Tue.Apr 30, 2013

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

'hardware (Photo credit: alorenzi). Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. Hardware requires time, money, and inventory. As a result, most venture capitalists are reluctant to touch hardware projects, opting for the lower costs and smaller risks of software.

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Bookmarking Service Clipix Helps You Organize Online Content

YoungUpstarts

'If your memory is as bad as mine, you’re likely to be using some sort of organizer – whether a physical version or a digital one – to help keep track of your life. I’m a huge fan of Evernote – in fact I also use its Smart Notebook – but there are many options out there both paid and free that you can opt for to manage the nitty-gritties in your life.

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Stakeholder Management

SVPG

'I''m not sure why I haven''t written on this topic before because it comes up as an issue with so many teams. For many product managers, managing stakeholders is probably the least favorite part of their job. I don''t want to suggest that this can always be easy, but it can usually be substantially improved. First let''s discuss just who is a stakeholder, then what the product manager''s responsibilities are with these stakeholders, and then we''ll talk about techniques for success.

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Big Data by the numbers

deal architect

'I tend to be a bit wary of vendor surveys of technology trends - they tend to be self serving in the scope of industries/countries they cover. But when I saw this TCS study of Big Data at over 1,200.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Can You Project Total Integrity as an Entrepreneur?

Startup Professionals Musings

'As an entrepreneur, your personal integrity is critical for getting and keeping the support of investors and team members, and your company’s integrity is critical for getting and keeping customers and vendors. But in a practical sense, what does that really mean? Most definitions of integrity include something like “the quality of being honest and morally upright.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

'You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. We have since posted a second round and third round that each include community-contributed updates. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. We have left this first round intact as a historical record.

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Optimal pricing for market places and platforms

The Equity Kicker

'A couple of weeks ago veteran Benchmark VC Bill Gurley posted a typically excellent and thorough analysis of pricing for market places and platforms. Bill calls the money that platforms take from transactions the ‘rake’ and you can see from the table above that there is a wide range out there. Rakes comprise a mix of straightforward take from transactions and other fees imposed upon merchants and/or consumers.

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How to Develop a Strong Brand

Growthink Blog

'Your brand is the unique design, sign, symbol, and/or words that create an image or impression of your product(s), service(s) and/or company. A strong brand differentiates your product or service from your competitors, and is easily recognized by customers in your market. Think about Starbucks.Their coffee is not the most affordable in the market, but their brand recognition and loyalty is off the charts.

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Agents, Ninjas, Honchos: Which Advisor Is Best for You?

Up and Running

'Startups at all stages benefit from the wisdom of advisors. These people typically complement the management team in some meaningful way. They are not on the board, so their advice is merely guidance. Still, if a founder picks the right advisors, she will receive a wealth of benefits. Advisors can serve as: A sounding board to discuss product roadmap, partnerships and channel arrangements, personnel issues, and strategies for various departments.

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Inside 3DS (Part II)

SiliconHills

'By Ian Panchèvre Reporter with Silicon Hills News 3 Day Startup was a success! “How so?” you ask. Well, one of my takeaways from 3DS was an emphasis on using key metrics. In that spirit, I’ve developed a metric that I call the Active Sleep Debt Ratio (ASDR), which is the ratio of the number [.] The post Inside 3DS (Part II) appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Ways to Make Your Advertising Extraordinarily Effective

Duct Tape Marketing

'Advertising is an important part of the lead generation puzzle. Some marketers suggest that you can do without the cost and low returns they attribute to advertising, but done right, advertising is a tremendous tool. photo credit: x-ray delta one via photopin cc. I advocate an approach that calls for a mix of lead generation tactics that includes advertising, public relations and a systematic approach to referral generation.

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Folks Have Figured Out Finance.What About Insurance?

Babbling VC

'Since we''re focused on FinTech at our company, we love to see that the markets have finally realized that the finance sector is absolutely ripe for disruption. Be it in payments, invoicing, international money transfers, banking software, you name it.the start-ups are popping up. VC''s too have seen that this space is hot and are piling in. You simply have to attend a conference such as Finovate to see how much is happening (and it''s not all that recent a development). .

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Crowdfunding: The Pros and Cons of Raising Capital Online

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published on WilmerHale by Glenn Luinenburg and Shahzia Rahman. When Congress adopted the Jumpstart Our Business Starupts Act (JOBS Act) in January 2012, many budding entrepreneurs rejoiced at the prospect of easier and quicker access to capital to turn their ideas into money-making ventures. These entrepreneurs envisioned joining their tech-savvy competitors and colleagues in the new world of “crowdfunding,” where startups vie for average investors’ dollars through

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Our Investment in Science Exchange

Bryce Dot VC

'About two years ago I found myself in a nondescript neighborhood near the San Francisco Airport. I was parked in front of a house, which resembled most houses on the street. As I walked to the door, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. As I entered, it was clearly some sort of startup flop house with clutter strewn throughout and whiteboards where most in suburbia would be hanging faux-art.

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The advice I give to anyone that lives in Atlanta to do every year until they retire

Jeff Hilimire

'Everyone I meet now – that lives in Atlanta – I tell them the same thing: Apply to Leadership Atlanta or Leadership Atlanta’s LEAD program. Do it every year until you retire or get in, whichever comes first. I’m working on a post about just how significantly this program changed my life over the last nine months. Its a hard thing to capture in words, so its taking some time get my thoughts together.

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