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Tag Archives: Startups
Building a Shopping Solution
I have been involved in ShopCo Holdings just about two months now as the Chief Executive Officer. I figured it is about time I start sharing a bit about it. ShopCo Holdings is a company backed by 12 large US Media companies … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, FindnSave, GSD, Silicon Valley, Wanderful Media
Tagged A. H. Belo, Ben T Smith IV, business, Find n Save, GSD, investment, Lee Enterprises, local, McClatchy Company, MediaNews Group, Startups, Wanderful Media, web entreprenuer
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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
Posted in Investments, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina, Chief executive officer, deals, investment, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin, Startups, University of Nevada Las Vegas, venture capitalists, web entreprenuer
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Ben Smith, Mark Boslet: Career Building Like A Startup: Thoughts On Reid Hoffman’s “The Start-up of You”
In the 40 years since the publication of What Color Is Your Parachute, the job market has collapsed, collapsed again and changed almost unrecognizably. The time has come for a new job hunter’s bible. Our vote goes to Reid Hoffman’s … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Kearney, Deals, Personal, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Spoke Software
Tagged A.T.Kearney, Carnegie Mellon, LinkedIn, Mark Pincus, McKinsey & Company, merchantcircle, relationships, Risk, Startups, Tepper, UC Davis
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The less discussed, other sinister plot at groupon. – surya says too much. – surya says too much.
For all the critics from the sidelines of any game, politics, business, investing, startups, parenting, charity, and even football. Some people are hitting Groupon now. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Silicon Valley, Spoke Software, Startups
Tagged relationships, Risk, Startups, venture capitalists, web entreprenuer
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Tony Scott, Ben Smith: So They’ve Offered You The CEO’s Job. Here’s What You Need To Know Before Jumping With Joy | peHUBpeHUB
Tony Scott, Ben Smith: So They’ve Offered You The CEO’s Job. Here’s What You Need To Know Before Jumping With Joy So you’re in the running for the CEO’s job at a startup. Already a creeping sense of uncertainty has … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Kearney, Deals, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged A.T.Kearney, CEO, investment, leadership, social-media, Startups, technology, venture capitalists
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Grace Chan, Ben Smith: Building An Online Community Is Hard Work | peHUBpeHUB
Grace Chan, Ben Smith: Building An Online Community Is Hard Work We have seen it all. We’ve seen entrepreneurs set out to build loyal communities for newly minted products only to forget that they are more than just sales assets. … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, MerchantCircle, Product, Spoke Software
Tagged borland, community, Delphi, Jigsaw, merchantcircle, social-media, Startups
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Victor Belfor, Ben Smith: We’ll Trade 100 Employees For One A-Player | peHUB
Mark Zuckerberg famously commented that a great engineer is worth a 100 average engineers (something every developer knows deep in her heart). He was talking about A-players, and in our opinion the worst thing any startup can do is accept … Continue reading
Posted in Deals, MerchantCircle, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged A Players, deals, GSD, merchantcircle, Startups, web entreprenuer
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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
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Crash Dev: Top three reasons NOT to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead)
This piece by Devore is fascinating and correct. Having looked at buying the Judy’s Book asset twice, I think they really were a great team with a solid execution, and it still did not work. The fundamental issues of high cost to acquire customers, high customer churn, low monthly … Continue reading
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
Posted in A.T. Kearney, Deals, Investments, Relationships, Silicon Valley, Startups
Tagged A.T.Kearney, Carnegie Mellon, corporate investors, corporate venture capital, intel capital, Mergers, Startups, ups and downs, venture capitalists
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