Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Watch this trailer of The Hateful Eight , and then fill in the blanks: K I _ _. Because of priming, you’re most likely to spell k-i-l-l because of the violent images in the video clip. You’re highly unlikely to fill in the blanks to spell k-i-s-s or k-i-n-d, or anything else really. Priming is a popular strategy to influence human behavior, and it’s one that has been studied extensively for quite a while.
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deal architect
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
An exec at a failed on-premise ERP project told me he was delighted the project crashed. I thought he was joking. No, his later SaaS project alerted him to the fact that even if his on-premise software had worked, he.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
The year 2016 will see so many startup companies coming forward with great idea, with the many startup helps and conferences held worldwide. Fighting it out is the key factor. The first thing will be a well written business plan. Here we bring forth some over- the-tradition points to include in your plan: 1. Competition Review. In most business plans, it would contain only the basic plans about the company, without analyzing the competition scenario.
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
deal architect
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
The German SAP user group, DSAG morning emailed this morning the results of its 2016 investment survey. I also read a ComputerWorld article about migrating custom code as SAP rolls out S/4HANA. The DSAG report says “DSAG asked for assurance.
Version One Ventures
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
We’ve all talked about the consumerization of enterprise apps for several years. Yet while it’s been a popular trend, there still aren’t many enterprise apps out there that can rival the user experience of the best consumer ones. Most enterprise apps are still plagued with clunky, form-driven interfaces; require too much data entry from the user; and don’t offer much in the way of automation.
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SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Food delivery, whether in-home meal kits, like Blue Apron, or foodservice delivery, like Favor, is on the rise. Restaurant delivery, excluding pizza, grew by 33 percent since 2012, according to NPD Group’s foodservice market research. With food delivery skyrocketing, delivery companies are duking it out over contracts […] The post Harvest Plans to Wrap All Your Food Delivery Into One Platform appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Although it sounds simple enough to get started, some business owners find it difficult to decide whether to decide which advertising platform to try first.
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News BuildGroup, one of Austin’s latest venture capital firms, plans to invest in two to three high growth companies a year, according to one of its founders. “We want to find companies that have founders that welcome our activity,” said Alan Schoenbaum, co-founder of BuildGroup. “We don’t want […] The post BuildGroup Wants to Invest in High Growth Austin Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Being an entrepreneur is definitely not a get rich quick proposition. A ton of money won't land on your lap with a click of a finger and it definitely won't come if you don't work for it.
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
The University of Texas at Austin is hosting UT Energy Week today through Friday with important discussions on regulations, fracking, cities of the future, water initiatives, renewable energy sources and all of the challenges facing the oil and gas industry. The United States still leads the world when it comes to innovations in the energy […] The post UT Energy Week Kicks Off appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Tell me where else, right now, where people don’t give a crap about anything else, but want to give you their full attention?
VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
I send a note to each new company that I work with at Foundry that sets up what I hope will be the key tenants of our working relationship. I thought it might be fun to post it publicly – I think it gives meaningful insight into how all of us at Foundry work with the company in which we have an investment. I’m psyched to be moving forward with our investment!
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 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 Zechariah. Check out more great work on Zechariah ’s profile page. Nicely done, Zechariah, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
As a second-year Harvard Business School student and NextView Ventures MBA Associate, constantly keeping up-to-date with the start-up world, I have heard some skepticism about the ability of MBAs to found top companies. Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. There has been some fantastic recent work around debunking this common misconception, including Dimitri Dadiomov’s “Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriou
Start Up Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Every now and again there’s a rock band who are global superstars, who also happen to have world class musicians in the band. Eric Clapton and Cream, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. But more often the great rock bands have a style and an ethic which is amalgamation of the players. But these players are simply world class on their own.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
By Ari Rastegar, CEO of Rastegar Capital. Success as an entrepreneur or business pro depends upon identifying and attending to your most important asset. Don’t even bother thumbing through your business plan or re-reading your company mission statement to figure out what it could be. It’s YOU! A business proposal sinks without a sound mind; a flawless strategy will fail miserably without an energetic leader; and a team will fall apart without morale and motivation.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Mobile Development Startup Learns the Importance of the Business Side appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Rob Go
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, so it may be a mistake to try to bang this blog post out. Oh well. I was talking to a good friend of mine who will be starting an EIR gig at a very good VC firm shortly. We were talking about what to expect and how to think about allocating time during this period. It caused me to reflect on the last few years, where quite a few people I know have been EIRs at various firms in both the east coast and the west coast.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
There are many myths about what it takes to start a business. Time and time again, experts in entrepreneurship and business (often with little to no operating experience of their own) offer formulaic advice on what startups must do to succeed. The truth is that there is no one way to “correctly” start a company. Startups are the epitome of unpredictability and extremes.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
We use a ton of tools here at Bplans to help us with our marketing. We also spend a lot of time trying out new marketing tools and services as they come up, trying to find the right tools for our team. I have to admit, we’re also a bit frugal. We’re careful about what marketing tools we use and make sure that every tool serves a real purpose for a fair price.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Getting More Sales with the Buyer’s Journey written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. How does someone decide to buy a product or service? This is answered by the customer life cycle or sometimes called the Buyer’s Journey. The sale is made when a buyer goes through three key phases: Awareness, Consideration and then Decision.
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