I met with Barry Pâquet and I was very impressed and amazed by his story of how he started up his company. He was working as a consultant for another software company and eventually, he had a great opportunity to come up with a product … Read More →
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Startup: Kwedit – a promising way of payment, how about Habbo?
Kwedit is a strange name for a payment company. This is a startup that offers a new form of payment to social and interactive games that allows people to buy virtual goods. The strange thing is that it allows people to “promise” to pay for … Read More →
Google Nexus One – the PC of smartphones?
The smartphone industry is moving to follow the same path of the personal computer (PC). Both industries have a lot of manufacturers. For example, Dell for computers and Motorola for smartphone. PC and smartphones have operating systems. For PC, the major OS is Windows and … Read More →
Google AdWords – Search Ads Management
There is an amazing article about Google AdWords from the New York Times. It illustrates the management of an online campaign in AdWords for a company called Tiny Prints. This company advertisers on Google and gets a substantial part of its revenue and customers from … Read More →
Make Your Own Shirt, Mug and Many Other Things Companies
It is hard to make money on the Internet. Currently, there are two famous ways to monetize on the Internet: advertising and e-commerce. In the advertising side, we have Google AdWords, Yahoo Marketing or Microsoft Advertising. These companies make money by having big audience that … Read More →
Smartphone: the next PC industry
There is a news from the CNET that tells that Smartphones and low-cost handsets will keep dominating the wireless market. The post tells that despite the fact of economic downturn, demand for smartphone remained high and this category grew 27% compared to the same quarter … Read More →
An Unlikely Marriage: Koenigsegg and Saab
I’ve been following many news related to the GM’s sale of Saab to Koenigsegg and I’m very curious about the outcome of this situation. I searched Google to see if there was any news of small companies buying big companies and I couldn’t find any … Read More →
New Funds Target Early Stage Startups
Summary: The number of new funds focused on bankrolling early-stage startups appears to be growing. Data from The Deal and other sources that focus on venture capital concluded that in the last six weeks that about $1.2 billion has been raised by firms for dedicated … Read More →
Kauffman Foundation says “U.S. Venture Capital Industry Must Shrink”
A new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Right-Sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Industry, states that venture capital industry’s return is under performing because of the current size of the industry. It says that by reducing the it, this industry may increase its return. … Read More →
Negotiation: three main variables in negotiation
There are three main variables in negotiation: time, information and power. Time is important because the lack of it can cause great damage for the person or organization. Imagine that two venture capital firms have a great interest in a startup company. They … Read More →
Negotiation: Risks
Risk is a tool in negotiation that can help you to take advantange from the other side of the table. It depends on two factors: - Circumstances - Risk attitude from the negotiator Risk can be used to ask for bold concession from your partner. … Read More →
Sadia and Perdigão became the biggest food company in Brazil
I’m posting this news because it is very impressive this merger of two most important food company in Brazil. It is going to create some market concentration concern. At the same time, it shows the M&A market potential of this country. Sadia and Perdigão are … Read More →
New York Times interviewed Steven Ballmer about Leadership
Many of you may not like Microsoft, but most people are sure that Microsoft’s CEO, Steven Ballmer, has a strong leadership presence in the company and in the market. There is an interesting short interview from New York Time with Steven. He talks about leadership, … Read More →
VC Discount Rate Decreases in Later Stages
In many text books and even some Harvard cases, you can see that venture capitalists ask for a lower discount rate for later stage startups. This can be represented here: The reason why the discount rate decreases over time is the increasing information about the … Read More →
Event: Launch Silicon Valley 2009
When: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Where: Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, CA It is an event to showcase the latest startups from the information technology, mobility, security, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy industries. Entrepreneurs who … Read More →
What’s the latest market valuation for Facebook?
Some highlights: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg just had a board-level conversation about possibly accepting money at a $4 billion valuation, but decided against doing so… Also, the company has more than $200 million in the bank, which is enough to cover its costs … Read More →
Some interesting sites: 2009 April 12
Load Impact - check how well you website can handle heavy workload @ http://loadimpact.com/ Seedcamp – check an entrepreneur event where you can meet with a lot of interestign people with interesting ideas @ http://seedcamp.com/ Chocolate Cookies – I made some cookies today with this recipe @ http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateCookies.html … Read More →
Intro to Finance & Valuation PPT
I was searching for anything from the net and I found an interesting introductory deck about venture capital. If you are interested in the basics of VC, this is a good starting point. It also has a more “equational” view of the venture capital method. … Read More →
Embrase – Business Consulting
I met with David Chabot who is one of the partners from Embrase, a business consulting firm that helps startups to grow, and I highly recommend their services for those more technical focused entrepreneurs. In my experience, a lot of programmers and engineers have great … Read More →