October 2008
49 posts
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Entourage - 9 Rules
Thesedays’ I’m watching HBO Original Entourage, and addicted to it.
You’ve gotta have friends, you’ll see them all, here in Entourage, and guess what I found 9 rules applicable to all the startups as well :)
End of the day, every startup is an entourage; is n’t it?
1. Always keep your conscience in check
2. Healthy body = healthy mind
3. Appearance...
Is India Missing the Outbound M&A Bus? →
M&As — a Dying Breed?
So are outbound mergers & acquisitions (M&As), in which Indian companies acquire foreign assets, a dying breed? One school of thought says that, for some time at least, it’s a closed chapter. The other school feels it is business as usual. “I think both are right,” says Rajan. “The deal market will go through a dormant phase...
Building a Company from the Ground Up - Seth...
Seth Berger is founder and former CEO of AND 1, a company specializing in basketball shoes and apparel. Started by Berger and several classmates while they were students at Wharton in the early 1990s, AND 1’s original product line featured t-shirts targeted at young basketball players; the company later expanded to offer a full line of apparel. Under Berger’s leadership, revenues...
With friends and strangers I can be no-one; more and more I confine myself to their company. Then one day I enter a room full of acquaintances and fly into a blind panic- I cannot for the life of me remember who these people think I am….
Thoughts on European Startups - Great Presentation...
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Top 10 Disruptive Technologies for 2008-2012
Multicore and hybrid processors
Virtualisation and fabric computing
Social networks and social software
Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
Web mashups
User Interface
Ubiquitous computing
Contextual computing
Augmented reality
Semantics
Venture Capital deal syndication - Why it ought to...
One of the more important venture fund raising decisions a startup entrepreneur has to make is around their Series A VC deal syndication strategy. Specifically, an entrepreneur needs to decide if he or she wants to raise capital from a single venture capital firm or “syndicate” the investment with two or more funds at once. VC deal syndication is a pretty funny dance, with the entrepreneur trying...
“I have never (yes, never) heard a CEO bemoaning the fact that he/she reduced...”
– Matt McCall
The Chinese zodiac offers some faint hope for John... →
With a week to go and a poll lead of eight percentage points, by most measures Barack Obama is comfortably ahead in the presidential race in America. John McCain, however, could take heart from a less conventional predictor: his Chinese zodiac symbol. Mr McCain was born in the year of the rat, as were five presidents, including George Washington and Jimmy Carter. Pigs and snakes have been...
“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Einstein (via kari-shma)
“‘Joe the Plumber’ is the new ‘Paris Hilton’”
– Kris Nair
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“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised...”
– Emo Philips (via tmblg)
“People keep on stepping on the same rakes because money, like romance, is only...”
– Talking Business - Financial Mistakes, Doomed to Be Repeated - NYTimes.com (via fred-wilson)
Legal Aspects of Venture Capital and Private... →
India has a vibrant private equity and venture capital market, with foreign direct investment (FDI) of up to 100% permitted in most sectors under the automatic route of investment and without any approval. However, to qualify for the automatic route, a few conditions must be met, for example, the price at which the shares are bought or sold must be in compliance with the valuation norms prescribed...
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Want a Long-Term Investment Tip? Buy oil. →
(via rickyv)
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September 2008
39 posts
“But will entrepreneurs, the lifeblood of the Valley, still come if the money’s...”
– Peter Thiel - The view from the Valley - Sep. 30, 2008 (via bijan)