Tue.Oct 08, 2013

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Startups Need Mergers And Acquisitions For Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions).

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No More MBOs

Feld Thoughts

'I am so very tired of MBO-based bonuses in startups. I knew the concept of MBOs pre-dated my time in business school, but I couldn’t remember where they came from. Wikipedia reminded me – it’s another Peter Drucker creation from The Practice of Management. I’ve only worked in what could be considered a “big” company for 18 months (1993 – 1995) and that was the company (AmeriData) that bought my first company (Feld Technologies).

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Gartners foggy crystal ball

deal architect

'I saw this press release about Gartner’s top 10 forecasts from Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando this week and was surprised how narrow and un-actionable many of the findings are Digital Industrial Revolution This section focuses primarily on 3D printing. As I.

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[Singapore] Mobile Security Concerns Continue To Surround BYOD: SolarWinds

YoungUpstarts

'Some technology industry pundits are convinced that BYOD – or Bring Your Own Device – is a trend that will become more prevalent in workplaces as businesses adapt to changing technology trends and accept that the devices owned personally by employees can be far more advanced than those the company can provide them. But the real challenge for businesses is in the area of mobile security – BYOD can cause headaches for company IT administrators, who are usually largely unprepared

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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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Theres an enterprise app for that

deal architect

'I heard Chris Leone of Oracle present to HCM execs about social sourcing of talent and gamification as a team building app. A few weeks ago, Cognizant presented to me about unique IP they have developed for various industries. Infor.

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Eight Ways To Ace An Interview

YoungUpstarts

'by Thomas Moran, CEO of Addison Group. There’s no denying that interviews are stressful, intimidating and can most likely make or break chances at landing a prospective position. The main goal of an interview is to receive an offer, but getting to that point takes skill and knowledge. There are a lot of things to consider and prepare for before an interview, but with a little practice and training, anyone can go into an interview and leave the best impression possible.

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Beanhunter 2.0 – Bean There, Done That

YoungUpstarts

'Coffee is important enough to many people across the world that it’s the thing that starts their day in the right way – so much so that coffee is one of the most important crops on the planet. And there are people crazy enough about their coffee that they would, err, download a mobile app so that they can find the nearest place around them that serves up their most favorite coffee blend using a specific coffee machine.

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Built to Last: MapR

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'This morning, John Schroeder, CEO of MapR, shared a great post on what it takes to run a company that is “Built to Last.” As John writes, being “built to last” is an idea that is arguably most relevant in the technology world, where customers invest in products that are strategic to their businesses and where there are relatively high switching costs.

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Don’t Start a Job Search Without Answering This One Question

Hunter Walker

'I love when people quit their jobs. Ok, that’s probably a bit strong. Let me clarify. I love when people leave a job because they’ve made an impact and want new challenges; or feel they could be accomplishing a greater number their goals somewhere else. But when these folks approach me for advice as to what to do next, there’s one question most haven’t asked themselves.

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Reading Widely Means More Dots to Connect

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

'People ask me what I read. I think this question is inspired by my citing some arcane fact or that I make a weird connection now and then. I am a voracious reader, but I think what I actually read might surprise. Most of it is NOT directly about creativity and innovation (that’s a way to guarantee you’re boring!). Reading widely provides more dots to connect.

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The accelerating rate of change

The Equity Kicker

'I’m at Singularity University (SU) in Palo Alto this week learning more about the big technologies that are changing the world and how to apply them to solving the world’s biggest problems. It’s inspiring stuff on a number of levels and I will go home more determined to do more stuff that’s going to make a difference. I’ve written before about how exponential improvements in technology are driving increasingly rapid changes in society and increasing opportunities f

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Focus On Value Drivers To Get To A Big Payday

Growthink Blog

'The acquisition market continues to be very strong. In the 12 months ending August 31, 2013, $881.7 Billion was paid to acquire 9,499 US companies. This represents an 8.1% increase over the $815.9 Billion paid to acquire companies in the previous year. Importantly, during this time, the average EBITDA multiple paid for Middle Market firms (companies valued between $1 million and $500 million) was 9.1.

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Battle of the Bands and Made in Austin at Austin Startup Week

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News For the second year in a row, Eric Bandholz travelled from Spokane, Washington to attend Austin Startup Week. “I lived here in 2003 and 2004 and I’ve been waiting for past ten years to get back here,” Bandholz said. His favorite events during Austin Startup Week include […] The post Battle of the Bands and Made in Austin at Austin Startup Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Cash Flow and Destiny

Ben's Blog

'Wait ’til I get my money right. Then you can’t tell me nothing, right? —Kanye West, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”. If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably heard some crusty old CEO or investor say something like “cash is king.” You probably read the Twitter S-1 and thought to yourself: “What the hell are those old guys talking about?” Twitter is still burning cash six years after founding and they, not cash, seem to be king.

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Startups: What Kind of Entity Should You Form?

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News For most startups there are two ways to go in deciding what kind of business entity you should form: A limited liability company, or a Delaware Corporation, according to David Valenti, a partner with Reed & Scardino. Valenti gave a presentation Tuesday on “What Kind of Entity […] The post Startups: What Kind of Entity Should You Form?

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Cash Flow and Destiny

Ben's Blog

'Wait ’til I get my money right Then you can''t tell me nothing, right? —Kanye West, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”. If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably heard some crusty old CEO or investor say something like “cash is king.” You probably read the Twitter S-1 and thought to yourself: “What the hell are those old guys talking about?” Twitter is still burning cash six years after founding and they, not cash, seem to be king.

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Ten Deadly Sins of Writing a Business Plan to Raise Capital

Business Plan Blog

'Ten Deadly Business Plan Writing Sins for Raising Capital. In order to launch a successful business and raise the capital needed to do so, a startup needs to consider several aspects of the business including the management team , the size of the opportunity, the product/service/technology, the market/sales/distribution channels, the competitive environment and several other factors.

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WP Engine Appoints Heather Brunner as CEO

Austin Startup

'WP Engine, the premium managed hosting platform for websites and applications built with WordPress, today announced the appointment of Heather Brunner as CEO.

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Welcoming our newest dragon, Amanda

Jeff Hilimire

'Amanda joined Dragon Army yesterday, making her the 5th member of the team. She will be leading marketing for the us as well as being in charge of giving Ryan a hard time, which I’m already very much enjoying. Also, as you can see from the photo we’re starting to build out our space at Atlanta Tech Village (reminder, this is what I love about the Village ).

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6 Founder Tips for Creating a Scalable Startup Culture

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published on ReadWrite. Startups are fast-paced, sometimes hectic places to work. In the early days, everyone wears multiple hats and is expected to lend a hand where needed, leading to close bonds between team members. But when a startup stars to become successful—and outgrows its all-hands-on-deck philosophy&mdashthe founder’s job is to make sure that the company can properly scale to cope with the new reality.

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The Feed as a signal vs noise problem.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Successful media is entertaining. It has to be to get you to keep coming back day after day, many times a day. Getting this right requires a mix of serendipity and high value content. Not enough high value content and I feel like I’m wasting my time, and I leave. Techcrunch had a post this weekend speculating that Twitter quitters are leaving because of a noisy feed.