Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Venture Capital: 5 Tips for Nailing the Full Partnership Pitch

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So you made it to the “full partnership pitch.” You have already had one (or likely multiple) meetings with a subset of a firm’s investment team, including a principal and perhaps a general partner. You’ve impressed your point person (or people) sufficiently so that you have been invited to present to the broader partnership. What do you do now? Here are five things to keep in mind.

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1. Focus on Style, Not Just Substance

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This may sound counterintuitive. However, if you have been asked to come in and present to the full partnership, you have already done a good job defining, defending and articulating your business plan, and addressing many questions and concerns. Your initial contacts from the firm have likely already written up one or more memos introducing your company, and have had multiple internal discussions about your company’s compelling prospective investment.

Now it’s showtime! Most likely, the partnership will already be familiar with the facts around your team, market, business model, product, customers, competition and financial projections. They are now looking for the “X factor” — your ability to present with pizzazz, to capture and sustain the attention of the room, to project a degree of informed enthusiasm and to showcase your natural leadership and sales abilities with a healthy spark of charisma.

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Casey Anthony Facebook scam preys on social-media users

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One of the most popular scams masquerades as a Facebook post urging the social media site’s nearly 700 million users to click on a link that plays a secret video confession by Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old acquitted July 5 in the first-degree murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie.

Scam post message reads: “BREAKING NEWS – Leaked video of CASEY ANTHONY confessing to lawyers. Click To See – She can’t be re-tried, double jeopardy[sic]…OJ all over again!”

There is no video. There is no secret confession. However, scammers gain access to users’ Facebook walls, personal information, and share the viral scam using the unquestioned loyalty of their social media friends.

AllFacebook.com, a site which tracks trends, analytics and news about Facebook, shows that within minutes of the not guilty verdict, users posted 10 comments every second. Given that frenetic activity on the site, it’s no wonder scammers targeted it.

“It makes sense that people are taking advantage given the huge interest in the Casey Anthony trial,” said Josh Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab atHarvard University in Cambridge, Mass. “The mechanism of sharing information can be taken advantage of and it’s a nefarious practice.”

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In rolling out Office 365, the online version of its ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite, the Redmond, Wash., technology giant is looking to catch up to rival Google Inc. in the race to move business software residing on local computers to remote data centers accessible from anywhere. For a monthly fee starting at $6 per user, Office 365 will allow company employees to edit and store Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations online and communicate with one another via email, instant message or video chat as they work on projects together, an element Microsoft said would allow workers to get more done. Larger companies and those looking for more features will pay more per month.

Cloud proponents say companies can cut costs by getting rid of their own servers — which are expensive and require frequent maintenance and security updates — and allowing technology firms like Microsoft and Google to handle the hard work of supplying businesses’ computing needs.

“What happens when Microsoft Office meets the cloud?” Chief Executive Steve Ballmersaid at a presentation Tuesday. “Collaboration happens in addition to productivity, anywhere for any business of any size.”

Though Microsoft has for years had a cloud element to its Office suite, the company has struggled to catch up to Google in the online software race. The search giant says its Google Apps software, which also includes word processing, email and other business applications, is used by 3 million businesses and 30 million people around the world.

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Adobe 2Q tops profit, sales expectations

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Adobe Systems Inc., the maker of Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash software, said Tuesday that net income for its fiscal second quarter grew 54 percent from a year ago as revenue rose 9 percent. It reaffirmed its sales target for the year.

Net income in the three months to June 3 climbed to $229.4 million, or 45 cents per share, from $148.6 million, or 28 cents per share, a year ago.

Excluding stock-based compensation expenses, an income tax windfall and other items, adjusted earnings came to 55 cents per share, more than the 51 cents per share expected by analysts polled by FactSet.

Revenue grew to $1.02 billion from $943 million a year ago, beating the $996 million expected by analysts.

Adobe said it expected third-quarter revenue between $1 billion and $1.05 billion. The mid-point is higher than the average analyst estimate of $1.02 billion.

The company said it also expects to post 50 cents to 56 cents per share of adjusted earnings in the third quarter, roughly in line with the 54 cents analysts are looking for.

Adobe reaffirmed its target for sales to grow 10 percent in the current fiscal year. That would put it on track to post annual revenue of $4.18 billion, above the $4.11 billion analysts are expecting.

Despite the solid outlook, Adobe’s shares fell $1.11, or 3.5 percent, to $30.90 in extended trading. The stock had closed the regular session up $1.06, or 3.4 percent, at $32.01.

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The Casey Anthony trial and not guilty verdict lit up Facebook, offering users updates and armchair analysis — but it also opened the door to scammers craving to cash in on people’s curiosity.

One of the most popular scams masquerades as a Facebook post urging the social media site’s nearly 700 million users to click on a link that plays a secret video confession by Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old acquitted July 5 in the first-degree murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie.

Scam post message reads: “BREAKING NEWS – Leaked video of CASEY ANTHONY confessing to lawyers. Click To See – She can’t be re-tried, double jeopardy[sic]…OJ all over again!”

There is no video. There is no secret confession. However, scammers gain access to users’ Facebook walls, personal information, and share the viral scam using the unquestioned loyalty of their social media friends.

AllFacebook.com, a site which tracks trends, analytics and news about Facebook, shows that within minutes of the not guilty verdict, users posted 10 comments every second. Given that frenetic activity on the site, it’s no wonder scammers targeted it.

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“Such an indictment would have led to the bankruptcy of the bank which in turn would have caused serious and virtually uncontrollable economic repercussions for Switzerland,” the Swiss Federal Supreme Court said in a statement.

“Since FINMA had compelling reasons to believe that not relinquishing the customer data to the U.S. Department of Justice would have seriously impaired Switzerland’s financial markets and have led to serious repercussions for the Swiss economy, the action taken by it was shown to be lawful.”

The ruling overturns a 2010 decision by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court that FINMA’s decision was unlawful in a case brought by UBS customers whose data was handed over. If the Supreme Court had upheld that ruling, UBS clients could have sought damages from the Swiss state.

UBS also paid a fine of $780 million in exchange for the dropping of the U.S. investigation and later handed over details of a further 4,450 accounts to settle the case.

Earlier on Friday local rival Credit Suisse said it is being probed by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a broader investigation into banks suspected of helping Americans evade taxes.

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Swiss court says was right to give U.S. bank data

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The Swiss financial markets regulator FINMA was right to order the handing over of client data by UBS to the U.S. authorities, a top court ruled on Friday, despite the country’s cherished tradition of bank secrecy.

FINMA ordered UBS to hand over the data of 255 customers to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2009 as part of a settlement to avert criminal charges being leveled against Switzerland’s biggest bank.

“Such an indictment would have led to the bankruptcy of the bank which in turn would have caused serious and virtually uncontrollable economic repercussions for Switzerland,” the Swiss Federal Supreme Court said in a statement.

“Since FINMA had compelling reasons to believe that not relinquishing the customer data to the U.S. Department of Justice would have seriously impaired Switzerland’s financial markets and have led to serious repercussions for the Swiss economy, the action taken by it was shown to be lawful.”

The ruling overturns a 2010 decision by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court that FINMA’s decision was unlawful in a case brought by UBS customers whose data was handed over. If the Supreme Court had upheld that ruling, UBS clients could have sought damages from the Swiss state.

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Adobe 2Q tops profit, sales expectations

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Adobe Systems Inc., the maker of Photoshop, Acrobat and Flash software, said Tuesday that net income for its fiscal second quarter grew 54 percent from a year ago as revenue rose 9 percent. It reaffirmed its sales target for the year.

Net income in the three months to June 3 climbed to $229.4 million, or 45 cents per share, from $148.6 million, or 28 cents per share, a year ago.

Excluding stock-based compensation expenses, an income tax windfall and other items, adjusted earnings came to 55 cents per share, more than the 51 cents per share expected by analysts polled by FactSet.

Revenue grew to $1.02 billion from $943 million a year ago, beating the $996 million expected by analysts.

Adobe said it expected third-quarter revenue between $1 billion and $1.05 billion. The mid-point is higher than the average analyst estimate of $1.02 billion.

The company said it also expects to post 50 cents to 56 cents per share of adjusted earnings in the third quarter, roughly in line with the 54 cents analysts are looking for.

Adobe reaffirmed its target for sales to grow 10 percent in the current fiscal year. That would put it on track to post annual revenue of $4.18 billion, above the $4.11 billion analysts are expecting.

Despite the solid outlook, Adobe’s shares fell $1.11, or 3.5 percent, to $30.90 in extended trading. The stock had closed the regular session up $1.06, or 3.4 percent, at $32.01.

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Venture Capital: 5 Tips for Nailing the Full Partnership Pitch

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So you made it to the “full partnership pitch.” You have already had one (or likely multiple) meetings with a subset of a firm’s investment team, including a principal and perhaps a general partner. You’ve impressed your point person (or people) sufficiently so that you have been invited to present to the broader partnership. What do you do now? Here are five things to keep in mind.

---

1. Focus on Style, Not Just Substance

---

This may sound counterintuitive. However, if you have been asked to come in and present to the full partnership, you have already done a good job defining, defending and articulating your business plan, and addressing many questions and concerns. Your initial contacts from the firm have likely already written up one or more memos introducing your company, and have had multiple internal discussions about your company’s compelling prospective investment.

Now it’s showtime! Most likely, the partnership will already be familiar with the facts around your team, market, business model, product, customers, competition and financial projections. They are now looking for the “X factor” — your ability to present with pizzazz, to capture and sustain the attention of the room, to project a degree of informed enthusiasm and to showcase your natural leadership and sales abilities with a healthy spark of charisma.

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Microsoft rolls out Office 365 in cloud computing race

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In rolling out Office 365, the online version of its ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite, the Redmond, Wash., technology giant is looking to catch up to rival Google Inc. in the race to move business software residing on local computers to remote data centers accessible from anywhere. For a monthly fee starting at $6 per user, Office 365 will allow company employees to edit and store Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations online and communicate with one another via email, instant message or video chat as they work on projects together, an element Microsoft said would allow workers to get more done. Larger companies and those looking for more features will pay more per month.

Cloud proponents say companies can cut costs by getting rid of their own servers — which are expensive and require frequent maintenance and security updates — and allowing technology firms like Microsoft and Google to handle the hard work of supplying businesses’ computing needs.

“What happens when Microsoft Office meets the cloud?” Chief Executive Steve Ballmersaid at a presentation Tuesday. “Collaboration happens in addition to productivity, anywhere for any business of any size.”

Though Microsoft has for years had a cloud element to its Office suite, the company has struggled to catch up to Google in the online software race. The search giant says its Google Apps software, which also includes word processing, email and other business applications, is used by 3 million businesses and 30 million people around the world.

Still, that number is a small fraction of the 1 billion global users Microsoft says it has for its traditional Office suite, which for years has been its bestselling product. In 2010, Microsoft’s Business Division, which makes Office, was responsible for 30% of the company’s $64 billion in annual revenue.

Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Casey Anthony Facebook scam preys on social-media users

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The Casey Anthony trial and not guilty verdict lit up Facebook, offering users updates and armchair analysis — but it also opened the door to scammers craving to cash in on people’s curiosity.

One of the most popular scams masquerades as a Facebook post urging the social media site’s nearly 700 million users to click on a link that plays a secret video confession by Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old acquitted July 5 in the first-degree murder of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee Marie.

Scam post message reads: “BREAKING NEWS – Leaked video of CASEY ANTHONY confessing to lawyers. Click To See – She can’t be re-tried, double jeopardy[sic]…OJ all over again!”

There is no video. There is no secret confession. However, scammers gain access to users’ Facebook walls, personal information, and share the viral scam using the unquestioned loyalty of their social media friends.

AllFacebook.com, a site which tracks trends, analytics and news about Facebook, shows that within minutes of the not guilty verdict, users posted 10 comments every second. Given that frenetic activity on the site, it’s no wonder scammers targeted it.