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7 Advantages For Being A Socially Responsible Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, thirty-five states, starting with Maryland way back in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? Why Build a Services Business in the First Place?

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Confessions Of A VC: Crap – Why I Passed On Uber’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Our mutual friend mentioned to me over breakfast during the late summer of 2010 that Uber was raising a seed funding round. He is now a Senior Executive at Uber, although back in 2010 he had no formal affiliation with the company. essentially they are a service that turns the downtime of town car/limo services into cab service.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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7 Benefits For Startups Joining The B-Corp Movement

Startup Professionals Musings

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, seventeen states, starting with Maryland in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010. Nearly 50% say they will increase their activity levels in 2010 (hallelujah!) He thinks demand for IPOs (from buyers) remains high while supply is low because Sarbanes Oxley amongst other things has made less CEOs want to go public.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

Tech Zulu Event

Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. He references CIO Bernard Golden’s argument, made in The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create , that while some roles may disappear altogether, others will remain, but in much less demand.