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Comme le coucou qui sort de l’horloge toutes les heures, voici venir la nouvelle édition du Guide des Startups qui suit à peu près un rythme de publication de deux éditions par an. Seizième édition et six ans d’existence pour ce guide, mazette !
Guide des Startup, seizième édition
Hitting 20M App Downloads, Azumio Releases Sleep Time To Measure Your Zs (From Your iPhone) | TechCrunch
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Azumio isn’t exactly a household name when it comes to mobile apps, so one might be surprised to learn that, collectively, their apps have pulled in over 20 million downloads.
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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?
I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. There is a healthy tension between profits & growth.
Don't give bullshit advice - humbledMBA
I chatted with a young guy last night about his new startup idea. He's got a vision for a social commerce app with a few cool spins on it.
You may know Dan Porter as the CEO of the free multiplayer gaming and chat platform, OMGPOP, which specializes in making social games, like Puppy World, for example. What you may not know is that, for the last year, Porter has been managing and curating a free, weekly newsletter called Inside Startups. The mission of Inside Startups, Porter says, was to move people from larger companies and corporations into up-and-coming startups in an effort to galvanize the New York City startup scene.
Looking To Hire Top Talent For Your Startup? Here Are Five Things You Should Know. | TechCrunch
But mostly they come, with all the élan of Dorothy on her way to Oz, for a chance at some face time with Reid G.
Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech - NYTimes.com
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Nous n’avons pas les mêmes valeurs… | Création d'entreprise ! | Guilhem Bertholet
Toute entreprise qui commence à grossir met en place à un moment un jeu de « valeurs clés », affirmées plus ou moins habilement, transpirant plus ou moins à l’extérieur de l’entreprise.Why? Because, to paraphrase the Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati, Wall Street, which was originally designed to finance “creative destruction” (the creation of new industries and products to replace old ones), fell into the habit in the last decade of financing too much “destructive creation” (inventing leveraged financial products with no more societal value than betting on whether Lindy’s sold more cheesecake than strudel).
One Country, Two Revolutions - NYTimes.com
In times gone by, marketing was all about massive names and expensive campaigns
BBC News - The big businesses learning how to think small
Bon, comme vous êtes déjà plus de 7000 [edit au 20 déc. 2011] 13000 à avoir téléchargé mon ebook sur le business-plan (et d’ailleurs merci pour vos bons retours !)
Ecrire un business-plan – l’ebook gratuit ! | Création d'entreprise ! | Guilhem Bertholet
The three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) founders of the Rocket Internet incubator in Berlin, are a phenomenon.
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Four years ago I was sharing an small apartment in Vermont with a closeted American Idol fanboy, making a near minimum wage sewing Nike swooshes onto gym bags.
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