Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “ terror barrier ,” as popularized by Bob Proctor, a 75-year-old millionaire and world renowned entrepreneur. This is the imaginary barrier that always seems to appear at the critical point where we would step out ahead of peers or competitors, but fear causes us to stop short. Everyone has a comfort zone, or level of risk, where they feel in control.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

by Jason Humphries, co-founder of Good Pharma Dermatology. What are the secret ingredients needed to take your company beyond Singapore’s shores? With the acceleration of globalisation, it is unlikely that the ingredients in the recipe that may have been have used just 10 years ago would be the right ones required for international expansion today.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The 13th annual InnoTech Austin, one of the city’s longest running technology conferences, takes place next Thursday at the Austin Convention Center. The conference organizers announced finalists for its 2016 IT executives of the year awards. The winners will be announced at an awards reception Thursday afternoon at the conference. The finalists for corporate IT […] The post InnoTech Austin Announces 2016 IT Executives of the Year Finalists appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. The best piece of advice I ever got: focus on the things you can affect. This is advice I’ve drawn on again and again in my career. It’s been a challenge to master, and it’s still a work in progress. The first time I heard this advice was early in my career. I was working in sales at Accrue Software, and I had a highly successful colleague who never seemed the least bit stressed, not even at the end of the quarter.

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Japan Asia Acquisition Analytics 101

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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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

November 13, 2016: For those of you who went to church on the Sunday I’m writing this after the Election, you probably heard this morning a… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

When I was an entrepreneur, it never crossed my mind how VCs measure their success. But I should have thought about it. Following the money can really help illuminate VC behavior and their incentives. The #1 problem with the venture capital game, in general, is that *actual success* is measured over decades not years. It means that investors will not know if they are any good at investing for decades.

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