Sat.Sep 06, 2014

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The end of ownership: The zero-marginal-cost economy

The Next Web

'Dries Buytaert created Drupal, an open source content management platform, in his dorm room. He is also the co-founder and CTO at Acquia, a company providing enterprise software for websites and commerce. Society is undergoing tremendous change right now — those of us who enjoy services like Uber and Kickstarter are experiencing it firsthand. The sharing and collaboration practices of the internet are extending to transportation (Uber), hotels (Airbnb), financing (Kickstarter, LendingClub), mus

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6 Principles For Building A Winning Business Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

'Sponsored by VISA Business I’m seeing a renewed appreciation of culture and values in business these days. Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. They drive the market, rather than the other way around.

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Why complexity is enterprise’s biggest debt

The Next Web

'Jean-­Pierre Pequito is a product designer at Cupenya. As internet pioneer-­turned-­VC Marc Andreessen famously pointed out, “software is eating the world,” and it is becoming inevitable that enterprises today are deeply interconnected with software. During the last decade enterprise IT has been satisfying more requirements to improve organizational performance.

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There seems to be a lack of long-term investment in startups. Why is the 3-5 year exit strategy more desirable than a 10-20+ year timeframe?

Gust

'Precisely because seed stage investments in private startup companies are NOT Warren Buffet’s types of investments. Early venture and angel investments are much, much riskier than Buffett’s, with more than half of them typically failing completely and losing the entire investment. As such, the returns on an early stage portfolio typically come from only one or two investments out of every ten.

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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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Weekend Favs September Six

Duct Tape Marketing

'Weekend Favs September Six written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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Of the private companies trading on secondary markets, how much (percentage) of those companies’ stock is available through the secondary market?

Gust

'On average…none. The secondary market for private company stock is brand new, and so nascent that it is virtually nonexistent. For a very brief time, when Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon and Zynga were still private, there was a quick flurry of private secondary sales through platforms like SecondMarket and SharesPost. But there was much, much, much more smoke than fire, and I would be extremely surprised if even 1% of those four companies changed hands in the secondary market.

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