YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'Tomorrow’s graduates will be facing a much different environment than the ones their parents entered in the last generation. A common complaint among some graduates? that the industry they aimed to enter became obsolete by the time they leave school and enter the workforce. It’s sad but true – jobs in sectors such as chemical processing, agriculture and even journalism are drying up due to technology.
crowdSPRING Blog
DECEMBER 13, 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 13, 2013
'A question that I often hear debated these days is whether a new startup should focus on growth or profits. First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the money went to growth. In the long run, everyone wants both profitability and growth, but the question is still which comes first.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'by Tim Edwards , CEO of NSR. Many startups aren’t fully tested until they hit the growth stage. This is when minor inefficiencies that crept in during the startup phase seem to escalate overnight, and planning for long-term growth is often put on the back burner as your team scrambles to meet daily demands. Being a startup doesn’t mean you can avoid planning ahead, and taking time to prepare for 2014 will help your startup avoid some serious growing pains.
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
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'A few months ago we started spending more time on the healthcare vertical and got extremely excited about the amount of innovation that we were seeing. It felt like the healthcare industry was at a similar tipping point than education a few years ago. Yesterday we published a guest post on VentureBeat outlining our investment thesis for the health care vertical.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'Looking for a potential mate? If you’re hoping that the stars align for you and a special someone, there’s now a mobile app for that. Based on the idea that meaningful and enduring relationships stem from compatible personalities as determined by astrological phenomena, self-discovery and relationship tool Aligned Signs has launched a free mobile application that employs its approach of combining the Myers-Briggs personality assessment tool, Chinese Zodiac, and Western astrology to
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'Today is an exciting day for Nimble Storage. We are fortunate to be early investors and partners to the company, having made our initial investment during the depths of the global financial collapse in late 2008. Nimble successfully completed its IPO on the NYSE today – a testament to the team’s vision and execution. At Lightspeed, we had identified the flash storage trend in early 2007 with an investment in Pliant Technology, a manufacturer of SSDs that was later acquired by SanDisk.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'There’s a Guardian article titled News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier which has been retweeted a lot this morning. It makes some good points, but for me the conclusion is wrong. News isn’t bad per se, it’s just over-consumption of news is bad. Let me explain. The opening sentences from the article set the scene nicely: In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obe
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'I shouldn’t be writing this blog post right now. I should be taking actions that will result in immediate and recurring revenue. The last two months have been devastatingly quiet. My revenue for November and December have been the worst in what feels like years. I am digging into savings and “borrowing” from cash I had reserved for year end taxes.
Early Growth Financial Services
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'Much to the Internet’s amazement yesterday, without any prior buzz or warning, Beyoncé dropped a brand new album straight to iTunes , complete with 10 brand new videos. Post by Beyoncé. She said: “I see music. It is more than just what I hear. When I connect to something, I immediately see a visual. Or a series of images that are tied to a feeling or emotion, a memory from my childhood, my dreams, my fantasties.
ithacaVC
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'When raising money from investors (angels or VC), it is critical to have a presentable and clean cap table. There are many reasons for this, but fundamentally, it is impossible to calculate a share price for the investment round unless you have complete agreement on how many shares are outstanding pre-money. The share price is calculated by taking the pre-money valuation and dividing it by the number of shares outstanding pre-money.
Jeff Hilimire
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'Last week I wrote a blog post where I asked 17 of Atlanta’s top entrepreneurs to finish the sentence, “To be an entrepreneur is to…” Fortunately, I have many female entrepreneur friends that quickly pointed out that I included exactly zero female entrepreneurs on my list. And that’s really inexcusable. We have such a vibrant female entrepreneur community in this town that its often something I trumpet when talking about our strengths as a city.
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 13, 2013
'All My Social Media Tools in One Twitter List (Sorta) written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I love lists. You love lists (Um, that’s why you’re here, right?). Twitter users love lists, but Twitter lists lack something essential. You can build them and make them public, but you can’t let others add to and embed the list in other places.
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