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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

The founders could reinvest this in growth (0% tax, focus on future equity growth) or take the profits of $12 million and divide amongst the founding partners. You own the IP you create. We built a hugely successful global services business yet we never got over our product envy from watching our tech clients.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement.

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