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The Kinect Accelerator

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The goal is to help new startups develop both the technology around their Kinect experience as well as the business model so the resulting company can prosper as an independent entity after the program. Some of the mentors, in addition to me, include: Jeff Powers, Founder, Occipital, Andrew Tschesnok, Founder, Organic Motion.

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The Price of Free is Actually Too High

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“We cannot afford the advertising business model. The later ( freemium ) became a foundational part of the B2B SaaS business model, while the former became an extremely complex dance between digital advertising and user data. The price of free is actually too high.

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Finance Fridays

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His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products. He will be entering Chicago Booth to complete this MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship and finance in the Fall 2011.

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Boulder Shouldn’t Municipalize Its Energy Utility System

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With the utility business model currently under pressure around the world from disruptive forces that many in the industry refer to as a “ death spiral ,” the city’s assertion that this money will soon be repaid should be carefully examined by every citizen and business leader in town.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. We should invest where our background and instincts and due diligence convince us the anticipated return will far exceed our evaluation of the risk. Taking all five at once is crazy.

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Book: Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

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Zynga endured endless Facebook TOS rewrites as they evolved their business model and tried to capture more of the revenue from companies like Zynga, including what I have come to refer to as the Facebook-Zynga Cuban Missile Crisis which ended in detante.

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More Thoughts on Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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Even the economic argument doesn’t work individually – even if I’m a gig economy person, it does not hurt my prospects to use social media, it’s that the BUMMER business model exists at all that causes the problem. The second concern is that he conflates Google with social media.