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Feb
5th

Sun

Crash Dev: Top three reasons NOT to do a local online startup (and what to do instead)

Insightful post by Judy’s Book former CEO Chris Devore on the pitfalls of local internet businesses.

Tags: internet local entrepreneurship yelp

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Feb
3rd

Fri

Apple Inc - today, the world’s most valuable technology corporation - went public at a valuation of just $1.19 billion in 1980, equivalent to 25 times revenue and 102 times earnings. Google - to which Facebook is most often measured against in terms of potential - was valued at $23 billion at the time of its 2004 debut, or 218 times earnings.

— Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook | Reuters

Tags: facebook internet entrepreneurship apple google ipo

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Jan
30th

Mon

Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really? - Bruce Gibney and Ken Howery - Harvard Business Review

Some perspective on the risk of a corporate career vs entrepreneurship

Tags: entrepreneurship HBS HBR

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Dec
18th

Sun

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that.

— Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos Talk Long Term and Mean It - NYTimes.com

Tags: entrepreneurship amazon jeff bezos internet competition

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Dec
11th

Sun

CEO of Forrester Research:

From web to apps
POst SOcial and the saturation of social web
Social enterprise

Three Social Thunderstorms George Colony Forrester Research #leweb

(Source: youtube.com)

Tags: social internet entrepreneurship

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Dec
3rd

Sat

As bad as their politics has got, Americans could always comfort themselves with the knowledge that their business leaders, entrepreneurs and workers were the most dynamic and innovative in the world. But they may look back on 2011 and see three events that undermine that story: the downgrade of America’s credit rating; the last flight of the space shuttle; and Mr Jobs’s death.

— The death of Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs and America’s decline | The Economist

Tags: entrepreneurship US

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Nov
23rd

Wed

Facebook early investor Jim Breyer of Accel venture capital talking about some of his views.

Tags: entrepreneurship venture capital jim breyer

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Nov
7th

Mon

Y Combinator Funding Application

Tags: entrepreneurship dropbox ycombinator internet