Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'For most entrepreneurs, their current business is not where they intend to stay until they die. At the right time, they all intend to make a graceful exit, and leave while still perceived to be on top of their game. The challenge is how to know and exit gracefully when the right time has come, without trauma to either the company or themselves. I haven’t seen much insight on this subject, so I was intrigued by a recent book “ Leaving on Top: Graceful Exits for Leaders ,” by David Heenan, a busi

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'In the startup world today, we’re used to tradeoffs, especially in the service of speed. And developers – who, like just about everyone else on the team, get into a habit of putting out fires all day – can get caught up focusing on the wrong thing and consequently, create problems for the company. In order to find out what kind of mistakes are most common, I asked a panel of nine successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council the following question: What’s one common (and easily a

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'The deadline for applying to Techstars New York for the next program is 11:59:59pm PST on 12/31/13. I’m extremely excited about the upcoming Techstars New York program. Alex Iskold is the new managing director. I was an angel investor in Alex’s previous company ( AdaptiveBlue - also known as GetGlue ) and have known and worked with Alex since 2006.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Presented by OPEN Forum®. The death of print? Ken Carbone has been in the printing business since 1986, and he doesn’t see it. Instead of fearing the march of progress, he’s used digital technology to grow his business, Dolphin Graphics, to compete on a larger scale. Carbone opened Dolphin Graphics in 1986. The company, based in Castro Valley, Calif., initially started in print publishing with business cards and signs.

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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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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'A few days ago I suggested anyone using Google Apps should use Google Public DNS. The performance difference at my house in Keystone (which uses Comcast) has been dramatic for almost everything. The one disaster has been Apple TV. Suddenly, Apple TV which previously worked no longer buffered well and HD shows took an interminably long time to load.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'You know what I say to people who call themselves “failures”? You wish! To fail is to have tried… to have given it your all and come-up empty handed. Most people aren’t failures, instead most folks give up too early or never even try. These folks are the “should haves”. They should have done this – They should have done that – These people “should” all over themselves.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'Writing this from a cafe in NYC, working through two potential Homebrew investments. Satya and I hypothesize that New York will be an important geography for us so we’re spending quality time leaning in. Why? Already have a bunch of local friends; critical mass of startups in verticals matching our Bottom Up Economy theme; on-the-ground frequently (I grew up here and Satya lived in Manhattan for several years).

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2013

'Startup Valuation. One of the biggest questions from startups is, “How much money should I ask investors for?” What they should really be asking is, “What is my company’s valuation?” You must know how much your company is worth before asking for any amount of money. And when you do, you want to make sure it is the minimum amount you need to make your idea work.

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