Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Most technologists have little interest in the mechanics of starting and building a business. That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. In fact, an entrepreneur friend of mine, who made millions on her marketing expertise, asserted recently that most inventors fail in business because th

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Back in June, the local Boston tech community together celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Web Innovators Group, affectionately known as “WebInno.” Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 19, 2015

There are many ad campaigns from the yore that nobody remembers now although they might have worked back then. But then there are some classics that are still remembered due to their sheer creativity, execution and impact. They were so successful that they became a part of the branding pop culture. Here are a few great campaigns that are our favorites.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Many HCM professionals are headed to HR Tech this week. I would urge them to also consider going to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics event even if they are not big sports fans. For a decade, that event has cataloged.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Almost two years ago, during the height of the holiday shopping frenzy, major retailer Target was hit with a security breach. Over 110 million customers were affected — 40 million accounts were hacked, giving the Internet bad guys access to account numbers and PIN numbers, and 70 million others had their personal information compromised. Other large companies that have also suffered from major security breaches including Zappos, Michaels and the “cheating” website Ashley Madison.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Apple announced the iPhone 6s on September 9. It went on sale couple of weeks later and 3 days later it announced it had sold 13 million units – the strongest weekend sales of any product in Apple’s history. All.

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For Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 19, 2015

For the fourth year in a row, we worked together with Pacific Crest Securities, an investment banking firm with a specific focus on SaaS, to survey 305 SaaS companies. This survey represents deep benchmarking data and insights on the growth and operations of the companies in this space. I want to extend my personal thanks to the […].

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Of all the podcast interviews I’ve done over the years, I think the one I recently did with Jerry Colonna on his Reboot podcast series is my favorite. In the podcast show notes, Jerry links to a fun post by Fred Wilson titled Sixteen Years Ago (which is now 19 years ago…) We’ve known each other for a very long time and I treasure Jerry as one of my best friends on this planet.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Raising venture capital is a daunting process. You’ve spent months, if not years, working to turn your dreams into a reality, and now it all hinges on finding that one investor who believes in your company and team as much as you do and if you’re lucky, also brings value to the table. So you pack up your bags and head to Silicon Valley for your weeks-long gauntlet of in-person meetings with investors, often infamous for their candor and ease with which they crush or create startup dreams, to see

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I read a very interesting and typically well written post from Umair Haque over the weekend titled Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It). Everyone seems to be writing about Twitter at the moment, but this piece doesn’t mention Jack Dorsey or Twitter’s product challenges per se. Umair goes deeper. As he sees it Twitter’s challenge is that low level abuse and snarkiness is undermining the experience for most users and they are walking away.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Merely having a great website filled with quality content will not do the trick, alone. Driving quality traffic is essential.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Telling the truth conjures images of cherry trees and axes. Violence followed by confession leads to redemption right? In business the truth can be elusive, even fungible. As much as we try to craft the perfect projections, what happens in business is never predictable and outcomes can not be conjured from a crystal ball. So while I can not claim to tell you where a business will be next month or next year, I can tell you that the most important aspect of building and nurturing a great team is t

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Change is always on the horizon. A genuine commitment to putting your customer first can be tough, but it is always the right thing to do.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to star their week off on the right foot. Check out this comment on the video from Robin Hood : You can either watch this vid teaching you more about the nature of reality and entrepreneurship in < 14 mins, or pay tens of thousands of $$$ towards an MBA. Worse go waste your money listening to self-help, pseudo-intellectual charlatans like ‘Tony Robbins’ This should be the most watched vid on entrepreneurship, but most

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Unbound Commerce, based in Boston, announced its acquisition Monday of Austin-based Apptive. Apptive has created a software platform that allows online merchants to create and manage native mobile apps easily. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Unbound Commerce works with more than 600 merchants, including major brands such as Finish Line, Sears […] The post Unbound Commerce Acquires Apptive appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Bryce Dot VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The saddest part of the happiest place on earth is Tomorrowland. When it opened, in 1955, the goal was to project forward 30 years into the future. In the early days, it showcased new forms of mass transit (the Monorail), various space exploration exhibits and Autopia, which gave a peek into what our National Interstate System could become. Today, the cars in Tomorrowland continue to guzzle gas and sputter fumes as they traverse tracks of steel and concrete that seemed to envision some kind of

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to startups and entrepreneurship, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly) for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “I talked to 35 [investors] before we got a yes – & as soon as we got one yes, everyone called back.” – @dens [link] at 3:15.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Note: If you’re a founder, stop reading this post now. Your job is to build your company and listening to VCs pontificate about their industry doesn’t do you any good. If you build a good company, investors will hunt you down. If you don’t, no amount of reading this stuff will help you get funded. So move on, recruit awesome people, build product, make your customers happy by delivering value to them and build your company by making them pay you for it.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. School of Bookkeeping’s very own Seth David joins us for Episode 50 of the Profit First Podcast! Seth gives us great information about sharing content with your clients. Our Guest . Seth David is the Dean of Beans at schoolofbookkeeping.com and President of Nerd Enterprises, Inc. which provides consulting and training services in Accounting and productivity based software.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2015

5 Easy Steps to Nailing a Sale written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would enjoy being in sales, I would have laughed. I am the opposite of pushy, don’t love speaking in front of large groups, and only want what is best for people. Looking back, that thinking came from me not fully understanding what it takes to be in sales.

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