Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 7, 2013
'Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. The reality is that if you build a business you love, you may in fact make big money, but if you start a business to get rich, you will probably fail.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 7, 2013
'Cologne, Germany-based Hotel Reservation Service (HRS) , the leading hotel portal in Europe for business and private travelers, late last month announced its official expansion in the Asia Pacific with the opening of its regional headquarters in Singapore. Although the HRS office in Singapore has been operating for the past year, its designation as regional headquarters signals its recognition of the region as a high-growth market, especially with Singapore as a key MICE (meetings, incentives,
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Feld Thoughts
JULY 7, 2013
'I stopped travelling mid-May (I arrived home in Boulder from San Francisco on 5/17). I’ve decided not to travel at all for the rest of 2013, except for three personal trips (my parents 50th anniversary, Amy’s birthday, and my birthday.) After travelling 50% – 75% of the time for the last 20 years, I needed a break. It has been awesomely mindblowingly great to not travel.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 7, 2013
'Microsoft first launched its BizSpark program in late 2011, an initiative which allows startups developing software-based products or services (and meet the program’s eligbility requirements) to get access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and licenses of server products, with no upfront costs and minimal requirements. Startups part of the program also got access to professional support from Microsoft and its network of community-driven, entrepreneur-focused organizations.
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
JULY 7, 2013
'Movie trailers are front loads of the movies they pitch. Advertisements are front loads of the product or service they sell. Newspaper articles are front loaded to pack the essence of the story in the beginning, fading to the details toward the end. Do same with your web content. Front loading is a good thing. Particularly for modern society. As our attention span drops at an exponential rate, the way we convey information needs to change dramatically too.
Growthink Blog
JULY 7, 2013
'What Is Crowdlending? In brief, Crowdlending is when individuals lend you money. This is important because oftentimes banks don''t want to lend money to entrepreneurs and small business owners. Crowdlending eliminates the banks as an intermediary and allows individuals to lend money to other individuals. Another name for Crowdlending is "peer to peer" lending.
The Next Web
JULY 7, 2013
'Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ezeep CEO and co-founder Sascha Kellert. It was originally published on the company’s blog. In startup literature, discussions on perseverance are often turned into an evaluation of whether you should pivot (try something else), shut down the business, or else keep going (stating it’s important to persevere and referring to some populist story like OMGPOP or Pinterest or Fab , who eventually made it because they kept going and going).
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