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My mother's husband Tommy Head died suddenly this past Sunday at the age of 67. His death, the mourning of it, and the concurrent celebration of his life by family and friends were windows of wisdom into a life worth living.
Tommy's wake and funeral were attended by more than 1,500 people on cold, snowy New England days and nights. And this not for a man of any great wealth nor fame but for a man who above all else saw the sun rise brightly in his mood each morning and then shared its lifting rays with all he encountered before the day was done.
This easy glide of Tommy's life made all of our lives, easier. And easy, in life and in business, is highly under-rated.
For the 25 years I knew him, Tommy owned a small business - a real estate appraisal firm in Worcester, Massachusetts. Very many dinners at my mother's table were peppered with talk of the agonies and ecstasies of self-employment. Regulation, taxes, technology disruption, pricing pressure and that gripping feeling common to all entrepreneurs of being prey to forces beyond one's control.
But oh what a gift Tommy's small business was to him!
It gave him a way of life - one that allowed him to raise and educate 4 children. And it gave him the profound self-respect of being able to contribute as an earner, a spender, an employer and a taxpayer to his local and national communities.
And in his daily effort, compounded over 30 years and more, Tommy represented that highest form of American business life - the quiet, hard-working man. A man for whom business and career were not pursued instead of time for love and laughter with family and friends, but in addition to it.
I will remember Tommy as a man who worked hard and took time for the little, shining things - for the winks and the smiles and the moments in between.
For in the end, Tommy had that most profound of wisdoms of knowing that in life, we are measured as much by winning and losing as we are by how we play the game.
R.I.P. Tommy Head.
Jay Turo
Jay Turo
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When seeking breakout companies to back, here are four mega-trends for 2011:
1. Look for Companies That Harness the Power and Avoid the Danger of "Corporations of One." Never before in human history has the world afforded more opportunities for talented individuals to work for themselves, by themselves. Tools of virtual collaboration – email chief among them but also Skype, Google Apps, and inexpensive "cloud" project management software like Basecamp - have eliminated most of the collaboration advantages of the traditional corporate form.
The smart, modern company understands when to marshal this force – in the form of utilizing contractors to fulfill bite and mid-sized projects, and when to resist it.
How do they resist? Well, for starters they focus vigilantly on building distinct and equity – filled brands and strong barriers around their customers.
2. And Ones That Let Virtuality Touch Them, but not Kill Them. With the approaching universal adoption of email and SMS text-enabled smart phones, businesspeople worldwide are truly on line 24/7.
Books like Jason Fried's "Rework," Tony Schwarz' "The Way We're Working Isn't Working," John Freeman's "The Tyranny of E-mail," and Tim Ferris' "The 4-Hour Workweek" address from various angles the promises and drawbacks of virtual work.
A common theme is almost universal doubt regarding email and other tools of instant communication and the "react versus respond" culture they foster.
What to do about it? Well, in 2011 look for "end of email" company movements to gain steam and social currency, and to – blasphemy of blasphemies – for articles to proliferate re social networking mainstays Facebook and Twitter having "jumped the shark."
Companies that embrace this re-emerging "culture of the deliberate" will have the leg up where it really counts – in more thoughtful strategic positioning and consequently, more sustainable profits..
3. And Ones That Are Learning Organizations. The pressing need for organizations to innovate or perish, and of young workers equating quality work environments with ones offering intense personal and professional development almost makes the definition of a successful company as one that propels its people forward.
This company as a learning organization motif is an old one, but never before have the reductionist pressures of virtuality combined with young worker expectations made it so paramount for companies to either grow their people or see their businesses shrink.
4. And Finally, Look for Leaders that Channel Vince Lombardi. There is a fine line between an encouraging corporate culture and a permissive one. Inspired by the success of high accountability cultures like Amazon, Apple, and FedEx, smart investors are backing leaders that give BOTH pats and kicks on the backside.
In a paradoxical way, the typical, high encouragement environment in which most young people (i.e. the Millennials) were raised and educated has created in them a deep desire for structure, to be told exactly what is expected of them and the consequences for poor performance.
Leading "tough" like this is hard, draining work, but is a key and easy-to-identify quality in a company poised to breakout.
Find, back, and grow with companies that embody the above and 2011 will indeed be a VERY good year!
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#7. Lobby Congress To Pass Pro-Small Business Legislation. Simply reduce regulation and taxes on small business investment and watch America's entrepreneurs create all of the jobs America needs and more.
#6. Support your Local Neighborhood IPO. While you're at it, tell your congressional representative to make it easier for small businesses to access public capital. A huge part of the malaise of the U.S. economy can be attributed to the 75% decline in U.S. IPO volume since 2000. A simple and powerful fix –have Congress carve-out public offerings of under $100 million from the onerous requirements of Sarbanes – Oxley.
#5. Raise Your Standards. For yourself, your employees (and employer), your vendors, and your customers. Let's live and let live less, and take more strong stands for extraordinary results and effort from everyone in our orbits. Usually the most appreciated (and hardest) thing one can do for others is to challenge them to be their best. Walk this talk and demand and inspire others to do so too.
#4. Think Globally. American small businesses are woefully behind their corporate counterparts in their global business strategies and execution. The funny thing is that the Internet has made it EASY for small businesses to compete and win around the world. While just having a website is obviously far from enough, the ability to connect with and fulfill international customers at the click of a button remains one of the great wonders of our modern world.
#3. Video. We agree with Cisco's John Chambers when he says that digital video is the future of communications. If you're not already, get on Skype, and USE it along with other inexpensive and increasingly high-quality video chat and conferencing tools.
#2. Get a Coach. There is a reason why the Phil Jacksons, the Bill Belichicks, the Mike Krzyzewskis of the world are held in such high regard (and are so well-paid). Because they make great talent perform at their best.
While there is great variance in the quality of business and executive coaches, the best of them are hired by the world's top business leaders to help these already high performers be that much better. The modern business world is just too wildly competitive to succeed without help. Get it, and watch both the personal and professional return on time and investment multiply.
#1. Be Like Teddy. My biggest life hero is Teddy Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and great man of letters and of action. In fact, my wife and I named our youngest sonafter him. And, at 3 years old, little Teddy Turo, in his daily enthusiasms and heartbreaks, channels his great namesake's most famous quote:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Be like Teddy and may 2011 be the best year of all of our lives!!!
To your success,
Jay Turo
Jay Turo
If you aren't familiar with who Jason Fried is, you should be. Jason is the Founder of 37 Signals, makers of Basecamp, with over 3 million users and 2.8 million live projects, arguably the world's most popular project management software.
Jason is also the author of Rework, a New York Times bestseller on entrepreneurship, technology, and design.
Basecamp is the project management and collaboration tool of choice for the serious entrepreneur. In addition to being a fantastic piece of software (more on that in a bit), it is also a prototype of where all of the smart money in technology investing is these days.
Namely, on the cloud.
How ubiquitous is cloud, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) computing? Statistics that show the market for it growing to $160 billion next year only tell half of the story.
Just take any week of venture financings these last few years and you will find that almost all of the companies funded to be cloud-delivered software businesses.
Doubt me? Let's look at the venture financings from A – F from last week to make the point:
8D World (Woburn, MA), Developer of a virtual world for learners of English as a foreign or second language - $5.25 million. Cloud.
Abcast (Camas, WA), Operator of digital radio platform - $500 thousand. Not Cloud.
Apperian (Boston, MA), Maker of mobile applications - $500 thousand. Cloud.
Communication Intelligence Corp (Redwood City, CA), Supplier of electronic signature solutions for businesses - $2.2 million. Cloud.
DigitalTown (Burnsville, MN), Developer of a national network of online communities for high school students, alumni and boosters. $10 million. Cloud.
DiJiPop (Providence, RI), Provider of on-demand shopper marketing platform - $1 million. Cloud.
DocuSign (Seattle, WA), Provider of electronic signature technology - $27 million. Cloud.
Echo360 (Dulles, VA), Provider of Internet audio and video technologies - $1 million. Cloud.
Factual (Los Angeles, CA), Provider of collaborative data platform and web services -$25 million. Cloud.
FleetMatics (London, United Kingdom), Developer of GPS tracking applications for commercial fleets - $68 million. Cloud.
Fluent Mobile (Boston, MA), Developer of mobile marketing software - $5.5 million. Cloud.
Flurry (San Francisco, CA), - Provider of mobile analytics services - $15 million. Cloud.
For those counting at home, that's 10 out of 11.
And oh yes, then there are little companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter. All, at heart, cloud computing.
So what is it about Basecamp? In a sea of mediocrity, it stands out with its speed, its ease, and its elegance.
Basecamp Runs Fast. What is more frustrating for the modern consumer than waiting to log-on, for a server response?
More to the point is relative waiting. 15 years ago, on dial-up modems we had a certain expectation of speed. Today we simply rate one piece of cloud software against another.
Google to Yahoo. Facebook to LinkedIn. Expedia to Travelocity.
Basecamp runs Google fast and its speed alone makes it a joy to use.
Basecamp Runs Easy. Given the potential complexity of Basecamp's core application - namely to manage projects of all types and sizes, Basecamp runs easy. Its basics can be understood at signup, and its more advanced features in a few weeks of use.
Basecamp is Elegant. Fast and easy get you a seat at the table, elegance gets you customers for life.
Elegant is a word seldom-used when describing software because it is rarely built to please in a way that products in the traditional domain of elegance - luxury consumer goods - are.
One of the great wonders of modern living is that we can experience elegance viscerally at the movies or on TV, or via physical products like cars, shoes, and the like.
Now with software like Basecamp we can experience elegance in a manner that approaches the "singularity," where one's mind and spirit meshes with the machine.
Not in a dark science fiction sense, but with software like Basecamp in a manner that appeals to our best, most creative, collaborative, just plain old getting things done selves.
Basecamp has this kind of elegance.
And its existence is a testament to the entrepreneurial and design spirit that is Jason Fried.
He and his cloud creation Basecamp - fast, elegant, and easy-to-use - are modern treasures.
Find the Jason Fried's of the world before they are rich and famous. And back them and grow with them.
And you and the world will be better for it.
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America is getting its mojo back. Once one quiets the mind to the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business and economic news, one can hear the sound of the nation's entrepreneurial and risk-taking wheels turning.
Here are seven bold predictions for 2011:
#7. Convergence will Again be the New Buzzword. The prototype of a breakout technology company will continue to evolve from "geeks in a garage tinkering with transistors" to loosely - coupled gangs of media - savvy trendsetters that get the game of viral and cross - platform brand and buzz-building.
Doubt me? See Groupon, Zynga, and my favorite - Jessica Simpson's fashion empire – which now includes shoes, clothing, and fragrances, and is on track to gross more than $750 million this year.
#6. Venture Capital will Rise Again. Venture capitalists invested $4.8 billion in 780 deals in the third quarter of 2010. Before the "great deal crisis" of 2008 – 2010, venture capital quarterly funding averages were in the $7.5 billion and 1,000 deal range, or 60% greater than today.
Look for 2010 funding activity to get back to these numbers and beyond in the New Year.
Far more interesting as a mega-trend: the traditional U.S. technology startup has a FAR bigger addressable market than ever before in history.
With an additional ONE BILLION people (i.e. consumers) worldwide having entered the middle class since the turn of the century, and millions more entering it every month, the world has truly become the breakout startup's oyster. To illustrate, see Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, all of which have many more overseas than domestic members.
More than anything else, venture capitalists seek BIG scores, and the world has never offered more opportunities for innovative startups to breakout fast than it does right now.
#5 American Small Businesses will Finally take the Global Plunge. The Fortune 500 have understood for years that the real growth action is to be had overseas, and today make more than 50% of their profits outside the United States. Small businesses have been late to the party, but look for that to change in 2011.
The combination of vastly increasing purchasing power worldwide, an almost evermore depreciating dollar, and the increasing ease of cross-border transactions, will drive increasing U.S. small business exports.
This can take as simple a form as more overseas visitors and purchasers to U.S. small business websites, eBay stores and the like, to foreigners increasingly investing and providing the desperately needed growth capital to entrepreneurial America.
#4. The Extension of the Bush Tax Cuts, Combined with the Payroll Tax Break, will pass and be Highly Stimulative. Putting aside the long-term impact of the deficit, passing the proposed tax cuts before the New Year will set up 2011 to be a good economic year by all the big measures – GNP growth, employment, stock market performance, and business and consumer confidence.
A key added benefit – having Republicans and Democrats working together on a big economic issue will encourage the nation's businesses – who have cited political uncertainty again and again as a main holdback of investment and capex.
#3. Inflation will Creep up In 2011, and on Balance that's a Good Thing. On balance, a little inflation now would be a welcome relief to the nation's debtors, especially its homeowners. They would feel at least a nominal sense of equity and wealth in what is for most Americans their major asset.
And inflation should be good for stock prices too, as companies are usually able to raise prices faster than wages, leading to higher profits.
#2 The American Wage-Earner will Remain Under Siege. Rising inflation will only tighten the squeeze on the American wage-earner, who will see their real take home pay and sense of economic security continue to dwindle.
This is a very bad thing, and whether folks want to hear it or not, there is really very little government can do about it. Massive structural deficits at all levels of government simply make resources too strained.
As importantly, the realities of global competition aren't just growing more intense by the day.
One powerful mega-trend to follow: Look for more and more Americans to join the 200,000 that start new businesses every month. Why? Increasingly for the simple motivation of making ends meet.
#1. 2011 Will Be the Year of the Young (and the Young at Heart). The best qualities of youth – enthusiasm, flexibility of mind and spirit, and the over-riding desire to be inspired will continue to shape the brave new economic world order.
From youth by the millions leaving the countryside (smart phones in hand) to find their dreams in Shanghai, in Mumbai, in Sao Paulo, in Nairobi, to the young technocratic of Palo Alto, of Manhattan, of Santa Monica, of Moscow, the youth like Renée Zellweger's unforgettable character in the movie Jerry Maguire, are not so much looking for jobs as they are looking to be inspired.
And that inspiration, and it is a credit to their more open-minded than ever parents, is found in BOTH making a difference AND making a buck (and/or a rupee or a ruble).
Anti - business do-gooders they are surely not, but nor are they faceless and dreamless company men. Rather, their spirit is raised by big ideas.
By clean energy for all. By friendship and professional networks not limited by nationality, race, and creed.
By eliminating hunger in the world not via charity but via a combination of venture philanthropy, technology, and always - on global communication and awareness.
By healthcare breakthroughs of all types - diagnostic, prescriptive, and in cost and efficiency so that everyone gets great care when and where they need it.
And it will be the young and the young at heart that will move all of the above and more from dream to reality.
Not all of it in 2011 and not without setbacks and heartaches along the way.
But a lot of it.
This will be the REAL story of 2011 - listen closely and you too will hear the thumping, pulsing heart of a new economy.
Beat along with it, and 2011 will be the best year of all of our lives!
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To your success,
Jay Turo
Jay Turo
You would never believe it given the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business news these days, but last month U.S. GNP regained all that was lost in the recession of 2008-2009 and now America stands once again as the largest economy in the history of the world.
Let's first take a moment and be proud and of that.
Now of course not all is rosy. Above all else, persistently high unemployment, back up to 9.8% and 15 million jobless Americans as of Friday, continues to drag down the nation's morale.
How important are jobs? Well, quite simply jobs are EVERYTHING.
To put it in perspective, let's look at two places in the world that create very few jobs – sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
Even a cursory look at the deep and tragic social problems of these regions results in two conclusions - 1) that the lack of jobs there wastes the gigantic human potential of literally hundreds of millions of people and 2) poor economic opportunity is THE main wellspring of extremist ideologies.
Now, of course the problems in the U.S. economy are nowhere even near the magnitude of those in these fortune-starved places.
And more to the point we don't just want ANY jobs here in America. We want GOOD JOBS. I define a good job as follows:
1. A job that allows for a reasonably "worry-free" meeting of the base, human needs - food, water, shelter, and clothing.
2. A job that provides security from threats to health (yes, health insurance) and violence (making enough money to live in a safe neighborhood).
3. A job that is part and parcel of one's overall life mission, whereby the successful performance of it appeals to the best in all of us - self-respect, a sense of belonging and community, the inherent satisfaction of the work itself, and the satisfaction of contribution to a cause larger than our own needs.
So Where Do These Good Jobs Come From?
Well surprise surprise, they don't come from the government but more surprisingly they don't come from corporate America.
Rather, nearly all net job creation in the U.S. economy comes from firms less than 5 years old, or brand new (startups) and young (one to five year old) companies.
For perspective on this, 2007 was the last fully healthy "jobs" with 12 million new U.S. jobs created. And of these, startups and young companies created 8 million of them.
A few further points to illustrate:
• Since 1977, without startup companies, net job creation for the American economy would be negative (i.e. more jobs would have been lost than created) in all but a handful of years.
• Young firms - companies between 1 and 5 years old - over the past 30 years have accounted for the lion's share (more than 2/3) of all net job creation.
• And my favorite, companies between one and five years old create on average 4 jobs per year each!
But it is often missed that the companies that are creating jobs are the usually ones that earn investors the highest returns.
Why? Simply, job-creating companies are almost always companies that are growing!
So let's make it easier for our startups and young companies to create jobs.
From a regulation standpoint, let's get the U.S. back up the board where it is lagging in the World Bank ease of doing business rankings - #17 in starting a business (behind countries including Belarus, Rwanda, and Saudi Arabia!), #62 in paying taxes, and #20 in international trade.
Culturally, let's really put the entrepreneur where he or she belongs – on a pedestal as a modern day, real-life action hero.
And let's invest in them.
Because while we like to see the good guys win, it is even sweeter when we win with them.
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At a current U.S. box office of close to $90 million "The Social Network," – the movie about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook - continues to offer a wealth of wisdom re how to get rich in the 21st Century. To wit:
Among other entrepreneurial treats, the movie weaves the tale of one Sean Parker., erstwhile founder of Napster, playboy, and benevolent Svengali of a young Zuckerberg.
For approximately a year's worth of "work" which the movie fairly or unfairly portrays as mostly involving a lot of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Parker now owns Facebook stock worth over $1 billion.
The movie also serves up Eduardo Saverin, portrayed sympathetically as both Zuckerberg's college best friend and as Facebook's bungling first "CFO." Via these early positions of primacy and via his wealthy Brazilian family's money being Facebook's first $20,000 of seed capital, Saverin today is worth more than $1.3 billion.
And oh yes, he is still only 28 years old.
And finally we are given the Winkelvoss twins - blue-blooded scions of old money privilege and wealth and members of Havard's most exclusive social clubs. The Winkelvoss' allegedly had the idea that Zuckerberg re-formed into Facebook.
A few years and million dollar lawsuits later, the twin's net worth is now estimated at north of $100,000,000.
Now, after we indulge ourselves of the natural envy and the exasperation "Golly, why couldn't that have been ME," we are left asking – "Didn't our Fantastic Four just get lucky beyond belief?" And if so, then what?
Well, for the intrepid investors and entrepreneurs among us, here are three thoughts to run with:
1. Go Big or Go Home. Sean Parker, portrayed memorably in the movie by Justin Timberlake, embodies the archetype "Black Swan" life approach. Grandly flamboyant in lifestyle and with an iconoclastic self-definition, he both thinks and dreams very, very big and immediately "gets" the scalability power of the Facebook model. Lesson – sanity is over-rated, the best investors and entrepreneurs are often more than a little crazy.
2. Run with the Right Crowd. Now Saverin and the Winkelvoss twins TRULY had the luck of a lifetime. But they did go to Harvard and they were in tune enough to glob on to the programming genius that was Mark Zuckerberg. It is trite, but success is as much about who you know as what you know.
3. What's Wrong with a Little Luck? Sure, Parker was prescient and Saverin and the Winkelvoss' proved themselves smart and well-connected enough to get into Harvard.
But there are literally HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS prescient, smart and well-connected investors and entrepreneurs in this 21st Century of ours. And only a few thousand of them truly get rich, and only a handful still get rich at the level here.
So what to make of it? Well, luck stands alone.
Sometimes entrepreneurs and investors have it, sometimes they don't.
The best one can do is to just keep spinning the wheel. And to make sure that every time we do that the odds are in our favor.
Now the great thing about our ridiculously prosperous 21st Century is that by taking just a little care, the odds on entrepreneurial "spins" are almost always GREATLY in our favor.
So take a little care.
And spin the wheel.
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At a current U.S. box office of over $84 million "The Social Network," – the movie about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook – is just another example of the public's fascination with social networking and young billionaires, not necessarily in that order.
Not mentioned in the movie is the unbelievable story of a Peter Thiel one of the founders of PayPal investing $500,000 in 2004 in exchange for approximately 5% of Facebook.
Given that the estimated market value of Facebook is now worth $20 billion, that represents a 2,000x return in 6 years, qualifying it as surely one of the greatest investments of all time.
Now let's be real people.
Mr. Thiel, while obviously talented as evidenced by both his founding and then selling PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion before age 35, had the luck of a lifetime with his Facebook investment.
Yes, luck is a key, and sometimes the key, variable in entrepreneurship and investing.
But as opposed to fighting or getting philosophical re this reality, a far better question to ask is, "How can I improve my likelihood of, for lack of a better turn of phrase, getting lucky?"
Here are three ideas:
I. Run With the Right Crowd. Thiel is part of the famous PayPal Mafia - former founders of PayPal and their friends that travel in the rarefied Silcon Valley air of next generation Internet ideas and technologies. Through this professional and personal network, Thiel sees lots of great startups. Most of them are duds, but a few are world-beaters. Like Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Yelp, and Six Apart.
II. Swing For the Fences. No doubt Thiel's cat-bird seat as CEO of PayPal in the late 1990's allowed him to "get" instantly the scalability of the Facebook business model. But give credit where credit is due – meeting Mark Zuckerberg in a Palo Alto bar and writing him a check for $500,000 when Facebook was still in its college dorm mode, channeled the Romans and their famous ode to luck - "Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat," "Fortune Favors the Bold."
III. Cultivate Serendipity. How shall we seek the wisdom as to what the next big thing will be? Well, as this example shows us, as much via serendipity as anything else. From conferences, parties, chance encounters, flash and intuitive insights.
From being open to ideas, people and things outside of the normal box.
In many ways, luck and serendipity are the new religions of our age. Books like Outliers, the Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the Age of the Unthinkable profess on them. Successful technocrats like the PayPal mafia toast to them. Aspiring entrepreneurs who seek their name in lights pray to them.
Peter Thiel was both lucky and open to the power of serendipity.
The question, of course is, how about you?
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What do all of the most dynamic 21st Century entrepreneurial companies have in common? They:
1. Pursue Global Markets
2. Place Corporate Culture Above All Else
3. Embrace the Black Swan Both Within and Without
1. Pursue Global Markets. If you don't have a business that can scale globally, then either don't bother or just content yourself with staying small.
Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia's share of the world's Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%.
In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. In the U.S. so far, no company has raised more than $700 million and it is somewhat of a sad commentary that the biggest U.S. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors.
And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively.
Why? Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8 trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online.
China. India. Brazil. Africa. This is where the growth action is, and while the first reaction of Americans is to feel as if we're being left out of the game, the RIGHT reaction should be WOW. These are fantastic new markets for U.S. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. domestic GNP growth couldn't touch.
Action Point: Core to every strategic session for any company of ambition should include these simple questions:
• What is your China strategy? Your India strategy?
• How easy / possible is it for global customers to buy your product – to purchase your service?
• How can they find you? How do you market to them?
• How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities?
2. Place Culture Above All Else. Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) and on the other hand, to corporations of one, to the so-called Free Agent Nation.
The tools of collaboration and connectivity –mobile always-on Internet, cloud productivity applications like Google Apps, Basecamp, Salesforce and Skype – are so good that the natural devolution is to a BREAKUP of the corporate form and to everyone working for themselves, by themselves.
Now except for the very fortunate few (see Google et al. above), almost everyone else is left with the challenge of how to get to scale and once there how to maintain it.
This is HARD. In a world where ideas and technologies and business models and even intellectual property (sad but true) can be copied and undercut worldwide at the speed of a mouse click, what can any company really hold onto?
The answer is corporate culture. There is no one size fits all answer as to what the "right" corporate culture is. Successful cultures are as disparate as General Electric's famously formulaic one, to Zappos', Virgin's, and Mind Valley's irreverent, almost carefree approaches.
But a few constants remain. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. A vigilant commitment to ethics and integrity. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes.
The great thing is that via the Internet we CAN copy the principles of the best of them – Zappos' and Mind Valley's and scores of others are online for all to see. While the principles of course are NOT the culture itself (wouldn't it be nice if it was that easy?) they ARE signposts as to what is possible.
3. Embrace the Black Swan Both Within and Without. At the core of modern entrepreneurship is the sometimes seemingly mystical precepts of The Black Swan.
The concept of The Black Swan was popularized by the great Lebanese thinker and writer Nicholas Taleb in his bestseller of the same name. He describes it best:
"What we call here a Black Swan is an event with the following three attributes. First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable."
Taleb continues, "I stop and summarize the triplet: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability. A small number of Black Swans explain almost everything in our world, from the success of ideas and religions, to the dynamics of historical events, to elements of our own personal lives."
Bringing it to October 2010, who would have thunk it that a) the fastest growing company in the world is built on the simple premise of 140-character messaging b) that a computer company left for dead 8 short years ago would now have the dominant position in music and telecommunications and c) that one of the greatest angel investments of the past 10 years would be for a prepaid debit card business?
The answer: Nobody. And more importantly, the phenomenons of Twitter, of Apple. and of Green Dot CANNOT be retroactively analyzed for guidance as to what the next new thing will be.
What to do with this? Two ideas:
a) Bet on the Unexpected. Check your ego firmly at the door when evaluating business models. Accept that you (and everyone) for that matter KNOWS NOTHING about what the future will hold other than the fact that we don't know what the future will hold.
That is philosophy - here is money-making: The big outlier events - the 10 to 1 shots and beyond - are UNDER-PRICED in the marketplace. Bet on them.
2) Allow Serendipity To Do Its Work. Startups intuitively get the idea of creating new business models as part of their mission. But this lightness disappears quickly.
The Black Swan teaches us that what we have done to date, what has worked to date, is probably NOT what we will be doing, what will be working in the future.
And where does The Black Swan point us to find the wisdom as to what to do? Well, as much from outside the formal strategic planning process as from within.
As Taleb says, from conferences, from parties. From chance encounters. From being open to ideas, people and things outside of the normal box.
Incorporate these Black Swan elements into a dynamic corporate culture, cultivate and ACT upon the global view, and let the magic happen.
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In 20 years we will look back at the first few elections of the global Internet age the way we remember the smoky backrooms of elections past.
As in I can't believe we actually did things like that once.
Why? Because for the first time in human history, true competition – the kind of competition that brought us the $300 computer, the electric car that goes 95 miles-per-hour, the $800 HD big-screen TV, and free overnight shipping on purchases as small as a few dollars, THAT kind of competition is coming to a government near you.
Idealistic, you say? Impractical? Not as much as you may think.
You see, there is another form of voting going on all the time. It is far less covered and far-less TV-friendly than the personality-driven "horse-race-type" coverage that dominates the airwaves, but it is THE kind of voting that shapes our world just as much.
It is the choices that capital makes. As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers.
Sequoia Capital recently made headlines with the NASDAQ IPO of Mecox Lane, a Chinese Internet retailer and the seventh IPO by a Chinese company backed by Sequoia in the last 18 months.
By comparison, only two of the 12 companies backed by Sequoia to gain public listings have been U.S. – based.
Now when any patriotic American reads this their heart sinks more than a little bit.
But you know what? Capital voting with its feet like this, in the long run, is the only way for real jobs and business-friendly reform to take place.
Why? Because even more so than money, it is PRIDE that talks.
Now, in the old days the battlefield of pride was literally the battlefield.
But, blessed are we all, the pride battlefield of our age is the marketplace.
And the rising powers of our age, the Brazils, the Indias, the Chinas, fight not with tanks and guns but with bits and bytes and rent-a-coder and hard work and hustle.
And how do the incumbent powers respond to all of this energy? This challenge? To dare I say it – to all of this entrepreneurship?
Well, as humans do when any disruption to a cozy order occurs, first they resist it. They whine about it. They play the blame game. They have a natural instinct to just shutter the windows and keep all of the change, the disruption, the competition OUT.
But then pride talks.
Well-educated, ambitious people say "Hey – they aren't any smarter than us. Any harder-working. We CAN compete. And we can win."
And unlike the bad old days, when governments would respond with muskets and bigotry to challenges from afar, today have NO CHOICE but to put ideology aside and just make things work.
To embrace the mantra of the Internet age and do more with less.
Kids learning more, faster, for less money.
Regulations simplified. Best practices codified. Productivity multiplied.
Why will this happen? Why will cushy government bureaucrats change like this?
Because in an always-on 21st century global Internet age, we're all naked.
And when cities and states and countries fall behind, EVERYONE sees it.
And after the shame, pride kicks in. It may be hard to hear about the political noise and chatter. But if you listen carefully, it is there.
And when pride talks in our modern, always-on global Internet age, governments DO change for the better.
And much, much faster than expected.
Pride has that kind of power.
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The goal of Computational Analysis Core B is to manage, analyze, and extract maximum scientific value from the data generated by the investigators of this Program Project. The primary emphasis of Core B will be to assist Program investigators in the analysis of RNA-Seq data and to connect the results of these measurements with prior knowledge to unveil new biology. Importantly, these data will provide a rich source for discovering previously unappreciated shifts in mRNA isoform usage, novel microRNAs and biologically relevant noncoding transcripts. The Core reflects a novel collaboration between researchers spanning two institutions that collectively possess immense expertise and resources in computation and data analysis: The University of Washington (UW) Department of Computer Science &Engineering and Sage Bionetworks, a non-profit biomedical research organization created to revolutionize how researchers approach the complexity of human biological information and the treatment of disease. The vast data sets generated by next-generation sequence technologies create enormous opportunities but also significant challenges. Core B will assure optimal management and interpretation of data obtained from the RNA-Seq studies proposed by Projects 1, 3 and 4 and Core A. These studies will generate RNA-Seq data for both short (e.g., microRNA) and long (e.g., messenger RNA and long noncoding RNA) protocols. As described below. Core Director Dr. Ruzzo (UW), and co-investigators Dr. Brig Mecham and Dr. Adam Margolin (Sage) are exceptionally well qualified to carry out the proposed work, and an existing collaboration with them has already generated interesting findings as described in Project 1 (Blau). In support of the Program, Core B's activities will vary in accordance with the needs of the individual Projects. Core B will provide an essential resource to P01 investigators who have not previously had access to formalized bioinformatics support. For investigators with existing bioinformatics collaborations Core B will assist in bringing uniform "best practices" to quality assessment, analysis and interpretation of RNA-Seq data while minimizing duplication of effort. This includes developing procedures and simple automated workflows to integrate existing specialized tools to provide a unified framework for storage, comparison, analysis and visualization of these data sets. Interaction with Sage Bionetworks will be particularly valuable, exploiting their tools for integration and visualization of diverse biological data, and their ongoing effort to standardize and distribute all publicly available microarray and sequencing data. This work required developing automated workflows that reliably processed 15,000 distinct microarray data sets, yielding standardized information in a usable format for the community. Similar work is underway for RNASeq data. These workflows will serve as a template for the proposed analyses. Additionally, Dr. Ruzzo's experience with next-generation sequence technologies (both RNA-Seq and ChlP-Seq analyses) and expertise in prediction of conserved noncoding RNAs offers the prospect of identifying important, novel players in the unique biological systems addressed by this POI.
Sophisticated computational approaches are required to optimally analyze results from next generation sequencing technologies, and this Core provides these capabilities. By extending our analyses into noncoding regions of the genome and into appropriately curated publicly available datasets we can maximize return on investment.
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CINCINNATI -- Only one major league team went through last season without hitting a grand slam -- the Milwaukee Brewers.
Think that's bad? Bill Hall can top it easily. He'd never hit a grand slam in his entire career, until he finally ended the Brewers' bases-loaded futility Monday night with a game-turning swing.
Hall broke out of a slump with his first career slam, a seventh-inning shot that powered the Brewers to a 10-6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
Hall was in a 1-for-22 rut when he connected off reliever Todd Coffey, the Brewers' first grand slam since 2005.
"I didn't know that," Hall said. "I just know it was the first grand slam of my life. I'd never hit one. I've had a few opportunities, but never came through. It's pretty special."
It was an appropriate place for the breakthrough homer. Milwaukee hadn't hit a grand slam since J.J. Hardy connected off reliever Chris Booker in Cincinnati during a 14-5 victory on Sept. 7, 2005. That game featured the same two starting pitchers.
Rickie Weeks hit a solo homer off Eric Milton (0-2) and slumping Corey Hart doubled home two more runs, helping Milwaukee get its fourth victory in five games. The 10 runs were a season high for Milwaukee.
No one was more relieved than Hall, who is hitting only .179 and hadn't driven in a run since opening day.
"I felt this could be a good place for him to get ignited," said left-hander Chris Capuano (2-0), who gave up four hits in 5 2/3 innings.
The Reds had scored only one run in their last 27 innings when they broke out in the sixth with the help of Hardy's error at shortstop. Edwin Encarnacion's two-run single completed a rally and trimmed the lead to 4-3, with all the runs unearned because of the error.
Hall then broke the game open with an at-bat that teased him right up to the final swing. The Brewers loaded the bases with none out against Coffey, who hit two of the first three batters with pitches.
"Todd Coffey is very, very reliable," Reds manager Jerry Narron said. "The last thing in the world you would expect is for him to hit two of the first three batters he faced."
During the decisive at-bat, Hall hit two balls that landed just foul down the first-base line - one coming down a few inches on the wrong side of the line. For a player in a slump, it was a bad omen.
"Just foul," he said, recalling his disappointment. "I've been doing a lot of that lately. I've hit a couple balls lately that just haven't fallen in for me, especially in key situations."
Hall fouled off a two-strike pitch to keep the at-bat going, then took a pitch a few inches off the outside corner to run the count full. Coffey threw a fastball that went right down the middle, the perfect pitch to end that grand slam drought.
"There's no excuse to it," Coffey said. "It's my fault tonight."
Pinch-hitter Josh Hamilton hit a two-run homer in the ninth off Brewers reliever Elmer Dessens. Hamilton, back in baseball after overcoming drug addiction, has three homers and seven RBI in 18 at-bats this season.
Temperatures finally approached normal at Great American Ball Park, where it was in the 30s for the first pitch of the four previous games. It was a seasonable 58 degrees when Milton threw the first of his 99 pitches -- high and outside.
Milton opened the season on the disabled list because of back spasms, and wound up as the No. 5 starter when he returned. He was hit hard in his first start of the season, a 6-3 loss to Pittsburgh on April 8, and went seven days without pitching before his start on Monday.
The left-hander gave up three runs, including an unearned run that scored on Ken Griffey Jr.'s error in right field.
- The crowd of 12,521 was Cincinnati's smallest of the season.
- The Reds honored Jackie Robinson before the game by showing highlights of his career on the video board. Chuck Harmon, 82, who was the Reds' first black player, threw a ceremonial pitch to Griffey. Harmon made his major league debut with the Reds on April 17, 1954, against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- The Brewers have at least one double in each of their 12 games this season, their best season-opening streak since they doubled in the first 12 games of the 2000 season.
- Milwaukee's starters have gone at least five innings in each of their first 12 games, the fourth time that's happened in franchise history. The 1976 and 2003 teams also went 12 games, while the 1971 club holds the Brewers record with starters going five innings or more in the first 17 games.


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The Dark.
I find myself, alone.
I find myself beaten, my arms screaming in pain.
I find myself lost, cold.
I'm in the dark.
The dark, it's everywhere.
It's all around me.
It screams at me.
It hits me.
It's killing me
On the floor I lay, frozen in pain.
I'm held by the dark.
I want to break the dark, but I can't.
The dark is breaking me.
The dark is my ruler.
Shadows are everywhere,
They are the shadows of defeat.
At last, they are finally defeating me.
I will try and fight,
But the thought of winning, is gone.
Please, rescue me from the dark.
Set me free,
Don't let me die.
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Loose Fur
As you might glean from the title of the second collaboration between Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche, and composer/engineer/all-around post-rock icon Jim O'Rourke, religion figures heavily in Loose Fur's (or is that Lucifer's?) curious, frequently skewed, mostly engaging songwriting this outing; while Pat Robertson likely will disagree, the trio's abundant pokes at Christianity come off as more irreverent than mean-spirited. "You better turn your frown upside down/Christ is on his way across town/He was getting tired of hangin' around/Yeah he's back, Jack, shootin' smack, find him if you wanna get found," Tweedy sings over the loping, Grateful Dead-ish country-rock of "The Ruling Class." And in "Stupid As the Sun," staccato guitar progressions propel O'Rourke's vision of Jesus on the cross bemoaning his bad back and even worse career move: "When I took this job on it said I'd get a lot of sun, sea, and sand/And a burial plan/C'mon lemme down, I'm resigning now/I got an offer from the other guy that's starting to look good right now." Such bits are good for a wry laugh or two, but it's the disc's more "secular" moments that are particularly satisfying -- the fantastic "Wreckroom," for example, morphs during its eight minutes from America-style '70s soft-rock to an Allman Brothers jam interrupted by Sonic Youth guitar skronk to a trippy float in amniotic fluid buoyed by ambient guitar textures and Kotche's psychedelic percussion. That alone is enough to make a believer outta almost anyone.
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Conchita, Conchita, here's your mucho,
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Conchita, don't ask me to put down, my revolver,
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Me, The mucho, macho man, want to see his, Conchita,
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Your mucho, macho man, is coming, dear, Conchita,
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My Conchita, and Lolita,
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Here I come, Rosita; your mucho, macho man...Kid Dynamita!
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Rabbi Fishel Weingarten, who brought merit to many as a recognized lecturer among Chabad hasidim, passed away, Friday evening, following a two-year battle with a serious illness. Rabbi Weingarten was laid to rest, Saturday evening, at the Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.
During his life, the rabbi established the Ma'ayanei Yisrael institutions on Fischel Street in the Buchari neighborhood of Jerusalem, which became one of the important, influential Chabad institutions. Over a long period, it distributed conversations of Chabad rebbes to many Jerusalem synagogues and many students at various levels.
Tags:Chabad, Jerusalem, obituary, Rabbi Fishel Weingarten, Ma'ayanei Yisrael, Buchari neighborhood, hasidism


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Documents, books, and other important materials that have been damage by a flood or other watery disaster can be recovered! However, to ensure their recovery you'll need to take some immediate steps.
We Dry Docs is the undisputed leader in the recovery of water and smoke damaged maps, papers, books, documents, and other archives.
While every document recovery situation differs greatly it is a safe bet that you should refrain from moving the wet documents unless you know how to do so properly. Moving and trying to treat wet and damage articles can lead to disintegration. Knowing the proper steps to handle a situation like this is crucial in recovering all of the articles successfully.
We use Thermaline to prevent warping and distortion as we remove the water content from your documents. Thermaline is a freeze-drying process that utilizes a vacuum in order to restrain books. This process keeps books in their natural shape, meaning that the covers will not warped. This means that you will be able to put your books back onto their shelves with no additional restoration.
The Thermaline process is so valuable because it means that almost no rebinding is required. The books are restored to their original shape. This process is highly controlled and results in there being a 90% reduction in need for the books to be rebound.
If you want to learn more about our Thermaline vacuum freeze drying process for water damaged books and documents then feel free to check out our comprehensive slideshow.


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- Step back in time on a history tour
- Private guide for a more personalized experience
- Perfect introduction for first-time visitors
Continue along Gran Via passing the Gardens of Triunfo and Hospital Real, to reach the Carthusian Monastery, a Baroque masterpiece which began construction in 1505 and spanned over three centuries, highlighting the Sanctum Sanctorum (Holy of Holies) and the Sacristy.
Your journey will continue to the old Moorish Quarter of the Albaycin where you can wander the narrow streets before reaching the Mirador de San Nicholas. From here, you can experience the beauty of the Alhambra, Granada and the Sierra Nevada, followed by a visit to the Sacromonte, a typical and ancient quarter of cave dwellings, where the Gypsy population live. You will visit one of the most representative caves where refreshments will be served.
Note: The Sacromonte caves are currently closed for maintenance work. In exchange you'll enjoy a complimentary soft drink at the viewpoint Mirador de San Nicolás.
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Hotel pickups commence approximately 30 - 60 minutes prior to this time, exact pickup time will be advised on reconfirmation.
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WEEKEND- Tour departing Saturday or Sunday
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- Hotel pickup and drop off (selected hotels only)
- Professional guide
- Entrance fees
- Light refreshments
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
- Gratuities (optional)
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 1 day of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel between 3 and 6 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
Traveler Reviews
Reviewed by: Shari T, May 2011
The tour company did not have our reservation. We called to confirm the day before, and after we finally convinced them we'd prepaid for a tour, they had to scramble to find us a guide. They also did not provide us with an air-conditioned van as promised because they had booked so many tours- and this created extra walking for an 80 year old in our group. I still give it 4 stars because the actual tour guide was fantastic!
Reviewed by: Kathryn C E, USA, July 2010