Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 15)

By guest author Tony Scott The ODM Model – Will It Happen for Software? Tony: Building products faster at a lower cost because you have in-depth expertise in a market segment and are componentizing part of the product development process – it’s going back to your example of Flextronics for software. Will we see ODMs

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Catching Up On Readings: 4G, 3D

This week’s Tech Stocks series offers a peek at the future of new communications and animation technologies with coverage of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Dolby. Click on the full article to read this series and the rest of the week’s posts.

Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 4)

SM: What were they numbers like for your Park City gallery? What did real estate cost, and what were you trying to make in terms of revenue? TM: We had incredible traffic because we were on Main Street and we stayed open late. We were still open after dinner, so we had people coming in

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any advice for angel-backed companies? What should they do to increase their chances of success? Randy: Number one, they need to truly integrate and meet the members of the forums that they may be going to and in their markets they know of.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What level of experience do you require entrepreneurs to have? Is that important? Randy: Yes, we really do like experience, as I alluded to earlier. We like the management team to have past experience. Generally, if they have revenue associated with their company when they come

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How much of a company’s equity do you usually seek? Randy: It’s usually about 25% of the company is being given out in the form of equity for our capital. Irina: What’s the typical return you seek and over what period of time?

TechCrunch: Is Entrepreneurship Just About The Exit?

Vivek Wadhwa asks a great question on TechCrunch: Is Entrepreneurship Just About The Exit? Vivek and I had a long discussion on this topic last weekend, and he extensively references that discussion in the piece. You have also read my recent piece, Built To Enjoy, on this topic. Vivek offers a number of good examples.

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Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 14)

By guest author Tony Scott The Challenge of Internal Cultural Change Tony: From what we’ve heard and what I’ve seen with my executive search clients, to find that kind of person who can culturally work in a consultative, solutions-driven environment, you need to find people with both expertise and a positive, proactive mindset. One of

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