Thu.Feb 21, 2013

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Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?

ReadWriteStart

Hypemarks was a Los Angeles social sharing startup that after about a year of failing to gain traction and turn a profit, changed course, moved to San Francisco and became Tint , an embeddable social-feed service. The story of pivoting direction is common in the U.S. start-up world. But what’s different about this story are the players involved.

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Are Mark Hurd and Thomas Kurian Oracles best salespeople?

deal architect

I heard Mark Hurd and Thomas Kurian today in an Oracle webcast about its recent Eloqua acquisition. I was impressed Thomas did most of the talking about how it will integrate with Oracle’s other CRM acquisitions – RightNow for service.

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6 Keys to a Satisfied Yet Successful Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s sad when the startup is “successful,” but the founder still feels totally unsatisfied. I see it happening all the time. The business is a winner, but the family or other relationships are broken by the stress. Or the entrepreneur started down this path to be their own boss and change the world, but find they are now answering to many more people, with nothing really changed.

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A world without constraints?

deal architect

I was talking to a tech executive at a multinational and he was describing the labor pools he had access to in India, E. Europe, S. America, China and he said “I don’t think technical talent will ever be a.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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[Infographic] Going Green For Small Business, Without Breaking The Bank

YoungUpstarts

Many small business owners think that only large corporations with big budgets can afford to go green. But they couldn’t be more wrong. You don’t need deep pockets to in order to implement eco-friendly solutions at your workplaces. There are many ways a small business can help contribute to the health of the planet, and at the same time, save some money too!

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog The Big Data of Water Leaks Reinventing the Red Light The mind of a gamer Your tax dollars at work Mid-level recruiting goes more social Rethinking China’s cities Surf Air: No TSA, no tickets Bruce’s world.

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The 51 Best Customer Service Tips For Entrepreneurs

Mike Michalowicz

Few things are truly more important to entrepreneurs and small business owners than getting and keeping customers. After all, you’re not even in business unless you have products or services to sell and paying customers to buy them. So for many of us, customer service is no small thing. But we sometimes minimize its importance by dealing with our customers as if we deserve their business.

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New LumaScapes Infographics On Startup Funding, Strategic Buyers and Gaming

VC Cafe

In “Save and Print These LumaScapes to Get a Grasp on Digital Media [Infographics]” posted on VC Cafe in June 2011, we shared the useful infographics created by US consultancy LumaPartners. The LumaScapes are a great way to depict an industry value chain all in one page. While [.]. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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2012 Recap and Final Close at $19M

Version One Ventures

While crunching the data and reflecting on the past year, it’s clear that 2012 was busy. Version One Ventures made eleven investments, including three angel investments that rolled over into the fund. Here are some of the more interesting details to share about our activity in 2012: Version One invested more than $2.5M in 2012 Our focus centered around three investment areas: e-commerce ( Frank & Oak , Julep , Instacanvas ), SaaS ( Jobber , Top Hat Monocle ), and marketplaces/platforms (

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Revisiting Median vs. Average With Accelerator Data

Feld Thoughts

US Median Income – 1947 to 2007 – 20th, 40th, 60th, 80th, 95th Percentiles (Photo credit: Wikipedia). I was in a board meeting yesterday at BigDoor where we were benchmarking our current numbers against a couple of recent studies on SaaS-based companies including the 2011 Pacific Crest Private SaaS Company Survey. Several of the things we looked at were averages; the Pacific Crest data was presented as medians.

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Ten Sneaky Bad Habits That Hurt Client Relationships

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph and JoAnn Callaway, authors of “ Clients First “. If you’re like most business owners, you probably assume your client relationships are pretty good. After all, you have enough clients to still be in business (which, in light of our recent economic death spiral, is saying something!). But it’s possible you’re merely surviving instead of thriving because you’re only scratching the surface of what it means to truly put the customer first.

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Don’t miss this one

Start Up Blog

Anyone involved in an entrepreneurial sphere, has at some point lamented the fact that they missed a previous revolution. A time when the momentum of change swept everyone forward. Those times when change was inevitable, or only a few people knew about the big change that was underway. Those times when being there, or just turning up was enough for success to be inevitable.

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Update on the JOBS Act and Raising Equity from Crowdfunding

Growthink Blog

As you may recall from last year, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (called the JOBS Act) was passed and signed by President Obama in April, 2012. The JOBS Act makes equity-based crowdfunding much easier The JOBS Act makes it possible to raise funds from investors and donors through certain crowdfunding sites in exchange for equity in your company.

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Good management means great empowerment.

Berkonomics

So, we’ve discussed why it is important to build consensus in an organization in most every major decision. To do so, a CEO must be able to relinquish some degree of power, overriding decisions made by consensus only with some thought and certainly with an explanation to those involved. A manager secure in the position should never fear empowering direct reports to make decisions that fall within the resources allocated to them and within the budget agreed to with them.

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SureScore Buys Campus2Careers

SiliconHills

SureScore, which prepares students for college, announced Thursday its acquisition of Campus2Careers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Campus2Careers, founded in 2009, matches college students and recent graduates with companies for internships and entry-level jobs. With the acquisition, SureScore plans to add high school job opportunities and internships.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Recruiting 101 (via Greg Brockman of Stripe)

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Greg Brockman , founding engineer at Stripe and a smart, young entrepreneur. In this solid 20-minute clip (courtesy of First Round Capital), Greg discusses how Stripe has built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams and provides the following nuggets for f

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TechStars Alumni Weekend Unites New and Old Cloud Startups

SiliconHills

BY ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Five weeks into its 13 week program, the startups in the TechStars Cloud program, based at Geekdom in San Antonio, had a chance to blow off some steam with some special, and helpful, guests – the alumni of last year’s first program. The alumni startups, which have [.] The post TechStars Alumni Weekend Unites New and Old Cloud Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Steps to Calculating Your Startup Costs

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally published in AmEx Open Forum. You can’t create a realistic business plan without knowing how much it will cost to get your business up and running. If you don’t have an idea of your startup costs, you won’t know how long you’ll have to bootstrap, how much funding you’ll need or how quickly to scale. In other words, without calculating your startup costs, you don’t really know where you’re going—or how you’re going to get there.

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National Instruments Plans $80 Million Expansion with 1,000 New Employees

SiliconHills

National Instruments, once a startup created by University of Texas graduate students, plans to create 1,000 new jobs and spend $80 million expanding its Austin campus. National Instruments will also receive $4.4 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund and other incentives from the City of Austin. “Central Texas’ flourishing high tech industry is further strengthened [.

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OATV Field Trip Series

Bryce Dot VC

I’ve written here on many occasions of my first trip to NYC after founding OATV. It was a transformative experience for me and for the fund. Since that trip, we’ve built a significant portfolio of companies in NYC and had a front seat for how that startup community has evolved. Last year I started to see that what was was happening in NYC 7 years ago is beginning to happen in more and more cities at an accelerating rate.

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Xtreme Power Raises $5.7 Million

SiliconHills

Xtreme Power has raised $5.7 million of a $10 million offering, according to papers on file with the Securities and Exchange Commision. The Austin-based company, founded in 2004, designs, manufactures and installs batteries and power management systems for utility companies. It has 100 employees, according to the Austin Business Journal. Since launching, Xtreme Power has [.

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Babbling VC - Untitled Article

Babbling VC

Ok, on the days when I'm super lazy, all you're getting are some pics! Call it my "creative side"!

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SEO Consulting in 2013: What the Pros Know that You Don’t

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Chris Warden. – Enjoy! photo credit: SEOPlanter via photopin cc. SEO is changing, and for the most part, the life of an SEO consultant is getting better. Gone are the days of open keyword data and mass link buying, but we’ve been lucky to gain a few things too. Most notably, we’ve gained the ability to justify the cost of good SEO and shown that a good SEO consultant is worth the additional expense in easy to

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