Sun.Feb 03, 2013

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8 Key Actions for Entrepreneurs Needing Early Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs have learned that it’s almost always quicker and easier to get cash from someone you know, rather than Angel investors or professional investors (VCs). In fact, most investors “require” that you already have some investment from friends and family before they will even step up to the plate. You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products.

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[Review] Rework

YoungUpstarts

“Policies are organizational scar tissue. They are codified overreactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again. They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual” With excerpts like that, you can be sure that “ Rework ” by founders of 37Signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson isn’t an ordinary book on entrepreneurship.

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Vision Pivots vs. Discovery Pivots

SVPG

The term "pivot" is probably one of the most overused and abused terms in today's product teams. If you're not familiar with the concept, see Your Business Plan Is Wrong. As I work with different teams I find the term used in so many different ways. Mostly the different uses of the term are pretty harmless. It is often used as a synonym for "change.

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog The Inaugural Parade 10 smart things to know about your SmartPhone The Big Data of a Basketball Game Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive Digital Brain Health The Golden-i Headset Cadillac One The Inaugural.

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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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10 Sage Quotes From $100M Entrepreneur Winners

Gust

Robert Jordan image via HowTheyDidIt.com. Entrepreneurs are a notoriously stubborn (some say confident) group of people, so I see many of them making the same mistakes that predecessors have made. Thus I’m convinced that it’s useful for all of you to step back from time to time, and listen to some sage advice from people who have been there and enjoyed success.

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The Many Forms of Innovation and the Future of Work

VC Cafe

Innovations comes in many forms and different parts of the economy are adapting to it differently. This post covers difference between a group of students and a group of industrialists and includes a video of the future work environment in 2025. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Is The Government Telling The Truth When It Says Your Data Is Secure?

David Teten

(I previously published this at Techcrunch.). Modern encryption systems are, in theory, exceptionally secure. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), for example, is so sophisticated that all known attacks are considered computationally infeasible. It is no surprise then, that the NSA considers 256-bit AES safe for storing top-secret data. What is a little more surprising, however, is that it is not just government agencies that are benefitting from the use of such cryptosystems—you probably are

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Help Fund the Jessica Ridgeway Memorial Park

David Cohen

We all felt the impact of the loss of Jessica Ridgeway. As a celebration of Jessica’s life, there’s an effort going on to renovate her neighborhood park in 2013. The City of Westminster has collaborated with the family on the design and has committed $200,000 in cash and in-kind services. The total cost of the project is $450,000. Current partners include Jefferson County, Westminster Rotary Club, Heinrich Marketing, and Westminster Public Safety Recognition Foundation.

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2013 Super Bowl Marketing and Small Business: More in Common Than You Think!

crowdSPRING Blog

We This time of year is seems that all the marketing mavens want to talk about are this year’s batch of Super Bowl commercials. The oxygen is being sucked out of the room at a rate of over $7.5 million per minute. Mercedes Benz, Pepsi, Budweiser, Axe deodorant, Best Buy, Chrysler, and Century 21 real estate are among the advertisers this year ponying up the stratospheric fees hoping that their spot will capture the imagination of a world-wide audience.

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3 Steps to Meeting Investors (at Events)

Jason Ball

You’re at a big event, lots of investors are there – how do you optimize your chances of getting an investment from a VC or angel investor? Follow these three steps (and do not stray). Your goal is to get a meeting. You’re not going to close a deal right there on the spot- understanding that and what you’re trying to achieve is essential.