YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 23, 2013
'by Geoffrey Tumlin, author of “ Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life “ Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? A colleague sends you a snarky email, so you type a cutting response right back. A Facebook “friend” insults your political beliefs in a post, so you write a scathing comment about their obvious cluelessness.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 23, 2013
'In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 23, 2013
'by Mitchell Rigie and Keith Harmeyer, authors of “ Smartstorming: The Game-Changing Process for Generating Bigger, Better Ideas “ Summer is rapidly coming to a close. Labor Day, which typically heralds the (unofficial) end of summer, is early this year. That means even sooner than usual, we’ll have to make the annual transition from laid-back, low-pressure August to nose-to-the-grindstone, time-to-get-serious September.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
AUGUST 23, 2013
'Recently I noted that illegal drug purchases are around half a percent of Bitcoin transactions , which is far from the existential threat that it has been made out to be. Instead, the most common usecase for Bitcoin is online gambling. Satoshi Dice is the most popular Bitcoin denominated online gambling site. Today it checks IP addresses to screen out residents of the US and other jurisdiction where online gambling is illegal, but that has not always been the case.
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
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 23, 2013
'Change sucks. Strike that. Waiting for change, sucks. Once we know we want something, we want it instantly. We don’t want to wait for graduation, for choice clients, to buy a house, to find a new relationship. We want what we want and we want it NOW. In our road rage, fast food, IM society, impatience is an acceptable state of being. I drive through, I honk and I text, but I also know what’s behind my own impatience for change: fear.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 23, 2013
'I’ve run one ultramarathon – the American River 50 Mile Endurance race. It seriously f *d me up for a while. On Sunday, 8/11 Amy and I had dinner at Brasserie 1010 with our long time friends Bill Ritchie and Andrea Barthello. We’ve known Bill and Andrea since the mid-1990s – we met through Young Entrepreneurs Organization. Bill and Andrea have a super cool company called Thinkfun (it used to be called “Binary Arts” – a name I really loved) and are a g
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David Cohen
AUGUST 23, 2013
'Boulder is an incredible community for startups, and we’re also fortunate to be the home of the University of Colorado. CU has several programs, clubs and resources for students who are pursuing entrepreneurship, including the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship , which is part of the Leeds School of Business. Despite all the great programs and student groups, Fletcher Richman , an engineering student at CU, was frustrated about the lack of connection between the startup community and the univer
Up and Running
AUGUST 23, 2013
'If you run a small business, you most likely have started using social media. If you find that it isn’t working out like you hoped, this may be the result of lack of interaction with your followers and customers. Here are five easy ways to improve your social media engagement: 1. Pinterest: create a group board. The first tip is related to using Pinterest.
Start Up Blog
AUGUST 23, 2013
'I was at a startup party in Melbourne a little while ago. It was organised by Ned Dwyer as his startup ‘ Tweaky.com ‘ had just reached profitability. In usual fashion the local startup illuminati were all gathered talking about their latest idea, site or app. Who is moving to Silicon Valley, who got funded and who just pivoted. It’s kind of a strange scene.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
AUGUST 23, 2013
'This post is about an innovative company called aXess America , but first… Do you assume that broadband web access is nearly universal? It’s not. Millions of rural Americans have no, or quite poor, web access. Our government allocated part of the 2.9 billion in the stimulus package ( The American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009) to solve this problem.
Diego Basch
AUGUST 23, 2013
'San Francisco has 800,000 inhabitants. How many cordless drills are there in this city? Probably orders of magnitude more than we actually need. I bought one six months ago, used it just once. It’s now another object in a box filled with stuff. At the time I must have thought that the most convenient way to hang a shelf on the wall was to buy a drill for $22 with free shipping with Amazon Prime.
Early Growth Financial Services
AUGUST 23, 2013
'Valuation. You know you need one. Annually. What you may not know is that it really does matter who performs your valuation. There are a lot of valuation companies out there, so I know many entrepreneurs are tempted to just shop around until they find the lowest price, but this is a mistake. A valuation is more than just a commodity. All valuations are not created equally; there are better valuations, better processes, and better valuations business partners for your company.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 23, 2013
'HomeAway has updated its iOS travel app for the iPhone and iPod Touch with enhanced features for travelers, as well as new functionality for vacation rental owners and property managers to manage their properties on the go.
Venture Chronicles
AUGUST 23, 2013
'This is the 5th installment in the Startup Lessons series I have been writing in the wake of my experience with Get Satisfaction. This one will certainly inspire a lot of head shaking around the table as anyone who has been involved with a startup can relate to this. To recap, here is the series thus far: 1) Hiring 2) Dynamic Org Structures 3) Product First 4) Marketing. 5) Board management: My point here is not about criticism of investors because at the end of the day what investors provide a
Austin Startup
AUGUST 23, 2013
'Gazzang, the big data security experts, today announced that the company doubled revenues during the first half of 2013 compared to the second half of 2012.
Scott Edward Walker
AUGUST 23, 2013
'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Mark Suster , one of my favorite VC’s. In this compelling, one-minute clip (which I’ve been meaning to post for a while), Mark discusses the “main things” he looks for in an entrepreneur: (i) tenacity, (ii) attention to detail and (iii) inspiration as
Bryce Dot VC
AUGUST 23, 2013
'5am my alarm goes off and these are some of the first words that I can make out through my half cocked eyes- To Absolute Failure. As I made the short drive to my local gym those words continued to rattle around in my head. And as they did I got nervous. Palms sweaty kind of nervous. The night prior I’d read a few pieces on the toll that entrepreneurship takes on relationships , on one’s emotional and mental health , even on personal finances.
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