NYT: The Wisest Entrepreneurs Know How to Preserve Equity

There’s an excellent piece on the NYT today called The Wisest Entrepreneurs Know How to Preserve Equity by Steven M. Davidoff. You have heard me talk about this many times, including in this video, where I reinforced: Ownership Matters. Here are a few case studies from Davidoff’s article.

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Perception Management for Entrepreneurs: How to Be Seen as THE Authority in Your Industry

Guest post by Joel Garfinkle, from his book Getting Ahead:  Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level As an entrepreneur, [you have] an image and a reputation that are tied to the image and reputation of your company. When you improve the way you are perceived as an individual, you improve the

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In my research so far, I have not seen a lot of great offerings in the social media analytics space that do a good job of taking a lot of data. I agree with you that yes, the relationships can easily be struck with the firms that are producing data – the Twitters

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Democratizing Marketing Automation: Act-On CEO Raghu Raghavan (Part 7)

Sramana: How have you been ramping in terms of customers and revenue? Raghu Raghavan: We are tripling revenue year over year. When we closed our B round in November 2010, we had 70 customers. Today we have 480 customers. We closed 164 customers last quarter and we closed 130 the quarter before. The quality of

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Business Plan Competitions Can Fuel Local Entrepreneurship

By guest author Irina Patterson Would you like to run a co-branded business plan competition with 1M/1M? The winner will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to the 1M/1M premium program.

Joel Garfinkle

Joel Garfinkle is recognized as one of the top 50 coaches in the U.S., having worked with many of the world’s leading companies. He has worked as a consultant for two of the top consulting firms in the world: Ernst & Young in Hong Kong and Accenture in San Francisco. His clientele comprises a distinguished

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about that topic for a second. You’re absolutely right. That is a platform that is going to be very difficult for a startup company to bring to market. What’s happening is that there are several camps that are trying to do that and don’t have a full solution yet. Salesforce.com has

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Restructuring Capitalism

The following was first published as an op-ed by Sramana Mitra for Xconomy: In the fading months of 2011, we find ourselves in an uncertain world. On the one hand, America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, and the nation’s faith in free-market capitalism as its guiding principle has been shaken to the core.

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