The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 11, 2013

I was chatting with a friend last night about the lack of institutional investor (LP) interest in European venture capital as an asset class. We both believe that now is an attractive time to invest in European technology startups and started why we think so differently to most of the people we would like to invest in our funds.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2013

The Harvard GSAS Business Club is hosting me on January 22 in Boston; I hope you can join us. I’ll be speaking on: “The Next Great Entrepreneurial Opportunity: How to Identify Market White Space”. Thursday, January 22nd, 6pm, Location TBD, Cambridge, MA.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here’s a summary of the central thesis: The staring point is Geoffrey Miller’s hypothesis that the brain evolved as a courtship device (our peacock feather) to help us transmit our genes. So evolutionary success is now about how far our memes travel – i.e. we trade in the currency of attention.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2013

Think about how your clients reach you. We’re all guilty (or most of us are) of forgetting to back up our files as often as we should. You can tell your clients on your website, if you have one, about the move. Non-Physical Move. Telephone Number, Email. Backing Up the Computer Files. Sharing News on Websites or Postcards.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 9, 2013

Talk about the cart before the horse. Fake it ‘til you make it, teaches us to have inauthentic appearances (the outside stuff) in an attempt to lie convincingly enough to ourselves into becoming it (on the inside). You must be it to achieve it. Wait a second? I need to be it, to be it? That sounds ridiculously stupid.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2013

The reason for doing a 2012 post-mortem is simple — it supplies an owner with current facts about their business and the market so they can use the information as they look forward and plan for 2013. In this economy, you need employees who care about your business as much as you do. Think about who your customers are.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2013

I mean relationships aren’t about ROI right? They’re about something much deeper. Relationships in business are more important than ever and why not think about the return on the time and assets you invest in building real ones. Think about that for a minute. I mean relationships aren’t about ROI right?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2013

Any business that provides a product or service that people don’t necessarily feel like talking about suffers from this same challenge. What were we talking about? You see, I think the reason our customers love us is that it’s like a secret weapon. You can learn about them on the BlogMutt blog.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 10, 2013

It’s All About You. As the movie “The Social Network” and Facebook’s About Us page attest, Mark Zuckerberg got his initial capital from his then-best friend, Eduardo Saverin to start Facebook. So, it pays to understand what savvy investors are thinking when you put your hand out.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Scared about failing, what others will think about you, and not having enough resources to succeed. However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. but I care a lot about the team and what they built, not what they say their going to do. Maple Butter. Search for: Videos.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

We have pretty strong guidelines internally about how much capital we want to invest in a given company, at what valuation, and thus, what ownership we are looking for. We tend to be fairly strict, but not dogmatic about these. We invest in about 10 companies each year. We typically invest between $250K – $500K.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 6, 2013

There is so much – too much – data coming at us these days. And here’s a story about José the cab driver and his mentor. Ok, I just went back and looked at the original article and we had about half the same. Get organized. And the more you are responsible for, the more there is. Hope José made it.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. Case studies. Image credit.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 11, 2013

So, as the concept of “finishing school” at college graduation goes by the wayside, many consider the kind of data collection project Chakrapani is talking about the holy grail for the education business. “In the 40 years we continue to work, tech will allow us to continue to learn in a way that wasn’t available.”

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2013

By answering questions based on your knowledge and projections about the business, the software guides you through considerations about management, staffing, products and services, target market, trends, customers, and financial planning. Act today on your new year’s resolution and start the company you’ve always talked about.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 6, 2013

A lot of noise is being made lately about the trend that venture money is flowing away from consumer startups and flowing into enterprise startups. Here are some of the things that are working for us. Tip 1: Companies Google for things, just like you. Suffice to say the ROI has been extremely high.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 7, 2013

The macroeconomic environment looks spotty at best, with analysts like Jeremy Grantham predicting 1% growth in the US for decades to come. Be maniacal about maintaining your health. The thing that is hard about gritting through a tough year is that you feel that so much of it is out of your control. Clench (the teeth), esp.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2013

I hear a story about it almost daily and I’m now having someone I’m directly connected to or involved with impacted at least a month. If you care about this issue, I once again refer you to to Vivek Wadhwa’s excellent book called The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent.

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