Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have been working 20 hours a day, and spent your last dollar, but have no results to show, investors will be sympathetic, but will probably tell you that your dream doesn’t have wheels. Traction means forward progress. I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'Are you a non-technical startup founder who’s about to go have a conversation with a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) or Technical advisory type person? Maybe you are going for a reality check on your current situation - wondering if you have a Weak Development Team or a Startup Founder Developer Gap. Maybe you are trying to determine what technologies might apply that you should be evaluating.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'My partners and I at NextView talk a lot about how fundraising is about finding the true believers rather than convincing the skeptics. The energy that it takes persuading someone who starts with a bias not to invest is much better suited searching for additional prospects who want to believe in what you’re building. We’ve observed it repeatedly in our portfolio as Founder/CEOs seek additional rounds of financing: the engaged skeptics just never quite get there, but the entrepreneurs who cast

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'Money is not good. Money is not bad. Money let’s you do more. Be more. Act more. Money amplifies who you are. If you are addicted to drugs. Money will amplify your drug habit. If you are addicted to work. Money will amplify the size of your office, the volume of work you take on, your workaholic life. If you are addicted to having an impact on this world.

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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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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'Asia is getting another startup reality TV show after Angel’s Gate , only this time round it will be more of a documentary-style TV series for startups in the region. After all, the program is being launched by Channel NewsAsia. The reality TV program called Start-UP will see eight finalists pitch for seed funding from private venture capitalists worth a total of S$2 million ($1.6 million).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'I got to work closely with Luke Beatty this summer while he was running the Techstars Boulder program. In one word, he’s “awesome.” Deeply, truly awesome. I knew Luke from a distance – we’d crossed paths a few times but never worked together. I watched him build a real company with Associated Content and sell it to Yahoo for $100 million.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News In August, Gerard Sanders became the new dean of the College of Business at the University of Texas in San Antonio. Sanders comes from the Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business and brings numerous credentials in management and finance, including a doctorate in management from the […] The post UTSA’s New Dean of Business Focuses on Entrepreneurship appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'This past week, I had the good fortune to attend the thinkB2B conference at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. At it, some of the world''s best Internet thinkers and researchers presented on key trends in business-to-business (B2B) online marketing, sales, and client engagement. My three takeaways: 1. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile. All of the presenters, from Forrester , Motista , The Marketing Leadership Council , to Google itself, drove home the point that mobile browsing, shopping and buying is g

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'I’m sick of having a dysfunctional government. I know it’s a complex power struggle. I know there are many points of view as to why this dysfunction exists. I think this crazy partial government shutdown is probably going to happen, and to me this signals a new low. I’m not interested, right now, in a right or left opinion of whose fault it is, or why this is necessary.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'The pace of change is overwhelming. Many established companies have finally realised that this change isn’t just a little blip in the way things are done, but an entire business eco system reorganisation. It’s fair to say that the level of corporate anxiety is at an all time high, and with good reason. Only 57 companies still remain on the inaugural Fortune 500 list from 1955, while more than half of the Fortune 500 companies were not in it just 10 years ago.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'Techcrunch did a fun test where they placed all versions of the iPhone next to each other and ran a speed test. You can see the video here , the the main takeaway is: After the 4S, the speed differences for basic day-to-day activities (like loading a page) start to get pretty slim with each next generation. Once you’re on the 5 and later, the difference is hardly noticeable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'The Secret to Building the Most Profitable Business Possible written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Perhaps the most important marketing step any business can take is to discover a way to be different. photo credit: bernat… via photopin cc Different is doing something like no other. Different is creating your own category.

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The Startup Lawyer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'I’ve been told by my board of directors (i.e., my wife) and various clients that I should blog more often. I figured the best way to do that was to bring on additional personnel at my day job. So I’ve done just that with the formation of Roberts Foster LLP. We’re a boutique law firm […].

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'I do a lot of presentations and enjoy the process of creating the content as much as delivering it. Over the years I have seen the full range, from the awesome to the truly bad, and this last Saturday I went to the Being Human conference with a friend. The speakers were impressive, very impressive, and I would encourage you to check them out. [link].

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'Two things I love a lot: 1. Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. 2. Visuals, because if I can paint a simple picture about something complex it means I understand it and in turn I can explain it to others. This post is at the intersection of those two lovely things.

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aweissman.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'If dreams came true, oh wouldn''t that be nice - Bruce Springsteen A Google search for "do what you love" returns about 3 million results. Steve Jobs is often quoted in support of this obvious proposition of how we all should lead fulfilling, rewarding lives, and settle for nothing short of love. The thing is, something about this phrase, this idea, always bugged me.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'I make a lot of lists. It’s an old habit that started when I was in grade school. Lists of to dos, lists of goals, lists of workouts. Lists, lists, lists. I’m also a nostalgic person and so I tend to save a lot of these lists and use them as touch points for storing memories and keeping track of the passing of time. Every now and then I’ll come across an old list and re-read it.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'That’s Justin (new guy) on the left and Richard (old guy) on the right. They like to coordinate their outfits, apparently. It’s an exciting day at Dragon Army as we have our first new team member! His name is Justin and he’s a developer that’s starting immediately on our second app. Didn’t even know we had a first app yet?

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'I recently spoke with a founder and CEO of a start-up that had just crossed the 200-employee milestone. Like so many others lucky enough to reach that level, he was complaining about how progress was coming to a halt as the organization grew and became more complex. I myself experienced this as COO at AbeBooks. It’s a cruel irony in business: the more people you add, the slower you get.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'This is a blindpost from the blog post, 10 things every beginner blogger should know and things I wish I’d known , by Leslie Stewart. Per the blindpost rules, I didn’t read Leslie’s post until after I had written mine. She wrote a great post, check it out! 1. Don’t boil the ocean. If you make blogging more difficult than it is, then you’re never going to be able to sustain it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'As I have argued before, a few key people in every organization can make a huge difference on its success. Even for very large companies or even at a citywide level. But that doesn’t forgive the CEO, the board or for that matter anybody in an organization from allowing weak links. In fact, nearly every team work with I encourage them to think about succession planning in the event “that somebody gets hit by a beer truck.” I don’t know where I started using the phrase but

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'SparkLabs , an accelerator program in South Korea that is bringing a Silicon Valley-like approach to the Asian country’s startup ecosystem, showcased its second batch of startups to investors at Demo Day today. The companies are largely based around social and e-commerce initiatives, with Eugene Kim, the principal at Sparklabs, saying that they “reflect major trends in Asia in terms of what you’ll see in the coming years, such as growth in the e-commerce space, new targeted social networks and

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