Hunter Walker
JANUARY 5, 2014
'Lost time is never found again – Benjamin Franklin. “A Venture Capitalist? What exactly is that?” If you’re in the technology industry you can probably answer but as I discovered this holiday season, most of my extended family and childhood friends were a bit fuzzier on the concept. Turns out the best way to explain was to share how I spend my days at Homebrew , the seed fund Satya and I founded in 2013.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 5, 2014
'What sparks paradigm-shifting innovation in any business? It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. As an entrepreneur in a startup, how do you know if you have this potential, and what are the steps to get from an innovation to a revolution?
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deal architect
JANUARY 5, 2014
'I am running a series from a scan of over 50 magazine issues on New Florence of best of 2013 and things to look forward to in 2014. The 2013 entries were summarized here Here are the 2014 entries. Conde.
Gust
JANUARY 5, 2014
'Image via Pets.Answers.com. “Will the dogs eat the dog food?” This rather crude expression weighs heavily on the mind of all good startup founders, no matter how confident they appear. We all know the products they give away, and the ones purchased by family and friends don’t count. The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy.
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
The Next Web
JANUARY 5, 2014
'Ilya Pozin is the founder of Open Me and Ciplex , and a c olumnist for Inc, Forbes, and LinkedIn. He’s also a gadget lover, investor, mentor, husband, father, and ’30 Under 30? entrepreneur. . Listen to this post as audio, courtesy of SaveToListen. It might sound strange, but creating something great is the easy part of being an entrepreneur. The hard part is to get customers as excited about your product as you are.
Mike Michalowicz
JANUARY 5, 2014
'Back in September 2013, McDonald’s began a campaign for their Premium Roast Coffee. Started in California, the campaign (perhaps due to its success) has grown countrywide. Buy any size cup of coffee, at any time of the day, and it’s only $1. Small, medium or large – your choice – only a buck. It sounds great, until you understand the behavioral modification occurring.
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Growthink Blog
JANUARY 5, 2014
'It was not very long ago that the United States Postal Service was the only means by which to ship physical packages in the US. While this service had been invaluable, its quality had progressively declined over the years. Letters were lost, packages were damaged and customer service was nearly non-existent. This opened the door for private corporations to pick up the slack.
crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 5, 2014
'About six months ago, I wrote in a post here reasons why Obamacare could prove helpful to small businesses and startups. This past summer the Supreme Court determined that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (dba Obamacare) was indeed constitutional and could proceed to implementation. And, despite the god-awful rollout of the Healthcare.gov website, last week saw the (almost) full start of the new rules, regulations, and coverage kick in.
Babbling VC
JANUARY 5, 2014
'I thought I''d kick off my return to work this year with a blog post. I spent the past two weeks mostly out of the office and in a kind of semi-vacation state. Fortunately, I wasn''t travelling during the holidays which used to be the case every year. Time was spent with my wife''s family and putting the finishing touches on the house. Time well spent but now I''m ready to get back to my usual routine. .
Venture Chronicles
JANUARY 5, 2014
'I always take predictions posts with a grain of salt because they reflect the aspirations of the author as much as a qualified and objective forecast of what will happen in year ahead. but to quote Bill Gates: We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 5, 2014
'Outlandish outfits. Avant garde style. Burlesque performance artist. Mother Monster. Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta to Italian parents, Lady Gaga is probably the greatest pop phenomenon of the 2010s. Iconoclastic and irrepressible, her eclectic and esoteric fashion sense and explosive concert performances have always been the talk of the town.
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