Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 10, 2013
If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. The cost of entry has never been lower. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 8, 2013
I’m so sick of how – as a country – our authorities treat people as though they are criminals. A month ago a successful Boston entrepreneur who has been incredibly engaged in the Boston startup community was thrown in jail for three days after a CPB agent decided she didn’t have a valid visa (she did have a valid visa, and she was from that extremely dangerous country of Canada.).
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deal architect
JANUARY 10, 2013
There are a few truisms when it comes to an SAP event: a) The production quality is usually slick In my review of 2012 events, I complimented Sapphire's excellent event production. Today, SAP is planning as my friend Predrag (PJ).
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 9, 2013
by Dianne Durkin, author of “ The Power of Magnetic Leadership “ What do the leaders of top companies do to create an inviting workplace filled with fully engaged and enthusiastic employees? The best leaders are people who know how to listen, can make a promise and deliver on that promise, and have stepped up to the plate and made the necessary investment to successfully engage their employees.
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
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 6, 2013
Everyone can recognize a great manager a mile away, so why is it so hard to find one? We all remember a few that are “legends in their own mind”, but that doesn’t do it. In fact, the clue here is that the view in your mind is the only one that matters, rather than the other way around. Almost every one of us in business can remember that one special manager in their career who exemplifies the norm, who commanded our respect, and treated us like a friend, even in the toughest of personal or busin
Life Beyond Code
JANUARY 6, 2013
My friend Dr.Liz Alexander recently co-authored a book called Thought Leadership Tweet. I am a big fan of thought leadership and also the executive editor of THINKaha (publisher of the book) so I will be doubly-biased when I say that the new book is fantastic. Please check it out. What was also fascinating was that Liz co-authored this book with Craig Badings from another part of the world – Australia.
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crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 11, 2013
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2013
Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the
Up and Running
JANUARY 8, 2013
The world continues to turn, many new opportunities lie ahead, and now is the perfect time to fulfill dreams of taking charge of your future. 2013 is the year to kick business planning into high gear and start your own company. More opportunities than ever exist for innovative entrepreneurs to offer specialized services and products to meet niche market needs, and in many cases the cost of entry is low.
Growthink Blog
JANUARY 7, 2013
Watching the disaster of a process that was the D.C. fiscal cliff drama this past week, I found myself with a curious reaction. And maybe even a little bit of a selfish one. It was, by golly, how happy am I that I get to work in this so dignifying world of business and free enterprise and not have to waste my precious life energy on such nonsense? And then feeling a bit more generous, I felt happiness for the hundreds of millions if not now billions of people worldwide that are able to do likewi
David Teten
JANUARY 9, 2013
Localisation du Maghreb (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. The delegation will be in NYC January 14-15 and is looking for investment professionals to join roundtable discussions as speakers.
crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 6, 2013
How often do we read about online security breaches, loss of data, or massive credit card theft? While these events typically involve larger companies or even governments, all businesses are vulnerable to fraud, theft, or other forms of malice or just plain mischief. Most small businesses assume that it is only larger companies are at risk for security breaches. but over the last several years, small businesses are increasingly the target of hackers and fraudsters.
www.clickz.com
JANUARY 7, 2013
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deal architect
JANUARY 5, 2013
This time of the year, many folks like to look at the year back or the year forward. This old fart has been in and around enterprise software for three decades so I like to take a somewhat longer look.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 5, 2013
If I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me, “One of these days, I’m going to start my own company,” I’d be rich. If this day ever comes for all these people, we will be overrun by startups. Yet I don’t lose any sleep over either of these possibilities. Most people procrastinate from time to time, but I suspect that the challenge here is somewhat deeper than that.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 5, 2013
I’m finding myself using Google+ more and more. I recently decided that the long game Google is playing is absolutely brilliant. They are being understated about it but doing exactly what business strategists talk about when they describe the long game as the one to play. Rather than making a bunch of sweeping pronouncements, struggling to jam together a bunch of random crap in a big bang release, and then worry about staying involved in a feature race with a competitor, Google is continua
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Maple Butter. Search for: Videos. About. You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Tweet. I just realized that I’ve answered over 1200+ questions on Sprouter.
deal architect
JANUARY 10, 2013
I have written about the attractiveness of NetSuite’s cross-channel “commerce-as-a-service” capabilities to fast growing retailers like Ibex. Ibex uses NetSuite to manage customer interactions across smartphones, tablets, PCs and brick-and-mortar stores. So, I am not surprised to see NetSuite acquire.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 11, 2013
Every startup founder I know talks about the chaos of their business, which they usually attribute to that burst of growth that is required to get to positive cash flow. They envision a stable environment after that point, and may have convinced themselves that they will be safer and happier with a livable income, maintaining a loyal but flat customer base.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 11, 2013
I’ve been in three board meetings in the last month where it was painfully apparent that there wasn’t a person in the company who owned the UX philosophy of the product. I’m explicitly saying “UX” (user experience) rather than “UI” (user interface) as each company had an excellent designer and the application looked great.
www.gv.com
JANUARY 7, 2013
'At the Google Ventures Design Studio, we have a five-day process for taking a product or feature from design through prototyping and testing. We call it a product design sprint. This is the sixth in a series of seven posts on running your own design sprint. On day 2 you drew concept sketches. On day 3, you made a plan and a storyboard for your prototype.
deal architect
JANUARY 11, 2013
“Rubbish” responded John Appleby to a tweet of mine which pointed out SAP evolves very slowly and that 95% of its revenues still come from older ECC and Business Objects licenses and maintenance. A few documents later the official numbers.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 9, 2013
You are an aspiring entrepreneur, eager to dump the corporate grind, and work to the beat of your own drummer, but you can’t come up with that killer idea to save the world. What are the alternatives that will give you the independence you crave, and challenge your business acumen? Technically, I believe an entrepreneur is anyone who manages his own profit and loss, and doesn’t meet the government tax definition of an employee.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2013
E-commerce is getting huge in India – according to industry watchers, the industry is expected to grow a compound annual growth rate of 57 per cent and is likely to reach US$34.2 billion by 2015. This trend is spurred by the surge in the use of mobile devices across the country (the number of mobile users in the country is expected to hit over 1 billion by 2015), and as consumers choose to bypass various middlemen and go directly to producers.
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 11, 2013
What are you thinking? Did you make a New Year’s Resolution for your search engine optimization (SEO) activities? If so, why? We all know that the chances of keeping a resolution are slim. Instead, why not make SEO goals for the year? By setting goals, you can plan specific activities and timelines to actually make [.].
deal architect
JANUARY 10, 2013
SAP today announced its apps would run on its in-memory engine HANA. My reaction, as a CIO, would be “Here we go – the Gold stack now” (Gold as in prominent in the German flag and in SAP’s gold plated.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 8, 2013
The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. I will argue that times have changed, and you better take another look. First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong).
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 9, 2013
Workplace injuries are more common than we think. In fact, direct worker compensations from workplace injuries cost U.S. businesses around US$1 billion per week. And surprisingly, many of these don’t occur in high-risk environments like construction sites or factories – one out of every four cases of injury at the workplace is caused by overexertion.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 7, 2013
The second book in the Startup Revolution series, Startup Life: Surviving And Thriving In A Relationship With An Entrepreneur , is shipping in the next week or so. My wife Amy Batchelor and I wrote this one, with contributions from about 20 other entrepreneurial couples. Amy and I have been friends since we met in college in 1984. We have been together as a couple since 1990.
deal architect
JANUARY 9, 2013
Listen to tech vendors and the tool – HANA or Hadoop – is guaranteed to make you a data hero. Watch IBM commercials and each of their employees must already be a data hero. Data heroes are elusive, and get.
Gust
JANUARY 9, 2013
Years ago I came across the idea that in entrepreneurship, education and experience contribute to likelihood of success roughly like you see in the chart here. The underlying assumption is that a lot of education makes up for very little experience, and vice-versa. And this is in the context of startups, investment, and entrepreneurship. . I’ve drawn it here MBA style, with a line on two axes, pretty much the way I first saw it, with a smooth curve from one extreme to the other.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 6, 2013
New startup entrepreneurs who are looking to raise capital may well take a look at Funding 101 , a free educational resource on fundraising launched by business investor network Startups.Co. Developed by veteran entrepreneur Wil Schroter (who’ve launched nine Internet companies to date and currently the CEO and co-founder of Fundable.com ), Funding 101 serves as a tool to help startups navigate the challenges of startup funding- from initial business development and strategy, to preparing
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 6, 2013
Last night Amy and I watched the movie Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists. This was my reward (I got to choose) since she watched both football games yesterday (and today). We have a 15 minute and 30 minute rule on any movie – after 15 minutes the chooser asks “still into this movie?” If the answer is no, we stop.
deal architect
JANUARY 9, 2013
on the innovation blog Kaggle’s algorithms Our low-tech cruise Whole Foods Cracked The “Big Data’ of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count Taking embedded technology to new heights The evolution of the video game Whole Genome Sequencing The Digital Dead Sea.
Mike Michalowicz
JANUARY 9, 2013
Want to guarantee failure? Do this: fake it ‘til you make it. I bet you didn’t expect to hear that. I mean, how many times have you been told you need to fake it ‘til you make it to be successful? It has become the mantra for success. Unfortunately, its b t. Total complete b t. Fake it ‘til you make it is the insidious mantra of failure. Fake is simply another word for something (or someone) inauthentic.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2013
What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like? How will these trends impact the way we work, live and play? Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology.
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