YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Entrepreneurial Culture: 23 Ways to Engage and Empower Your Peopl e “ We all know today’s companies need to be more nimble, more innovative, and more entrepreneurial, and that this shift begins with employees. Don’t we? Yes, we do. By now, so much ink has been spilled on the need for employee engagement and empowerment that our eyes glaze over when (yet another) expert starts in on it.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Do you wish you had a mentor to answer your startup questions? Here’s where to find one. As a small-business owner, you make hundreds of decisions every day—some of which will have a lasting effect on your business. Sometimes the solutions you need aren’t as obvious to you as you might hope. In those instances, you might want expert advice to help steer you in the most productive and profitable directions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Your startup is gone, it’s never coming back, and you are in mourning. An entrepreneur whose business fails grieves similarly to anyone who has lost a loved one. The pain of losing a business is not only about a significant loss of income, but can send your entire identity into turmoil. Most entrepreneurs define themselves by their business projects.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'by Frances Kweller, founder and CEO of Kweller Prep. Ideas are nothing. Execution is everything. While women may have many ideas for starting their own businesses, or for improving an existing business, the problem is that far too few of us can execute those ideas. To succeed in business requires more than just a brilliant idea, or even the courage to execute the idea.

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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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'“Ladies, you are going to become legends. You came into the shark tank, you had a deal… and you didn’t close it.” Photo courtesy of Surprise Ride One year after hearing those words from Kevin O’Leary, Donna Khalife isn’t licking her wounds. In November 2013, she and her sister/co-founder Rosy appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank. Their startup, Surprise Ride, had launched in beta mode earlier that year, founded on $5,000 of the sisters’ money.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'As a company, you should strive to be innovative. But how? To succeed, companies—especially startups—need to have innovative approaches to solving everyday challenges. But not every company has this skill. To find out what businesses should do to improve upon this, we asked founders from YEC ingredients for innovation most companies are lacking. Their answers are below. 1.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'I recently wrote about this idea of the “Product Person” and how important it is for startups to have visionary artist DNA in its founding team. They are truly rare and it’s a big reason why so few startups succeed. But vision is only ONE PART of what it takes to be a great entrepreneur and build a successful company. I’ve spent the last 15 years working with and studying the patterns of great entrepreneurs.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Every business has expenses. And, as much as we don’t like them, they are part of the nature of what we do. But there are some things that businesses spend money on that they don’t necessarily have to. You can absolutely put more money in your pocket by following some simple and effective routes to cutting your expenses. Plus, you can do this without having to sacrifice.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Last week Marc Andreessen fired off one of his now famous Tweetstorms about the problems that having too high a cash burn can bring. These are the money tweets (if that’s a thing.): Marc was talking about large companies with huge burn rates, but they also apply at the earlier stages. I regularly get asked about the dangers of raising too much money, and these tweets nail it.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder Silicon Hills News A few weeks ago, the Small Business Innovation Research program announced its Fall National SBIR/STTR Conference on Nov. 11-13 in Austin. The conferences are generally sold out but registration numbers were really low for this one, said Robert Allen Baker, SBIR Policy and program analyst. “We always do […] The post Texas Startups Need to Apply for SBIR Grants appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Diego Basch

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Here’s a mildly interesting puzzle: suppose you have an ordered sequence (e.g. the numbers 1 to 10). How would you randomly divide it into partitions such that any possible partition is equally likely? Your partitions can have anywhere between one and ten elements. One example partition could be [1 2 3 4] [5] [6 7] [8] [9 10]. Before I give you the solution, here are a couple of hints: There are four possible partitions of three elements: [1] [2] [3] [1 2] [3] [1] [2 3] [1 2 3].

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder Silicon Hills News Saltwater makes up 97 percent of the world’s water and 20 percent of earth’s land mass is arid or desert regions. Combine the two and create a new kind of biofuel that will be sustainable and cut carbon emissions, said Alejandro Rios Galvan, director the Sustainable Bioenergy Research […] The post Creating Jet Biofuel from Saltwater Tolerant Plants at SXSW Eco appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. They are not alone. 2013 was the best year for IPOs since the tech bubble of the 90s and 2014 looks to wrap up even stronger this quarter.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'It’s that time of year again to celebrate Austin innovation, entrepreneurs and tech companies. Austin Startup Week, which began three years ago – the same week as Silicon Hills News, is bigger and better than ever before. And this week features lots of fun and free events. If you haven’t registered already, sign up now […] The post Austin Startup Week Kicks Off appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'by Chloe Hashemi, marketing consultant for film and video production company LAMBDA Films. Should film as a medium of media act as a window into the issues and occurrences of the world, or just as a platform for entertainment purposes only? Each of these alternatives have their drawbacks, as utilizing the lens of the camera for any particular reason can simultaneously be an outlet for criticism, prejudice and abuse.

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Eric Friedman

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'I know a lot of people looking for a new job?—?almost all of them are currently employed. To try to solve this problem a friend and I launched Jobs52.com. Why? On a weekly basis I hear from old friends, colleagues, and folks just looking for advice on how to get to their next job. I try to be helpful, point them to my thoughts on the subject , and give them my advice.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures. In my last post on importance of employee equity, I set myself up for an ambitious task: to explain how employee equity works and how to set up a stock options plan in Europe. This topic is so complex and robust that it is almost impossible to pack all the relevant content into a single blog post. Instead, I’ve summarized the basic concepts of employee equity, linking to external sources and providing context for European startups.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'With the rise of a trillion-dollar crowdfunding market, angel investors bundling their investment offerings, and family offices doing more direct investments , venture capitalists are no longer the only available source for entrepreneurs seeking funding. Now that anyone can benefit from the global growth of entrepreneurial activity, venture capitalists need to show their true added value more than ever, in order to attract the most capable entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2014

'Why Ello Really Matters written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. By now you’ve probably started to hear rumblings about a new social network called Ello. I’ve been getting invite requests and questions about it over the last few weeks so I thought it might be time to weigh in. Ello is a simple, ad-free, social network created in part as a response to the current business model of most networks like Facebook, which rely on users to sell adverti

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