SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'Drifty.co already has 140,000 people using its web development tools. Founded in 2012, the company, based in Madison, Wisc., makes cloud-based tools that let anyone easily create mobile apps and websites. Max Lynch and Ben Sperry have created two products: Codiqa for mobile sites and websites and Jetstrap for developers. Sperry said he expects up [.
deal architect
APRIL 18, 2013
'Consumerization is not a new concept. In 2005, Gartner defined it as "the growing practice of introducing new technologies into consumer markets prior to industrial markets". Unfortunately, in the years since, the definition has gotten narrower - to where many.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 18, 2013
'How big are small businesses in Asia? Apparently, very very big. Did you know, for example, that in Asia small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute between 25% to 60% percent to a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), constitute 16% to 69% of its exports, and employ between 52% to 97% of its workforce? Anu Madgavkar, senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute , shared these and more interesting insights into small businesses in Asia during a sharing session organized by search g
Rembrandt Communications
APRIL 18, 2013
'Are You Getting the PR Reports You Need for Success? By Melanie Rembrandt For many years, it was very difficult to show the results of a public relations, or PR, campaign. After all, you could spend hours on the phone pitching media members and not see any results. Plus, due to the nature of public [.].
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
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 18, 2013
'It’s hard to imagine that networking giant Cisco has been in Singapore for 20 years, playing a part in helping Singaporeans get online for the firs time in 1994. Cisco – and Singapore – has come a long way since, and some of us may remember how it, together with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) , created Singapore’s first “Internet Home” by transforming an entire housing flat in Bishan to showcase a vision of a connected future.
Version One Ventures
APRIL 18, 2013
'Good Advice (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Getting good advice is critical for any entrepreneur and fortunately there’s plenty of advice to go around. Unfortunately, not all advice is worth listening to. Angel investor Allen Morgan (@allenmorgan) summed it up in a recent Tweet : “It’s a power law relationship: for entrepreneurs, >90% of the advice worth heeding comes from <10% of the advice givers.
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Feld Thoughts
APRIL 18, 2013
'Teaching kids to program is not an easy task – their attention span is short and what they are able to accomplish in a brief period of time is often uninspiring which results in them losing attention quickly. Robots help a lot with this! The Orbotix team has turned their Sphero into a fantastic programming aid to introduce coding to kids as young as 4th grade.
The Next Web
APRIL 18, 2013
'Got a question for Emerson? Use the chat feature below to get it answered live. Emerson Spartz is one of the world’s leading experts on internet virality and has been featured in major media including the Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. As the CEO of Spartz Media , he runs one of the fastest-growing digital media publishers with 160 million page views per month.
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 18, 2013
'I just helped one of my consulting clients address a critical business decision. It was fraught with emotion, history, regret, and the fear of making the wrong choice. All the logic in the world wasn’t helping my client reach a decision. They understood the logic, in fact they are the ones who presented it, but the very real and very immediate, painful consequences of any decision they would make had them stuck.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
APRIL 18, 2013
'Tweet I don’t know how to start this article other than write the sad news that my mother passed away a month ago. You may remember back in June 2011 she had a fairly significant stroke, which I wrote about in The Day My Life Changed and again in My Most Challenging Year Part 1: When Family Tragedy Strikes.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 18, 2013
'You may have seen the recent brouhaha in the financial press about a 2010 research paper by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard which found a correlation between high levels of government debt and low or negative economic growth. This paper was important because it underpinned the austerity policies adopted by many governments around the world since the financial crash – not least here in the UK.
Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2013
'Specialty finance structures have been around since the beginning of finance, but in the last several years, as bank lending remained frozen following the financial crisis, alternative financial product offerings have exploded. A few of the most common and most innovative are discussed below. The biggest advantage of alternative finance is that you can find a product that very specifically matches your company’s need, and the cost of the financing is related to value of the project.
SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'Cloud Options of London is one of two international teams participating in this year’s TechStars Cloud accelerator program. Sarah Cochrane, cofounder of Cloud Options, pitched the company at TechStars Cloud Demo Day Thursday at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in downtown San Antonio. James Mitchell is also a co-founder. Just like electricity is traded as [.
Austin Startup
APRIL 18, 2013
'Spanning Cloud Apps, creators of the powerful, enterprise-class data protection solution "Spanning Backup for Google Apps", announces that administrators can now monitor their Google Apps domains from their mobile devices with Audit Log for Google Apps. Spanning’s first mobile app alerts administrators when changes are made to their domain settings – allowing them to monitor their domains on the go and in real time.
SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'ParLevel Systems, founded by Walter Teele and Luis Pablo Gonzalez, created a monitoring system for vending machines. San Antonio-based ParLevel installs wireless meters inside vending machines so that operators can generate real-time data on the machine’s inventory. ParLevel Systems gives vending machine operators more information about their customers and products.
Early Growth Financial Services
APRIL 18, 2013
'I’m going to cut right to the chase here. The answer is no. At worst, these “professional” are a scam, at best, it’s still a mistake to outsource this important work. In my experience, startups that succeed are those that wrote their own business plan (with their own blood, sweat, and tears, if need be!) rather than outsource their business plan development to a business plan consultant (not to mention those businesses that don’t think they need a business plan at all…!).
SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'Skit!, based in Boston, has created an app that lets anyone take photos and drawings and create an animated story to share online. Robin Johnson pitched the company Thursday at the TechStars Cloud Demo Day at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in downtown San Antonio. Several hundred people attended the event. Skit! is a member [.] The post Skit!’s App Lets You Create Animated Stories appeared first on SiliconHills.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 18, 2013
'This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Exciting news: we’ve nailed down dates for The Lean Startup Conference 2013. We’re holding it December 9 – 11 in San Francisco, with sessions at the Nob Hill Masonic Center and the Fairmont Hotel, a half-block away. This is the fourth year of the conference, and we’re acting on feedback last year’s attendees shared with us: as Lean Startup practices have evolved, you want in-depth talks, new speakers with fresh sto
SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'Threat Stack is an online security system for businesses that provides a firewall to prevent hackers from breaking in. The company, based in Washington, D.C., has also created an incident response system that reacts immediately if it detects an intrusion. The company provides its customers with a “lightweight agent that can be rapidly deployed to [.
Hunter Walker
APRIL 18, 2013
'Sad to see Cory Booker’s startup Waywire pivoting to “Pinterest for video” after starting with much bigger ambitions. Prediction: they’ll struggle because video discovery just isn’t a venture scale business. My previous role leading product at YouTube put me in position to see a lot of video startups. Additionally, most large developers hit our radar at some point via their API usage.
SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'DataRobot created an app for making sense out of data. It mines the data to create accurate models that can predict future behavior. It’s the same type of analysis that Nate Silver with the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight political blog used to predict the outcome of the last presidential election in favor of President Obama. [.] The post DataRobot’s App for Data Mining appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 18, 2013
'Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Lee W. Frederiksen, Ph.D. – Enjoy! There is a revolution going on in professional services marketing. More and more buyers are going online to learn about possible solutions to their business challenges and find and evaluate potential service providers. This revolution is already having a major impact on the growth and profitability of professional services firms.
SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'Conspire wants to strengthen the relationships with people in your inbox. Alex Devkar and Paul McReynolds, both lawyers with computer science degrees from Stanford, set out to harvest the intelligence in the inbox by analyzing the strength of relationships among a person’s contacts. Email, the world’s largest social network, can provide a lot of information [.
Berkonomics
APRIL 18, 2013
'How many of us have “hired” independent contractors over the years, a bit worried over the gray area between employee and contractor as defined by the IRS? I’ve experienced the results of a wrong decision, and the IRS and state agencies are not forgiving in their pursuit of penalties, interest and most damaging, assessing a company with the on both employer and employee taxes when reclassifying the person as an employee.
SiliconHills
APRIL 18, 2013
'TrueAbility’s CEO Luke Owen pitched the San Antonio-based company today at TechStars Cloud Demo Day. The company also announced that it has successfully completed its beta program with Rackspace Hosting. TrueAbility has created a cloud-based technical assessment platform that allows companies to assess the technical abilities of their job candidates.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 18, 2013
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 18, 2013
'Before you, as an entrepreneur, can hope to successfully start a new business, you need to set some goals and milestones to lead the way. It’s easy to talk in the abstract about all the possible applications for a new technology, but you don’t have a viable business plan until you have specific targets on what you will produce, when, and how. Yet many people avoid these specifics out of fear of the unknown, or set some totally unreachable goals.
Life Beyond Code
APRIL 18, 2013
'Have you seen some people do stupid things? More importantly, have you seen some smart people do stupid things AND are completely oblivious to that fact? If you are curious to know why this happens, please read the outcome of my mini-research project on this topic. [ Note: Replace "You" with any smart person in question ]. Over the last few weeks, I asked a bunch of people about stupid things that they have done and what was the cause of that.
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