Disruption

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Nearly 100 visitors to The Leadership Program Information Sessions

Thanks to the hard work of TLP Fellows, there has been excellent interest in the Class of 2010 program, with many more attendees than we expected. It also meant that we may not have been able to provide the most informative sessions to everyone, or answered all their questions. We'll follow up and hope that we're better organized for the next one to handle the crowds.

See the newly launched website here: http://www.startupleadership.com

Top 50 Management Thinkers (Times UK)

The top 50 thinkers: (Times UK 2009)

1. C. K. Prahalad Indian management guru
2. Bill Gates Geek-turned-philanthropist
3. Alan Greenspan Ex-Federal Reserve chairman
4. Michael Porter Competitive strategy author
5. Gary Hamel Business strategist
6. W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne INSEAD professors and authors of Blue Ocean Strategy
7. Tom Peters In Search of Excellence author
8. Jack Welch Former GE CEO-turned-columnist
9. Richard Branson Iconic British entrepreneur
10. Jim Collins Good to Great author
11. Philip Kotler Kellogg’s marketing guru
12. Robert Kaplan & David Norton The creators of the balanced scorecard
13. Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstralle Funky Business duo from Sweden
14. Charles Handy The original portfolio worker
15. Stephen Covey The man with seven successful and highly effective habits
16. Henry Mintzberg Controverisal Canadian management expert
17. Thomas Stewart Editor of Harvard Business Review
18. Malcolm Gladwell Author of The Tipping Point and Blink
19. Lynda Gratton London Business School professor and author of Hot Spots
20. Donald Trump US Apprentice host
21. Scott Adams Creator of Dilbert
22. Ram Charan Co-author of Execution
23. Vijay Govindarajan A Tuck professor and GE’s new chief innovation consultant
24. Warren Bennis Veteran on leadership
25. Clayton Christensen Innovation expert
26. Thomas Friedman Author of The World is Flat
27. Kenichi Ohmae Globalisation guru
28. Rosabeth Moss Kanter Renowned Harvard academic and author
29. Steve Jobs Apple’s iconic business leader
30. John Kotter Leadership and change guru
31. Jeff Immelt Jack Welch’s successor at GE
32. Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones Authentic leaders at London Business School
33. Adrian Slywotsky Heavyweight modern strategist
34. Marshall Goldsmith Coach to the top executives
35. Bill George Another fan of authentic leadership
36. Larry Bossidy Co-author of Execution with Charan (22)
37. Daniel Goleman The father of social and emotional intelligence
38. Marcus Buckingham Top self-help guru
39. Howard Gardner Harvard’s creator of the multiple intelligence concept
40. Edward de Bono Supreme lateral thinker
41. Al Gore Climate change campaigner
42. David Ulrich Human resources expert
43. Seth Godin An insightful marketer
44. Costas Markides Charismatic strategist
45. Rakesh Khurana Harvard thinker
46. Richard D’Aveni Hyper-competition expert
47. Peter Senge Learning organisation guru
48. Chris Argyris The originator of the learning organisation concept
49. Jeffrey Pfeffer Stanford intellectual
50. Chris Zook Bain consultant-turned-author

Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO Acumen Fund

My multicolored flag

This was made at www.wearemulticolored.com to represent the three countries I have spent my formative years (UK, India and the USA)

Cool folding chairs from Flux Design

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Kauffman and First Time Entrepreneurs: Statistics

What Kauffman found… !
• The average age of company founders is 40
• Dropouts are rare. 95% have bachelor’s degrees. 47 percent have advanced degrees
• 52% ranked in the top 10% of their class
• Entrepreneurs are usually the 2nd child out of 3
• 70% of entrepreneurs were married when they first launched their company
• 5% were divorced, separated, or widowed
• 60% of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children

Marc Andresson launches a new venture fund !

Some interesting points he made (not sure how accurate they are but I'll mention them anyway)

1. Only 10-20 of 700 funds he knows deliver good returns

2. There are exits, just not enough: Data Domain : likely to sell for $2 billion, Pure Digital - Cisco; OpenTable IPO and LogMeIn filed for IPO recently

3. 15 tech companies launched per year can get to $100 million in revenues. They're responsible for 97% of VC returns

His model will be the Valley model. Give a small company money for up to 5 engineers. If they build a good product, give them $5-10 million. He will only invest in the Valley. He will only do tech/internet/infrastructure in the spaces he knows.

Marc founded Netscape, Ning and Opsware (earlier known as LoudCloud). He is a well known Valley angel investor with several bets that seem to be working (Twitter, Digg, Delicious). He has a great blog but I haven't visited it in a while after he stopped writing. He's also an enormously insightful panelist.

If...with Nadal and Federer

This is my favorite poem. By Rudyard Kipling. Relevant to me personally because it has lessons for life. Also because I have a son. Voted the greatest poem in England. Narrated here by two of the world's greatest...who have filled each minute with sixty seconds of distance run. Watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-JCJCUy18

An outstanding ad from Pfizer

VC Non Admissions

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Angel Investors in New England (From Xconomy)

Angel Investors in New England
Thanks to XConomy.com

Angel Healthcare Investors
Newton, MA 617.630.0777
E-mail: info@hcangels.com
Does early-stage investments in healthcare services, biotechnology and life sciences,
and medical device companies

Angel Investor Forum
East Hartford, CT
Elizabeth Karter, Executive Director
E-mail: lkarter@kartercapital.com
Focused on seed-stage opportunities in Connecticut and the Northeast

Bay Angels
Cape Cod, MA
E-mail: cbyron@bayangels.net
Funds startups in Cape Cod and the Islands, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island

Beacon Angels
Boston, MA
E-mail: candidates@beaconangels.com
Typically invests between $100,000 and $300,000 in small but fast-growing startups

Boston Harbor Angels
Boston, MA
E-mail: info@bostonharborangels.com
Invests in firms seeking to raise between $250,000 and $1.5 million. Portfolio includes medical devices, IT, consumer products, business products, specialty materials, Internet, aviation, and more.

Boynton Angels Worcester, MA
E-mail: plan@boyntonangels.com
Makes seed- and expansion-stage investments in firms within a two-hour radius of Worcester, MA. Target fields: life sciences, energy, transportation, communications, and software

Breakfast Club of New Hampshire
Nashua, NH
E-mail: investors@angelbreakfastclub.com
Invests between $250,000 and $1 million in seed- and early-stage New England firms in information technology, cleantech, software, services, and medical devices

Cherrystone Angel Group
Providence, RI
E-mail: info@cherrystoneangelgroup.com
Invests between $100,000 and $500,000 in companies within a two-hour drive of Providence.

CommonAngels
Lexington, MA
781.274.9124
James Geshwiler, managing director
E-mail: james@commonangels.com
Chris Sheehan, managing director
E-mail: chris@commonangels.com
Does early stage software and technology investing. Prefers to take part in Series A rounds of between $500,000 and $5 million

eCoast Angel Network
Portsmouth, NH
E-mail: ecoastangels@comcast.net
Invests in advanced technology, e-commerce, healthcare, and industrial products and services. Targets firms in the New Hampshire coastal region

ECS Angels Bar Harbor, ME 207-288-0428 or 513-265-1309 Charles Sidman E-mail: CSidman@EvolutionaryManagement.com Perhaps the newest angel fund in the region, it formed last year to invest in diverse fields and to invest nationally rather than regionally (web site, link above, was “coming soon� as of this writing)

Golden Seeds
Cos Cob, CT; Boston, MA
Stephanie Hanbury-Brown, managing director
E-mail: shb@goldenseeds.com
Invests in women-led ventures in tech and non-tech.

Granite State Angels
Hanover, NH
Fred Wainwright, executive director
E-mail: wainwright@granitestateangels.com
Provides funding of between $250,000 and $1.5 million in early and later-stage New England companies (Wainwright is executive director of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business)

Hub Angels
Brookline, MA
E-mail: info@hubangels.com
Maintains a diversified portfolio that includes investments in financial services, entertainment, retail, biotechnology, healthcare, water treatment, food technology, and digital audio.

Investors™ Circle
Brookline, MA
617.566.2600
This network of angels invests in energy and the environment, media and education, food and organics, health and wellness, and community and international development

Launchpad Venture Group Wellesley, MA
E-mail: info@launchpadventuregroup.com
Invests between $100,000 and $500,000 in wide variety of tech and life sciences firms

Maine Angels
Portland, ME
E-mail: info@maineangels.org
Makes small investments of between $50,000 and $250,000. Has a diversified portfolio in tech and non-tech areas.

Mass Medical Angels
Boston area
Richard Anders
E-mail: info@massmedangels.com
The group seeks investments in life sciences startups that are looking to raise between $250,000 and $3 million.

North Country Angels
Montpelier, VT
Fred Wainwright
E-mail: wainwright@northcountryangels.com
Invests $250,000 to $1.5 million in early and later-stage companies throughout New England

River Valley Investors
Hadley, MA
413-241-7285
Paul G. Silva, co-manager
E-mail: paul@rivervalleyinvestors.com
Typically invests between $250,000 and $1 million in both early and later-stage firms within two-hour drive of Springfield, MA.

Walnut Venture Associates
Wellesley Hills, MA
E-mail: info@walnutventures.com
Focuses on information technology companies. Investment target: $250,000 to $1 million