The May Report: 1/21/2011: Well, the highly predictable has happened: Google has now launched a Groupon competitor and the story was broken by Mashable’s Ben Parr; Lean Tech Start Up draws 150; midVentures has its first flop in attendance terms but a fun event nonetheless and I hear SMCC was also packed; the D. in Uki D. Lucas is for Dominic; A tip of the hat to Andrew Mason for his apology to Japanese customers and potential customers; and a tip of the hat to Pathfinder’s CEO Bernhard Kappe who has made Lean Tech Start Up a success

The May Report January 21st, 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Scoop section:

– Google to launch Groupon competitor By Ben Parr, Mashable
– Lean Start Up Circle- a huge hit last night, by Melanie Adcock
– Briefly noted, by Ron May
– CHICAGO SHAKERS AND STIRRERS – Wednesday 26th January!
– BNC VC Group 2/1/2011 5:00 PM at LLB&L.Presenters: Exmovere, Affluence
– MIT Sloan’s Buck Weaver Marketing Award Honors comScore CEO
– comScore Announces Date for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results
– Bob Geras: Why the Apology?
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Google to launch Groupon competitor By Ben Parr, Mashable

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Google to launch Groupon competitor By Ben Parr, Mashable
January 21, 2011 11:19 a.m. EST | Filed under: Web

Google Offers is designed to help potential customers find great deals in their area, a fact sheet says.STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Google preparing to launch Google Offers, search giant’s Groupon competitor
From what we can tell, Google Offers will be powered by Google Checkout
Google famously tried to buy Groupon for $6 billion just a few months ago
(Mashable) — Google is preparing to launch Google Offers, the search giant’s Groupon competitor, Mashable has learned.

We have the documents to prove it — one of our sources has sent us a confidential fact sheet straight from the Googleplex about the company’s new group buying service.

“Google Offers is a new product to help potential customers and clientele find great deals in their area through a daily email,” the fact sheet says.

Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. Users receive an e-mail with a local deal-of-the-day. They then have the opportunity to buy that deal within a specific time limit (we assume 24 hours). Once enough people have made the purchase, the Google Offer is triggered and users get that all-too-familiar $10 for $20 deal for that Indian restaurant you’ve never tried.

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From what we can tell, Google Offers will be powered by Google Checkout. It also includes Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Google Buzz and e-mail sharing options.

Google is actively reaching out to businesses now to get them on board with Offers. It even apparently has a writing team in place to craft the write-up for offers.

Google famously tried to buy Groupon for $6 billion just a few months ago in order to bolster its local advertising business. Groupon rejected the offer though and is instead preparing for a $15 billion IPO.

The search giant clearly isn’t giving this market up without a fight, though. With its vast reach, huge resources and brand recognition, it could prove to be a powerful player in the space.

We’re going to be watching these developments closely. Look here to see the entire fact sheet Google is sending to local businesses:

Google has responded to our inquiry and sent us the following statement:

“Google is communicating with small businesses to enlist their support and participation in a test of a pre-paid offers/vouchers program. This initiative is part of an ongoing effort at Google to make new products, such as the recent Offer Ads beta, that connect businesses with customers in new ways. We do not have more details to share at this time, but will keep you posted.”

Google essentially confirms Google Offers is real. It looks like Google Offers is in the testing phases, though.

We’ve also learned that Google will pay out 80% of a business’ revenue share three days after its deal runs. Google will hold the remaining 20% for 60 days to cover refunds before sending the rest.

January 20, 2011 by Ben Parr

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Google is preparing to launch Google Offers, the search giant’s Groupon competitor, Mashable has learned. One of our sources has sent us a confidential fact sheet straight from the Googleplex about the company’s new group buying service. “Google Offers is a new product to help potential customers and clientele find great deals in their area through a daily email,” the fact sheet says.
Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. Users receive an e-mail with a local deal of the day. They then have the opportunity to buy that deal within a specific time limit (we assume 24 hours). Once enough people have made the purchase, the Google Offer is triggered and users get that all-too-familiar $10 for $20 deal for that Indian restaurant they’ve never tried.
From what we can tell, Google Offers will be powered by Google Checkout. It also includes Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Google Buzz and e-mail sharing options.
Google is actively reaching out to businesses now to get them on board with Offers. It even apparently has a writing team in place to craft the write-up for offers.
Google famously tried to buy Groupon for $6 billion just a few months ago in order to bolster its local advertising business. Groupon rejected the offer though and is instead preparing for a $15 billion IPO.
The search giant clearly isn’t giving this market up without a fight, though. With its vast reach, huge resources and brand recognition, it could prove to be a powerful player in the space. We’re going to be watching these developments closely. We’ve reached out to Google for comment.
Below, we’ve embedded the entire fact sheet Google is sending to local businesses:
Update: Google has responded to our inquiry and sent us the following statement:
“Google is communicating with small businesses to enlist their support and participation in a test of a pre-paid offers/vouchers program. This initiative is part of an ongoing effort at Google to make new products, such as the recent Offer Ads beta, that connect businesses with customers in new ways. We do not have more details to share at this time, but will keep you posted.”
Google essentially confirms Google Offers is real. It looks like Google Offers is in the testing phases, though.
Update 2: We’ve also learned that Google will pay out 80% of a business’ revenue share three days after its deal runs. Google will hold the remaining 20% for 60 days to cover refunds before sending the rest.
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Lean Start Up Circle- a huge hit last night, by Melanie Adcock

Subject: Lean Start Up Circle- a huge hit last night
Date: 1/21/2011 3:12:31 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: melanie_adcock@msn.com
To: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com

Lean Start Up Circle- a huge hit last night

Around 150 people attended the Lean Start Up Circle Meetup last night with standing room only. This was their first event where they changed $10 a person and they blew it out of the park with attendance with what appeared to be their biggest crowd to date. Pathfinder’s CEO Bernhard Kappe kicked things off with a Lean Start Up 101 presentation. I have to hand it to him, he’s doing a great job putting these events together. The presenters last night included Sean Corbett, Sue Khim and Adam Siegel. I took a lot of great notes and will get those out soon.

Pek Pongpaet, Bruce Montgomery, Raymond Reinhardt and many other regulars were in attendance. Lots of networking and merriment. Afterwards 15 or so people headed out to get a beer. I went along and we talked about fun tech geek stuff including the future of internet video, the psychology of all of the non-geeks interacting at the bar, and many other amusing topics. The makings for a great drinking team was hatched for sure. I just hope the drinking team doesn’t develop a bowling problem, LOL! You can never have too much fun, and it made me feel like 2011 is off to a great start.

Other tidbits- Chris Sweis gave me a link for a shameless plug on Juno Wallet www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeJHLRqFn8Q
More stuff coming about the latest going on with Fig 1, a company I recently wrote about plus more interviews and write ups I’m working on.

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Briefly noted, by Ron May

* This has to be quick since I’m going to Sip@TheSync today at 4pm. I went yesterday to the midVentures event and it was the first time when Geoff, Jon and Brian did not draw the big crowds. There was a good deal of competition last night.

Those who were not at midVentures were over at 200 S. Wacker at the The Lean Tech Start Up which drew about 150, according to Melanie. Bruce Montgomery told her that there were a lot of people at Morningstar for the SMCC event.

My best guess based on talking to people is that midVentures drew between 30 and 40 at its peak.

The two speakers in the afternoon were Uki D. Lucas and now that I have his card — quite by accident — the D. is for Dominic (he told me that today on the phone, it is not on his card) and his cell phone is 650-815-6603; and Chris Grove of www.keylimetie.com.

One person there, Chirag Patel, told me he raised $3MM in angel and Series A funjding for his 12 person firm that makes “I have fallen” alert devices mostly for elderly people and they are web enabled. They did $250K in revenue in 2010 and anticipate doing $1MM in 2011.

They charge $99 for the initial payment and $49 a month thereafter for the service if I heard correctly.

Chirag told me that he holds stock in the mutual fund FAIRX which has 3 to 4% of its portfolio in Sears Holdings. Sears, btw, owns KMart as well as Land’s End. Chirag and I talked about smart phone (Droid) devices embedded in Kenmore appliances. The need for some is obvious, but for others it is not so clear.

Chirag gave some key points from Uki’s presentation which stressed the fall of the iPhone and the rise of the Droid which is open source. Right now, iPhone has a lead but Droid is coming on strong with each holding about 30% market share, I think he said. The other 40% is Blackberry by RIM.

Since Droid is open source, its future looks bright and Apple’s desire to monopolize the market does not sit well with a lot of folks, Chirag told me.

All people who were there about 8:30pm had a frolicking good time when Geoff had us play a game called Start Up Karaoke. That event was small in numbers (about ten) but it made up for it in enthusiasm.I looked up the spelling of karaoke and Merriam had this word:

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Top 10 Unusually Long and Interesting Words, Vol. 2
#1: Omphaloskepsis

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contemplation of one’s navel as an aid to meditation; also: lack of will to move, exert, or change: inertia

About the word:

In Greek, omphalos means “navel”; skepsis means “examination.”

Less than a century old, omphaloskepsis is usually considered humorous. For example, in his 2005 autobiography, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh reminisced about his absorption in “the time-honored pursuits of adolescents in any era – school, social life, the opposite sex, omphaloskepsis – ….”

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BTW, Geoff can be el Jefa (the boss in Spanish) when he wants to be. He barked a few orders to Jon Pasky. Hey, every company needs at least one AH.

Thanks to Neil Khot who walked me downstairs and to Linda Frothingham who got me plenty of snacks to eat.

Charles E. Johnson just started yesterday at midVentures and he is employee #8 or #9. He’ll be a developer.

He was interviewed by Brian Mayer who wanted to know his skill set and background and by Jon Pasky who focused on that but also on his future.

I spent about an hour reading Bill Burnett’s book The Peak Interview peakinterview.com/ and he suggests turning the tables on your prospective manager at the end of the interview. I will give you the details next week.

I won’t try to give you the blow by blow today on the humorous start-up presentations which ranged from Geoff’s “Not a Groupon Clone, LLC” to Kiesha Howard’s Weather.me. Kiesha, btw, is hot, hot, hot — and smart too. Her firm is www.sugargamers.com

Topics included recursion, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion, Jeff Goldblum, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Goldblum, what Burger King, iPads, and stretch Hummers have in common, dinosaurs, and an exit strategy called KLODS. King Linked Oprah Distrupted Social, storms and much more.

The numbers in the pie charts and graphs never really added up, but one stat might have been true. Is it true that 80% of branded goods are purchased by women?

Nancy Munro was there for the networking. Jim Costopulos had something to tell me but we never had time for the conversation. I’ll call him.

I watched the Andrew Mason apology to Japanese customers and potential customers for a snafu on New Year’s Eve. It was quite sincere and it showed a guy who is in the process of maturing before our eyes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDMLMFxEY4A

I doubt that Brad Keywell or Eric Lefkofsky could pull that off. A tip of the hat to Andrew on this one. Far more CEO like than his bratty appearance on The Today Show. Andrew is growing in the job and I think he gets that Groupon’s future depends on a loyal customer base. Chuck Templeton even commented Wednesday night that his problems in managing 174 people could not compare to the difficulty of the task at Groupon. As one local snarkster put it to me, “any business relying for fulfillment on the delivery of others is going to run into trouble.” That is why Groupon is dedicating real resources to educating its customers (the vendors) how to prepare for and handle the buyer overload.

Thanks to David Baeckelandt for sending that in.

* There were 38 people attending the BNC Venture Capital Group meeting on January 4th. Some of the attendees included:

Sheldon Rosenfield, Ray Markman, David Carman, Len Bland, Jack McInerney, Chuck Corush, Sarah Doherty, Craig McWilliams, Dacia Hurter who is with Analyte Media, a firm headed by Dan Malven and funded with $3MM in venture capital; cardiologist Jeff Soble, Carl Jost, Jeff Pelock, Bill Burnett, Gregg Fuesel, Jay Kelly, Robert Mckenzie, Greg Evans, Ophelia Smith, Christopher Pesch, Scott Fiedler, Joone studios [the name of the woman running the studios was not on her card]; Neil Khot, Ron May, Jan Koe, Malachi Leopold, Jeff Grossberg and others.

I have crystallized in my mind the problem with the fund raising done by Malachi Leopold. The trouble is that he is raising money on a project by project basis so if you happen to put money into a flop, you lose. There is not a portfolio approach and that is the only way investing works for venture capitalists.

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MIT Sloan’s Buck Weaver Marketing Award Honors comScore CEO

Subject: FW: MIT Sloan’s Buck Weaver Marketing Award Honors comScore CEO
Date: 1/21/2011 2:36:13 P.M. Central Standard Time
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Magid Abraham, Ph.D, co-founder and CEO of comScore, Inc. was honored today with the Eighth Annual Buck Weaver Award for Marketing. Established by MIT Sloan School of Management in 2003 and sponsored by General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the award recognizes individuals who have made important contributions to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science.

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MIT Sloan’s Buck Weaver Marketing Award Honors comScore CEO

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., January 21, 2011 – Magid Abraham, Ph.D, co-founder and CEO of comScore, Inc. was honored today with the Eighth Annual Buck Weaver Award for Marketing. Established by MIT Sloan School of Management in 2003 and sponsored by General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the award recognizes individuals who have made important contributions to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science.

Glen Urban, dean emeritus and professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan, and Andy Norton, director of General Motors North America Portfolio Planning, presented the award to Abraham during a two-day symposium of the same name held at the MIT Faculty Club. Abraham’s presentation was titled, “Enabling Marketing Science Applications through Large Scale Behavioral Data Collection and Automated Analytics.”

Abraham, has served as president, chief executive officer and as a director at comScore since September 1999. In 1995, Abraham founded Paragren Technologies, Inc., which specialized in delivering large scale Customer Relationship Marketing systems for strategic and target marketing, and served as its chief executive officer from 1995 to 1999. Prior to founding Paragren, Abraham held a number of senior leadership positions at Information Resources, Inc. including vice chairman and president/chief operating officer.

Abraham was the recipient of the AMA’s 2009 Charles Coolidge Parlin Award and was inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2008. He received the William F. O’Dell Award in 2000 from the American Marketing Association for an article that he co-authored in the Journal of Marketing Research, and, in 1996, was the recipient of the Paul Green Award. Abraham earned a Ph.D. in Operations Research and an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management. He also holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in France.

According to Urban, Abraham was selected from a pool of the very best academics and business leaders who have made fundamental contributions to marketing science.

“Magid represents the best of innovation in marketing science in corporate America,” said Urban. “His work on the use of UPC codes and browser panel research of Internet shopping and media behavior are major contributions to the field of operations research and market research in marketing. He has created real innovations that work in the market place and build new theory while improving the practice of marketing”.

Henry Grady “Buck” Weaver was a pioneer in marketing research and market-based decision making in the 1930s. Working for GM, he was the first known director of marketing research who went on to pioneer formal consumer research on attitudes, opinions, styling preferences, and customer design feature priorities. His contributions to the field were noted by Time Magazine in the 1930s and then were recently uncovered by GM’s Vince Barabba, now retired. Barabba and Urban developed the concept for the annual award, which is held in conjunction with an annual conference.

The pioneering research of MIT Sloan faculty in building and implementing marketing models and decision-support systems has enhanced new product development for decades. Other award-winning research projects focus on customer satisfaction and the psychological underpinnings of economic and consumer behavior.

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comScore Announces Date for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results

Subject: FW: comScore Announces Date for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2010 Financial Results
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comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced it will report its fourth quarter and full year 2010 financial results after U.S. financial markets close on Wednesday, February 16, 2011. In conjunction with this announcement, management will host a conference call and webcast on Wednesday, February 16 at 5:00 p.m. (ET) to discuss the Company’s financial results.

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Bob Geras: Why the Apology?

Subject: Why the Apology? Date: 1/21/2011 1:56:53 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: bob@vcbob.com
To: jfk@grishamcorp.com, sulphone@aol.com, tcf@cfcointl.com

Another perspective

At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country’s prior actions, here’s a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.

These are good

JFK’S
Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60′s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded,”Does that include those who are buried here?”
DeGaulle did not respond.

When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of ‘empire building’ by George Bush.

He answered by saying,”Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”

There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During

a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims.
What does he intend to do, bomb them?”

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: “Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to
and from their flight deck.
We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?”

A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, “Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?”

Without hesitating,the American Admiral replied, “Maybe it’s because the Brit’s, Canadians, Aussie’s and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German.”

AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE
Robert Whiting,an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport
in his carry on.
“You have been to France before, monsieur?” the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.

“Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.”

The American said,”The last time I was here, I didn’t have to show it.”
“Impossible.. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !”

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look.
Then he quietly explained, ”Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn’t find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.”
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