Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'“ By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.”. Book of Five Rings. A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival. —-. I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'A few weeks ago, I was talking with a founder that I backed and he was telling me how excited he was about his company. He said the path was so clear that he could literally see it--and that''s the way he''s always been since I met him. He has a quiet confidence and he''s excited to talk about his company--and he could go on and on if you let him. It''s a stark contrast to people who beg for "just five minutes" of my time.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Today marks my first full year in VC at Version One. Over this time, I have grown so much and am happy to report that being an investor is still very much aligned with my core values. As I reflect on the past year, I want to share what I have discovered about these 3 core values: learning, compassion, and freedom. Continuous learning. I believe that the more we know, the better our decisions are.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'A good website is crucial in today’s business world. If you’re starting a new business, you might not have the cash to drop on a website designer, or your existing business website might be in need of a redesign. That’s okay. You can go online and find a number of template-based websites for an affordable price. Tom Lira. Charlie Patel. To help you with your DIY business site, we asked two website experts, Charlie Patel and Tom Lira, to weigh in on what your site should and shouldn’t have.

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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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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Dr. Hasso Plattner has written a long blog post about Business Suite on HANA. He has 12 reasons justifying why. His passion for the product screams through the post. I wish he would make it a Baker’s dozen and add.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'To ensure your business’s success, remember that cash is king. Cash flow is king. It flows into your business from satisfied clients who pay your invoices, and it flows out as you pay employees, suppliers, and others who serve your business. And, if you play your cards right, some of that cash flows into your own pockets as a return on your investment in your business.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'A lot has changed since 2013. More Snaps were Chatted. More Things became Internetted of. And, apparently, more Lyfts were Ubered. Yup — tech moves insanely fast. That’s why it’s important to stop once in awhile and examine the glue that makes it all hold together as you careen down the road to world domination. Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Nowhere, it seems. OK, we jest – sure, while a number of successful entrepreneurs are school dropouts who happened to take their entrepreneurial interests into great success, many others come from rather educated backgrounds. Indeed, many of the renown technology companies we’ve all come to know – if not love – have been founded by entrepreneurs who have studied in some of America’s most entrepreneurship-focused universities.

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Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'3 Tips to Make Your Marketing Plan a Success Kids are back in school. Clients and co-workers are back from summer vacation. And everyone is in work mode. With this in mind, do you have your marketing plan ready for the next 3 months? If not, prepare an editorial calendar with activities, deadlines and goals […]. The post September is Go Time for Marketing!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'By Alan C. Fox, author of “ People Tools: 54 Strategies for Building Relationships, Creating Joy, and Embracing Prosperity “ If you intend to be successful in business, or in life, it’s crucial to have a plan, especially a financial plan. I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 45 years, running my own law firm, literary publication, and real estate company.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'In the market to hire someone? If you are like most others in business, you place a high priority on the amount of experience that an applicant has. Everyone looking for their next hire seems to look for the “best” employee, as defined by their experience. Obviously, someone with 10 years of experience is better than someone with two years, right? Not so quick, bucko!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'“How do you get your customers to do what you want them to do on your website?”. Optimizers get asked this question all the time. Without realizing it, the businesses who want the secret sauce, the quick fix to more “conversions” are asking the wrong question. What they really should be asking is, “How do I help my customers achieve their goals on my website while still achieving mine?”.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'BY LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Fashion Metric seeks to banish ill-fitting clothes. The startup, founded in Los Angeles, works with apparel retailers to help shoppers understand what size they are so they can order the right size clothes online, said Daina Linton, CEO and co-founder. Linton, a former PhD candidate at UCLA, […] The post Fashion Metric’s Technology Lets Shoppers Buy Clothes Online That Fit appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Gust.com is the most widely used tool platform for both sides, with hundreds of thousands of companies and tens of thousands of investors using it to track and manage their relations with the other. It’s the official collaboration tool of the Angel Capital Association (and the equivalent national angel investor federations in 20 other countries.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'At Boxworks 2014, Box CEO Aaron Levie announced that the company is building a suite of features to better serve its business customers. The new Box Workflow adds a workflow process on top of the Box platform using rules-based tasks and machine learning. Using open APIs, the Box Workflow employs automation and metadata features to create workflows.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'We are holding our second open office hours for solo founders of ecompanies in the commerce ecosystem on 19th Sept. If that’s you please come along! Pradeep explained the details last week on the Forward Partners blog , copied below. ——————– We will be holding Open Office Hours on September 19th to meet solo-founders of ecommerce companies at the idea stage.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Storific, the startup that relocated recently from Paris to San Antonio, won the People’s Choice Award last month at the Mobile 2 Mobile Evolution Conference and Expo in Las Vegas. Storific has created a free mobile phone app that lets people order and pay for food and skip the lines at a restaurant. The M2M […] The post San Antonio-based Storific Wins People’s Choice Award at M2M Conference appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Violina Rindova, Zlotnick Family Chair in Entrepreneurship and Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship in the McCombs Department of Management, has been appointed as the new director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, Growth and Renewal. Lauranne Jarrett, managing general partner for G-51 Capital Management, LLC, is the incoming entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) for 2014-2015; and Laura Kilcrease, previous EIR, is returning to further her support for entrepreneurship at the school.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'At South by Southwest Interactive for the past six years, innovative tech startups have clamored to get into the SXSW Accelerator to showcase their company before a tech-savvy audience. This year, the deadline to apply to participate in the SXSW Accelerator is Nov. 7th. But don’t procrastinate. This is a highly selective accelerator that only […] The post Innovative Startups Should Apply to the SXSW Accelerator appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'The New Rules of Sales and Service written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Meerman Scott. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is my friend David Meerman Scott, author of the longstanding best seller New Rules of Marketing and PR and the more recent, The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'RideScout, an Austin-based startup that lets people find the best transportation options, just got acquired by Moovel, the parent company of Car2go. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Today, just three years after the company was founded, I am proud to announce that RideScout has been acquired by car2go North America, a Daimler […] The post Car2go’s Parent Company, Moovel, Acquires Austin-based RideScout appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Ah, the continued quest to find the perfect task management / email / to-do / etc. tool. It’s never-ending! For the longest time now I’ve been very happy using email as my prime tool for managing to-do list and workload. Between email and my calendar , I’m able to be very efficient with my time. The missing ingredient has been a way to keep track of the “big” things that are going on.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'Trust is a cornerstone of the Apple brand… the company that pioneered the notion of “the stuff just works”. The damage the brand has suffered this week is yet to be calculated and the “hey it’s not our fault, users should manage passwords better” statement didn’t help. All this a week to the day before 3 major new product announcements that hinge on using more of iCloud.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

'“There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

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