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Solving the “marketplace” business model

http://blog.asmartbear.com/marketplace-business-model.html A sizable percentage of Capital Factory startup submissions take the form of the “marketplace.” In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years have followed this business model. Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I’m constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. Maybe it’s the “go big or go home” mentality?

Startup Lessons Learned – 1 ano depois | Aceleradora

http://aceleradora.net/2011/05/24/startup-lessons-learned-1-ano-depois/ Esse é o primeiro de uma série de posts sobre a Startup Lessons Learned 2011 , uma conferência dedicada ao ensino de práticas de lean startups. Para começar, quer investir 1:20h do seu tempo tentando entender como a startup americana média evolui ao longo de 12 meses de trabalho? Separei dois exemplos bem diferentes que usam técnicas de customer development, foco no MVP e busca do product/market fit. Veja os vídeos na ordem, e se possível, quebre em 2 sessões de 2 videos cada. Food on the Table Veja a apresentação do Food on The Table, ainda no começo do projeto em 2010:

5 Characteristics of Great Company Names

http://www.inc.com/ss/5-characteristics-of-great-company-names#0 While a clever and appropriate name can impress your fan base, choosing an unoriginal, dull name communicates a lack of enthusiasm towards your new business venture. However, it's never too late to change a company's name; some of the best businesses have changed their names when a better idea came around. (Xerox used to be called The Halloid Company; Nissan was Datsun; and LG shortened its name from Lucky and GoldStar Co.) A great name can hit in an instant or be a result of careful tweaking over time. While there is no magic formula to creating a good company name, here are five common motifs found across all great company names.

The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters - pmarca *ARCHIVE* - bit.ly/1z2b3V

This post is all about the only thing that matters for a new startup. But first, some theory: If you look at a broad cross-section of startups -- say, 30 or 40 or more; enough to screen out the pure flukes and look for patterns -- two obvious facts will jump out at you. First obvious fact: there is an incredibly wide divergence of success -- some of those startups are insanely successful, some highly successful, many somewhat successful, and quite a few of course outright fail. http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-startups-part-4-the-only
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-software-startup-how-do-i-allocate-ownership-fairly#23326

equity - Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?

This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world's most canonical answer to this question. Hopefully in the future when someone on answers.onstartups asks how to split up the ownership of their new company, you can simply point to this answer. The most important principle: Fairness, and the perception of fairness, is much more valuable than owning a large stake. Almost everything that can go wrong in a startup will go wrong, and one of the biggest things that can go wrong is huge, angry, shouting matches between the founders as to who worked harder, who owns more, whose idea was it anyway, etc. That is why I would always rather split a new company 50-50 with a friend than insist on owning 60% because "it was my idea," or because "I was more experienced" or anything else.

startupi » Rapidinho pra fechar a semana: dizem que, no mundo das startups

http://startups.ig.com.br/2011/rapidinho-pra-fechar-a-semana-dizem-que-no-mundo-das-startups-2/ Retomando a série de colunas com breves comentários “ Dizem que, no mundo das startups “, peço licença para comentar rapidinho umas coisas do nosso mundo das startups no Brasil. Venture capital: Paul Jozefak, da Neuhaus Partners, publicou uma série de boas e más notícias sobre o futuro do venture capital na Europa . Achei que muita coisa ali tem a ver com o mercado brasileiro.

Startups: Casos de uso | Marcelo Toledo

http://marcelotoledo.com/2011/10/03/startups-casos-de-uso/ Estou com uma estória bem fresca na cabeça que vai ajudar a ilustrar o tema casos de uso. O Man in the Arena é um vídeo podcast que fala sobre empreendedorismo, se você não conhece, deveria conhecer e assinar, o Leo Kuba e o Miguel Cavalcanti literalmente dão um show em cada programa. O episódio #23 foi demais, eles conversaram com a Bel Pesce , uma Brasileira que se formou no MIT e tem uma história brilhante. São poucas as pessoas que eu vejo falar com tanta sinceridade, empolgação e brilho nos olhos como ela. No meio do programa ela conta sobre a sua startup, a lemon.com , que digitaliza recibos de pagamentos através de um aplicativo no celular e organiza na web.

How Mint Found Startup Success By Solving Real Problems

http://mashable.com/2011/09/27/mint-aaron-patzer-interview/ Staying on top of your finances can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Aaron Patzer knows that. That's why he developed Mint.com, a free personal finance and money management platform that offers a bird's eye view of your financial situation and offers advice on how to improve it.
No primeiro ano em que morei em Sampa, conheci duas revistas que mexeram comigo, ícones de duas realidades: a ResultsON (expert em Geração Y, realizadora da ONweek) e a HSM Management (expert em pensamento de gestão, realizadora da Expo Management). Hoje sou co-curador de um evento feito em conjunto pelas duas publicações e quero levar você para falar neste novo ambiente em que gestão corporativa encontra inovação startup. Envie email: para diego arroba startupi. com. br com assunto “Quero falar na ExpoY” contendo seus links + skype sugerindo um tema para um painel e como seria sua participação (o que você iria defender, ou atacar, e de que forma). Veremos o que consigo montar

startupi » Sua startup no ExpoY, Festival de Cultura de Negócios Y

http://startups.ig.com.br/2011/sua-startup-no-expoy-festival-de-cultura-de-negocios-y/#more-7649

Painel Endeavor de Internet

http://www.painelinternetendeavor.com.br/Pages/Default.aspx Descrição: Erro de um aplicativo no servidor. As atuais configurações de erro personalizadas para esse aplicativo impedem a exibição remota dos detalhes do erro do aplicativo (por motivos de segurança). No entanto, eles poderiam ser exibidos por navegadores em execução no servidor local. Detalhes: Para ativar os detalhes desta mensagem de erro específica para exibição em computadores remotos, crie uma marca dentro de um arquivo de configuração "web.config" localizado no diretório raiz do aplicativo de web atual. Essa marca deve ter o atributo "mode" definido como "Off".

Findings: Search and email remain the top online activities

A May 2011 Pew Internet survey finds that 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on the Web, including 59% who do so on a typical day. This places search at the top of the list of most popular online activities among U.S. adults. But it is not alone at the top. Among online adults, 92% use email, with 61% using it on an average day. Since the Pew Internet Project began measuring adults’ online activities in the last decade, these two behaviors have consistently ranked as the most popular. Even as early as 2002, more than eight in ten online adults were using search engines, and more than nine in ten online adults were emailing.

A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency

‘”Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again. “Mankind was my business.
Marketing | 07/07/2011 06:10 Confira dicas de um especialista para dar um nome vencedor para o seu negócio Daniela Moreira, de 4. Fuja dos modismos Fuja dos clichês que indicam “modernidade” no momento da escolha do nome, pois se o negócio vingar e durar muitos anos, ele pode acabar ficando datado.

7 dicas para escolher o nome certo para sua empresa - PME

Cupertino is where Apple is. Palo Alto is where Facebook is. Mountain View is where Google is. Geographically speaking, then, Y Combinator, let's call it YC, is in Googletown, a flat suburban place dotted with low bungalows and bathed almost always in sunlight. On a side street here, more of a service road, really, sits the small building that houses the company.

The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues

Sacred Cow Dung: What is a "Scalable" Business?

« MYTH: Physicians are Resistant to New Technologies | Sacred Cow Dung Home | RULE OF THE WEEK: The success of a web service is inversely proportional to the secrecy that surrounded its development. » June 18, 2005 What is a "Scalable" Business? For Venture Investors: Scalability is King While both scalable and non-scalable businesses can be “successful” and grow — only scalable businesses can achieve the high-growth characteristics required to command market multiples attractive to venture investors. So what is a “scalable” business?