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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. Not necessarily.

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SXSW Startups: Horizon

Austin Startup

They’re pioneering a new dimension of gaming that belongs to its players and building a crypto video game arcade called Arcadeum, which is a community-driven platform for decentralized games where players enjoy the freedom of true digital ownership, open economies, provable fairness, privacy, and the ability to earn real-world value through play.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Lee Se-dol (right), a legendary South Korean player of Go, poses with Google researcher Demis Hassabis before the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ??

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

With a mission to provide the best executive education online with brand-name academic institutions, authors, and experts; CorpU is a trusted advisor to world-leading organizations and is in the best position to bring “branded” higher education to the corporate market. PrimeriCare Ventures (dba symbeo). Three innovations underpin symbeo.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. But that just begs the question: why does PHP have the most thriving community? As a language, its inelegant.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.