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Guy Kawasaki on "The Back of the Napkin"
The Find: Got a complex business problem? Of course you have to run the numbers, but one author argues that you should also sit down with a pen and paper and spend some time doodling. The Source: An interview conducted by venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki with Dan...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Team Management, Manufacturing, Financing Startups, Finance, Strategy, Management, Investment, Food & Beverage, Venture Capital, Globalization, Guy Kawasaki
Blog posts 2008-08-05
Tom Peters: Don't Sweat the Recession
I've posted on some alarmist points of view regarding our economy. It only fits that I should post on Tom Peters' The Train Keeps on Rolling. He notes that despite decades worth of pronouncements of doom on America's position in the world economy, including his own,...
Tags: Economy, Tom, Government, Venture Capital, Vertical Industries, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-06-11
Where Did Japan Go Wrong?
Twenty years ago, with George Bush Sr. in command of the country, the US was gripped with almost a national hysteria about Japan. The hottest read in business and government circles was Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future to Japan and How to Reclaim It,...
Tags: Management, Financing Startups, Finance, Channel Management, Strategy, Business Structures, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Hagiu, Japan, Marketing, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-05-20
Fouad ElNaggar: Investing in Transformational Companies
Fouad ElNaggar is a Principal with Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in high-tech start-ups, which have included Netflix, Tivo and Juniper Networks. ElNaggar talks about what kinds of companies he seeks to help and the misconceptions of venture capitalists.
Tags: Redpoint Ventures, Fouad ElNaggar, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, venture, capital, firm, high-tech, start-ups, Netflix, Tivo, Juniper Networks, misconceptions
Videos 2008-04-18
The Founder's Dilemma
The Idea in Brief Most entrepreneurs want to make pots of money and run the show. But Wasserman reveals that it's tough to do both. If you don't figure out which matters most to you, you could...
Tags: In Brief, Harvard Business Review, Noam Wasserman, Financing Startups, Finance, Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Venture, Entrepreneur, Business, Investor, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Articles 2008-04-01
Is a Good Face Good for Business?
Facial coding, the idea that your expression gives away what you are really thinking, was put forth some 40 years ago by psychologist Paul Ekman . But does it work in business? Can you tell what CEOs really think, just by looking, or are they so carefully trained that...
Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, CEO, Corporate Insurance, Homeland Security, Business Security, Venture Capital, Food & Beverage, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Government, Finance, Financing Startups, Manufacturing, Marketing, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-02-26
You Pick, I Review
Harvard Business School Press sent me its Spring 2008 catalog. Tell me what you'd like to see reviewed. Books on the way include: Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures -- and Yours, by Tarun Khanna ...
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Media, India, China, Michael Fitzgerald, Financing Startups, Finance, Venture Capital, Marketing, Management
Blog posts 2008-01-09
Courting Key Influencers May Be Wasted Effort
Oprah's been hitting the campaign trail with Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and Chuck Norris is stumping for Mike Huckabee in hopes that the celebrity support will sway wavering voters (trust us, this has something to do with business). However, recent research suggests that celebrity endorsement won't help the candidates...
Tags: Marketing, Jessica Stillman, Financing Startups, Finance, Marketing Research, Venture Capital, Oprah, Celebrity, Professor
Blog posts 2007-12-14
Benchmark Capital's Dave Goldberg: How VCs Predict the Future
Dave Goldberg is an entrepreneur-in-residence at VC firm Benchmark Capital, where he works to evaluate and identify investment opportunities. Benchmark has has $3.5 billion in capital under management and has invested in such companies as Friendster and Linden Research, Inc., the creator of Second Life. In this interview, Goldberg talks...
Tags: Financial Accounting, opportunity, Innovation, investment, start-ups, Dave Goldberg, Advertising & Promotion, Venture Capital, Marketing, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Benchmark Capital, music, Social Networking
Videos 2007-11-05
The Importance of Connecting with Colleagues
One of my managers once told me I wasn’t at work to make friends. But connecting with co-workers is a key to fruitful work environments. In Fired up or Burned Out, author Michael Stallard begins by citing Gallup research showing that only three in ten Americans are engaged in their...
Tags: Financing Startups, Finance, Investment, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Stallard, Gallup, Vision, Board, Employee, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2007-10-24
VC-backed Firms Outpace Average Firm by 133%
In the midst of all the congressional hoopla about a new law that may raise the carried interest tax rate, a number of firms are defending their own -- most notably venture capital firms. In the battle to slay the anti-carried interest camp, the National Venture Capital Association has pulled...
Tags: Jonathan Haeber, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Investment, Venture Capital, Taxes, NVCA, Tax, Private Equity, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Lobbyist, VC-backed company
Blog posts 2007-10-15
Selling Shares of Your Business
People sell shares of a company to raise funds or to eventually sell the company. Shares can be sold to angel investors, venture capitalists, individuals, and other businesses. These different types of buyers will have different motives for buying, expectations of the dividends they may receive, and intentions for selling...
Tags: repayment, incorporation, shareholder, income, financial, stock, Business, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Angel Investor, IPO, Investor, Equity, Dividend, BNET Editorial, Financing Startups, Finance, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting
Articles 2007-09-27
Venture Capitalists Look Beyond Silicon Valley
There's nothing surprising about venture capitalists investing in start-up Web 2.0 companies. Investment in Web 2.0 companies during the first half of 2007 is up 7% from the same period last year and everyone's talking about social networking sites and wikis. What is surprising is where these companies are based....
Tags: Web 2.0, Investment, Venture Capital, CNNMoney.com, Site, Social Networking, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-09-17
Danone's China Venture Falls Apart
In China, Wahaha means the child who laughs. It also happens to be the name of China's largest beverage maker, but no one's laughing there. Zong Qinghou, Wahaha's chairman, just resigned over the ongoing dispute with Group Danone, which last week filed suit against Wahaha. In 1996,...
Tags: Financing Startups, Finance, Manufacturing, Marketing, Venture Capital, Food & Beverage, Branding, Danone, China, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-06-12
Management Secrets of Idea-Friendly Companies
How do big companies keep new ideas from falling through the cracks? IBM, Toyota, and Motorola reveal their techniques for smart idea management. IBM Goal: Collaboration among many employees Technique: Online platform that acts as a chat room for ideas ...
Tags: Corporate Law, Brian Libby, Business Operations, Financing Startups, Finance, Management, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Idea, Toyota Motor Corp., IBM Corp., Motorola Inc., ThinkPlace, Innovation, Team Management, Jim O'Connor
Articles 2007-06-05
Video: V.C. Funding 101
Venture capital is the lifeblood of a start-up company. Paul Holland of Foundation Capital runs through the gauntlet of steps a prospective company typically goes through to get funded, and explains what capital investors are looking for. Host: Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital ...
Tags: BNET staff, Marketing, Financing Startups, Finance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Video, Start-up Company, Venture Capital, Gauntlet, Corporate Communications
Blog posts 2006-07-13
Initial Public Offerings And Organizational Governance: Evidence From Joint Ventures And Acquisitions
Drawing upon information economics, this paper investigates firms' decisions to form joint ventures with or acquire newly-public firms. The core issue this paper examines is whether signals sent during IPOs Initial Public Offerings have efficiency implications for organizational governance choices concerning issuing firms. The focus is on issuers' associations with...
Tags: Acquisition, Firm, University Of North Carolina, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2005-12-01
The Role Of The Underwriter In The IPO Aftermarket
IPO Initial Public Offering underwriters dominate aftermarket trading but often follow rather than lead in price discovery. This suggests that the underwriter shares a certification, external monitoring and signaling role with aftermarket brokers, venture capitalists and founder-owners retaining equity. This paper investigates the cross-sectional determinants of the role of the...
Tags: Underwriter, IPO, Venture Capital, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2005-11-01
What IPO Order Flow Reveals About The Role Of The Underwriter
IPO Initial Public Offering underwriter-brokers dominate aftermarket trading but often follow rather than lead in price discovery. This suggests that the underwriter shares a certification, external monitoring, and signaling role with aftermarket brokers, venture capitalists, and founder-owners retaining equity. This paper investigates the cross-sectional determinants of the role of the...
Tags: Underwriter, IPO, Venture Capital, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups
White papers 2006-05-01
Post-IPO Operating Performance, Venture Capitalists And Mark Timing
This paper analyses the post-issue operating performance of 304 venture-backed and 264 non-venture UK IPOs 1985-2000. IPOs Initial public offering exhibit a significant five-year, post-issue operational decline over the full sample period. However this is driven by a particularly poor performance by venture-backed and non-venture IPOs during the 1998-2000 bubble...
Tags: Performance, University Of Essex, IPO, Venture Capital, Performance Management, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-11-01
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