Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2014

'A common misconception I often hear in the startup world is that non-profits are easy and safe, since they don’t have to pay taxes, and they don’t have to make a profit for their shareholders. In reality, from the feedback I get from non-profit executives, exactly the opposite is true. Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue

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The Next Web

APRIL 5, 2014

'Whether your team works remotely or side by side, minimizing inessential inbox chaos is a constant challenge startups face. Luckily, there are now countless resources dedicated to fixing this very problem. (Actually asking people to stop emailing you doesn’t seem to be an option.) To find out which tools are the best bets for entrepreneurs who rely on email 24/7, I asked 11 founders from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What is your favorite Web tool for streamlining int

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Gust

APRIL 5, 2014

'When you create a profile on Gust, you immediately get emailed a link for a free download of Bill Payne’s excellent book “The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels”, which is an excellent overview of the whole process. Good luck! *original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

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The Next Web

APRIL 5, 2014

'Lindsay Goldwert is a content strategist and senior program executive at Hotwire PR, a global tech public relations firm. In our modern age, when the headlines are filled with the NSA spying on Americans, and personal data mining, I wasn’t too excited when my bosses told me that I was to begin using time tracking software. I’d just spent 12 years in journalism and my time hadn’t been considered particularly valuable to anyone, least of all myself.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 5, 2014

'I was standing in line at the ATM. There were four people in front of me. I estimated a five or six minute wait. Through the glass door I saw two tellers with no one in line. But I waited for the ATM machine, nonetheless. I suspect you do the same. Our world is very quickly moving toward a self serve environment. Customers prefer the privacy and control of doing it themselves.

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SVPG

APRIL 5, 2014

'In this article I wanted to talk about a concept that seems to be increasingly missing in product teams. I find too many product teams just pounding away on the product backlog, story by story. Too many members of the team don’t really know how and why the stories are even there, they don’t understand the customer pain they’re trying to address, and they especially don’t understand how their work on this particular item helps to move the needle for their business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2014

'Weekend Favs April Five written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 5, 2014

'Yesterday, thanks to my good friend Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta, the Dragon Army team was given an amazing behind-the-scenes tour of Zoo Atlanta. Because we were on a tour with the CEO, we were allowed to go super “behind the scenes”… …and get up close and personal with the animals. We had to put on masks when we went to see how the orangutans use computers and play games.

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Street Smart Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2014

'In my last post on defining an MVP in corporate innovation, I talked about how best practices in garnering stakeholder buy-in for product roadmaps espoused by Bruce McCarthy can be used as a framework for the same when defining an MVP in an “internal” startup product. Here, with permission, is a re-post of his excellent post […]. The post The Dirty Dozen Product Roadmap Roadblocks appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2014

'“The partner is likely writing just two or three checks this year. How are you going to convince them you’re one of those companies?” This was the way a friend described their mentality in pitching VCs on A, B or C round financing. What he meant was, the average venture capitalist at those stages will only be funding a few companies each year but seeing many pitches.

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Street Smart Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2014

'This is a Q&A with Trevor Owens, Founder of Javelin, by Adam L. Penenberg originally published on PandoDaily, and re-printed here with Trevor’s permission. – Why should big companies emulate startups? Back in the day, everyone wanted to work at a place like IBM. Today corporations are viewed as stodgy. Many of us don’t know […].

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Street Smart Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2014

'Thomas Pichon is the Founder of The Collaborative Startup. He advocates building a community to gain traction for a startup, and I thought the advice could equally apply to an “internal” startup. The article below is re-posted with his permission from his free e-course. – By Thomas Pichon I am helping an entrepreneur build a […].

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Street Smart Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2014

In my last post on defining an MVP in corporate innovation, I talked about how best practices in garnering stakeholder buy-in for product roadmaps espoused by Bruce McCarthy can be used as a framework for the same when defining an MVP in an “internal” startup product. Here, with permission, is a re-post of his excellent post … Continue reading The Dirty Dozen Product Roadmap Roadblocks.

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Street Smart Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2014

Thomas Pichon is the Founder of The Collaborative Startup. He advocates building a community to gain traction for a startup, and I thought the advice could equally apply to an “internal” startup. The article below is re-posted with his permission from his free e-course. — By Thomas Pichon I am helping an entrepreneur build a … Continue reading Yes, Startup Products Can Take A Village.

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Street Smart Product Manager

APRIL 5, 2014

This is a Q&A with Trevor Owens, Founder of Javelin, by Adam L. Penenberg originally published on PandoDaily, and re-printed here with Trevor’s permission. — Why should big companies emulate startups? Back in the day, everyone wanted to work at a place like IBM. Today corporations are viewed as stodgy. Many of us don’t know … Continue reading How A Rusting Giant Can Act More Like A Startup.

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