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Category Archives: Investments
Sourcerer – An intelligent profile for software engineers
Notes on my latest deal: Sourcerer – An intelligent profile for software engineers. Continue reading
Posted in Deals, engineering, Investments, Silicon Valley, Startups
2012: A Year of Building
If you think about it, every year takes on a character, or theme, of its own depending upon goals we’ve set, decisions we’ve made and unplanned events that take place along the way. 2011 was driven by a few great … Continue reading
Victor Belfor, Ben Smith: Backing A College Dropout Might Be Your Smartest Investment Strategy
I recently invested in two companies whose founders either had little interest in school as students or who dropped out of grad school: MixRank and Influitive. Both management teams are driven, hard working and well prepared for the difficult road … Continue reading
Maximilian Schroeck, Ben Smith: Unlocking Value From A Portfolio’s Walking Dead | | peHUBpeHUB
We have all seen it. A startup has initial success with an innovative business concept, an early product, a first or second round of capital and a spurt of revenue growth. Then suddenly, its momentum stalls. More than 50% of … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Kearney, Deals, Investments, Silicon Valley, Spoke Software, Startups
Tagged A.T.Kearney, deals, facebook, silicon valley culture, Spoke Software, Startups, venture capitalists, venture portfolio
Sooner is Better than Better, Getting Shit Done
Getting Shit Done The key to success in business is execution, whether you run a sprawling multinational or a 12-person startup. So measuring how your company stacks up against the best and brightest in your space is crucial. If you … Continue reading
I have now entered the blog world
After seeing where I put my blog content change, I have decided to start posting my blog content to my own blog. This should be an interesting process.
Tom Klaff, Ben Smith: A New Spin On Corporate Venture Capital; How Big Businesses Can Encourage Innovation | peHUB
Corporate venture capital comes and goes in waves. In good times, money flows easily into startups. When times turn bad, most corporate investors disappear, and the waves they create crash violently on the shore. It doesn’t have to be this … Continue reading
peHUB » Doug Kilponen, Ben Smith: First They Ignore You, Then They Want To Buy You: Managing The Startup-Big Company Relationship
Every entrepreneur has met them. Big company executives with big company swagger. They ignore you. They dismiss the business problem you spent your life solving. They think they can crush you. Then the tables turn. They push for strategic relationships. … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, Investments, MerchantCircle, Startups
Tagged deal and no deal, deals, Disney, merchantcircle, Mergers, Startups, web entreprenuer
Victor Belfor, Ben Smith: Why Startups Innovate Better Than Big Companies | peHUB
With all their resources and talent, why do big companies have trouble innovating? How can a Blekko exist when there is a Google? Or a Tapulous when there is an Electronic Arts? Even more puzzling, why couldn’t Yahoo create Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, Investments, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged Disney, enterprise innovation, game show network, investment, mesmo, ringcentral, Startups, tapulous, venture capitalists, yahoo 360
Ben Smith: Building Startups Is Cheap But Never Run Out of Cash | peHUB
Internet startups have been getting cheaper to build for 10 years. So why is it more important than ever not to run out of cash? We built MerchantCircle into one of the 100 most trafficked U.S. sites and I honestly … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Kearney, Deals, Investments, MerchantCircle, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Spoke Software
Tagged A.T.Kearney, Cash, deal and no deal, google, internet startups, investment, SimpleGeo, Startups, UrbanAirship
