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By now you probably have heard that Zynga, the creator of massively popular social games like Farmville and CityVille, is planning its Initial Public Offering. It’s widely believe that Zynga will push for (and probably will receive) a valuation as high as $20 billion. As a result, Zynga founder Mark Pincus will finally join the [...]

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I recently talked to a start-up. This company has been around for a while, but it’s super secretive. It has a bare bone web site. You can find very little useful information about the company. Its address is list as a PO BOX number. Their physical address is not available anywhere online. When I discussed [...]

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Before you join the next "exciting, top venture capital firms backed" start-up, you need to understand liquidation preference and preferred participation. As I wrote in Don’t get screwed! Startup questions you should ask before you  join a startup — you could totally be screwed by a start-up. You need to know the details of the [...]

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The Secret of Profitability (SOP) is a high profile start-up in the Silicon Valley. It’s "high profile" because it has two of the most famous venture capitalists on earth sitting on its board. it had received $100 million in venture funding. its senior management consists of super stars from major internet companies such as Google [...]

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One thing about being a dad of two little ones is that I have learned a lot about strollers. Let me tell you: there are a lot of similarities between the stroller world and the car market. The low-end of stroller market is like Honda Civics: reliable, sturdy, and plain. (Disclaimer: I have nothing against [...]

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I went to Best Buy the other day to look for a screen shield for our GPS Receiver. The Best Buy sales person showed me the ZAGG invisible Shield specifically made for the particular GPA model I owned. I also learned that ZAGG makes two kinds of screen shields: the soft ones, and the hard [...]

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I had an interesting conversation with a friend this weekend. John has been working at a technology company for eight years. He absolutely hates his job now. In fact, he wanted to leave immediately. But, because of stock vesting schedule, he has to wait for a few months. This company’s stock has been performing well. [...]

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In an earlier post, I talked about how much I enjoyed the high-quality service and convenience of Amazon Fresh, Amazon.com’s grocery delivery service. Today, I want to share with you a few demand generation lessons I learned from Amazon Fresh. To generate more sales, a retailer has a few options: have existing customer buy more [...]

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Lately I keep hearing stories about how employees got screwed because start-up management were very secretive about the companies stock options. In this economy, a lot of start-up are struggling. VC firms have the upper hand in negotiation. In a lot of cases, the deal terms are very unfavorable to existing stock holders as well [...]

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Today I’d like to share with you part II of my interview with Jessica Clark, co-founder of Suds Homemade Soap. If you haven’t read part I, please read “We have lost our beautiful home, our new cars, and in some respect, our dignity, but … “ an inspirational story of two Michigan mom entrepreneurs first. [...]

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