Every five years or so, venture capitalists develop a new mantra with regard to their investment philosophies. In the late 1980′s and early 1990’s the mantra was “synergy”.  Towards the turn of the century and shortly thereafter, the new mantra was “scalability”.  Today, in a risk adverse environment, venture capitalists’ new mantra is “capital efficiency”.  [...]
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“Ready, fire, aim” is the approach most entrepreneurs take to developing their start-up companies from the ground up.  They do not do any planning or have a vision in which to base their follow-on strategy and tactics to develop their “concept” or “idea” into a fundable business proposition.  This approach to initiating your start-up company [...]
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Semantic Search: An Interview with Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Peter Mika is a researcher with Yahoo! Research in Barcelona, Spain. He will be in San Diego on June 19, 2010, to present a talk, The future face of Search is Semantic for Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!. In light of Peter’s talk, Barbara Starr — organizer of [...]
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Most, if not all, entrepreneurs hope to take the short and quick path to success.  This approach to success usually relies on hitting a homerun your first time up.  While not only unrealistic, this swinging for the fences strategy is not the most likely path to success for your start-up company.  Why?  Because from the [...]
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To be successful, all start-up companies need to differentiate themselves in the market with their technology, product or service offering.  In addition, these same start-up companies also need to create a long-term sustainable advantage in the market that is defendable.  One way to accomplish this is to develop, file, and prosecute a number of broad [...]
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