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Finance Fridays

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Simon Zhang spent three years as a financial and tax consultant at Deloitte Canada with a focus on businesses in mining, financial services and technology sectors. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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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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Startup Phenomenon: Women – Event in Boulder – 9/3

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It includes author Amanda Steinberg, founder and CEO of DailyWorth; Margaret Neale, management professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business; and Michele Weslander Quaid, chief technology officer (federal) and innovation evangelist at Google.

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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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Business Plans Are An Historical Artifact

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This article ( Business Plans Are An Historical Artifact ) first appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal The Accelerators Column , which I’m contributing to on a regular basis. . In 1987 when I started my first company (Feld Technologies), I wrote a business plan for a course at MIT that I was in called 15.375: New Enterprises.

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This Is The Smell Of Inevitability

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The difference, right now, is that technology is about to take another step function leap that no one is ready for, or is thinking about, or even understands, that will create an entirely new set of dynamics in our society. Trying to hold on to incumbent business models and stifle innovation through legislation is dumb.