blog.Mixergy.com
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Interview with Kara Weber
, VP Marketing for the Rubicon Project. Kara has been working at startups since she was in college, where she helped launch Tripod.
Click here to listen to the 1 hour audio podcast.
by Mike Masnick | Techdirt
from the once-again...-with-feeling dept
"While more folks aren't totally averse to the idea that they need to somehow embrace "free," they're mishandling what they do with "free" and then going on to complain how "free" doesn't work. The basic problem is this: they hear about the importance of "free" and so they give something away for free."
by Paul Ruppert | Mobile Messaging 2.0
Opus Focus & the Sour Period
Opus Capital focuses on early stage investments which vary from $2 to $4 million for a series A round, which yields a range of 20-30% ownership in a company.
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Tech, Startups, Capital, Ideas
Get the latest from David Feinleib at venture Capital Firm Mohr Davidow VenturesTech, Startups, Capital, Ideas.
"An entrepreneur recently asked me why startups fail. Startups fail because they run out of money. You’re probably thinking, “Tell me something I don’t already know!” Read on and you’ll see that statement is deceptive in its simplicity."
By DAVID BROOKS | Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
"In 1950, Dr. Seuss published a book called “If I Ran the Zoo.” It contained the sentence: “I’ll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP, and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!” According to the psychologist David Anderegg, that’s believed to be the first printed use of the word “nerd” in modern English."
Melissa Chang | 16th letter
"Starting a company is tricky because there is never enough money. There are ways to raise money, and ways to save money, but usually you are thinking about both of those things because money is tight."
Melissa Chang is the president of Pure Incubation, an Internet incubator based in Beverly, Mass., where she operates, acquires, and consults about Internet businesses.
by Mike Masnick | Techdirt
"Most startup founders certainly want to stick around and see their "baby" through, obviously. However, once investors get involved, the role of founders gets trickier. Investors often ask the key question: "what happens if a key founder gets hit by a bus?""
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen
Thoughts on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online advertising
"Metcalfe's Law
Does everyone remember Metcalfe's Law? It was formulated by Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and co-founder of 3Com, who stated:
The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system (n²).
For those that are interested in the math behind it, basically the idea is that if every new node in the network connects with every pre-existing node, then as you gain nodes, you non-linearly increase the number of connections that everyone has with everyone else."
Without the imagination and hard work of these fifty innovators, technologies you use every day might never have been invented.
Christopher Null, PC World
Michael Arrington | TechCrunch
"Do you really care if a venture capitalist shows up to your meeting ten minutes late or forgets to offer you a beverage? If a VC goes out of his or her way to be nice to you, is that really a reason to take money from them?"
By Arthur C. Brooks | The American, A Magazine of Ideas
| Money doesn’t buy happiness, but success does. Capitalism, moored in values of hard work, honesty, and fairness, is key. |
This is going to be BIG! - "...A rock, rooted, in the soil of his place."
By BRAD STONE | New York Times
"TRIBUTES on the Web site of Richard J. Gordon‘s company strike all of the uplifting chords one would expect of a digital maverick. He is described as a “trailblazing businessman” who is “operating in the front ranks of those transforming the Internet into the global marketplace of the future.”"
