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Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups – Entrepreneur.com

Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession. Hire people who you think will love working there. Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales. Know your core competencies and focus on [...]

10 business models that rocked 2010 – by @nickdemey (boardofinnovation.com)

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Is this the start of the second dotcom bubble? | Business | The Observer

Alan Patrick, co-founder of technology consultancy Broadsight, says we are at the beginning of another bubble and that the first breaths have been blown: “A bubble is defined by too much money chasing assets, greater production of those assets, then the need to find a greater fool to buy them.” So far, money is chasing [...]

1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world. It’s even worse because [...]

How a foosball table can kill your startup – part two

If we tracked the usage of Guitar Hero setups, foosball tables, pinball machines, etc., we would see that utilization of them is not really worth their cost and the rent we pay for the space they take up. Often the toy/activity choice we make is driven by what we personally like. I highly doubt anyone [...]