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Startup

The rise of the ‘Uberized economy’ and what it means for business

The world of labor is changing. Through laptops and mobile devices, a new world of services is becoming more accessible. The platforms enabling such services are also providing new homes for a rising entrepreneurial class of worker who is no longer being defined by the cubical. It’s becoming clear, that in a not too distant future, our companies and corporations will be built on virtual networks vs marble lobbies.

While we have seen an explosion of “Uberized” labor marketplaces that make things like grocery delivery and home cleaning a mobile click away, labor marketplaces are quickly moving in more sophisticated directions.

While the oDesks of the world have defined “virtual labor” for the past decade, a new generation of virtual labor marketplaces is rising – even in the most old-school industries – and unlocking highly skilled services in a whole new way.

Our vision of the future is that these vertical marketplaces will make even the most white-collar professions accessible to every individual and business, and will provide new homes for highly skilled individuals where the traditional corporate life is no longer a fit or an option.

http://thenextweb.com/

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Startup

The Startup Story You Didn’t Hear About Billion Dollar Company Eloqua: It Was Four Days From Going Bankrupt

Hear stories from the gritty frontline of entrepreneurship with Eloqua Co-founder and the CEO of Influitive, Mark Organ.

A self-described serial entrepreneur, Influitive is Mark’s 7th business. Mark dove into entrepreneurship head first after realizing he couldn’t hold down a regular job. His first ventures gave him exposure to everything from bootstrapping a business to generating leads and managing a board of directors. Mark survived the struggles of getting Eloqua off the ground, later seeing it sell for nearly a billion dollars.

Read more : http://sumo.ly/Ejt

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    First, let’s figure out why we are talking about funding as something you need to do. This is not a given. The opposite of funding is “bootstrapping,” the process of funding a startup through your own savings. There are a few companies that bootstrapped for a while until taking investment,…
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  • Lessons Every Startup Can Learn from Uber’s Growth
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trend

Trends coming in 2014.

This is the third year in a row that I’ve asked friends and colleagues of mine to make predictions for the coming year.In the past, when I’ve done these predictions, I’ve turned to mostly traders who follow public stocks.  The predictions have been about the best long ideas, the best short ideas, and the estimated return of the S&P 500 in the coming year.

Rather than continue with that format, I decided to change it this year.

Instead of market predictions, I asked people for their best “sleeper ideas” for 2014.  A sleeper idea is something that few people see coming.  It’s a little followed idea that suddenly goes mainstream.

Read more on http://www.forbes.com/

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  • Google’s mission is to organize the worlds’ information, but they won’t stop there
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    ( Source : http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2015/02/03/google-enters-the-collaborative-economy-in-a-big-way/ ) Here comes Google, with a series of five market moves injecting them as a central player for the collaborative economy. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information. But it doesn’t just start and stop there. They also want to organize the world’s logistics, commerce, local…
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  • A Simple Framework To Recognize A Great Business Idea
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    (Source : http://outthinker.com/outthinkerblog/?p=250 ) Picture this scenario. A bomb has exploded. You’ve been working for the last two weeks in a remote part of Mongolia. Your boss promised this short-term assignment would prove your commitment and accelerate your career. But now, unsure of what happened or which coworkers were injured or…
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Economy, Startup

V.C. Firm Names Robot To Board of Directors

In case you needed more proof that all our jobs will one day be occupied by robots, a Hong Kong V.C. firm has just named an artificial intelligence tool to its board of directors. The company’s also insisting the tool will be treated as an “equal” to the other board members.

Sure, it’s all probably a bid for press — but it’s still pretty funny.

A press release from Aging Analytics UK, a company that conducts research on biotechnology and regenerative medicine, made two announcements this morning: first, that they’ve launched an new A.I. tool called VITAL (Validating Investment Tool for Advancing Life Sciences); and second, that they’ve licensed VITAL to Hong Kong V.C. firm Deep Knowledge Ventures, where the tool will become an “equal member of its Board of Directors.”

Yes, that means it’ll have exactly the same power as a living, breathing, presumably college-educated human being.

Read more at http://betabeat.com/

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Startup

Dear Montebourg, Please Don’t Kill French Startup Acquisitions

Arnaud Montebourg has a huge responsibility now. He’s France’s minister of the economy, industrial renewal, and the digital economy. He just signed a decree that allows the government to prevent acquisitions of French companies by foreign firms in multiple industries, including “electronic communications”. As a reminder, he’s the one who killedDailymotion’s acquisition by Yahoo. Does this portend that he’s going to kill more startup acquisitions in the future?

Originally, this decree had nothing to do with startups. General Electric wants to acquire Alstom, and Montebourg wants to avoid handing out this French company to American shareholders. To be fair, other countries, including the U.S., have similar tactics and block acquisitions from time to time.

Yet, the decree also talks about potential acquisitions in the “electronic communications” industry — whatever it means. As Montebourg has set a bad precedent with Dailymotion, one could fear that he won’t let French entrepreneurs sign with American tech companies.

Yahoo wanted to pay $270 million (€200 million) to acquire YouTube competitor Dailymotion. It would have been a great exit for the startup. “Dailymotion is considered a marquee company in France’s technology industry. Hence, Montebourg didn’t want to let it go to the Americans,” a source told TechCrunch at the time.

Read more here http://techcrunch.com/

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Success

VCs are focusing on companies that have already moved past the early stages of development.

Venture capitalists are spending their money on more established companies rather thanyoung startups, according to data from the first quarter of this year.

According to the latest MoneyTree report–which was put together by the National Venture Capital Association and consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers–there were only nine seed-stage investments in the Bay Area during the first quarter of this year–a 67 percent drop from the same period a year ago. Later-stage investments were up 17 percent from the year-earlier period, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

With so many companies launching due to lower barriers to entry, VCs are looking to invest in those that already have a solid customer base and a good market share, the Mercury News reported. “There is a lot of money being thrown into companies to scale. It’s turning into a war, and you had better be well funded and well armed,” Jeff Grabow, a venture capital expert at San Jose-based financial services Ernst & Young, told the outlet.

http://www.inc.com/

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Economy, Startup

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Square’s recent troubles are not exactly a secret. The Wall Street Journal published a detailed analysis on April 21, detailing Square’s financial troubles and its rapidly shrinking cash position. Square took on a $100 million debt financing option earlier this year, but even with that option, WSJ and The Verge reported that the company only had about nine months of operating cash before it hit “predetermined ‘cushion’ of funds set aside as a last resort.” To add to its woes, Square was called out on removing Square Wallet from the iTunes and Google Play stores today. While Square Wallet is not Square’s core business (I would argue Square Register with its dongle still is), the app was intended to be the next big thing in payments. While Square is repositioning its platform around its “Square Order” app, it is clear that the wallet app didn’t take off.

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Management

Successful Startups Lessons From The Programming World

Entrepreneurs will know that most startups are not successful most of the time. Our hiring isn’t quite right, our funds are often running out, we don’t know if we have achieved a good product-market fit, or if the pricing we decided is optimal! On an average day, an entrepreneur has his/her hands full with more than one such challenge. In a sense a startup’s job is to deal with failure… and systematically eliminate it so we can scale up a roughly error-free business model.

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/

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