Capital.” Specifically I was predicting that we’d see a strong barbell effect in VC fundraising. From that post: I believe what we’re going to see in the venture industry is a bifurcation of fundraising– basically a barbell on the graph of fund sizes.

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Built-in QR/Barcode Scanning?

Andrew Payne

I wish Apple (and Android) would build QR code / barcode scanning into all phones, either in the camera app or as a dedicated scanning app. QR codes are so helpful for connecting the physical and digital worlds: imagine scanning the bottom of a product to see the current owner’s manual, or to get reorder information. Or scanning codes at a museum or park to get more information about an exhibit.

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What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio

Rob Go

This year will mark the third year of NextView’s existence. As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. As such, I still get asked pretty often to articulate our focus as a firm. Amidst the mass of new initiatives, new firms, new strategies, etc that constantly pop up in the early stage investing landscape, it’s helpful to have a clear articulation of what VC’s are focused on and how they see the world.

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Resonance Is the Ultimate Objective of Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

A vibrating object will pick out its resonant frequencies and vibrate at those frequencies, essentially “filtering out” other frequencies present. photo credit: Biappi via photopin cc. The statement above applies to the physical application of something known as resonance, but I think it could just as accurately be applied to marketing strategy.

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2013: The Year of Grit

Seeing Both Sides

grit . /grit/. Noun. Small, loose particles of stone or sand. . Verb. Clench (the teeth), esp. in order to keep one's resolve when faced with an unpleasant or painful duty. 2013 is going to be an "interesting" year (evoking the Chinese curse). The macroeconomic environment looks spotty at best, with analysts like Jeremy Grantham predicting 1% growth in the US for decades to come.