Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Now that our federal government is back at work and the short term debt ceiling thing is resolved, it should be no surprise that the news cycle is now obsessed with Obamacare and its flawed implementation. Over the weekend I must have seen a dozen articles about this online and in the NY Times, and then I woke up this morning to a bunch of new things about the Healthcare.gov site underlying tech, how screwed up it is , and what / how the Health and Human Services agency is going to do to fix i

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. Logged-in users were switched to using httpS from http. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Between webcasts and interviews, we’ve been gradually introducing some of the speakers who are appearing at this year’s Lean Startup Conference. Now we’re ready to announce the full lineup , along with a special deal, explained below. There are some speakers on this year’s roster whom you''ve heard of before and who who deliver great talks every time out—people like Marc Andreessen , Steve Blank , Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon and Ke

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Managing shopper experience for medium-sized eCommerce businesses presents a lot of opportunities for conversion testing, and the ability to see real and immediate revenue results when tests are successful. My favorite conversion tests are those that can be abstracted from the specific website audience and applied to larger populations of online shoppers.

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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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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. In this week’s podcast episode on the Walter and Yaro show (still yet to be named!) we review Walter’s hectic weekend putting in long hours at a startup event. He was part of a team that came third in a competition to create a new product, pitch it and even find customers for it, … Read the rest of this entry » The post Creating And Pitching A Product At Startup Weekend, Investing In Startups Via Angel List, And How To Gain Exposure Fo

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Johnson Cook , the dude that sits right behind me at Atlanta Tech Village , and who flew the pirate flag on top of the building last week cementing himself forever in my consciousness as a true bad@ass, wrote a post recently called, The Top 3 Jobs of a Startup CEO. I read all of Johnson’s posts, but this one sounded like the perfect blindpost so I grabbed the headline and did my own thing with it (without reading his post first), per the blindpost rules.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'If you’re a webmaster, one of your perennial fears is of Google strangling the traffic to the websites you manage due to some unknown, inexplicable infraction because of changes and updates to their search algorithms. But help may be at hand – internet marketing services provider Fruition has launched the Google Penalty Checker , a tool that lists all Google updates and indicates whether or not a particular update (such as Hummingbird, Panda, Penguin, etc) might affect your sites a

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'At any stage of a start-up’s life, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different directions to take. In the early phases, you need to pick the right product direction and find your product-market fit. Later, you may wonder which marketing channels will work at scale and which ones won’t. Since you never want to approach each crossroad blindly, the key is to continually test out the options.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'You can say that when Singapore’s largest online car rental marketplace Drive.SG first started in 2010 – it opened to a very interesting if challenging market opportunity in a country that sees some of the most expensive prices for cars, and where drivers need to afford an equally expensive (if not more) license just to drive their vehicles.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'An event called Startup Phenomenon is happening In Boulder on 11/13 – 11/15. It gets to the heart of how startup communities are developed and I’d love to have you join me at it. If you register to come , use the code “feldfriends” for $100 off the $995 price. You may have seen the recent Kauffman Foundation study that ranked Boulder tops among all cities in the U.S. in terms of tech-startup density.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Neil Rimer is a Partner and co-founder of Index Ventures. As the European startup ecosystem matures, you would expect young entrepreneurs to enjoy ever-increasing access to useful advice from mentors, business leaders, experienced entrepreneurs, legal advisors and investors. Yet, surprisingly, we continue to come across founders who have made significant mistakes in their early capital raises that we suspect go against their own instincts and jeopardize the foundations of the businesses they ar

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Three Day Startup began in 2008 as a project of some University of Texas graduate students who thought entrepreneurship, like many other areas of study, really ought to have a lab where students could make experiments and—if necessary—blow things up as part of the learning process. Since […] The post Seven Teams Presented at 3 Day Startup Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Reid Hoffman has just published the slide deck he used to raise LinkedIn’s Series B in 2004, along with explanatory notes about what he was trying to say with each slide and advice on pitching VCs. Reid is one of the smartest investors around (he now combines his roll of Executive Chairman and founder of LinkedIn with a partnership at top VC firm Greylock ) and his advice is always well thought through.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Our notions of what''s possible affect our performance. I had a very specific experience with that this weekend. I ran a half marathon yesterday, but I couldn''t use my Nike+ watch. It has an utterly ridiculous lack of ability to delete old data from the watch itself--you can only do this when it''s hooked up to a computer. So, if you find yourself with a watch full of data, you literally cannot use it.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Technology is People. Whether it’s building your team, pitching potential partners or mining sources of capital, at the end of every decision is a person, so relationships still matter. Fortunately for founders, we’re living in an ecosystem where accessibility is increasing. Sure it still takes time to build trust, but if you think back to the limitations of 5, 10 or 20 years ago, it’s clear email/LinkedIn/Twitter are far more open platforms than, say, a Rolodex.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Why am I an angel investor? Well, for starters I have been very fortunate in my life to come from a family of entrepreneurs who deeply understood that the blessings of our way of life depend on our thriving free enterprise system. So, from an early age, at the top of my respect pyramid were those that created wealth via their own hard work, creativity, and opportunistic sense of risk and reward.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Any life, no matter how big or how small, will defend itself. Fighting a bear is ridiculously dangerous. But so is fighting a raccoon. If the animal is injured, it is even more dangerous. It doesn’t have the ability to run. Its only option is to fight to the death. People, and their businesses, are no different. Avoid head to head conflict with your competitors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'What If You Needed to Fire Yourself? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I had an interesting conversation with one of the most dynamic free agent entrepreneurs I know. It all started when he wrote to tell me he had taken a job. A what, a job? How could that be, I mean, he was living the dream.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'I’ve been hearing a similar lament recently from founders of seed stage companies. It goes something like this: “I thought seed funds would be faster at getting to a decision than large funds. But I’m finding these guys are actually pretty slow, and do so much work vs. some large funds that make decisions surprisingly quickly.” I’ve been thinking a lot about deal selection in Venture Capital , so this meme is particularly interesting to me.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Nik Fletcher is a product manager at Realmac Software , a small, award-winning independent iOS and OS X development studio behind Clear , Ember , and Rapidweaver. He is also a contibutor to the Realmac Software blog. . The big day is nearly here: In a matter of days, the the app that’s possessed you and your team for the past however-many-months will finally launch to the public.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'Here at the crowdSPRING home office, we are constantly striving to improve our service. One way is to make our site easier and/or better for our users. Buyers (and creatives) are always giving us suggestions for new features or changes we can make to the tools we give them to manage their projects. Today we are launching 1 new feature and updating a few existing tools. 1) Batch scoring and feedback in project galleries.

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 21, 2013

'"But no matter, the road is life" - Jack Kerouac Everyone is, rightly, talking about the wonderful and heartfelt and authentic essay by Macklemore about the incredible year they have had. It''s that good , it should be read. It is a measure of how, sticking to your principles can lead to wonderful things. But something about it bugged me, something I couldn''t quite figure out.

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