Sun.Jan 25, 2015

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Be Honest About Whether Your Product Really Makes a Difference

Both Sides of the Table

'Startups in a world of massive markets can be confusing. The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. Success for many is ephemeral. I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” If you didn’t read it I recommend it.

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Check Your Startup For Symptoms Of This Malaise

Startup Professionals Musings

'Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “founder’s syndrome.” A few years ago I was intimately involved with a promising startup that taught me about this issue.

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The Characteristics Of A Global Leader

YoungUpstarts

'The context of global business is rapidly changing, and as Bob Bratt says, global business leaders need to be able to steer their company through uncertain and turbulent conditions. Global business leaders need to provide conscious leadership that is supported by courage and compassion for the well-being of their company and the world. Effective Internationalization of Business.

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We Will Never Need Another Financing

Feld Thoughts

'I hear some version of this one all the time. “We will never need another financing.” “This financing will get us to cash flow breakeven.” “This is our last financing before we become profitable.” It’s probably b t. There are so many reasons companies raise more money in the future that even making an assertion like this is generally nonsensical.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Freelancing – A Prelude To Entrepreneurship 

YoungUpstarts

'by Soumik Roy. The talent pool accessible to companies today is global. Logistics isn’t a constraint anymore. Hiring “resources” who work remotely for companies is slowly catching on – perhaps because it is cost effective, if nothing else. In cases where such an arrangement doesn’t pose a security or legal threat to the entity, it is likely to be explored.

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New kid on the digital block: What does a Chief Experience Officer actually do?

The Next Web

'Garrett Heath is a social media marketer for Rackspace. Digital design is about considering the needs of the users, delivering on their expectations and delighting them in the process. Well-designed applications are rapidly adopted in the marketplace, resulting in big business for the organizations that create them. The Chief Experience Officer (CXO)—one of the newest executives to join the C-suite—is charged with leveraging best practices in design and user experience to gain market share.

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9 (often overlooked) things to consider before going mobile-first

The Next Web

'Having mobile presence is no longer an added bonus for businesses; it’s a necessity. When taking a mobile-first approach, it’s important to remember that mobile and desktop are vastly different. Many elements get overlooked when making this transition, which can easily have a negative impact on your bottom line. To narrow this transition gap, I asked nine entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following: What’s one overlooked thing tech startups must change as they switch t

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Words of Wisdom from Naval Ravikant

Scott Edward Walker

'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a brief video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Naval Ravikant , a very smart entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder of Venture Hacks and AngelList. In this interesting clip from a few years back (courtesy of GigaOm ), Naval shares some solid nuggets for entrepreneurs, including the following: “To be