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Cash is a fact, profit is an opinion
Apologies in advance: If you’re fluent in the language of accounting, please skip to the bonus Verizon iPhone feature at the end. What I’m about to describe will strike you as oversimplified and could...
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A forgettable election campaign just wrapped up: François Hollande is now the President of the French Republic. Time spent on foreign issues during last week’s one-on-one television debate mirrored the...
View ArticleSchibsted’s High Octane Diversification
The Norwegian media group Schibsted now aggressively invests in startups. The goal: digital dominance, one market at a time. France is in next in line. Here is a look at their strategy. This thought...
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BuzzFeed: An Open Letter to Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz, the erudite cofounder of the Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) firm is a respected heavyweight in the Silicon Valley’s venture capital milieu. But A16z’s $50m BuzzFeed funding looks...
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Dailymotion: The Cautionary Tale Of A Gallic “Nugget”
No one should be happy with the sale of French video streaming Dailymotion to Vivendi. Not buyers, nor the the startup’s management team –and certainly not the venture capital community. (First of two...
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Funding Innovation: France’s Image Problem
The French government didn’t foresee the negative ripple effect of its interventionism in the Dailymotion case. VCs and entrepreneurs are appalled. It’s time to rethink the French way of funding...
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Three Slides Then Shut Up – The Art Of The Pitch
This week, we look at pitches, at the stories entrepreneurs tell investors. The best pitches aren’t really pitches. Dumping one’s entire body of knowledge on easily bored investors won’t help. The...
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Three Slides? You’re Nuts! OK. How About Seven?
In practice, the three slide pitch may be impossibly concise. This week, we’ll look at the seven slide variation. After last week’s Monday Note, Three Slides Then Shut Up – The Art of The Pitch, I was...
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Why Europe Hates US Internet Giants In Six Charts
Here in Europe, America’s domination of the digital world is met with unabated detestation. Today’s first of two articles looks at the facts. This summer, as I prepared lectures for my foreign...
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Entrepreneurs: Hire Your VC
Light Summer reading before the coming September fireworks: In the line of Monday Notes about Performance Reviews, Hiring and Firing, and Respecting Your Salespeople, I suggest a better posture for...
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