Tue.Mar 24, 2015

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Why We Invested in Rubrik

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Today we are excited to announce Lightspeed’s $10 million Series A investment in Rubrik. Just as Apple built a time machine to protect Macs, Rubrik has built a powerful time machine for enterprise cloud infrastructure that unites data management with web-scale technology. A market size of epic proportions, a groundbreaking architectural approach, and a world-class founding team drove our decision to invest.

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Accel APX conference: short take aways

Cracking the Code

'A NEW GENERATION OF APPS AND THE APIs THAT POWER THEM I was lucky to be able to attend our Accel APX conference in San Francisco last week. In an environment becoming increasingly more competitive, it is becoming critical for companies to leverage external platforms & APIs to build a product fast and concentrate their resources on their core products.

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Unicorns Don’t Exist: Why This Startup Dialogue Is Incredibly Dangerous

View from Seed

'There is something so funny and also so appropriate about all this talk about Unicorn companies. I’m not the first person to say that the proliferation of startups valued at $1 billion or higher is a signal of an overheated late-stage market. Yet there continues to be so much fanfare and excitement about all of these unicorn companies. Unicorns are a great metaphor and a brilliant meme – just excellent marketing.

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SAPs Continuing Myopia

deal architect

'In SAP Nation, I wrote “SAP has a tendency to write code, and then hand it over to its partners. It fails to think enough about customer deployment issues.” More of that focus on what happens in their labs and.

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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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Saving Universities From Extinction No Easy Task

YoungUpstarts

'by David E. Goldberg, founder of ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. and co-author of “ A Whole New Engineer ” . Universities are as outmoded as buggy whips. The cost and value of a college education is increasingly in question or under attack, public university budgets are being slashed, and traditional colleges and universities are challenged by new forms of educational institutions and by students and parents who increasingly just say “no.

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Resolving Conflicts in a VC Partnership

Feld Thoughts

'I got the following question the other day. “If you get a chance, I’d request you to write a blog post about various business decision related conflicts or misunderstanding that might occur in a partnership and how you folks at the Foundry Group resolve it. My partners and I grapple with such challenges quite often.” Every VC firm is different so to answer a question like this, it’s important to remember that the answer is one specific to Foundry Group.

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Fundraising advice: Don’t over optimise on terms

The Equity Kicker

'Everyone loves a high valuation and it’s natural for founders to want to minimise dilution. They will most probably go on to raise multiple rounds of venture capital after all. And look at what Zuck achieved… But companies that spend too much time optimising terms end up as net losers. YC’s Sam Altman explained why in a post last year: Startups are usually a pass-fail course — either you succeed or you don’t.

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Oslo’s Kahoot! Becomes First Capital Factory International Company

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News “Play is our original language; then when we get to school, they remove the play,” said Johan Brand, CEO and co-founder of Kahoot!, a platform that lets students play a high-energy, high interaction quiz game in the classroom using their mobile devices. Kahoot!, from Oslo, is the […] The post Oslo’s Kahoot!

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Starting a Web Business with Less than Your Monthly Rent (The $ by $ Guide)

Up and Running

'Please Note: all figures mentioned were accurate at the time of writing. . Every entrepreneur has heard of the Lean Startup methodology ; it’s a great way to prove demand with less time and money and to prevent building a product that no one will want. In practice though, the Lean Startup methodology is hard to figure out. How do you develop, and what is the minimum viable product?

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The Lessons My Dog Taught Me About Entrepreneurship

Mike Michalowicz

'I’m a bit of a business lit junkie: I love reading stories and advice from fellow authors and entrepreneurs. I dig tales of overcoming adversity, and I enjoy getting fresh insights on the challenges we all face as small business owners. The other afternoon, I thought I was taking a little break from the biz world, though, as I took advantage of a sunny day (one of the rare ones this winter) to throw the tennis ball for my dog, Daisy.

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My First Visit To Hong Kong

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Make sure you read part one of my travel diary – Laptop Lifestyle Travels: Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney And Saying Good Bye To Australia. Laptop Lifestyle Travels: Hong Kong As the plane descended I looked out the window and saw nothing but clouds. I was hoping for a view of Hong. The post My First Visit To Hong Kong appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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The global content playbook & how the internet actually works

Start Up Blog

'I’m a big fan of the John Oliver show Last Week Tonight. Which, in an unconnected web world I wouldn’t even know about as it has never been shown in Australia. But through the wonder of sharing great content online I became a big fan. The show airs in the USA on Sunday nights, and in their wisdom, HBO would publish much of the shows content on Youtube a day later.

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Techstars Austin Announces New Class

SiliconHills

'The Techstars program in Austin has announced its new class of startups featuring 10 technology companies from around the country. This is Techstars third class in Austin. It officially kicked off the program Monday and it runs for three months with Demo Day on June 17th at the Austin Music Hall. Jason Seats, cofounder of […] The post Techstars Austin Announces New Class appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Live from MWC in Barcelona: are we in a tech bubble?

Cracking the Code

'I was interviewed by Seema Mody at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As the Nasdaq reached 5,000 pts that day, the focus of the discussion was not on mobile trends but on valuation and whether or not we are in a bubble. In a nutshell, my argument was that on the public side, the valuation of high growth tech companies do not seem very inflated at this point.

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Collab/Space Austin Workshop in April to Focus on Data

SiliconHills

'Data is the new gold for companies, big and small, to mine in the online world. Sifting through data for important insights can provide a competitive edge in any industry. In fact, at SXSW Interactive 2015, Bill Gurley, venture capitalist with Benchmark, said he looks for startups that have a data scientist, for potential investments. […] The post Collab/Space Austin Workshop in April to Focus on Data appeared first on SiliconHills.

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One VC’s take on NYC and Enterprise Tech

BeyondVC

When Willie Sutton, the prolific bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he answered, “because that’s where the money is.” When asked by investors in early 2010, why we were starting a seed fund focused on enterprise and leveraging NYC, I answered with Willie’s quip but also said, “because that’s where the customer-driven talent is.” One of the key criteria for successful enterprise investing besides team, product, and huge markets is ensuring that you invest in a “must-have” and not a “nice

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YouTube Adds More Interaction to Videos With Cards

Duct Tape Marketing

'YouTube Adds More Interaction to Videos With Cards written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Cards are all the rage in digital circles it seems, so YouTube has jumped on the bandwagon adding a cards feature as a way of creating greater interaction. Think of cards as ways to add information to another piece of information.

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6 Ways To Increase Your Odds of Landing Venture Capital

Early Growth Financial Services

'This guest post was contributed by BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital. Running a growing tech startup with steadily increasing revenues might put you on the right track to being a successful business owner, but it doesn’t mean you’re on an easy path to securing venture capital. Competition for funding is stiff and VCs are extremely selective. In fact, less than 1% of U.S. startups get venture capital.