TechEmpower
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks! After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! Round 7 includes many new framework test implementations contributed by the community. They are Falcore, Grizzly, HttpListener, PHPixie, Plain, Racket-WS, Start, Stream, and Treefrog.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 31, 2013
' A startup may spark from a simple idea and quickly grow in momentum due to the ease of launching a product or service. Web technologies and software expedite the process of development. The startup also gains the benefit of not subscribing to traditional business structures. They are flexible due to their small size and unrestricted as to where they may operate.
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The Next Web
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'When you’re running a business, the last thing you want to deal with is another dropped call or bad connection. Especially in this day and age, when chances are the key members of your staff, partners, and even investors may not be in the same country, let alone the same room. Shouldn’t simple communication be the last thing on your mind? To learn which software is actually helping startup teams stay organized, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs: Name one piece of software that helps you run your
OnlyOnce
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Selecting Your Investors. Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. We’ve been through a lot of wars together. In a couple of weeks, he and I are team-teaching a class in Entrepreneurship at Princeton, and the professor gave us the assignment of writing two pairs of blog posts to tee up discussion with the class.
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
deal architect
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'I went to visit Seattle for a Microsoft event last week. While there was plenty of innovation there (see my post here), it is dwarfed by the diversity of Pike Place, the city’s landmark, century-old marketplace. It is a riot.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Every entrepreneur believes in their heart that their startup is more innovative and creative than their competitors. Yet none knows exactly where creativity comes from within, or how to pick and motivate the most creative people for the team. Most believe and follow one or more of the popular myths on business creativity, even though none of them have much scientific evidence.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mike Michalowicz
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Happy employees – motivated employees – energetic employees. For your business to be the best in the industry, its great employees that will make a difference. The first step is to hire the right people. Then you need to have a plan to keep them happy, motivated and energized. It is through recognition that you will get the best results.
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Pitching is all about telling a story. You''ve practiced long and hard on how you tell your story. So why would you allow someone to play it on mute--or, worse, tell themselves your story based on a misunderstanding of your deck. You also won''t get feedback on whether the deck works because you won''t see them going through it. The very fact that someone is asking for a deck before they decide whether or not to meet with you is a fail in many ways.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Maybe Ordoro is taking the “Hire slow, fire fast” adage too literally. But right now, the nine employees and their Belgian investor share a vision about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it: To wit, building a sustainable company with a great culture. And they’d rather […] The post Ordoro Helps Online Retailers Get to the Next Level by Streamlining Backend Operations appeared first on SiliconHills.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'In yesterday’s Facebook earnings call, a lot of concern has been raised about how teen usage on Facebook has dropped slightly. Said Facebook’s CFO: “Our best analysis of youth engagement in the U.S. reveals that usage of Facebook among U.S. teens overall was stable,” Ebersman said, noting that adolescents’ tendency to fib about their age makes any analysis tricky.
Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'If you don’t think marketing is important, you’ve never worked with a great marketer. Think the best products just sell themselves? Then you’ve never worked with a great salesperson. Ugh, product managers just get in the way. Then you’ve never worked with a great product leader. When Founders make hiring mistakes, or tolerate middling team members, it’s often because they don’t know what excellent looks like.
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Earlier this week, Nate Elliot, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester (a respected research firm), wrote an open letter to Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Mr. Zuckerberg: Facebook is failing marketers. I know this statement sounds remarkable, perhaps even unbelievable. After all, you offer marketers access to the largest audience in media history and you know a remarkable amount about each of your users.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News It’s not a good idea to quit a good job and launch a divorce startup while happily married, said Cotter Cunningham. “The day you quit your job to go home and tell your wife you’re starting a divorce site is not the best day of your life,” […] The post Persistence and Confidence Key to RetailMeNot’s Cotter Cunningham’s Success appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'How to Say “No” Without Feeling Like a Jerk written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and our guest today is Bob Burg, author of Adversaries into Allies – you can download a free chapter by visiting www.AdversariesintoAllies.com. You’ve probably gotten a request that was unreasonable at some point, I know I have.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'It’s that haunting time of the year when zombies, ghouls, princesses and werewolves march up and down the streets in search of tricks and treats. But it’s also a time for reflection. After all, Halloween is the eve of all hallows day or Day of the Dead in Latino culture. It reminds us that we’re […] The post Lessons Startups Can Learn From Halloween appeared first on SiliconHills.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'My immediate family members were entrepreneurs from as far back as I can trace. Dad was a jeweler, then a furniture store owner. Mom wrote books and articles from her college days until she could no longer see the keyboard. One grandfather owned and maintained his apartment houses. The other was a grocer, then a jeweler. So it seemed perfectly natural that my brother and I find our separate callings as entrepreneurs from the very start.
Business Plan Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Why You Need a Business Plan Writer. So you want to get your business off to a great start and know you need a business plan. You may have started to research what is included in the business plan to start the writing process yourself. Writing the plan yourself may be an option you can consider if you have great written communication skills and know how to put together the document effectively.
Campus Entrepreneurship
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'I’ve long wondered why so many schools support a business plan/VC model through contests and course work when most of their students will never be in the running for venture capital. Over the past few years through Startup Mason and other activities, we’ve moved to a more experiential model/process for entrepreneurship education. We’ve supported action, iteration and experimentation in lieu of planning.
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'This Halloween we let our two girls (ages 3 and 4) pick out a pumpkin and we let our two boys (6 and 8) pick out a pumpkin. The girls picked a cute little pumpkin and the boys picked a gargantuan one. Like, it was almost two inches thick which made for some difficult carving. We also let the kids pick out what they wanted carved on them. I showed the girls various jack o’lantern images on Google until they found a nice smiling one.
Bryce Dot VC
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'A New Workplace Manifesto: In Praise Of Freedom, Time, Space, And Working Remotely : I’m of the opinion that companies who embrace this type of manifesto and incorporate distribution into their company culture will have a tremendous competitive advantage against those who do not. . It may not be this year, or even next, but in 10 years the idea of everyone within a company working in the same city, under the same roof, will feel as outdated as the fax machine.
Early Growth Financial Services
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Does your startup feel bound down by process? Or, on the flip side, do you feel untethered, like there’s no structure to hold your startup together? If you find yourself on either side of that coin, you need to give some thought to your startup infrastructure. This doesn’t mean that you need to take up a lot of your valuable time building out your infrastructure.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'by Molly Pizzaro. If you feel like success has been consistently unattainable throughout your life, then you might want to take a good long look at some of the habits that you’ve cultivated in your day-to-day routine. Many times, people engage in self-sabotaging behavior without even realizing that they’re doing it. As such, here are five self-defeating habits that tend to prevent your success.
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