Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 23, 2012
Most of the entrepreneurs I know realize they have some bad habits, like maybe procrastination or not listening well, so they focus on dropping these. New studies indicate that a more productive approach would be adopting new good habits and behaviors that clearly move your business forward, like good time management and implementing customer recommendations.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 23, 2012
by Aaron Tan. When Internet giant Google threatened to pull out of China in 2010, few were aware of the paradox that the Internet brings to China’s leaders beyond the political fodder. In “ How China’s Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China’s Past, Current and Future Leaders “, Robert Kuhn, an international investment banker who has advised the Chinese government for over two decades, notes that Chinese leaders recognize that free access to information is critical for t
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deal architect
DECEMBER 23, 2012
I can somewhat understand citizens of Orlando getting upset about the optics of the City’s apparent no-bid award to Workday. But for competitive vendors to howl about it is, well, a bit hypocritical. Sole sourcing runs our industry: a) Most.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
DECEMBER 23, 2012
Lots of coverage about Facebook Poke, which many have pointed out is a feature for feature clone of Snapchat. Some have pointed out that Poke was written in 12 days as evidence of the lightweight nature of Snapchat, and others have noted that Poke was at the top of the app charts within 24 hours as evidence of Snapchat’s peril. It’s not surprising that Poke got so much lift since it was promoted by the Facebook app, which has tremendous daily active usage.
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
deal architect
DECEMBER 23, 2012
on the innovation blog In politics, the era of Big Data has arrived Carbon Nanotube Yarn MindMeld me maybe? Santa’s Warehouse An event-ful year Wireless charging comes to Madison Square Garden The song of the Alien Birds The Hurricane Simulator.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 23, 2012
There are however, many clever ways to acquire users in the early stages, when your startup has no brand recognition. In the post, "Introduction to Growth Hacking for startups" we went through the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 23, 2012
A month or so ago I did an interview with Moe Abdou of 33voices. I do a lot of interviews, but this one stood out to me as Moe did a great job of moving the conversation around and pulling some great stuff out of me. Because it was a longish interview, Moe broke it into Part 1 and Part 2. If you don’t want to listen to the whole thing, Moe compiled some of the maxims and one-liners into a nice slide deck.
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 23, 2012
The Customer Might Not Get It. There is a danger in simply sharing a one or two word title of what you do. The reason is your customer may already have defined what that means in their head, and it may be totally different than what you really do. In this MSNBC interview with Mike Michalowicz and Jeff Hayzlett share business strategies, including how to explain what you do when a customer asks.
Diego Basch
DECEMBER 23, 2012
Warning: what you are about to read is mostly speculation. Take with a grain of salt. Don’t trust my numbers blindly. Find your own data. The suicide rate in the United States is twelve per one hundred thousand inhabitants. That means that every year, around 38,000 people kill themselves. About one hundred per day. Of course, not all suicides are equal.
Small Business Force
DECEMBER 23, 2012
Almost every day some aspiring entrepreneur raises the question with me or on some question board along the lines of "what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? "Well it takes certain talents � those innate characteristics that define you as an individual, which can and should be developed and honed. And, while there is no absolute recipe, there some key talents that every successful entrepreneur I've ever met or dealt with has, either all or a majority of them, some in great abundance.
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