Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Without DogVacay my Thanksgiving would have been ruined. That’s a fact. And I’m not an investor. I just had to tell this story. It’s a great one about entrepreneurship, friendship and the collaborative economy that is helping families in need across the world. The Background. Every year my family meets in San Diego for Thanksgiving.
crowdSPRING Blog
DECEMBER 6, 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!
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death. But the reality is that startups are composed of smart people, with emotions as well as intellects, working in close proximity under much pressure, so conflicts will occur.
deal architect
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'During my fireside chat at the HfS Blueprint event this week I pointed out the proliferation of outsourcing options in the last few years – digital agencies, mobile ecosystems around Apple and Android, a variety of cloud IaaS providers, crowdsourced.
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
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Tom Wentworth is the Chief Marketing Office at Acquia , where he is responsible for global marketing strategy and execution. Whether you’re an Android or iOS user, we’ve all probably made our way into an Apple store at some point. After pushing past the suspiciously friendly blue-shirted door greeters, the in-store experience is actually quite pleasant.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Venturebeat reported yesterday that US startup valuations have reached ten year highs. You can see from the charts above that median valuations have been increasing at all stages from seed through to Series D or later. Series A valuations have increased more slowly than other Series’ which shows that there is a bit of a squeeze at this level, but suggests the ‘crunch’ isn’t that dramatic.
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The Next Web
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'The Telefonica-backed Wayra London incubator officially opened its doors last year, but its current intake of startups have only called it home for around seven months. Last night it was finally time for Wayra demoDay 2013 – a chance for the fledgling startups to draw interest and offers of cash from a crowd of more than 200 investors. Alongside the likes of Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, EC1 Capital and Passion Capital, TNW spent the evening at Wayra London to bring you our favorites.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'I’ve been railing about the evils of software patents – how they stifle and create a massive tax on innovation – since I wrote my first post about it in 2006 titled Abolish Software Patents. Seven years ago this was a borderline heretical point of view since it was widely asserted that VCs believed you should patent everything to protect your intellectual property.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Drew Myler is Interaction Designer at Signal , a Chicago-based provider of mobile marketing technology. This article is part of Drew’s series, 12 Days of Ideas: Building and Marketing Web Products, published his personal blog. Pricing a product is so. Damn. Difficult. Are we scaring people away? Are we leaving money on the table? Could we grow more quickly with a lower price point?
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'It’s been a blast to have a house in Kansas City. I’ve made a bunch of new friends from it and have been able to participate in the radical growth of the startup community there, especially in the KC Startup Village where my house is located. I’ve gotten to experience Google Fiber first hand and also helped mentor a neat startup called HandPrint who has been living in the house for the past six months.
SiliconHills
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'The fifth Longhorn Startup Demo Day at the University of Texas drew the largest crowd ever. Close to 1,000 people registered to attend the event and most of them showed up despite the cold front and blustery weather that blew into Austin on Thursday. The evening featured two accomplished entrepreneurs, Cotter Cunningham with RetailMeNot and […] The post Fourteen Startups Pitch at UT Longhorn Startup Demo Day appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'The new year is just around the corner, and we all know what that means: You’re about to get bombarded with commercials, emails, blog posts, billboards, flyers, ads, and any other available medium used to convey messages (smoke signals likely not included) that will remind you that it’s time to make a New Year’s resolution. Oh joy.
SiliconHills
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Since selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999, Billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in 80 startups. But his entrepreneurial ventures began as a kid growing up in Pittsburgh. “As long as I can remember I was an entrepreneur,” Cuban said. At the age of nine and ten, Cuban packaged baseball cards and sold […] The post Billionaire Mark Cuban likes to “Party Like a Rock Star” and Invest in Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'When it comes to website design (or any of your marketing materials), the unique, different and unexpected can work against you. It’s the marketer’s paradox. Being different is your biggest advantage in standing out from your competition. In fact, being better than your competition is nice but rarely noticeable to clients. Being different, on the other hand, gets noticed.
SiliconHills
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The eighteen companies demonstrating at Texas Venture Labs Venture Expo Thursday ranged from those that had found a better way to harvest antibodies to companies that could increase efficiency and reduce the cost of hybrid cars to a website that aggregates the products used by various celebrities. […] The post Texas Venture Labs Expo Showcases Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.
Business Plan Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Time Spent Raising Startup Funding. Since 2008, The Startup Garage Team has helped entrepreneurs achieve the milestones that investors evaluate by thoroughly preparing the business and investor documents. Our clients are typically the founders of high-growth companies in mobile, web, manufacturing, hardware and consumer brands. From their experiences, we aggregated the amount of preparation time it takes for a founder to have the best chance at successfully raising startup funding.
Early Growth Financial Services
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'A mentor once told me that the only way you truly know what your values are are when they are violated. Like when a key partner betrays your trust. Or when you try a new marketing strategy that makes you feel disingenuous. Or when you are encouraged as a kid to tease someone at school, even when you don’t want to. When you betray your values, you feel awkward, uneasy, and even sick.
Rob Go
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Startup founders have so much invested in their company that it can cloud the way they think about competition. Sometimes you can be too paranoid and get way too focused on competitors, to the point that they cause you to take your eye off the ball. In other cases, you can be so focused on what you are doing that you can be blind to your competitors and fail to respond when they start doing things that are pretty smart that you should be learning from.
Jeff Hilimire
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'I’ve had the opportunity to invest in 15 startups over the last five years, and I’m currently “out of the game” as every bit of my energy and resources is going into my current startup, Dragon Army. But I still have the chance to meet with and advice many startups – part of the pleasure of working in the Atlanta Tech Village – and I was asked recently what I look for in startups that I invest in.
ConversionXL
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Guest post by Pratik Dholakiya. . If you practice CRO, you already know that the debate over small versus long landing pages misses the point. Different products need different landing pages. A beautiful picture and a short description might work for a wrist watch…not so much for a $2,000 software product. Long and short landing pages both have their time and place, but what if it came down to more than the product?
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 6, 2013
'Over the last few years, we''ve seen a lot of technologies start out in the consumer world and "infect" the enterprise. This creates a large opportunity for companies who see consumer trends and understand enterprises well enough figure out what it will take to get them to participate. This is essentially the bet that Box has made relative to Dropbox.
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