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Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup advisor and angel investor, I tend to focus on the much longer list of ways your startup can fail, based on my own experience and inside knowledge from peers who you will never see highlighted on the Internet. If you don’t have all these interests and skills, even your most “disruptive” products will likely fail.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

This number is predicted to reach 75% in the coming years, which, combined with a relatively fast and ubiquitous Internet connection, creates an increasingly large market for technology-based ventures. Colombia has a few industries with massive potential for disruptive transformation , in particular, health and finance. Industry gaps.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Do You Have The Mercedes Benz Syndrome?

YoungUpstarts

She began training on the Internet in 1998 and began the first television-like broadcasting in 2002, launching her own TV channel – www.hvacchannel.tv. Well-known as “The Profitability Master”, Ruth has a passion for helping small business grow profits and wealth. The post Do You Have The Mercedes Benz Syndrome?

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

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Feld Thoughts

This dynamic is reflected in the article Scooter Firm Chases Funding to Staunch Losses about the current Lime and Bird financings. If you lived through the Internet-bubble between 1999 and 2002 you know this cycle well.

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