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I’m a VC..Who are you!

In this post we’re going to see some differences between angel investors and venture capitalists either good or bad of each one.

Definition of Angel Investing:
An angel investor invests in a new business, offering capital for startup or expansion. Angels are not usually among the so-called “1%” — many have annual incomes of $200,000 or less. They’re drawn to startups for a higher rate of return than they might get in the stock, bond, or real estate market.

The Good

• Average angel investments are between $25,000 and $1.5 million — plenty of cash for a new startup.
• Angel investors often are local. They tend to be wealthy investors, even retirees, and might even be your next-door neighbor.
• Angel investors tend to make up their minds quickly, get you the cash quickly (if you’re approved), and usually pay up with a lump-sum check.

The Bad

• Angel investors want a big stake in your firm. Expect them to ask for 25% or more.
• Angel investors don’t like risk. The more uncertainty an angel sees with your firm, the less likely he or she will make future investments.
• Control is a big issue with angel investors. They may want more decision-making rights than most business owners are comfortable giving.

Definition of Venture Capital:
Venture capitalists invest in startup companies that offer the possibility of profit, but with no guarantee the company will make one. They tend to make higher volume investments than do angel investors, and may likely take a larger consulting and management role as well.

The Good

• Cash is king with venture investors — and they tend to have lots of the green stuff. The average investment is high — often between $500,000 and $5 million.
• Besides deep pockets, venture funders have great business connections, and can hook a business owner up with good advisors, smart lawyers and accountants, and savvy sales and operational consultants. The mantra for VC’s is this: We’re all in this together.
• Those connections can also lead to investments from friends and acquaintances. Venture investors are a close-knit group, and often recommend deals to other investors. So if you fail with one VC outfit, ask for referrals.

The Bad

• Venture capital firms want the moon from business owners — and more than that. Entrepreneurs can anticipate VC investors demanding 50% of future profits.
• Venture investors like to take their time. They tend to take six months or more before making a decision, and will keep business owners hopping with repeated requests for documents, paperwork, and financial analysis.
• VC investors don’t mind asking for a piece of your company, especially if you’re cash-depleted. VC firms often demand a fat equity stake in your firm. But be careful — giving an investor 50% or more your company takes you out of the driver’s seat.

Top 50 Angel Investors

 what is it and who are these people? Angel investing is an individual that offers capital to startups to get them up and running. Often these investors will do so in exchange for shares in the company or a part of the controlling interest in the company. These investors are generally offering their own money for investment.

Today there are several angel investors who seem to top the list. Rock The Post, a site about entrepreneurship, has done some research in order to give you the top 50, which include the following:

1. Aaron Patzer – Hailing from San Fransisco Aaron has invested in such ventures as BizeeBee, Topicmarks, Capire Micro Motors and HealthTap.
2. Adeo Ressi – As the founder of the VC-rating site “The Funded” Ressi is a powerhouse in the business world.
3. Andrea Zurek - Andrea has over 16 years of experience in sales and sales management. She co-founded the XG Ventures.
4. Andy Bechtolsheim  – The cofounder of Sun Microsystems this man is at the top of the angel investing world.  It seems everything he touches turns to gold.
5. Aydin Senkut – This angel investor doesn’t seem to know how to slow down but it pays off. He has invested in multiple startups to include Azumio, Baby.com.br, Clearslide, Chloe & Isabel, Imageshack, Justin.tv, and many more.
6. Babak Nivi – As the founder of Venture Hacks this MIT graduate is on top of his game when it comes to investing in successful startups.
7. Ben Ling – As a Product Manager Director of Search Products for Google Ling invests in 6-10 startups a year at roughly $25-100K.
8. Bill Joy – One of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, Bill is seen as a powerhouse in the investing world. He is currently a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
9. Brett Bullington - Brett Bullington is an advisor at Outfit7 Ltd as well as a board member for Digg and Carolina for Kibera.
10. Brian Pokorny – Brian is an angel investor in Twitter, Square, and Tweetdeck to name a few.
11. Caterina Fake - The co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, Caterina is also the chairman of the board at for the popular online Etsy. She loves to focus on social software when investing.
12. Chris Dixon - Chris is the co-founder of Founder Collective as well as the CEO of Hunch. His investment portfolio includes Skype, TrialPay, DocVerse and many more.
13. Chris Sacca – Chris is a force to be reckoned with in the investing world.  His investments have included Twitter, Bit.ly, Formspring and more.
14. Dave Duffield –As the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft he has invested in startups that have included HireRight and Guru.com.
15. Dave McClure – Dave’s investments have included Mint, SlideShare, and Twilio to name a few.
16. Dave Morin - Dave was one of the co-inventors of Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect. He was also named #74 on the Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider.
17. David Lee – David is the co-founder of XG Ventures.  Some of his investments have included Posterous, Twitter, Facebook and many more.
18. Eric Shmidt - Scmidt is an executive chairman of Google and he has invested in startups to include Citizen Effect, PublishOne, and Sendmail.
19. Esther Dyson - Esther likes to focus on technology related investments and has invested in Space Adventures/Zero G, Coastal Aviation Software and Airship Ventures.
20. Jason Calacanis - Jason is the CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc., and has invested in startups like JIBE.
21. Jawed Karim – Karim is the co-founder of YouTube. In addition he was one of the first engineers at PayPal.
22. Jeremy Stoppelman - Jeremy is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp and was formerly the VP of engineering at PayPal.
23. Joe Kraus - A partner at Google Ventures, he co-founded Excite.com and JotSpot and invested in LinkedIn.
24. Josh Kopelman – The Managing Director of First Round Capital as well as the director of the board at Swipely and a few other companies.
25. Keith Rabois - COO at Square as well as on the board of directors of Yelp, Xoom and other companies. Invested early on in YouTube and LinkedIn.
26. Kevin Hartz – The co-founder of Eventbrite, Xoom Corporation and ConnectGroup. He also invested in PayPal, Geni.com, Friendster, Flixster.com, Trulia, Pinterest and Airbnb.
27. Kevin Rose - Co-Founder and CEO of Milk as well as the founder of Digg.
28. Larry Braitman - A founding investor in Flixster.
29. Lauren Flanagan - Co-founder of the Phenomenelle Angels Fund I, LP.
30. Manu Kumar – Founder of K9 Ventures as well as the founder of SneakerLabs, Inc.
31. Marc Andreesen - Co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz as well as co-founder and chairman of Ning. He has invested in Digg and Twitter.
32. Marc Benioff - Chairman & CEO of salesforce.com.
33. Mark Sugarman - Managing partner at MHS Capital and he has invested in Simply Measured, Venturebeat, and Pulpo Media to name a few.
34. Martin Varsavsky - Founded two telecommunications companies Viatel and Jazztel.
35. Max Levchin - Founder and CEO of Slide he also serves as chairman Yelp. He was also co-founder and CTO of PayPal.
36. Michael Dearing - Founder of Harrison Metal and has held leadership positions at Brain & Company, the Walt Disney Company, and Industrial Shoe Warehouse.
37. Mike Maples Jr. – A managing partner at Floodgaet, Maples was named as one of “8 Rising VC Stars” by Fortune Magazine.
38. Mitch Kapor - The founder of Lotus Development Corp as well as designer of Lotus 1-2-3.
39. Naval Ravikant - Founder of AngelList and co-founder of Venture Hacks. He has invested in Twitter, FourSquare, DocVerse and more.
40. Paul Buchheit - Creator and lead developer of Gmail and co-founder of FriendFeed.
41. Paul Graham – A partner at Y Combinator. He has invested in Infinity Box, WebMynd, and AppJet.
42. Paul Martino - CEO and co-founder of Aggregate Knowledge. Paul has invested in Zynga, PayNearMe, and TubeMogul.
43. Peter Fenton - A general partner at Benchmark Capital. He has invested in SpringSource, Terracotta, Yelp, and DotCloud and many others.
44. Peter Thiel - President of Clarium Capital.  He has made investments in Facebook Slide, LinkedIn, Friendster, Geni.com, Yelp and many more.
45. Ram Shriram - Founder and managing director at Sherpalo Ventures ; founding board member of Google and 247customer.com.
46. Reid Hoffman - Partner at Greylock and Co-Founder of LinkedIn. He has invested in Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Ning, Zynga and others.
47. Rick Thompson - Co-founder and chairman of Playdom. His investments include Udemy, Trooval, SocialShield, Tykoon and more.
48. Rob Hayes - Managing partner at First Round Capital. He has led investments in companies such as  Mint.com, HomeRun, Uber, TaskRabbit, AppFog, Get Satisfaction, and DNAnexus.
49. Ron Conway -  Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds. Early investments included Google, PayPal, Digg, Pinterest, and many others.
50. Russ Fradin - CEO & co-founder at Dynamic Signal. Invested in Udemy, Humanoid, Colingo, Playdom and more.

Googles’s car

Google has driven over 200,000 miles with their driverless cars. Here a nice test with Steve Mahan, a legally blind person. As you “see”, the future is exciting! in other words: El futuro ya no es lo que era

Entrepreneurial Leadership VS. MBA Leadership

The last month I was reading an interesting book “The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership” about leadership, the author is a recognized expert; his name is John C. Maxwell.

Time before, I knew Maxwell is known person on leadership academic world, but I’ve never read his book before, the tittle seems me very presumptuous and I bought it. Then I read it.

I have to accept that I found out good points, different points to view. But also, points where I don’t totally agree especially on the second The Law of Influence part B “the entrepreneur myth” that it says:

“Entrepreneurs are just skilled at identifying opportunities and making money from them”.

In my opinion, being an entrepreneur is get idea and creates an organization that make real and possible your idea. To do that implies to convince people, especially, those who are smarter than you and also people who invest in your dream. Therefore the entrepreneur needs high quality of leadership.

By other hand, I understand there are people who are better keeping up business which have already been created. But there are others who are better for creating innovative services and products.

So I’d ask him(John Maxwell) what about Steve Jobs, Marco Galperin, Wenceslao Casares, Xavi Verdaguer, Peter Thiel, etc. They all are entrepreneurs! Although they are not managers but they can hire great managers, there are a lot of MBA’s around the world.

Here Wenceslao´s opinion..

Ten principles of Great Companies acording Fred Wilson

Last week I visited  a mentor, who also is a friend and it was pleasure because we told about great company´s ten principles that he has heard in a conference in California. these ones  were very interesting to me. Above all some ones relate with focus in customers, originality and idealism in management ….Here it go some ideas, I hope you like it….
1)    Constantly Big companies are innovating and delighting to his customers or user with new products and services.
2)    Big companies build to last, to be independent and sustainable.
3)    Big companies earn money a lot but give more money to their user and investors.
4)    Big companies don´t seek ideas in others places, they develop their ideas inside and others copy it.
5)    Big companies spread to their users and customers with their brand. they become to their users and customers in their sales and marketing force.
6)    Big companies are led by entrepreneurs who are owner and as a owners they take decisions based on commercial needs and long-term, not short-term goals.
7)    Big companies have global vision. They try everybody like potential customer or user.
8)    Big companies find to change the world not only earn money.
9)    Big companies don´t depend on anyone to provide their value proposition.
10)    Big companies put first their customer o user before  others priorities.

By Fred Wilson, VC Union Square Ventures.

R.I.P Steve Jobs

I got home then I went to my computer to view news. I watch a sad thing. Steve Jobs dies.
I feel really sad  because I admired him a lot. He inspired lot entrepreneurs to being strong to follow to our heart and intiuition.

he is a genius. He created one of the striking speech at last times.

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

What will Happen on Internet next 10 Years

We really know Internet is the present and if we want to think about the next Great Wave that will change the world, we should see other trends.
The last week I could attend to a interesting conference, in my country Lima – Peru there I listened to a great speaker, Jose Luis Cordeiro, who explained that internet won’t be more the future. We should think more in other things like Nanotechnology, Biogenetic, Artificial Intelligence.

I agree on that, Internet has changed the world, it has given us  a new way of communication and changed different industries. But also we should have to see that percent penetration of internet is just 30.2% (www.internetworldstats.com). That’s still is low and it shows that surely there are a lot of business opportunities.

So what do you think will be the future of internet?

According to the Internet Society they show us four possible and different  scenarios of internet’s future.

Common Pool Scenario

• Positive “generative” and “distributed & decentralised” properties.
• Opportunity and growth abound, with no insurmountable barriers to entry for those wishing to take part.
• Disputes and challenges are resolved through competition, as opposed to negotiation or inherited rights.
• Constant evolution and features a healthy ecosystem of interlinked network operators, developers, infrastructure providers, resource management organisations, etc.
• Organisation and operation tends to be “horizontal”, not “vertical”, so that the underlying building blocks (technologies, networks, etc.) are available to all to build upon.
• The “win” for the Internet is that it remains able to react and respond to new requirements.

Boutique Networks Scenario

• Envisions a future in which political, regional and large enterprise interests fail to maximise the social and economic potential of a shared, global set of richly connected networks (the Internet).
• It carries the weight of self-interest brought by factions seeking to optimise control in small sectors (political and otherwise).
• It also suggests these fractionalised networks will continue to leverage the benefits of existing Internet standards and technology.
• Each proprietary provider draws as much as possible from the common pool while giving little back.

Moats and Drawbridges Scenario

• Suggests the world of the Internet would be heavily centralised, dominated by a few big players with their own rules in “big-boys’ clubs.”
• Conflicts would be resolved through negotiation, not competition.
• Connections between networks would be the result of extensive negotiation and deal making.
• There would likely be strong regulation as governments seek to impose some public interest obligations and perhaps even controls on the equipment users can connect to the network.
• Much content would be proprietary and protected by strong intellectual property rights.
• Governments would control the behaviour of networks and network users through legal mechanisms and sanctions.
• Barriers to entry would be high, with little incentive to expand networks beyond the largest and richest customers or regions.
• Innovation would be slow, only occurring when it would benefit the network owners.
• All players would have close political links to their mutual benefit.

Porous Garden Scenario

• Sees networks staying global but with access to content and services tied to the use of specific networks and associated information appliances.
• Individual (business) viability would triumph over the economic potential of the common pool of the Internet.
• Financial incentives for content producers and software developers would mean continued innovation within the appliance-based model.
• Control over content, pricing, licensing and other concerns would be firmly in the hands of relatively few large commercial organisations.
• Proprietary, closed technologies would abound and exclusive deals with content producers and physical communications networks would oblige consumers to purchase multiple appliances and associated subscriptions to avail themselves of the full range of innovation on the network.

Interesting

The Art of Team Building

All entrepreneurs and CEOs face this kind of challenge, how inspiring employees to work together to the same direction. Some management gurus as Peter Drucker have offered insights and advices about forming collaborative work environments, but few have attempted to apply more scientific approach to finding the “great ingredient” for great leadership.

Last week, I have read a book, As One: Individual Action, Collective Power, It offers eight models for successful scenarios or “archetypes”. I leave you a summary of each one.

I hope you like it

General & Soldiers: The General & Soldiers pairing has a command-and-control-type culture combined with a multi-level hierarchy organized around the general’s clear and compelling mission. Soldiers’ activities focus on clearly defined and scripted tasks. They are motivated by advancing up the hierarchy through well-defined roles at all levels. Soldiers undergo extensive training to understand the army and its culture, and to learn specific skills. They are committed to the mission, the overall institution, and each other, while the general provides strong top-down authoritarian direction to motivate and direct them.

Architect & Builders: The Architect & Builders pairing focuses on the creative collaboration between groups of diverse builders that have been recruited by visionary architects to bring a seemingly impossible dream to life. Their visions are so innovative and ambitious that they can’t be achieved simply by using conventional means, so builders often need to reinvent and rethink ways to achieve them. Builders strive to meet ambitious deadlines and milestones mapped to deliberate workcycles. As each milestone is completed, the builders become one step closer to bringing the architect’s dream to reality. The Architect & Builders hero story is based on the development of the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano.

Captain & Sports Team: The Captain & Sports Team pairing operates with minimal hierarchy and acts like a single cohesive and dynamic organism, adapting to new strategies and challenges with great agility as they appear. Members of the sports team have a strong shared identity. They have extensive and networked communication channels, and carry out the same highly scripted, repeatable tasks. There is strong camaraderie and trust among the sports team – the collective good outweighs the needs of the individual – while captains are there, on the field as part of the team, to motivate and encourage.

Senator & Citizens: The Senator & Citizens pairing is based on a strong sense of responsibility to abide by the values or constitution of the community, which have been outlined by the senators. Sovereignty is held by both senators and citizens, and the citizens thrive on the values of democracy, freedom of expression, and autonomy. Since citizens are autonomous, the community structure is flexible. There is no set framework or direction organizing the citizens. Instead, much of their direction is emergent as they gather ideas and collaborate with other citizens. Senators are the guiding intelligence for the citizens and oversee decision making for the community.

Landlord & Tenants: The Landlord & Tenants pairing is based on landlords’ top-down driven strategy and power: they control access to highly valuable or scarce resources. Landlords decide how to generate the most value for themselves and dictate the terms of participation for the tenants. Tenants voluntarily decide to join landlords, and it’s usually in their best interests to do so. However, once they do, landlords define the rules of participation. Landlords maintain their power by ensuring the best tenants are rewarded, so that, over time, as the number of tenants grows, the landlords’ power increases.

Community Organizer & Volunteers: The Community Organizer & Volunteers pairing is based on volunteers’ bottom-up, autonomous, independent, decision-making ability and their desire to voice their opinions. Community Organizers ignite volunteers’ interest through compelling storytelling and opportunities for volunteers to join in. They may have little direct power over the volunteers, but they can tap into volunteers’ interests by gaining their trust, promoting a strong brand, and understanding their motivations. Volunteers themselves are drawn together by a rallying cry, or out of a sense of enlightened self-interest; they gain their power through a strength-in-numbers approach.

Conductor & Orchestra: The Conductor & Orchestra pairing is based on highly scripted and clearly defined roles that focus on precision and efficiency in execution as defined by the conductor. The orchestra members, who have similar backgrounds, need to be fully trained to comply with the requirements of the job, and, therefore, must be carefully selected to ensure they fit the strict culture and scripted tasks. Belonging to the orchestra provides members with the best way to make a living while focusing on tasks at which they excel.

Producer & Creative Team: The Producer & Creative Team pairing is typically about producers providing their creative team with the freedom to do their best work and reach their natural potential. This pairing is led by legendary, charismatic producers who bring together a team of highly inventive and skilled independent individuals to achieve the producers’ objective. Producers guide the vision and overall progress, while the creative team develops ideas through frequent meetings and interactions using an open culture of collaboration. Dissent is used to push creative boundaries. To maintain longevity in their industry, producers and creative teams need to continuously produce new and innovative ideas.

The four hybrid archetypes combine the characteristics of the adjacent pairings and occupy the spaces between the axes.

Project O3b Links With Google

Three years ago , I heard about a great news about on internet. Google with other investor were thinking about how can connect to other three billion of people and they thought it could be posible through satellites.

I really apreciate this project because y some places as Africa, Latinoamerica, they don’t have to acces to internet.

On the other hand, there will new oportunities to give them innovation, efficient services and so on. Entreprenuers,  be watchful and alert.

show  article that was in the NYtimes.

Satellite company O3b Networks has linked up with Google and other investors to bring cheaper, high-speed wireless Internet access to areas unlikely to see investments in fiber infrastructure.

O3b stands for “other 3 billion,” a reference to the world’s population that still can’t access the Internet. O3b, which is based in the U.K.’s Channel Islands, said construction is under way on 16 satellites that will drop the cost for ISPs and operators to provide Internet access over 3G (third-generation) and WiMax networks.

Those satellites will provide backhaul capacity, also known as “trunking,” for ISPs (Internet service providers) and operators, essentially moving large amounts of data wirelessly between points where fiber-optic cable has not been dug into the ground, said Greg Wyler, O3b’s founder and CEO.

Developed countries benefited from an explosive laying of undersea fiber cables in the late 1990s, Wyler said. But as those high-capacity networks were created, demand dropped. Many fiber companies went out of business, then their assets were bought on the cheap, fostering the subsequent boom in inexpensive broadband subscription offerings, he said.

But “the emerging markets never saw that exuberance,” Wyler said. “Usage is growing and the demand is growing, but there isn’t the infrastructure to support the demand.”

Digging trenches for fiber networks in underdeveloped countries isn’t financially feasible, so the alternative is developing a low-latency backhaul network in the sky, Wyler said. Up to 40 percent of a mobile operators’ costs are consumed building transmission capacity between its home network and thousands of transmission towers, Wyler said. Laying fiber is expensive, however.

But so is the alternative. Buying backhaul capacity from geosatellites can cost a stunning US$4,000 per megabit per month, but Wyler believes O3b will be able to offer the same capacity for $500 or less by using different, cheaper medium-earth orbit (MEO) satellites.

Geosatellites orbit the earth at an altitude of 22,500 miles, while MEO satellites are around 5,000 miles. The latency, or the time it takes for a signal to make a loop between earth and the satellite, can be upwards of 600 milliseconds for a geosatellite because it is further out. For a MEO, latency is around 120 milliseconds, close to that of a fiber network, Wyler said.

The higher latency of geosatellites doesn’t mesh well with JavaScript-heavy Web-based applications, Wyler said. In addition to snappier Web access, Internet subscribers should also see cheaper prices due to the lower cost of backhaul capacity, he said.

O3b’s service should be activated by late 2010 and provide speeds of up to 10G bps (bits per second) to other areas including Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. O3b plans to launch 16 MEO satellites, which can send data anywhere between a 45-degree angle north to a 45-degree angle south of their orbits. The lifespan of a MEO is about 10 years to 15 years.

Among the investors and supporters are HSBC Principal Investments, a private equity provider; Liberty Global, an operator that provides phone and Internet access in 15 countries; and Google, which has supported other initiatives to broaden access to the Internet.

The three entities have collectively invested about $65 million in O3b’s project. The total cost of building and launching the satellites is expected to be around $650 million, Wyler said, with the rest of the cost financed through a debt-equity loan.

Google said high-speed access is necessary to use rich, Web-based applications. Use of those applications, ranging from Gmail to Google Docs, also serve to grow the available audience for Google’s advertising business, which has propelled the company’s success.

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Poets and Princesses

The emotional relationships are the basis of all human beings. They generate direct influence on their performance both personally and professionally, setting the pattern for many of the decisions and actions that take place throughout life.

Several studies have confirmed that the most performance of a man and a woman is determined by their emotional stability. This is generated from several factors, but chief among them is the love partner as the core of motivation and inspiration.

A mentor told me, your partner will be your pedestal or your grave, choose with wisely. Just make her happy and she will take care of the rest.

Say they are the center and invisible engine of every man.

Those are who are responsible to make you believe that you will achieve

Those are who are always at your side, no matter if raining or not.

Those are who always are waiting for you, provided that you don’t stop loving her

Those are who worry when your silence is prolonged

Those are who although, you don’t believe, protect us

Those are who are lost in your gaze when they look fixedly into your eyes

Those are who give you the most precious gift, your children.

Those are princesses who just expect that you protect and appreciate her heart

Be poets for our princesses.

Happy love day!