Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2016

Most of the young entrepreneurs I know are classic proof of the old adage that people tend to overestimate what they can do in a short period, and underestimate what they can do over a long period. They become frustrated when they are unable to build their startup in a weekend, and give up way too soon when the path to real success seems to be interminable.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2016

Launched in 2010, Instagram has currently at the peak of popularity with its 300 million daily and 500 million monthly active users, not to mention the social media impact it ensues as well. General perception believe Instagram is just a portal to share unique or regular life pictures but recent studies have proven otherwise; 65% among the top 100 brands in the world use this platform for business purposes, proving Instagram to be a quintessential marketing need.

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Hippoland

JULY 10, 2016

Check out my side project Rejectionathon (discount code: EYFRIENDS), which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The event is next weekend on July 17, 2016 in the Bay Area. I’ve previously written about the importance of having multiple decks. So, last week I talked about what I like to see in an email deck. This week, I’m going to address in-person decks.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2016

If you have your sights set on launching a food company that’s known for offering the latest and greatest cuisines, the first step is narrowing down how you’ll go about it. Every great startup is born from at least one fantastic idea. Initially, you may feel like the food industry is so large and populated that it’ll be impossible to dream up something that’s never been done before.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2016

I had a two hour run scheduled today that’s not going to happen. I’m nauseous, tired, stuffy, and fuzzy feeling. It’s all because of something that happened on Friday. I turned 50 in December. A right of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy. I wasn’t thinking very hard about this until a friend of mine had one a few months ago (at 51) and discovered she had colon cancer.

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Austin Startup

JULY 10, 2016

This is the sh*t no one tells you about international expansion— a primer on taking your startup overseas when you’re “too small” to do it… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Austin Startup

JULY 10, 2016

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 10, 2016

Weekend Favs July Nine written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2016

Black lives matter. Saying it out loud is obvious. And important. Agreeing that Black lives matter does not make one anti-police — it simply acknowledges that we understand there is a white privilege in the United States that has existed since our foundation. Having grown up in the US but having lived in Europe for more than a decade gives me a unique perspective to know this problem is more pronounced in America and we have a responsibility to continue to chip away at the problem.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

I was born in Brooklyn in 1979, which means that the number one issue growing up in the 1980's and early 1990's was crime. In 1990, there were 2,245 murders in the city, nearly 10x the annual rate we have now. By the way, I'm white and back then, similar to now, you can't talk about crime without taking about race. I grew up in Bensonhurst. You might remember that as the area of Brooklyn where Yusef Hawkins was killed in 1989.

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