Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace. A few months ago I wrote about an entrepreneur, Sam Rosen, whom we brought on as an EIR at Upfront Ventures. I would have liked to have been even more Upfront with you back then about our intentions with Sam but out of respect to him we held back on our broader thesis until now. Today we announced our launch. Here’s the deal.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. One would think that with all the sad stories and tools published over the past twenty years, this problem would be behind us. But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves.
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YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ It’s a fact: women in business are on the rise. We’ve all heard of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, both of whom rocketed Wonder Woman-like through the glass ceiling to become household names. And those two famous females are hardly alone: women now occupy 24% of corporate senior leadership positions around the world.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'How to Leverage Mobile Technology to Gain Insights Into Your Marketplace written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Willie Pena – Enjoy! photo credit: blakespot. In the next few years, marketing will be almost totally mobile.
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
deal architect
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'The M6 32 TB machine, the in-memory switch, a growing network of IaaS data centers soaked up the sun at Oracle OpenWorld this week. There were also plenty of on-premise apps sessions. In the shadows were Oracle cloud apps which.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'by Steve Musick, CEO of Destiny Capital . In the startup universe, growth is the Holy Grail. It’s what drives us to innovate, take creative risks, and challenge the status quo. The pursuit of growth is no longer just a strategy; it seems necessary to most founders. Our lust for growth, however, comes at a cost. In the U.S., research indicates that between 50 and 90 percent of all entrepreneurial endeavors fail within the first few years.
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Rembrandt Communications
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Use Them and Lose Sales! You are busy and do almost everything at your business. I get it. You work a lot of hours and still try to find some time to stay in shape and see your family and friends a little more. And with all of this activity, I’m sure you posted an […].
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'We believe great companies can be created anywhere. When we started Foundry Group, we hypothesized that 33% of our investments would be in Colorado, 33% would be in California, 33% would be “everywhere else”, and 1% would be on Mars. We still haven’t done the Mars one, but we remain optimistic about the possibility. Today we’ve announced that we’ve made new investments in LeadPages (a company in Minneapolis) and 3D Robotics (a company in Tijuana, San Diego, and Ber
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'When I wrote last night about Growing the right way I said that startups should aim to grow sustainably. This morning I thought I would say more about what that means, starting with characteristics of unsustainable growth: Adding users who are unlikely to engage (e.g. incentivised traffic, users recruited under false pretences). Adding users via channels that will never become economic.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'So you’ve found the buyer, received a letter of interest, signed it, and tied your company up for a period to complete the deal. Everyone on the board is anxious to close this. You’ve committed time to do whatever is needed. You’ve informed your top management of the pending deal and they know they will be impacted and are a bit skittish. You wonder if you should make a public announcement to your troops, worrying over loss of focus, people thinking of jumping ship, competitors finding mors
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Nate McGuire, co-founder of Recipeas, a recipe search app, recently answered a few questions about his startup, which is based at Capital Factory in downtown Austin. Q. Can you explain your product in the simplest language possible? A. Recipeas is an iOS recipe app that tells you what you should cook with the ingredients you […] The post Recipeas Launches Recipe Search App appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'8 Essential Tips to Guide Your Web Design Project written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Jay Baron – Enjoy! photo credit: bibliojojo. Too often, when small businesses are redesigning their websites, they lose focus.
Jeff Hilimire
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'It was always important to Ryan and I that we be proud of the brand of whatever company we were going to create. The name needed to mean something to us personally and the “look”, the actually brand, needed to convey the right message. Dragon Army , if you weren’t aware, is a reference to a team in the phenomenal book, Ender’s Game.
Scott Edward Walker
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Dick Costolo , the CEO of Twitter and a very impressive leader. In this interesting, seven-minute speech from a couple of weeks ago (at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco), Dick shares some words of wisdom for entrepreneurs, including the following: “
Bryce Dot VC
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Lots of articles have been written about the renaissance of hardware startups. On Kickstarter and in VC conference rooms, there’s a steady wave of founders pitching new devices, peripherals and even apparel. Which is wonderful. And inspiring. And, costly. Tho the internet has empowered creators of online services to launch the next big thing with little to no overhead expenses, these hardware founders are shelling out hard dollars to make their visions reality.
Business Plan Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Mobile is the Rage & VCs are Taking Note. Corporations from banks to fast food to software firms are turning to mobile app developers to build mobile app devices for their customers. Given the popularity of mobile devices and the apps that make them great, venture capital investors are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the pie. Since the beginning of 2012, mobile app development startups have raised $262M across 36 deals.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'After watching Board Dysfunction: Root Causes and Solutions, an experienced CEO told me that the video succinctly identifies and summarizes issues that are intuitively clear but often overlooked in practice. If you are an entrepreneur involved with your first startup, a venture capitalist who wants to educate management on acceptable and unacceptable board behavior, or an independent director new to small company board dynamics, this video should be helpful to you.
Early Growth Financial Services
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Jumpstart Our Business Startups, a piece of the JOBS Act, just went into effect on September 23, 2013. This legislation gives private companies the ability to advertise investment opportunities directly to the public. Let’s take a look at some of the particulars of this legislation and what it means to startups… Less emphasis on existing connections.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Does this sound familiar? You want to apply Lean Startup methods at your company, but your boss is used to being the decision-maker and is resistant to the concept of testing ideas. Or, you are the boss, and your team is afraid of or unwilling to try new methods. This kind of gap between leaders and teams is common at all sorts of companies.
Mike Michalowicz
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Metrics are a powerful tool for measuring progress, evaluating decisions, and when done right, are an early warning system for problems. There is one problem though. too many metrics cause indecision. You know; analysis paralysis. What if there was one metric that could do it all? Well, I have good news and bad news. While there isn’t a single metric that can answer all your business questions, there is one that indicates your company’s core health.
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