YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'By Malcolm Stewart, CEO of YouEye. Green ketchup, bottled water for pets, airport security “action figures”, yogurt shampoo – there have been some pretty epic product failures over the years. From our vantage point decades later, it is easy to wonder “what were they thinking?”. However the reality is that a significant majority of products don’t succeed.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'There are plenty of popular business-advice websites that make it on these kinds of “best of” lists, but I wanted to take a different approach. The problem with many of the popular sites is that they often offer little more than fluff pieces that don’t actually help you improve your business. They’ll share entrepreneur success stories, but the details of how exactly they achieved that success is frequently vague and unhelpful.
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Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'I know this post is going to be a downer but I think there is a lot more to be talked about regarding depression, mental health, and entrepreneurship. I recently heard a terrifying stat about founder suicides recently. A friend told me that he’d heard of over a dozen suicides from entrepreneurs in the past few years. I didn’t press him for the specific data because I didn’t want to struggle through it, but I personally knew of three so I expected that it would add up to a doze
Up and Running
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Okay, this isn’t exactly what we mean, but it sure is green! In operating your own business, determining your “return on investment” is always top of mind when making decisions. One big decision for your company is whether to implement green initiatives, and that includes everything from reducing energy consumption to wasting less paper. “When considering the decision to “go green,” look at both the short and long term results of green initiatives and, chances are, you’ll disc
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
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'by Mark Latham, Product and Innovation Director of Handepay . How much cash have you got on you right now? £10? £20? Probably no more than that. Your customers are more than likely to have exactly the same. The British Retail Consortium discovered that cash use has dropped by 14% in the past five years and experts are predicting the end of physical currency inside 20 years.
Rembrandt Communications
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'5 Frightening Tips to Avoid at All Cost It’s October, and that means everyone will be talking about haunted houses, scary stories and Halloween fun. With this in mind, are you scaring customers away with your BtoB content and marketing? It’s a busy time of year so it can be easy to forget some simple, […]. The post Is Your BtoB Content Scaring Customers Away?
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The Next Web
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Jason SurfrApp is the founder of IWearYourShirt and author of Creativity For Sale. This post originally appeared on Jason’s Medium blog. I’ve landed over 2,000 sponsors and generated $1,000,000+ in revenue through sponsorship driven projects. Let me show you how I’ve done it. Maybe you want to get sponsorships and have tried before without success.
Gust
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'It’s 4.50am. Sunday morning. And I couldn’t sleep. I have much on my mind since I just returned from a week on the road. 5 days. 3 cities. Late night Mexican food. Beers. Airports. Delays. I left on a Sunday. I had to miss a full day with my family, camping in the mountains. I returned home Friday night at 10pm – too late to see my kids. I’m reminded of this feeling.
David Cohen
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'I love the concept of a smart home and have a number of monitoring devices. I have Nest for temperature control, Dropcam to keep a close eye on my front door and WeMo for my lights and outlets. But there is one thing I have noticed, they all feel like silos. These products have different apps, independent push notifications, and they all serve separate purposes.
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'I’m very pleased to let you all know that we have invested in Dataloop.io. The announcement went live yesterday. Dataloop provides infrastructure monitoring for cloud services and they fall into our ‘late seed’ category of investment. That means they are up and running and on a 12-18 month path to their Series A. (Our other category of investment is ‘idea stage’, often with solo-founders.).
Hunter Walker
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Eugene Wei is either great himself or has a solid nose for greatness or maybe both. He’s done product stints at Amazon and Hulu before ending up at current Flipboard gig. His personal blog, Remains of the Day, is reliably interesting but there’s a post from 2012 that I revisit quite often. It’s called “ Your site has a self-describing cadence ” and is about flow, specifically repeat visitation.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'A CEO friend of mine who manages her one hundred person remote workforce as a virtual company told me her story of how she welcomes new employees as she grows her firm. Strike that. She over-welcomes her new employees. Days before the official start date, she makes sure that the new employee’s business cards arrive in the mail, that the employee’s phone and Internet services are up and running, and that an email account is already established.
Start Up Blog
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Here’s another 5 things that are worth investing some weekend time postulating life, culture and commerce over. 1. Take the marshmallow test for grown ups. An intriguing look at an old study that was done on kids attitudes in the 1960’s. 2. Hey, just print your next car. More proof 3D printing laughs at the internet as childs play in terms of future global impact.
Mike Michalowicz
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Contrary to popular belief, and most Hollywood movies I’ve seen, being number one at anything gets you hated. Even if a business was adored as the contender, once they become the champion they suddenly become the evil force everyone wants to hate and conquer. In spite of all they’ve done for so many fans, Apple has started the hate phase. Don’t take my word for it.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Datafiniti, the first search engine for data, today announced a major platform update to 80legs, a service platform for web crawling and processing Web content. The relaunch makes 80legs simpler and easier to use, complete with a new back-end design that helps the platform crawl with increased power, speed, and reliability.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'How to Turn a New Fan into a Lifelong Follower written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Matthew Yeoman– Enjoy! . photo credit: Anna L. Schiller via photopin cc. Taking those curious new social media followers and turning them into lifelong fans that are engaged with your brand takes work.
Early Growth Financial Services
OCTOBER 2, 2014
'Lately I‘ve been getting more and more questions about convertible equity: “What is it?” and “Should I use it?” So I figured now’s the right time to answer a few questions and fill in some blanks. In short, convertible equity is a form of financing that gives investors the right to preferred stock once a triggering event occurs. So what’s that mean?
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