Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2013

'Creating and building a business is not a one-man show. It requires a team effort, or at least the ability to build trust and confidence among key players, and effectively communicate with partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. These actions are the hallmark of an effective leader. Behind the actions are a set of principles and characteristics that entrepreneurial leaders, like Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, seem to have in common.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2013

'by Nick Anderson. You will have to deal with some numbers before starting a new business. Assessing the upcoming expenditure and determining your startup budget will be essential for the smooth and problem-free start of business activities. To estimate the startup costs for a new business, you will have to take a look at several different categories of expenditure.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 10, 2013

'Everyone likes chasing big shiny objects all the time. What's not to like. They are big. They are shiny. :). But a lot of progress in life comes from doing the everyday small things better. A small improvement, every single day, to move the ball a little more forward. A best practice I've developed is to take a step back and reflect on if I have a good balance between chasing shiny objects and making incremental progress on small every day things.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 10, 2013

'You started your business to give you more freedom and way more money, but that’s not exactly what’s happening is it? If you’re like most entrepreneurs—you’re actually weighed down with a to-do list yet are struggling to make money. Why? It almost always boils down to time management. We spend countless hours on the busy work instead of the kind of work that brings results – you know, more freedom and way more money.

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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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Growthink Blog

JUNE 10, 2013

'GREAT businesses find the balance between: a) Making the right changes at the right time and b) Having the discipline to “keep on keeping on” and just doing more of what is working. Note well that b) is particularly hard to maintain when the tasks and activities that ARE working become repetitive and lack in excitement and drama. So how do executives find this balance - between being creative and just keeping their heads down and plowing forward?

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Diego Basch

JUNE 10, 2013

'If you write code for a living, when was the last time you released something as open source? If you can’t remember, I’d hold that against you in an interview. Why? Assuming you take pride in your work (if you don’t… well), open-source code is an incentive to: Make sure the code is not horrendously embarrassing. Verify that a random person can check it out and make it work.

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Rob Go

JUNE 10, 2013

'Love these 95 pieces of advice from Sam Altman in honor of the new YC batch. Each could be a few blog posts in and of themselves. Orignal link here. Startup Advice. In honor of the new YC batch starting tomorrow, here is some of the best startup advice I’ve heard or given (mostly heard): 1. Make something people want. 2. A great team and a great market are both critically important—you have to have both.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2013

'I’ve been asserting for at least six years that patent system is completely broken for the software industry. I’ve given numerous examples, dealt with the issue first hand as patent trolls have tried to extort many of the companies I’m an investor in, and I’ve had many public discussions about the topic. On my run on Sunday, I listed to This American Life - When Patents Attack… Part Two!

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Genuine VC

JUNE 10, 2013

'It isn’t a secret that there is a huge platform shift underway as consumers transition from the desktop web to mobile + tablet devices. Yet when you look at actual the figures, it’s truly astounding: this year mobile e-commerce sales will be triple that of what it was just a short time ago in 2011, with tablets driving much of that spending growth.

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The Next Web

JUNE 10, 2013

'The venture capital arm of investment company Ingenious has today opened a programme that will see up to £2.25m (around $3.5m) invested in 15 startups working in the media and creative industries in the UK. The financial backing has already been put in place and will see the successful 15 startups each receive £150,000 in funding in exchange for a stake in their company from September this year.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 10, 2013

'I get it. It is hard – scratch that – it is impossible to love our businesses all the time. That dream you had for your business may have turned into a life sucking nightmare. You may even have a hatred for your business right now. I get that too. But, the problem is that the more you dislike your business, the more it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

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Up and Running

JUNE 10, 2013

'Most businesses fail within the first five years. The risks that cause these failures are usually avoidable with a little forethought and planning. There are two broad areas that classify these risks. The first set are referred to as the “known unknowns”: all the things you know that could go wrong (the economy, for example), but you’re not sure if they will or how badly they will.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 10, 2013

'SailPoint today announced it has surpassed $100 million in GAAP revenue since first delivering SailPoint IdentityIQ, an innovative next-generation identity and access management (IAM) solution, to the market in 2007.

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Business Plan Blog

JUNE 10, 2013

'The reason why most people dislike giving presentations (such as your startup pitch ), is because they aren’t any good at it! Thankfully, there are some tips that you can implement fairly quickly to step up your game. 1. Personality. You need to show some energy during your presentation. Your audience will make a very quick judgment call as to whether they want to listen to this presentation or merely be present while they check their emails on their iPhones.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 10, 2013

'I’ve recently become very more interested in mobile games and in particular, what games people really are gravitating to these days. I’ve shared this before but my favorite all-time mobile (phone, not tablet) game is Drop7 – iTunes link and Android link. It’s a simple number strategy game that you can play in a few minutes (or if you’re good, maybe up to 10 minutes).

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 10, 2013

'Think about all of the amazing technology innovation that has impacted businesses over the last three years. Since 2011, we have seen an explosion in cloud computing, in mobile, in technology-enabled business services and in globalization. All of us feel more productive as professionals and our businesses feel more productive instutionally. As a nation, the US must be cranking in productivity.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 10, 2013

'Review: Blue Aura v30 Blackline Tube Desktop System | Sound and Vision Magazine.

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