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You might have missed this, but over the last few days Ebay found a buyer for most of Skype.  The Skype story has many threads that resonate with issues such as the success of peer-to-peer data networks, the affect of true price competition on the incumbent telecommunications companies and what happens when a company buys a business that is outside of its core competency.  Skype has been important bell weather in all of these ways, but the part that has struck me the most is how it shows the importance of knowing where the core intellectual property rights are before you buy or invest in the business....
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One of the best things about having a hobby is that it can help you release tensions in a crazy world.  And, I am sure you agree, this has been a crazy making time – yo-yo oil markets, nonstop punditry, the cacophony of contrasting opinions and the specter of a Depression. Almost a lifetime’s worth of stress in a single year.  It’s been fun, hasn’t it? I must admit that some of the things that I have seen have made me extremely unhappy, and perhaps a bit of a curmudgeon.  Sometimes I’ve shared those opinions in blog postings, but other times they are just great inspirations for songs.  Last week the band I play in, Two Car Living Room, played some of these songs in a gig.  For those of you that weren’t there, I’d thought I’d post a few of them here.  If you are looking for the secrets of raising capital in today’s world, this blog post won’t be of much use to you. But, in the spirit of fun, I thought I would share a few of my songs with you....
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Earlier today I participated in an interesting comment string on Facebook. This is happening more and more to me, and I am sure that I am not alone.  As information flows through our lives, via Facebook, Twitter and so on, the ability to share our thoughts and have them shaped by others becomes more efficient and quicker.  There is no doubt that these changes facilitate better communication about the trivia of our lives also.  But, recently, I have also been having some second thoughts about whether this is always a great thing....
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Recently an entrepreneur I know contacted me to help her figure out what many would call a “high class problem.”  She had a potential buyer for her business, and the buyer was asking her the price at which she would be willing to sell her business.  Not surprisingly, valuing her business to sell was not something that she had been spending any particular time working on – she was too busy growing her business – but even if she had taken the time she admitted she really had no place to begin.  Over the next few days we had series of conversations about how to value her business -- the overall themes of which I thought would be of use to other entrepreneurs.  So, with that, here are some thoughts on how you deal with the issue of “what’s your business worth” when an unsolicited buyer comes along....
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For years I have been fighting a lonely battle against written business plans.  Recently some of my colleagues at the Smith School of Business published a study that suggested that VCs don’t really care about business plans.  An article about the report is here and a link to a podcast from the researchers is here .  In fact, the study, at least as reported by the NY Times, suggests that business plans are useless!  Now, that’s a tact that I had never taken but one that I think requires a bit of clarification and guidance for entrepreneurs....
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When a series of video games is beloved by fans, it's risky for makers to put a new game in the series out for testing.
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Good news for everyone out there who's ever thought to themselves: "A 10-minute video of my cat eating ribs on the kitchen floor is just too short."
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Just about everyone who worked to build the new Interstate Highway 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, knew that their project would never be "just a bridge." It would never occupy the same category as thousands of other concrete and steel behemoths that millions of American drivers thoughtlessly cross every day.
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When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles.
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TechShop, a chain of D.I.Y. clubs, plans to open a new shop in Detroit with Ford's help....
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Google said it was the first time the site had been blocked since March....
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A new tool tracks the speed at which cloud services from Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com run, and then displays their worldwide performance....
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The Web site ifixit took apart Apple's Magic Trackpad showing a detailed view of what is under the hood of this new mouse replacement....
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YouTube increased the time limit for uploaded videos to 15 minutes from 10 minutes....
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