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Gene Yoon has been a founder, startup executive, venture capitalist and lawyer over the last decade in Silicon Valley.
How to make your startup succeed where others have failed | VentureBeat
Corporate Charlatans: Seven Signs Your CEO Could Be Lying - DailyFinance
For stockholders, earnings conference calls offer a rare opportunity to hear about their companies straight from the senior executives. But while corporate leaders tend to paint glowing pictures of their companies' prospects, these optimistic futures sometimes turn out to be little more than wishful thinking and hot air. Faced with the possibility of C-suite dissembling, some investors have wondered how to determine the honesty of their executives -- and the safety of their investments.( Editor’s note: Scott Weiss is the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems.
20 rules of thumb for building a great startup culture | VentureBeat
Mike Maples Jr. , an early backer of popular web startups like Twitter and Digg, ended today’s Future of Funding event in San Mateo (co-sponsored by VentureBeat) with a passionate keynote urging attendees to either found or fund “Thunder Lizard” companies. Those are the companies that defy conventional venture wisdom, which says you either make small bets for a small payoff, or big investments for a big payoff, Maples said. Like Godzilla, Thunder Lizards start out small, but thanks to the power of technology, they’re soon crushing cars — or incumbent competitors.
Twitter, Digg investor: Be a Thunder Lizard, don’t sell to Google | VentureBeat
Five of the Best Product and Industrial Design Talks on TED | we
As TED tells us ‘Ideas are worth spreading’, TED is a annual conference which inspires huge numbers of people with great talks and speakers every year since 1984. The quality of each speaker is so high that you find yourself inspired each and every time, no speaker brings up a talk which isn’t relevant, their presentations are top class and will open up new areas of your mind for thought. I hope to show to you 5 of the best talks which discuss issues related to the disciplines of Product (& Industrial) design, design philosophy and future design thinking.
(Editor’s note: Javier Rojas is a managing director leading U.S. investment activities for Kennet Partners. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)