Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. Of course much of it is conflicting. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 16, 2012
Twitter isn’t just a fun way to keep in touch with friends and follow your favorite celebrities; it’s also an incredibly valuable tool for marketing, branding, customer service, and business education. These days, few big businesses operate without a Twitter presence, and more and more business gurus, CEOs, and teachers are flocking to the site to share their expertise and inspiration with young professionals like yourself.
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crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 15, 2012
We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. Mid- to large-size companies can also benefit from the lean methodology and one way to do so is by actively leveraging crowds of workers: designers , software engineers , testers , writers , customer support people , customers, market researchers , and dozens of other groups via the Internet.
Cracking the Code
JANUARY 16, 2012
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, January 16, 2012. BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. Some countries in Europe may have lost their AAA ratings, but they have not lost their appetite to innovate and create new online services. Blablacar is one such example of innovation: with a fast growing community of 1.6m members in France ( www.covoiturage.fr ), the UK ( www.blablacar.com ) and Spain ( www.
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
mashable.com
JANUARY 18, 2012
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Start Up Blog
JANUARY 17, 2012
The biggest flip the technology age has done on the industrial era is the open API. For the uninitiated, an open API (Application Program Interface) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other. It is also a system where web companies ‘open up’ their platform for external non affiliated software developers to create applications on.
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Growthink Blog
JANUARY 19, 2012
When I was a kid I played ping pong quite a bit. We had a ping pong table in my basement and I would play a lot with my dad, my brother and my friends. I was always a good athlete, and have pretty good hand-eye coordination. So that, combined with a lot of practice, made me pretty good. In fact, I actually won a bunch of local ping pong tournaments at my school and the town recreation center.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 16, 2012
5 Ways to Get Your Customers to Create Content For You This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. You’ve heard enough about the need to produce content that I’m guessing you’re probably blogging away and curating, aggregating and filtering all manner of content. But there’s one type of content that you may not be focused on and I happen to think it’s some of the most potent to be had – and that’s customer generated content.
Rob Go
JANUARY 18, 2012
In a prior post about what it’s like to be a VC I made the claim that even if an investor has operating experience, that experience gets stale after a few years. This led to the following question in my comments: “You mention that operational skills begin to decline 2 years into the job. If this is true, then it follows that VC GPs can only add limited operational value.” I have lots of thoughts on this, so I thought I’d expand with a full post.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2012
Entrepreneurs are all about firsts, and the most important is you making a great first impression – on investors, customers, new team members, and strategic partners. Poor first impressions can be avoided, but I’m amazed at the number of unnecessary mistakes I see at those critical first introductions, presentations, and meetings. The key message here is “preparation.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 17, 2012
When you talk about explosive, profitable startup growth, a few darlings come to mind. DropBox is one. Hubspot is another. I mean, just look at their growth ( published on SEOMoz ): Was it always so powerful a growth engine? Was it always so clear that this was a company with a bright future? Looking back on stats they published in 2010, the curve is identical, just a different scale on the y-axis: Or in 2009, when they published this to boast about how their revenue juggernaut is recession-proo
deal architect
JANUARY 15, 2012
I had couple reminders over the last few weeks of how messy attributions and permissions already are – so what about life if SOPA passes? a) My book editors went through and highlighted several quotes from articles which exceeded 50.
Andrew Payne
JANUARY 18, 2012
It isn’t often that you see the MPAA on the defensive. Their recent release about the SOPA/PIPA blackout, Chris Dodd said: “It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 19, 2012
Every startup with any traction quickly reaches a point where they need to hire employees to grow the business. Unfortunately, this always happens when pressures are the highest, and business processes are ill-defined. At this point you need superstars and versatile future executives, yet your in-house hiring processes and focus are at their weakest.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 17, 2012
Your office space is the face of your startup. Not only does it communicate an outward message, but like a face, a startup office provides insight into what’s going on underneath the surface. A startup’s space tells a story to everyone who is involved with a company spending time there: founders, employees, investors, and (potential) [.].
deal architect
JANUARY 19, 2012
I have written before about “customers as workers”. In their 2007 book, Revolutionary Wealth, the Tofflers called it our “Third Jobs” - “the unnoticed work we do without pay for some of the biggest corporations”. Back then, they may have.
Andrew Payne
JANUARY 18, 2012
It isn’t often that you see the MPAA on the defensive. Their recent release about the SOPA/PIPA blackout, Chris Dodd said: “It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users
Campus Entrepreneurship
JANUARY 19, 2012
Some interest debate surrounding the funding and mission of government funded research is taking place in the wake of Minister for State Universities and Science David Willetts speech on making the UK the global science research leader. Professor Stephen Curry provides great coverage of the debate in the Guardian : Willetts’ musings on role of government in directing science were more interesting, and included some practical ideas for how ministers might effectively access scientific exper
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 16, 2012
by Keegan Hall, Pirq.com. I hate running. Well, that’s what I thought back in 2007 before I accepted the challenge to run my first marathon. Since then, I have run six marathons, including my most recent marathon: last weekend’s 39.3-mile Goofy Challenge in Walt Disney World (it was also my daughter’s 4th birthday so we had a huge party!). I must admit, I’m actually quite infatuated with running right now.
deal architect
JANUARY 16, 2012
SAP has hired Julie Roehm as an SVP of Marketing. I don’t know the lady and think it is unfair that the stories about her border on tabloid reporting. But it is an interesting move for SAP to hire someone.
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 18, 2012
Are you an entrepreneur handling every aspect of your new, small business? If so, you are probably writing all of your marketing materials and Website copy. While you may not be able to afford a professional, search engine optimization (SEO) copywriter yet, there are some things you can do to improve your copy… and they [.].
Campus Entrepreneurship
JANUARY 20, 2012
Trouble on the technology transfer front from the University of Texas. I will have to learn more, but here is the one line pitch — uber successful California biotech researcher Richard Miller is lured to Texas to lead the way as the first commercialization chief, but quickly runs into conflict of interest issues for being too entrepreneurial! From Kirk Ladendorf at the Austin Statesman.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 20, 2012
When you’re a small business and marketing budgets are pitiful, options can be limited. Most small business owners tend to look towards leveraging the power of social media and online marketing to generate sales leads. Here’s an interesting infographic from the folks at Submit Graphics made for SEO.com that looks at how small business owners approach online and social media marketing.
deal architect
JANUARY 17, 2012
Books go through waves of reviews – executives, media, US readers, international readers. You appreciate them all because people take the time from their busy schedules to read, then provide feedback. Over the last couple of weeks I have received.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 14, 2012
I had a great breakfast meeting at the Cambridge Marriott with Michael Schrage , a research fellow at MIT yesterday morning. We had never met before and I loved the conversation – his brain was bubbling with ideas that are relevant to many of the things I’m interested in, he challenged some of my thinking, and we had a deep and awesome conversation about open source hardware, makers, and MakerBot.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2012
One of our portfolio companies asked me this week, “Do you all have a list of job boards your portfolio companies have had great success with in recruiting high quality engineers?”. The unemployment rate for quality computer scientists/engineers in the major cities right now is zero; everyone who’s not pursuing his/her own startup can easily get a good job.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 17, 2012
It’s difficult to supplant Silicon Valley as the hotbed of technology and innovation – our previous infographic looked at comparing Silicon Valley with New York – but that’s not stopping other parts of the world from building their own centers of entrepreneurship and technological innovation. Here’s an infographic – made by the folks at Gist.com – that shows some of these up-and-coming hotspots, ranging from Germany to Mexico, to Nigeria and closer to ho
deal architect
JANUARY 18, 2012
I am introducing a new category of periodic posts to recognize articles, blogs, books, videos interviews I think are well executed. I appreciate the compliment when people tell me I am a prolific writer. Actually, I am a much more.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 20, 2012
This post should be sung to the tune of The World Is A Vampire by the Smashing Pumpkins. “the world is a vampire, sent to drain. secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames. and what do i get, for my pain. betrayed desires, and a piece of the game. even though i know-i suppose i’ll show. all my cool and cold-like old job. despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage. despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage. then someone will say what is lost can never be saved. d
ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 20, 2012
The kind folks at Intuit have posted this infographic on their blog this week that describes what a limited liability corporation is and how it stacks up to other kinds of corporate entities. It couldn't come at a better time for my family, as my wife is considering expanding her own business and wants to investigate her options. LLCs are great if you want to limit the amount of bookkeeping you have to do and if you don't mind paying self-employment taxes.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 17, 2012
by Murray Newlands , is CEO and founder of Influence People. Let’s face it — there are a lot of people out there going after the same opportunities. Whether someone is on the Internet, at a conference, or at the office, you want your reputation, work and all of the aspects of your self-presentation to make you stand out from the crowd. In the short-term, it will get you into a lot more conversations, which will open doors.
deal architect
JANUARY 19, 2012
On New Florence The Atlantis prepares to become a museum piece CES: Year of the Ultrabook KO-SU mobile education Google Search, plus Your World.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 16, 2012
On Saturday, Colorado Senator Mark Udall publicly opposed PIPA. I’ve been talking to Mark and his team for about a month about this and I’m incredibly proud of him for taking a stand on this issue. I’ve been a supporter of Mark’s for many years and his willingness to listen to his constituents, think about and understand the specific issues, speak his mind, and take a leadership role continues to impress me.
Life Beyond Code
JANUARY 15, 2012
Every worthwhile project comes with varying levels of resistance throughout the lifecycle of that project. If you are one of those that can overcome this resistance, not just once, but throughout the lifecycle of the project, you will see the project through completion. On the other hand, if you are one of those people that can’t seem to overcome the resistance at a particular point in the project lifecycle, you will abandon the project.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2012
In the world of online search engines, most people stop with the Big Three. Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search are indisputably the most widely used. For those who like to run off the beaten path or march to the beat of their own search engine, here are ten alternatives to consider the next time you need to find information online. 1. AltaVista. In operation since 1995, AltaVista is one of the web’s search trailblazers, and is still in operation today.
deal architect
JANUARY 16, 2012
on the innovation blog The Intel/Qualcomm faceoff CES: The New Car Show Move over Bellagio! Stephen Hawking turns 70.
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