Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'It’s stunning to me how quickly we take for granted certain conveniences in our lives that go from Eureka to minimum expectation. Take OpenTable. In the old days we used to call a restaurant to book. The hostess worked from 4-10pm so you had to call during these hours. Between 7-10 she was busy seating guests so had to put your on hold. After hours there was the answering machine.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'The past few years have been an incredibly exciting time to be an enterprise investor. We have seen the rise of the cloud, the shift away from PCs to new mobile computing platforms, and the emergence of Big Data and Analytics as a core enabler of business agility. With these trends as a backdrop, we are in the early innings of a massive redirection of enterprise IT budgets towards new technologies and architectures.
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David Teten
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'ff Venture Capital just invested in Tackk , a new platform which allows you to creatively share anything on the web with no barriers to creation. The editing experience is amazingly simple. Despite the robust capabilities, users can effortlessly create and style their pages without any learning curve. The design DNA of the founding team is obvious the first time you visit the beautiful, super-simple-to-use site.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Maybe you have not heard the term, “deal book.” That’s a comprehensive piece on a company for use by a buyer in determining fit. A “deal room” is an electronic or physical space dedicated to storing the massive amounts of data to be used in due diligence by a buyer, lender or by an investor. Deal rooms contain access to or copies of all significant contracts with suppliers, customers, consultants, and others.
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
OnlyOnce
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Book Short: Alignment Well Defined, Part II. Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader’s Guide to Planning and Execution , by Pascal Dennis, is an excellent and extraordinarily practical book to read if you’re trying to create or reengineer your company’s planning, goal setting, and accountability processes. It’s very similar to the framework that we have generally adapted our planning and goals process off of at Return Path for the last few years, Patrick Lencioni’
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 3, 2013
About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level. Her company, Citizen Made , which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant , giving it the funding it needed to open a new office in New York City. Money wasn’t an obstacle for the Chicago-based founder, but as a black woman in technology, networking in a new city might be.
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. For others who are perfectionists, letting go of even the most trivial task is almost impossible. If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.” London business school professor John Hunt notes that only 30 percent of managers think they can delegate well, and of those, only one in three is considered a good delegator by his or her subordinates.
deal architect
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'I remember a corporate IT exec telling me after he agreed to a meeting in 2000 with the company I had co-founded “I am not supposed to be seen with you. Startups are too risky and a waste of time.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'by Morgan Sims. Technology is a booming industry, with Web 2.0, mobile applications, and software creating major opportunities for business leaders. Several up-and-coming business leaders emerged within just the past few years, marking the waves of change in the world of business and technology. Here are four business technology leaders paving the way for future innovators: 1.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'I spend a lot of time hanging around CU Law School. I know it’s a strange place to find a venture capitalist and entrepreneurs, but it happens to be the epicenter of entrepreneurial activity at CU Boulder. I wrote a chapter about this in my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepre neurial Ecosystem in Your City explaining why and how CU Law has taken a different approach to the engagement of the of a university and the entrepreneurial community.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Only occasionally do you meet people who can look past what everyone else is doing and see through to an essential truth. Something that is obvious once they say it, but completely unclear beforehand. The founders of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, are two such people. Bobby Murphy (left) and Evan Spiegel (right). We reached out to Evan in February of 2012 because we had been hearing about Snapchat from a local highschool student.
OnlyOnce
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Who Controls the Future of Technology? I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today, then got to my inbox to find both it and its opposite forwarded to me by Brad. The Journal says that the consumerization of technology wins out in the end, and that: In the past, CIOs and their staff had a reputation for being snarky, geeky guys who were always looking for ways to tell employees what they couldn’t do.
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'The Curve is a new concept and book from my friend Nicholas Lovell that describes how to make money in a world when everything is trending to free. Nicholas has been helping the games industry adapt to ‘free’ for a while with freemium strategies where most users to play for free whilst super fans spend lots of money on in-game purchases.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'It is with some sadness that I announce we are going to shut down the CrankyAds service. For our existing CrankyAds users you have until the start of next year, 2014, to sort out an alternative ad management system and transfer any existing advertisers over. Any active subscription payments advertisers have with CrankyAds will be cancelled at the end … Read the rest of this entry » The post CrankyAds Is Closing Down appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
Mike Michalowicz
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Sometimes “art” is simply an excuse for science that is too difficult to figure out. Is what you do really an art, or can it be broken down to a science so others can do it? It’s the latter more often than not.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'We Just Updated My “How You Can Start Making Money Online” Mega-Resource Page. Have You Seen It? The sun is shining here in Melbourne as the cold weather is leaving us down under and no doubt making its way slowly back up to you guys in the northern hemisphere (sorry about that). Don’t worry however as I have a resource … Read the rest of this entry » The post Have You Seen My “How You Can Start Making Money Online” Mega-Resource Page?
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'You would think that Austin would have an overlap between the music community, and the tech community. Well, indeed it does! To kick off AustinStartup Week, the ATC is hosting a Battle of the Bands. Only these bands are made up of employees at Austin technology companies.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News If startups could see where the trends are headed and get ahead of them, their chances of building successful businesses would jump immeasurably. That was one of the points of the MiniTrends 2013 conference at the Holiday Inn Town Lake Wednesday and Thursday. The subject of the […] The post MiniTrends Conference Spotlights Emerging Trends in Socially Responsible Businesses appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Three Key Principles to Maximize Your Converged Media Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Sam Decker- Enjoy! We are currently witnessing an exciting evolutionary step in marketing as marketers learn to better leverage user-generated content at their disposal.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News How do you repair a shattered leg, a ruined ligament, or severely burned skin? The answer is both simple, and a bit morbid: You need more human parts. Various bones, tendons, and other “parts” are obtained from organ donors by procurement companies, such as San Antonio’s Bone […] The post Bone Bank Allografts Specializes in Tissue Sales appeared first on SiliconHills.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'by Geoffrey Tumlin, author of “ Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life “. Advertisements promise that the latest smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other gadgets will put blazing speed at our fingertips, enable us to multitask like an octopus, and ensure that we never miss a thing. Because new technology promises — and does — a lot for us, it’s no surprise that we’ve fallen in love with it.
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