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The Paradox Of New Vs. Old SEO

Mon Mar 04 17:27:22 +0000 2013

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How to manage your inside sales team » Version One Ventures

Sat Mar 02 01:25:43 +0000 2013

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What Founders Wish They Knew Before Starting Companies

Tue Jul 24 08:05:57 +0000 2012

DuPont's CEO on Executing a Complex Cross-Border Acquisition - Harvard Business Review

Sun Jul 22 20:47:05 +0000 2012

Shift from PC to mobile faster than expected « « The Equity KickerThe Equity Kicker

Sat Jul 21 06:13:12 +0000 2012

How Social Media Is Changing CRM - Businessweek

Tue Jun 12 06:15:30 +0000 2012

Apple Said to Add Baidu as IPhone Search Engine in China - Bloomberg

Thu Jun 07 20:38:52 +0000 2012

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 14 Notes Essay

Sat May 26 21:16:31 +0000 2012

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What is striking about the Solyndra fiasco isn’t what happened, but rather how people talked about it afterwards. No one asked whether Solyndra’s technology worked. But that is precisely the kind of substantive engineering question that you would ask in a determinate world. In an indeterminate world, though, people ask legal and financial questions. They focus on whether the proper processes were followed. And this is exactly what happened.

Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age | Fast Company

Sat May 26 17:13:44 +0000 2012

Angel investor looks for startups around the globe

Sat May 26 08:15:17 +0000 2012

Where to Draw the Line | The Intercom Blog

Fri May 25 21:39:12 +0000 2012

Startups flourish when new technologies take the first 3-5% of a market – case study mobile advertising « « The Equity KickerThe Equity Kicker

Thu May 10 19:55:06 +0000 2012

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How To Spur Mass Market Consumer Adoption Of LEDs - Forbes

Thu May 10 06:42:01 +0000 2012

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Buy a machine or buy the parts (creating vs. acquiring) | Eric Friedman

Wed May 09 06:20:41 +0000 2012

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Competitive Intelligence Revisited: 40 Tools To Keep You One Step Ahead

Fri Mar 02 18:01:37 +0000 2012

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For Mobile Apps, It's 1996 All Over Again | TechCrunch

Fri Feb 24 02:17:42 +0000 2012

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So how can you capitalize on this next great tech wave? The same way the winners did last time. Figure out what people want and then deliver it to them using the new version of the Internet—the one delivered via apps. If you’re able to give people a better, faster, more tailored mobile experience, you’ll be one of the disruptors. By precipitating change, you’ll create value. Those that do this best will win. After all, someone is going to create the next Facebook and someone out there is building the next Google. Disruption is in the air, and to me, it looks a lot like 1996 all over again.

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How I’ve Failed | Cleantech Investing : Greentech Media

Tue Feb 14 20:46:24 +0000 2012

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So as I look back upon such examples, I try to differentiate between a "niche-to-big-market" opportunity, which doesn't require developing entirely new competencies, technologies, offerings, etc. to make that transition, versus a "bank shot," which does. Bridgehead and then expansion? Good. Pre-identified necessary pivot? Too complicated.
Black Coral Capital, we have adopted deeper management team evaluation methodologies that get into much more detail on an entrepreneur's prior experiences, successes, failures, lessons learned, demonstrated patterns, etc. And we've learned to look not just at the CEO, but also at others within the senior management team, depending upon the stage and size of the company.
During the early part of my career, I often worked with management teams that I decided were "good enough," and I saw it as my job to help them elevate their performance to a high level, justifying this on the basis of the price to be paid for getting a chance to pursue an investment thesis I really liked. After all, many of these teams were first-time entrepreneurs, and they can't be expected to instantly be great, so perhaps by collaborating with them we could all learn together how to make it work out.
Instead, you have to look at the core skills and attributes of the entrepreneurs and assess their ability to tackle the specific challenges they'll face in this particular effort -- whether they're a first-time entrepreneur or not. And what I've found is that too often in my early career I knew the team had gaps, but I felt that I and other investors could help fill those gaps via advice and connections and, possibly, new hires. That rarely worked out.

The idea is just the beginning: Steve Jobs and the parable of the stones - Apple 2.0

Tue Feb 14 20:33:18 +0000 2012

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You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It's the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people "here's this great idea," then of course they can go off and make it happen.

And the problem with that is that there's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make. There are just certain things you can't make electrons do. There are certain things you can't make plastic do. Or glass do. Or factories do. Or robots do.

Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.

And it's that process that is the magic.

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Negotiation Skills: the End of the Mexican Road

Mon Feb 13 05:53:08 +0000 2012

Also, just because you want to get a sense of what is possible in a purchasing negotiation doesn’t mean that you need to take every last penny of profit out of the deal. For example, if you’re in a down market so you can put the squeeze on a recruiter to do a search uber cheap, you might end up being penny wise, pound foolish. If that person has three gigs on at that time and your is significantly below market and below the others you shouldn’t be surprised if you get a little less time, attention and resources than the others.

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A VC: Utilities vs Networks

Mon Feb 13 05:50:27 +0000 2012

In the PC era, when applications got bundled into the operating system, they became instoppable. All the competitive apps got left in the dust. But in the mobile era, it seems that a different dynamic is at play. The native applications are getting beat by networks. And these networks will eventually go cross platform which means that the native applications will be at an even greater disadvantage.

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