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Chinese mythology is replete with deities that ride clouds up into the heavens. Many startups similarly seeking nirvana on the back of cloud infrastructure have found their ascent rudely interrupted . It seems unlikely that any single cloud infrastructure...
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Purveyors of plush mattresses are quick to point out that since you spend 8 hours per day on their product, their eye watering prices are fully justified. Rarely mentioned is the fact that you’re unconscious for most of those 8 hours. Less well known...
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Purveyors of plush mattresses are quick to point out that since you spend 8 hours per day on their product, their eye watering prices are fully justified. Rarely mentioned is the fact that you’re unconscious for most of those 8 hours. Less well known...
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Interesting rule of thumb based on military operational research performed by Frederick Lanchester during World War I: If you’re trying to enter an existing market where the dominant player has greater than 40% market share, you will need to spend at...
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Along the road from starting a business to (perhaps) getting to the Next Big IPO, one of the more daunting assignments that an entrepreneur will likely face is the process of raising capital. The task can be decomposed into qualitative & quantitative...
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Many American parents cringe when they learn about their offsprings’ behavior on the web. Salacious messaging, saucy photo sharing, revealing of intimate personal details – oh my! But the results of an IAC/JWT survey of 18-25 year olds in urban China...
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Over the past decade, data driven techniques have been steadily gaining ground over more intuitive approaches. Marriott’s Courtyard brand was born from the results of a conjoint analysis, not a light bulb going off at an executive retreat. And the crisp...
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I recently had the opportunity to have dinner with a small group of startup CEOs. Unusually, none of them had actually founded a startup before – they were all professional managers brought in to take a startup to the next level. We discussed the lessons...
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Golf is an activity that requires a tremendous amount of overhead. Aside from actually learning how to swing, aspiring players also have to set aside continuous time blocks of 4 hours, gain membership at a suitable course, acquire an expensive bouquet...
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These days, you hear a lot more about “consolidation” and “maturity” in the security industry than about innovation. VC investments in security startups have halved over the last 2 years. And a recent survey by Goldman Sachs indicates that the growth...
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Had a lively group discussion about the best way to structure a startup’s org chart. Went to and fro on the pros and cons of various models, until a veteran entrepreneur hit the nail on the head – you know that you need to reorganize your startup if your...
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Had a lively group discussion about the best way to structure a startup’s org chart. Went to and fro on the pros and cons of various models, until a veteran entrepreneur hit the nail on the head – you know that you need to reorganize your startup if your...
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It can be a challenge today to find a large enterprise that’s not tinkering with desktop virtualization in some way, shape or form. Marketers have been capitalizing on the virtualization hype to repackage what’s essentially an old technology as the latest...
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One of the attributes that many investors look for in a startup (besides rockstar team, multi-billion dollar market opportunity etc.) is focus. This is understandable, as startups that try to do too many things at once or switch directions too often are...
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One of the attributes that many investors look for in a startup (besides rockstar team, multi-billion dollar market opportunity etc.) is focus. This is understandable, as startups that try to do too many things at once or switch directions too often are...