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dalvac

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Changes to Google Apps for businesses - 1 views

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shared by dalvac on 07 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • dalvac on 07 Dec 12
     
    Google Apps For Business Not for free anymore
rduton

The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship - Max Marmer - Harvard Business Review - 3 views

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  • the delusion that starting a company is something anyone can do to get rich and famous quickly
  • These creatures seem to come in two types. The first type is an "idea guy" who saunters over from Hollywood ready to wow with you a next-generation social media analytics platform. Or maybe he's a self-proclaimed "business model and monetization expert" fresh off the MBA assembly line
dalvac

How To Structure A Marketplace | TechCrunch - 1 views

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shared by dalvac on 19 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • dalvac on 19 Aug 12
     
    "It's an understatement to say that building a thriving marketplace is tough. Getting both sides of a transaction at the same place at the same time for the same thing can feel like it's an order of magnitude more difficult than a more traditional one-sided commerce business. But when the magic happens, it happens, and all of a sudden you've got Kickstarter."
benjamin white

Do accelerators help startups? Here's what we found | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by S... - 0 views

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  • Our observations led us to the conclusion that accelerators need at least four years after a graduating class to determine their quality of results.
  • 21 percent exited and 25 percent out of business $162 million funding with $831 million in exits with an 5.1x return multiple Unrealized gains/losses 11 percent expected exits and 43 percent expected out of business $1.1 billion in funding with $13.4 billion in expected value with a 12.5x expected return multiple
  • Based on these historical results, we found that companies in accelerator graduating classes from before December 2009 returned 11.3x on capital invested. These are fantastic returns for entrepreneurs, VCs, and accelerators.
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  • Obviously this 11.3x figure factors in outsize returns from a few rock stars.  What happens we compare against accelerators that have more typical returns?
  • Of the 61 companies in this group, 20 percent exited or are expected to exit with a total return of 1.2x.
jlevinsohn

Zombie Startups | Danielle Morrill - 0 views

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  • jlevinsohn on 20 Aug 13
     
    "The biggest problem we see with early stage companies coming out of YC, or really any program, is that they'll approach a year or two after they've graduated to raise a seed round. It's exciting to see they're still alive and pursuing their vision, but then we ask about the growth of the team and the ways they've been capturing the opportunity of the business in the time they've had… and discover everything is the same. The same 2 or 3 people, the exact same idea, very little growth around key metrics like engagement or revenue. So why should try raise a series A? What have they proved?"
jlevinsohn

Fabrice Grinda: Musings of an Entrepreneur » And then there were a 100… - 0 views

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kb

shared by jlevinsohn on 28 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Jose and I typically invest in a copy only if the original model has reached $100 million in revenues and is profitable or on the path to profitability. Increasingly companies that have just raised seed money are being copied.
  • We don’t take simultaneous business model and market risk
  • mostly investing in priced rounds with pre-money valuations between $1 and $3 million, has allowed us to be successful on the majority of our exits – even when they were for less than $10 million
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  • Human nature is such that we would spend too much time with the companies fairing badly (even though the worst that can happen is that the value of our investment goes from 1 to 0) and not enough with the ones doing well (even though their value can go from 1 to 10 or 100!).
  • Most studies suggest that angels with fewer than 10 investments lose money, while those with more than 10 investments make money
  • The corollary is that by not being based in the Valley and by being so disciplined, we have not had any huge hits. Had we been given the opportunity to invest in Facebook, Google, Youtube, Linkedin and Pinterest at seed, we would have probably passed. None of the companies in the portfolio are worth more than $1 billion. Only a few have the potential to reach $1 billion and none seem to have the potential to be worth $10 billion.
benjamin white

Creative Learning Pays Off for Web Start-Ups - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • benjamin white on 10 Mar 13
     
    "from instructors with distinguished academic pedigrees. For more mundane pursuits, like learning how to paddleboard or build a planter box for the garden, there is an inexhaustible supply of free how-to videos on YouTube, eHow and other sites."
dalvac

If You Think 10% Is A Good Transaction Fee For Your Marketplace, Then It Will Struggle ... - 1 views

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  • dalvac on 16 Mar 13
     
    marketplaces are tough
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