Steve Blank
AUGUST 21, 2013
'What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists.
SVPG
AUGUST 21, 2013
'I should have written this article many years ago. Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. However, more often than not, I had to go into these companies after the training and try to clean up the mess that the trainer left behind.
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Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2013
'With much of the global economy back on track, now is a great time for young businesses. As trends begin to head in the right direction, businesses that make smart decisions today will see considerable results over the coming years. Here, we take a look at five ways to keep your new business on track. 1. Put content on the web. No matter what industry you’re in, the internet is a space for you to take advantage of.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Every entrepreneur’s first priority should be the alignment of interests across the range of constituents required for success – partners, investors, customers, vendors, and employees. The best are ones quickest and most willing to do the realignment on a continuous basis these days, as the market changes, customer interests change, and you learn from experience.
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
Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2013
'This story is part of Bplans’ “How I Did It” series—true stories of real businesses getting started, solving problems and finding success. Read the previous story here. Alan at NewMedia Website Design : “When we started NewMedia Website Design we decided to work for free… That is, to do some free sites for influential people in the book biz, as well as for people we have known for years and years.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 21, 2013
'I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the unsung hero of many start-ups: the other founder. A lot has been written about the founder/CEO and her growth and evolution as a company grows. But little is written about the (nearly omnipresent in my experience) co-founder – the #2, behind-the-scenes partner who teams with the founder/CEO from the very beginning to build the company.
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 21, 2013
'by David Hassell, Founder & CEO of 15Five. Feedback. It’s important and you know it. But it’s not just a drop in the bucket or a pat on the back, there is a proper way of doing of providing feedback consistently that will produce fruitful results. We have identified nine ways you can offer employees feedback – it’s painless, immediate and will get you the outcome you need: 1.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference was founded four years ago to bring together real entrepreneurs who have applied Lean Startup techniques and have useful advice to share with each other. Last year’s conference was no exception: speakers talked about their direct experience with practices you may need help implementing—things like metrics, feedback, and experimentation.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Sky-high commercial rents in Hong Kong can be a huge barrier for new entrants and old players alike in the country’s startup scene, but a newly-launched co-working spaceaims to help overcome that challenge. Hidden on the eight floor of an industrial building in Kennedy Town, Innovation Lab is the China’s Special Administrative Region latest co-working space exclusive to the Western District and has targeted startups in its sights.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
AUGUST 21, 2013
'With the backdrop of both Congress and the NY Department of Financial Services launching investigations into Bitcoin, regulation is top of mind for everyone in the Bitcoin ecosystem. So far the only definitive statement about how Bitcoin will be regulated in the US came from the FinCEN guidance in March of this year. But even this left me with a number of questions.
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Do you bolt out of bed when your alarm sounds, or do you hit the snooze button seventeen times before you crawl out of bed in a sleep-induced haze? What about your life, your path? Are you in snooze mode, fending off your destiny for just another five minutes (five months, five years)? If you’re a dozer, I’ve got a message for you: The universe is trying to wake you up.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 21, 2013
'I was having a conversion on Friday with Brad Bernthal , an Associate Professor at Colorado Law School who directs the Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. Brad and I – in addition to sharing a first name – are close friends. We were talking about the recent amazing Techstars Demo Day that we had just had in Boulder, and Brad – in a professorial tone – started hypothesizing about the importance of Techstars in the Boulder startup community.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Equity Endeavor set out to help startup businesses raise money through its equity-based crowdfunding site. And although that practice has been approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama as part of the JOBS Act, equity-based crowdfunding still isn’t allowed. That’s because the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has not yet signed off […] The post Equity Endeavor Wants to Help Mom and Pop Shops Raise Funds appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Scientists in the University of Pittsburgh have grown a tiny heart that beats on its own. The researchers took a mouse heart from which everything had been removed but the basic structure and laid onto it cardiovascular cells developed from human induced stem cells. The human cells specialized into endothelial (or lining) cells, smooth muscle cells and muscle contractile cells.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Rackspace’s latest Open Cloud Academy is underway at the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio. The academy recently added network administration to its roster of training classes, said Duane La Bom, Rackspace’s Director of Learning and Development. The class of 22 students kicked off on Aug. 5th and provides training for people to earn their […] The post The Open Cloud Academy in San Antonio Adds New Classes appeared first on SiliconHills.
ithacaVC
AUGUST 21, 2013
'One of my VC partners sent me a long video clip (31 minutes) today of a speech given by Svante Myrick, the Mayor of Ithaca, NY. He was elected at the age of 24, and has been on the job a couple of years. I know him and I like him a lot. He is making things happen in Ithaca. Here is the video. I rarely watch long videos. My partner who sent this to me even more rarely watches long videos… so I knew it was worth watching.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 21, 2013
'At Javelina’s on Rainey Street in Austin, FrameBuzz officially launched its online video conversation platform Tuesday. The startup’s free platform lets people have a conversation while watching a video online. The messages appear in the upper corner of the video screen. “Social conversations around online video are disjointed right now and filled with spam, giving […] The post FrameBuzz Launches Video Conversation Platform in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Writing in TechCrunch, Ben Horowitz offers three reasons why founders fail as CEOs. The most interesting is the third: The founder doesn’t really want to be CEO. Not every inventor wants to run a company and if you don’t really want to be CEO, your chances for success will be exceptionally low. The board panics. Sometimes the founder does want to be CEO, but the board sees her making mistakes, panics and replaces her prematurely.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
AUGUST 21, 2013
'What Would You Do If Your Email List Stopped Working As A Marketing Tool?… I've been pondering a lot what would happen if email was no longer useful as a marketing tool.
Berkonomics
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Growing companies usually require more working capital during their periods of rapid growth. In past insights we have calculated the amount of additional capital needed for a business as it grows, and the additional capital required is often surprisingly large. In this insight, we need to speak of the sources of working capital and the implications to the future financial health of the choices made when selecting one financial resource.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Austin-based Newgistics, which makes e-commerce products, has acquired Tacit Knowledge, a digital commerce consultant. The terms of the deal were not announced. “Like Newgistics, Tacit Knowledge is a trusted partner to some of the world’s most recognizable retail brands,” Bill Razzouk, CEO of Newgistics said in a news release. “Both organizations also share a reputation […] The post Newgistics Acquires Tacit Knowledge appeared first on SiliconHills.
Jeff Hilimire
AUGUST 21, 2013
'I’ve been incredibly lucky with the support I’ve received from my family since I started my first company at the age of 21. From my mom letting us camp out in her basement, to my aunt patiently showing me how to run the finances for the business when I didn’t even know what a “receivable” was, to my in-laws still cheering me on while I made almost no money for years while their daughter and I started a family, to my incredible wife who hung on tight through it all,
SiliconHills
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Abila, based in Austin, has acquired Avectra, based in McLean, Va. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Abila, which changed its name in July from Sage Nonprofit Solutions, sells software to nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Avectra sells customer relationship management software to nonprofits and associations. “We are delighted to welcome Avectra’s highly […] The post Abila Acquires Avectra appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Startup Toolkit
AUGUST 21, 2013
'false At my first real job, in the second or third year of university, I was a QA guy for a gaming startup spun out of Turner Broadcasting. I was meant to automate a bunch of the manual stuff testing and QA stuff we did. It was a cool combination of hardware and scripting and I was having a blast with it. After about 3 months, an all-hands meeting was called.
Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli
AUGUST 21, 2013
'Thanks for coming to the first session of the Bangkok.NET user group. I have pushed the source code of the taskboard project on Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/AymericG/taskboard. Next meetup will be the 11th of September (topic: WPF): [link]. Community.net user group knockout.
The Next Web
AUGUST 21, 2013
'This is a guest post by Bubba Murarka ( @BubbaM ) which originally appeared on his blog. Bubba is an early stage investor in consumer internet and mobile technology companies for @DFJvc. All consumer application creators need to focus on three core challenges: A differentiated product experience. Attracting and growing a user base. Keeping the user base engaged.
Rob Go
AUGUST 21, 2013
'I have 15 minutes free and have been thinking about 2 topics that I can’t get out of my head. These will probably be blog posts at some point, but right now, thought I’d throw them out there. 1. Product / Distribution Fit. My friend Brian Balfour wrote a blog post yesterday about emerging distribution channels and how they impact innovation.
Start Up Blog
AUGUST 21, 2013
'I was recently in Perth for and presented at the Agile Perth MeetUp. The presentation I gave was entitled the 200 year shift. It’s a ‘living’ presentation which I’ve been working on for around 7 years – and it explores the end of the industrial era and the transition into a digital age. An age where most every industry is up for grabs as the rules are reinvented and barriers to entry are entirely evaporating.
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