Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

'“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more new business solutions than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The instigators are all well-intentioned – executives talk to potential customers who “must have” a few more things; or the technical team edicts some “t

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

'*. I love Twitter. I’m loving Meerkat so far. It’s brand new but the enthusiasm we’ve seen for such an early product is truly awesome. I ran a VC AMA (ask me anything) last Monday on Meerkat and had > 1,000 simultaneous people asking me questions. The energy was election so I’m going to do it again this coming week. You may have read that Twitter has now made it harder for Meerkat to operate.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 14, 2015

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News This year, Capital Factory didn’t host a move your startup to Austin competition at South By Southwest Interactive. Instead, the downtown technology accelerator and co-working site showed off 12 of its startups during two separate pitch events Friday afternoon. Capital Factory is home to more than 400 […] The post Capital Factory Showcases 12 Startups at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 14, 2015

'Bootstrapping off another social network is “fast graph” -> you get quick set of connections but they aren’t specific to your use case. “Fast graph” also can lead to less commitment from users bec they put no time into actually permissioning, etc. “Slow graph” uses find friends, contact list, etc but makes user choose who to follow. Slower growth but a graph native to the service.

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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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SiliconHills

MARCH 14, 2015

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Being an entrepreneur is an irrational act, said Jason Cohen, founder of five startups. In the corporate world, employees can make steady six-figure salaries as executives. But entrepreneurs don’t. An entrepreneur often forgoes a salary for years and drains his or her bank account, Cohen said. And […] The post Startup Tips from Four Successful Serial Entrepreneurs in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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