Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

I’ve noticed a great tendency among startup founders to ignore the essentials of business accounting in the early stages of their startup. Just because you are not profitable yet, doesn’t mean you can skip the record keeping. In fact, just the opposite is true. When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2016

by Chip Bell , author of “ Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service “. It happens every year about this time. College students descend on largely beachside communities bringing booze, irreverence, and the nonstop pursuit of debauchery! Merchants in their wake worry about their potentially added revenue being offset by the cost of breakage, shrinkage, and the disappearance of regular customers who will be there after students leave.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

Jim Barksdale served as the CEO of Netscape (‘95 – ‘99). Image courtesy of Lifehack Quotes . After spending months and maybe years looking for product-market fit, you now proudly got a product and are ready to go to market. However, after a few weeks of trying to make customers fall in love with what you’ve created, you realise that nothing is as easy as “build it and they will come”.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2016

Applications are open for the second group of Colorado Global Entrepreneurs in Residence. If you are interested in applying send a resume and a cover letter, including a statement of interest, to GEIR-apply@colorado.edu. The Global Entrepreneurs in Residence (GEIR) Program brings international entrepreneurial talent to the CU-Boulder campus and community.

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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 Equity Kicker

MARCH 15, 2016

At the dinner before the Forward Partners board meeting in February we were talking about the characteristics we look for in entrepreneurs. I was going through my usual list – drive, discipline, charisma, intelligence, resilience etc. etc when one of our investors interrupted to ask how we assess resilience. He caught me out. We form our view on whether to back entrepreneurs by spending time with them, discussing their business idea, what they’ve done in the past and with a workshop

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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2016

Have you ever found yourself dreaming of designing clothes? Do you have a great idea for a line of business-casual womenswear that you think everyone would love, or maybe you’d really like to design your own athleticwear brand? Is there a specific hole in the clothing market that you think you know how to fill? If so, starting a clothing business might be a great path to explore.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

The most successful entrepreneurs and business owners are good leaders. Notice I didn’t say good managers or bosses – good leaders. This is because good leaders are often good bosses. Good leaders know what has to be done and who should do it. They work to put their team in the best position to succeed. On the other hand, bosses who lack strong leadership skills are often ineffective leaders.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 15, 2016

By CHELSEA COLLIER Special to Silicon Hills News It used to be that the phrase “tech policy” would send people running for more interesting conversation. But today, public policy and regulations are the hot topic at every meet-up, coffee gathering and cocktail party at SXSW and beyond. In fact, the intersection of tech and policy […] The post Mayor, Tech Leaders Want to Tackle Challenges Together appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 15, 2016

Mobile apps are increasingly becoming a part of our lives. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry mobile
 use grew 58% in 2015.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

Whenever I watch a martial arts movie I love the way everything is exaggerated. We all know that no one can really jump that high, that the bad guys can’t really take that many kicks and punches to the head and the sound effects just might’ve happened in post production. That’s cool, we aren’t really watching the film for the truth, but for entertainment.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 15, 2016

By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News Community leaders from the heart of Atlanta’s tech scene had a chance to strut their city’s entrepreneurial spirit at ChooseATL’s Tech Square Takeover event on Monday. The free SXSW event was open to the public, and was one of many events hosted at the ChooseATL House at […] The post Atlanta Showcases its Tech Community at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 15, 2016

There are many horror stories in the startup space associated with failed mergers and the theft of intellectual property.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2016

by Madarapu Nagaraju, co-founder and director at KnowledgeHut. With a single swipe or click, we are able to complete many different tasks and transfers across multiple areas. Mobile apps have changed the way we do business, communicate with each other, and access news, entertainment and other information. This invariably points out to that the role of a mobile app developer has become ever more essential to provide users new ways to engage with their smartphones.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

Are you familiar with the user experience quote , “User interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.”? While clever, that statement is far from true. User interfaces shouldn’t be complicated, but you can’t expect a new user to understand a new interface without any sort of direction. Similarly, you can’t expect an existing user to understand an updated interface or a new feature without any sort of direction.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for bilhill_art. Check out more great work on bilhill_art ’s profile page. Nicely done, bilhill_art, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2016

How to Build a Steady Stream of Leads for Less Than $100/mo written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Facebook advertising is perhaps the most powerful lead generation tool available to small business marketers right now. (I, of course, have to add the disclaimer that this could change and probably will within the next 18 months.). In 2016, however, it is one of the best, simplest, most affordable ways to create awareness, leads and ultimately clients for local and national busin

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 15, 2016

Ice skates…for the phrase I coin in this post, and because I needed a photo ;). I have to say, I’m having more fun at Dragon Army than I ever did at Spunlogic or Engauge. That’s not to disparage either of those businesses, I love them both (well, Spun more but who’s keeping score…I guess I am :) And God willing, we’ll have similar success at Dragon Army as we did at those two companies.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 15, 2016

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Video Startup Uses Technological Advances to Leapfrog into Industry appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 15, 2016

Chris Dixon wrote a great post discussing what’s next in the computing industry. Historically, there’s been a major new tech cycle every 10 to 15 years that brings along a new era of computing: we saw this with personal computers in the 80s, the Internet in the 90s, and now with the smartphone era. If this 10-15 year pattern continues, it means we should be entering the growth phase of the next big era in just a few years.

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View from Seed

MARCH 15, 2016

I love learning about business, but in particular, I love learning about how today’s most successful companies got started. What things did they do to gain initial traction? As a result, I listen to a lot of podcasts and interviews with founders—but there’s one thing about them that drives me absolutely insane. Founders are all typically asked about their growth and the key to their success.

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