The Next Web
MARCH 5, 2014
'Ryan Matzner is the Director of Strategy at Fueled , the leading iPhone application developers and masters of mobile design , based in New York and London. This post was originally published on the Fueled blog. As Fueled has grown from its infancy to more than 100 employees, I regularly interview many smart candidates who could answer your standard interview questions in their sleep.
Up and Running
MARCH 5, 2014
'The question: I need your recommendation as to what program we should invest in that would be most appropriate. When I googled “How to…marketing plans” Whoa, lots of options and I came upon your site. We are a relatively small [industry omitted] Company in [omitted] and after 32 years in business, have a very good reputation …. I don’t want a plan just for the sake of having one and therefore prefer something that at first might be just a solid basic plan to get us started on the right plan an
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deal architect
MARCH 5, 2014
'One of the most exciting takeaways from the Microsoft Fall Analyst session was a focus on One Microsoft as I wrote here. Coming to their Convergence event in Atlanta this week especially with the backdrop of executive transitions happening in.
Up and Running
MARCH 5, 2014
'The question: I need your recommendation as to what program we should invest in that would be most appropriate. When I Googled “How to…marketing plans”—whoa, lots of options, and I came upon your site. We are a relatively small [industry omitted] Company in [omitted] and after 32 years in business, have a very good reputation … I don’t want a plan just for the sake of having one and therefore prefer something that at first might be just a solid basic plan to get us started on the right plan an
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
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 5, 2014
'If you’re in Austin for SxSW, come say hello between 10:00 and 2:00 on Saturday, March 8. We’ll have an open lounge with food and coffee at our World Headquarters in downtown Austin. It’s an easy 5 blocks from the convention center, so there’s no reason not to hang out with us for a while, an oasis amidst the craziness. Address: 504 Lavaca, Suite 1000 (10th floor).
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 5, 2014
'“ Jim’s leaving the company? But I thought he was happy here! At least, that’s what he was always telling us. ” Change Jim to any other name, and you may have heard similar conversations around the office watercooler or pantry conversations at many companies. It seems anecdotal, but job satisfaction may not be as strong an indication of job loyalty as we may all like to believe.
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YoungUpstarts
MARCH 5, 2014
'So you think that millionaires have it good? That they’re rolling in their cash hoard like Scrooge McDuck in his private vault? Well, for most a million pounds may seem like a lot of money, but the truth is that it’s no longer what it used to be, or what it used to be able to buy. The number of millionaires in the United Kingdom has actually increased over the years – according to the HMRC the number of people making over 1 million pounds a year has nearly doubled over the pas
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 5, 2014
'Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0 is officially available today and can be bought online at Amazon and pretty much everywhere else. It’s the first title from FG Press and is in a category we call “startup fiction” and expect to be publishing a lot of. Think of what John Grisham did to the “legal fiction” genre. That’s what we are doing with Uncommon Stock and startup fiction.
Gust
MARCH 5, 2014
'The best way for a VC to mitigate conflicts between portfolio companies is to avoid investing in direct competitors in the first place! While this can be a bit difficult for seed funds with very large portfolios and limited direct day-to-day involvement, most larger funds are careful to avoid directly competitive investments. The reason for this is simple: why have part of your investment in one company be used for the sole purpose of fighting against part of your investment in another one?
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 5, 2014
'About seven years ago, I wrote a post on breaking into venture capital and I continue to point the five or six people a week who ask me how to break into venture. Today, I want to add two addendum to it, based on the work of two up and coming women in the NYC tech community. Yesterday, Amrit Richmond announced her new employment at RRE as Director of Community & Platform.
David Teten
MARCH 5, 2014
'Michael Gold challenged Jeff Pulver and me to a pushup contest for charity on stage at SXSW. This rapidly escalated to a full-fledged Indiegogo campaign. So: Come challenge Ryan Armbrust, me, and some other team members Sunday 1-2pm at the ff MASSIVE pavilion, Empire Control Room & Garage (606 E 7th St, Austin, TX) Sunday, March 9! Anyone can attend the parties and panels at ffMASSIVE.com.
OnlyOnce
MARCH 5, 2014
'At Return Path , we’ve had an “open vacation” policy for years, meaning that we don’t regulate the amount of time off people take, and we don’t accrue for it or pay out “unused” vacation if someone leaves the company. I get asked about this all the time, so I thought I’d post our policy here and also answer a couple follow-up questions I usually get about it.
SiliconHills
MARCH 5, 2014
'The University of Texas at Austin has become a hotbed for entrepreneurial activity. And UTEWeek is a celebration of all that’s going on. On Wednesday night at the McCombs School of Business at UT, the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency held its second annual awards dinner to recognize some of the movers and shakers in the startup […] The post Three Honored at UT Entrepreneurship Awards for 2014 appeared first on SiliconHills.
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 5, 2014
'Do you travel a lot or even occasionally? One of my pet peeves is having my dirty clothes share my suitcase with my clean, pressed clothes. It is like: “I-just-worked-out-hard-core-in-110-degree-weather-and-forgot-to-put-on-deodorant-Mike” makes out with “I-bathed-in-hand-sanitizer-and-put-on-this-suit-I-picked-up-from-the-dry-cleaners-Mike”. It is kinda gross, and racey all at once.
Up and Running
MARCH 5, 2014
'Put plainly, there are certain accounting practices you don’t want to screw up. If you don’t get your finances in order, you could find yourself in trouble down the road. Bad accounting practices can lead to tax audits, penalties, and unnecessary losses of your hard-earned money. Raquel Smith, an accountant, offers tips to get your business started right.
SiliconHills
MARCH 5, 2014
'By TIM GREEN Reporter with Silicon Hills News As advertising becomes more pervasive (is that even possible?), it’s harder for companies to find ways to make their brands stand out. One way is to associate the brand with authoritative and objective content that makes the reader more knowledgeable about what the company sells. But getting […] The post Written.com Wants to Bring Content and Companies Together appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
MARCH 5, 2014
'Access to capital is vital for any entrepreneur’s success, but many entrepreneurs’ applications for financing are rejected. Why? Probably because those applicants are making one of the five most common mistakes people make as they write their business plan and search for financing. Join us next Tuesday, March 11, at 10 am PDT for a free webinar that will cover everything entrepreneurs usually do wrong, so that you can be sure that you do it right.
SiliconHills
MARCH 5, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News At Alamo Heights Junior School, Estrella Hernandez, 13, came up with an idea to get students moving. She learned in sixth grade health class about the obesity epidemic in San Antonio and the city’s growing population of people afflicted with diabetes, a chronic disease associated with being […] The post We Walk and Others Pitch at San Antonio New Tech appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
MARCH 5, 2014
'Put plainly, there are certain accounting practices you don’t want to screw up. If you don’t get your finances in order, you could find yourself in trouble down the road. Bad accounting practices can lead to tax audits, penalties, and unnecessary losses of your hard-earned money. Raquel Smith, an accountant, offers tips to get your business started right.
Andrew Payne
MARCH 5, 2014
'I’m seeing interesting cases where Facebook, Google or other gorillas content presentation tweaks, and then some other company’s business is directly impacted. The gorillas have increasing control (and power) over user attention.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 5, 2014
'Like It or Not You’re Being Compared to TED written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Carmine Gallo. 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the phenomenon knows simply as TED. At this point in time an entire generation has grown up feasting on TED Talks. In the world of communication TED Talks are the gold standard by which not only formal presentations are gauged, but most forms of communication are gauged.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 5, 2014
'When you’re building a technology product – whether that’s a mobile app or game, B2B software, or anything in between – there comes a time when you have to ship. You have to get the product in the customers’ hands as soon as possible. In the software space we refer to this as creating the MVP: Minimum Viable Product. The MVP of a product refers to the least amount of functionality needed in order to get in a customer’s hands where it is still a viable offerin
Andrew Payne
MARCH 5, 2014
'I’m seeing interesting cases where Facebook, Google or other gorillas tweak content presentation, and then some other company’s business is directly impacted. The gorillas have increasing control (and power) over user attention.
Seeing Both Sides
MARCH 5, 2014
'Every year for the last four years, Fred Wilson has been kind enough to come up from NYC and join my Harvard Business School class. It is always entertaining, enlightening and fun. As always, I asked the 80 students in the class to live tweet during the class in order to capture the interesting nuggets and take-aways (and exercise their social media muscles).
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 5, 2014
'Yesterday Kissmetrics blogged A recipe of viral features used by the fastest growing startups. It’s a good read for anybody who wants to increase the number of free customers they are getting. Who wouldn’t want that? The list is written for software companies, but there’s something for everyone. However, the paragraph that caught my eye though was about the nature of virality rather than how to generate it: Virality is not a single feature.
Professor VC
MARCH 5, 2014
'Perhaps if my intention was to be a 49er and join in the Gold Rush and speculative frenzy.Unfortunately as much as I''d like to make a quick buck as the next guy or gal, I''ve never been very good at timing the market. For example, I was on the waiting list for close to a year prior to the first Tesla Model S rolling off the robotic assembly line in Fremont.
ConversionXL
MARCH 5, 2014
'That it costs 5-7x more to acquire a customer than it does to retain one isn’t entirely true. The origins of this myth can be traced back to the 1980′s when the Technical Assistance Research Project published research that stated the cost of customer acquisition vs the cost of customer retention was significantly higher. Soon after the research was published, other institutions like the Customer Service Institute, Consumer Connections Corp., and ITEM Group all “found” si
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