Feld Thoughts
JUNE 3, 2014
'This spring, Jason Mendelson and I taught a class called Venture Deals with the Kauffman Fellows Academy. It was a blast so we’ve decided to do it again. KFA uses NovoEd as their platform. Jason and I spent two days recording videos around our Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist explaining each section and going deeper with Q&A.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 3, 2014
'by Kuty Shalev is the founder of Clevertech. You’ve got an amazing idea for a business, and you just know it’s going to change the world — or at least your part of it. But is your big idea enough to make you a successful entrepreneur? Unfortunately, the answer is “probably not.”. There’s a big difference between having an idea and executing on it to turn it into a profitable reality.
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The Next Web
JUNE 3, 2014
'This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. I used to hate answering questions in class. I mean what if I got it wrong or what if I didn’t say it right? Nope, too many risks. Instead of answering questions I would try to look very intently at the teacher. That way I could let them know, that I knew, but that I couldn’t answer. Yah, that never worked.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 3, 2014
'The dreaded office meeting… For a young entrepreneur meetings can be daunting – especially when English is a second language. Meetings cause anxiety - sweaty palms meeting outstretched hands, public speaking, and the very real notion that you could misinterpret something someone says. New entrepreneurs, especially non-native English speakers, often find the idea of meetings to be intimidating, but successful businesses are built through teamwork and collaboration.
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
JUNE 3, 2014
'Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto.TV, social greeting card company Open Me and digital marketing agency Ciplex. Rebranding can be a risky business. It’s more than just a fresh coat of paint on your company brand, it also signals your organization is embracing a new way of doing business.
The Equity Kicker
JUNE 3, 2014
'It’s great to see the London startup ecosystem progressing like this. It would be even better if we were posting regular record quarters in funds raised and the number of deals done wasn’t flat Q1-Q2, but this data is very encouraging. Another year of similar growth and things will be very exciting… There’s a breakdown of this data on the CB Insghts site.
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David Teten
JUNE 3, 2014
'For the third year in a row, ff Venture Capital is co-sponsoring the New York Demo Day for Georgia Tech’s Flashpoint Accelerator, along with HBS Alumni Angels of NY. We met Ionic Security, one of our portfolio companies, at their first Demo Day a few years ago. I hope you can join us at the SUNY Global Center, 116 E 55th St, June 11, 2014, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Mike Michalowicz
JUNE 3, 2014
'Wouldn’t it just be the cat’s meow if you could have an inside look at every one of your competitors? Just think about what kind of advantage you could have if you knew which competitors were really doing well, and which ones were just a lot of hot wind? Well, there is a trick to doing this, and it’s something I learned playing poker with my friends.
Up and Running
JUNE 3, 2014
'With the bright lights of Las Vegas reflecting in his rearview mirror, Keith Ferguson listened to his wife, Cheryl, who was convincing him to finally start his own business. “Why don’t you do it? Just do it,” he remembers her saying. “If it doesn’t work out in 6-8 months, then you can just go back to working for someone else.” That was 19 years ago.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JUNE 3, 2014
'Nitin Nohria, Dean of HBS — and man in the hot seat. Have you ever been in the position where you thought, “gee, if only I was better educated, or just smarter, this complex decision in front of me would be easy.” In the innovation world the agonizing decision of whether to embrace a new trend and leave behind your old business model is always brutally dificult.
Growthink Blog
JUNE 3, 2014
'Over the last three weeks, we have discussed the various factors that drive the 25% IRR return potential of the startup and emerging company investing class. We then reviewed the various approaches to gain exposure to this return potential: Investing directly in operating companies, doing so through a Venture Capital Fund , or “Doing as Warren Does" and utilizing “ The Berkshire Approach ” of investing in an operating company that in turn invests in other operating companies.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 3, 2014
'Content marketing can be a valuable marketing strategy for just about any type of business. By giving your customers and prospects actionable content through great storytelling , you can help your brand increase trust, credibility and ultimately, sales. But there’s an important caveat: the moment a brand tries to push a direct sale through its content marketing, customer trust in the content marketing plummets.
Rob Go
JUNE 3, 2014
'Raising venture capital is not an end to itself. Capital is an enabler. Not every great company needs to raise outside capital to be successful, but some do, and that’s the world that we participate in as venture capitalists. I find that capital gets talked about a lot in blogs in terms of things like runway, getting to profitability, solving the VC math equation, etc.
Austin Startup
JUNE 3, 2014
'Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, today announced that it has acquired Gazzang, the big data security experts, to dramatically strengthen its security offerings, building on the roadmap laid out last year when Cloudera first delivered Sentry.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
JUNE 3, 2014
'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Traylor Woodall, Fivestone Studioe. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Video Business Moves From Niche to Broader Market Focus appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Austin Startup
JUNE 3, 2014
'Phunware, the pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS), the first fully integrated services platform that enables brands to engage, manage and monetize their anytime anywhere users worldwide, today announced that it has acquired Miami based Simplikate.
Jeff Hilimire
JUNE 3, 2014
'While I never considered myself an “employee” while at Engauge (I sold my first company, Spunlogic, to Engauge in 2008 and was there until 2013 as President and a board member), I certainly didn’t feel like an entrepreneur. When I started Dragon Army last September, I felt like I had been re-awakened as I was finally an entrepreneur once again.
entrepreMusings
JUNE 3, 2014
'I finally faced a big fear of putting my “art” out there for the world to judge, hate, like, love, or be indifferent about. It’s been a multi-year endeavor, and I published them online via DistroKid back in March 2014. Getting them on the sites below was the easiest part of this whole endeavor and apparently I’ve made $10.50 on them in March and April!
Early Growth Financial Services
JUNE 3, 2014
'This guest post was originally published on Justworks. We’re joined by Nehal Madhani, founder of Plainlegal, a marketplace that makes it easy for businesses and startups to find trusted lawyers. After doing some background research, I learned that before having founded Plainlegal, you’ve served as counsel for multi-billion dollar companies at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 3, 2014
'by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “. Look at any “Best Places to Work” list and you can see what great culture looks like. Companies that have a healthy “soft edge” reward and recognize great work. They prioritize innovation and creativity. Their leaders walk the mission statement talk.
ConversionXL
JUNE 3, 2014
'According to the latest data by Wingify , makers of Visual Website Optimizer , almost 30% of all A/B tests their customers are running are CTA button tests. What is even more interesting, is that only one in seven A/B test campaigns produces a statistically significant improvement. But when it does produce a significant improvement; the average increase is 49%.
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