The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog. If you choose to raise money for your company, you’ll inevitably need to prepare a few documents for investors. One of the most important ones is an investor presentation or a “deck.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'Your business can’t be all things to all people, and do everything well. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. Strategy used to come from the inside looking out, but now it must come from a dialogue and engagement with constituents.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'by Ian Cowley, managing director of www.cartridgesave.co.uk. Your business will be victim to numerous threats in its lifetime. We’re no exception, constantly facing challenges from competitors and changing consumer behaviors. For example, two years ago one of our rival brands duplicated our website copy word for word. As a consequence our website, a result of our tireless commitment to perfect the best possible customer journey, was completely ripped off.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'A month ago, the Yesware leadership team came to Boulder for an offsite, a few customer visits, a several hour strategy meeting with me, and then a nice dinner with me at Kasa. Before we started the strategy meeting, Matthew Bellows led us in a brief ritual where we “bowed in” to the meeting. At the end of the meeting, we all “bowed out.” I loved it – it set the tone of respect for each other at the start of the meeting and signaled the end of the meeting when we b

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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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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'There are things you just don’t say in the Innovation field because they are not PC. I asked myself a different question today: What do I believe about innovation but simply avoid saying to be politically incorrect? What am I not saying? At the risk of being labeled a curmudgeon I’ve decided to state some things I believe to be true about innovation which may offend.

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K9 Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'If I had a hammer,I’d hammer in the morningI’d hammer in the evening,All over this land. So goes The Hammer Song by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. Well, most VCs have just one tool in their toolbox. And yes, they use the tool to hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. That tool […] The post If I had a hammer… appeared first on K9 Ventures.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'Old real estate and oil money in town invested in San Antonio’s Rackspace early on, said Stephanie Chandler, partner with Jackson-Walker. It was one of the first cases of old San Antonio money backing a startup technology venture here, she said. Now with Geekdom, a technology incubator and accelerator in downtown San Antonio, the goal […] The post Tips for Startups on Raising Old Money and Crowdfunding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'I am far from an engineer, but I do know a little bit about flywheels (call it a fetish). Those heavy wheels are hard as hell to turn, at first, but as they gain momentum the energy in them builds. They become easier and easier to turn. And by constantly adding even the smallest amount of effort into them, they build-up more and more energy. Marketing is a flywheel too.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'The Grammy-winning, iconic guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist SLASH is heading to music week in Austin during SXSW 2014 to launch SLASHATHON, the first-ever artist-focused hackathon.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'5 Forgotten Offline Marketing Tactics written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Jayson DeMers – Enjoy! photo credit: publichealth.columbus.gov (public domain). With the rise in popularity of online marketing, many proven offline methods are simply forgotten when marketing campaigns are planned.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'This is the third installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta, and the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool. Mark Feinberg is easily one of my favorite entrepreneurs in town. He’s a terrific person and his startup is truly trying to help make the world a better place.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'Have you ever heard of the “ significant objects ” project? As a literary & anthropological experiment, Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn wanted to see if they could resell cheap knickknacks (avg. cost $1.25) on eBay and turn a significant profit by adding personal stories to the item descriptions. The hypothesis was that emotionally charged stories would increase the perceived value of each object and therefore net a large profit on each item sold.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. It's more than simply managing cash flow (although, as most of you know, I believe it is one of THE critical aspects of managing and growing a business).

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'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!

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'Crowdfunding sites are a dime to a dozen these days, but here’s one that has a target group in mind – mompreneurs. That is, mothers who are also entrepreneurs. Of course, mompreneurs have a unique challenge in that not only do they need to run their own businesses well, they also have to manage their homes and little ones as well. Raising funds for their own venture – almost always a time-consuming, energy-sapping task – would probably be even more tedious, and Mums Mea

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