Feld Thoughts
JULY 8, 2013
'An increasing number of companies we are investors in are focused on DevOps. A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. I really enjoyed it and asked Gene Kim, one of the authors to write a guest post on DevOps. He wrote it a while ago and it has sat in my draft queue waiting for the perfect moment to emerge.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2013
'I’ve long been convinced that raw intelligence as measured by IQ is not reliable predictor of effectiveness at work. I’ve seen too many ‘clever’ people who are ineffective. Some of the time it’s down to personality – people have the right answer but can’t bring their team or company with them – but even allowing for that, supposedly smart people make bad decisions a surprising amount of the time.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 8, 2013
'by Natalie Gonzalez, co-founder and head of marketing and social media at Chatalog. Small businesses are the economic engine that drives the U.S. economy, with more than 27 million small firms providing 60 to 80 percent of the new jobs in our country. New survey data from Constant Contact® , Inc. found that 59 percent of small businesses believe it’s harder to run a business today than five years ago.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 8, 2013
'The space for startups is more crowded than ever. First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes.
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
YoungUpstarts
JULY 8, 2013
'By Russell Holcombe, CEO of Holcombe Financial and author of “ You Should Only Have to Get Rich Once “ The reality of entrepreneurship is not success, but failure. The majority of small businesses don’t make it past the first five years and most entrepreneurs must proceed with their career working for someone else. Having witnessed more failures than I care to remember, my suggestion is not to give up, instead incorporate some helpful principles into your entrepreneurial journey to
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 8, 2013
'I probably get around a dozen e-mails a week asking me how to get into venture capital. On top of that, anytime I talk to anyone who wants to get involved in startups but isn''t sure what they want to do, inevitably, I hear, "And then I was thinking maybe I should look into venture capital, too.". I usually direct people to this post --still hanging atop the search rankings for " How to be a VC analyst" years later.
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Up and Running
JULY 8, 2013
'The Internet is a new-age phenomenon like no other. It has become an active part of our lives and will continue to remain that way for generations to come. Among the most significant changes brought about by the Internet includes the way we view traditional marketing. Gone are the days of door-to-door salesmen —nowadays the sales pitches are coming to consumer’s home via their online experience, and if your business doesn’t advertise online, you’re losing out.
Growthink Blog
JULY 8, 2013
'Every day I see entrepreneurs trying to find that right balance between keeping their intellectual property confidential while sharing and promoting their business model - especially to investors - whose interest they so very much need to pique. My bias generally falls strongly on the side of transparency - both because it is a virtue unto itself - and because it takes a lot of effort in our “post your business on the Internet for all to see” age to truly maintain confidentiality.
Start Up Blog
JULY 8, 2013
'Most everyday products we use and take for granted have a deep story of innovation underneath them. Once such product is that of simple household ice. What’s interesting about ice is that it went through a number of disruptions. New methods and players arrived to usurp yesterdays heroes. Much like the industries did in this post. The original startup thinker and bootstrapper Guy Kawasaki tells the story of ice and how it pertains to curve jumping.
Austin Startup
JULY 8, 2013
'I spent nearly all of 2012 living and working in Shanghai, China. Because of this experience, AustinStartup asked if I wouldn’t mind sharing a few observations about the start-up life in China.
A Crowded Space
JULY 8, 2013
'I recently wrote an article for the WSJ Accelerators covering 4 major turnoffs during pitches. . Here’s the full article on WSJ: Keep It Simple. Special thanks to Josh Smith , Jennifer Kammeyer , Jason Chicola , Ashley Wilkinson , Carmen Hughes , and Laura Edwards for reviewing drafts of the post.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 8, 2013
'Okay, maybe spy is a little strong but experience tells me that most small business don’t know much at all about what their greatest competitors are up to when it comes to marketing. I know you don’t really have any competition because you provide such a superior product and experience, but setting up a competitor specific listening station can uncover some useful insights.
Street Smart Product Manager
JULY 8, 2013
'I had written a two-part post on this topic as a guest blogger on OnProductManagement a year and a half ago. Recently, I’ve had some conversations with folks on this very topic, so felt the lessons shared are worth repeating. So here is part 1. Part 2 is here. If you are considering introducing Product Management into […]. The post Introducing Product Management Into Your Company appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
Jeff Hilimire
JULY 8, 2013
'“In fact, when the 21-year-old from Wilmington, N.C., first landed at O’Hare Airport to join the Bulls, there was no one to pick him up. A limo driver and crazy sports fan named George Koehler spotted Jordan searching for a cab and offered him a ride.” “Everybody got chills when the Bulls blew past the Knicks, the 76ers and the two-time defending champion Pistons by a combined marks of 11-1 before crushing the Magic Johnson-led Lakers 4-1 in the 1990-91 Finals.
The Next Web
JULY 8, 2013
'I recently stumbled upon this great read by Sam Altman, the co-founder of Loopt, and number 10 caught my eye: “ Growth solves (nearly) all problems.”. My startup reached product market fit, meaning that customers love our product and we are actually producing value for them. Although achieving product market fit is extremely tough and takes time and a lot of iterations I found that the next phase, transition to growth, is even tougher.
Venture Chronicles
JULY 8, 2013
'I spent 3 years at Get Satisfaction, going from around 10 employees to 70′ish at the peak. Leaving was not an easy choice but after 3 years I needed to do something different, not better just different; I detailed my reasons and next move here. After much contemplation I decided to write a blog post in an effort to document my lessons learned about what worked and did not, in an effort to hold myself accountable for personal and professional development.
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