Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2017

By Clint Greenleaf. This article was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. I’m a lucky guy. I tricked a beautiful, caring woman into marrying me; my three kids are healthy and often well-behaved; and most of my businesses have been successful, affording me a great lifestyle. But all of this luck leads me to one constantly nagging fear— that the trappings of this great life will yield unbalanced, bratty children who will grow up to become knuckleheads.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

I admit that my dad taught me this when I was just a fifteen–year old kid starting a business and negotiating with suppliers for the first time. But I learned it again and again in my various business lives. The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2017

For the nine years I’ve been a venture capitalist, there’s always been a buzzword of the year. Solomo (social local mobile). Mobile-first. Realtime. Big data. 2016 was the year of machine learning. Is ML just another wave to crash and dissipate on the trough of disillusionment ? I don’t think so. In this rare case, I think hype is masking quite a bit of true technical innovation.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2017

I just spent a weekend at a professional development retreat for venture investors. It wasn't about how to be better price negotiators or about tactics for getting dealflow. It was about investors trying to be better people. On that journey, there was honesty, and with honesty came pain, and eventually, acceptance. People cried. They asked for help and depended on each other for strength.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2017

By Angie Katselianos. Have you ever arrived at a crossroads on your path toward success and didn’t know which road to take? Business expert and author, Simon Sinek, has inspired myriad entrepreneurs—myself included—with “The Golden Circle” model. He explains that your “Why” is the purpose, cause or belief that drives you and is central to what you do and how you do it.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 23, 2017

Cisco announced yesterday it would acquire AppDynamics for $3.7B. We’ve analyzed AppDynamic’s growth and key metrics, because the business had filed its S-1 to go public. However, the management team and board changed plans and made history. By my estimate, AppDynamics is the fifth largest software acquisition in modern times. More astounding, the AppDynamics acquisition does set the absolute high water mark in one regard: acquisition multiple.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2017

By Rick Martinez. There is a lot of chatter these days about culture, strategy and how to hire. “A-players” for your company … but I’m a super-simple fella: I want to know all about Facebook and how to use it to my advantage. I don’t mean learn the best way to showcase the burrito I’m eating or post a silly meme. I mean: How do I use Facebook to actually grow my business?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market. Since then, many other types of software businesses have been created in new categories like agriculture technology and robotics.

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