InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! It’s an open competition that awards $100,000 and a year of management support to the most promising early stage nonprofit that is helping low-income Chicagoans to rise out of poverty. Project Impact is our answer to that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Well-known crowd-funding platforms on the Internet, led by Kickstarter and Indiegogo , have worked for years to provide non-equity “funding” for many startups, as outlined in my previous article Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Many people (including inside of YouTube) mistook this to mean that I was negative on YouTube itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Well-known crowd-funding platforms on the Internet, led by Kickstarter and Indiegogo , have worked for years to provide non-equity “funding” for many startups, as outlined in my previous article Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. Despite the relative dominance of product-oriented innovations, they seldom create sustainable competitive advantages. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As " [Tweet this quote].

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Rapidly and repeatedly hiring star employees is a competitive advantage. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. Her father was reading an article about Pipeline Fellowship in Bloomberg Business Week and he realized his daughter was an adult and she may be interested in angel investing. NON: I judge a lot of pitch competitions and speak at a lot of conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This article originally ran on PEHub. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. Fast forward to 2012 and none of these conditions hold. Just why does over-funding dampen returns?

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

According to a recent article in the Huffington Post , last year marked a new high for female CEOs in Fortune 500 companies, but the percentage big companies run by women is still less than 4%. The latest big-company addition was Ginni Rometty , who was promoted into both top titles at IBM in 2012. Both have their advantages.

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