Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money and equity for qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'Online shopping has become one of the biggest Internet trends in recent years, thanks to the explosive growth in the number of e-commerce platforms and payment gateway methods, and even the number of logistics partners that specialize in fulfilling online orders. But how do consumers really shop online? As in, how often do they do so, how much do they spend, and what devices do they use for browsing and purchasing online?
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The Next Web
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'Andrew Condurache is the founder of Closed Club, a startup that archives closed down startup products and key lessons learned A startup can be seen as a series of trials and errors – some things work others do not, but you keep pushing on. Sometimes you think you are on the right path and everything is going smoothly… then out of nowhere, an unexpected obstacle stares you right in the eye.
Mike Michalowicz
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'There is a popular parable, The Tourist & The Mexican Fisherman, that I want to paraphrase for you. It goes something like this – an American tourist visits Mexico and sees a lone fisherman bringing in his catch for the day. Curious, he asks him why he doesn’t stay out longer and put in more time, to catch more and even go on to build a large fishing business.
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
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, helping entrepreneurs and tech professionals (especially women) level up their careers. This post originally appeared on the Femgineer blog. Back in 2007 I was working on my first startup, Mint.com, and in our efforts to be scrappy, we explored a variety of marketing platforms to acquire our first set of users.
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'There’s a new report out on the impact of high growth small businesses on the UK economy. Last week I wrote about some new research showing that nearly all job creation in the US comes from young companies and concluded by saying it would be great to see some similar research in the UK. And now we have some already. With this publication and the upcoming Scale Up report I hope it will be very clear that high growth startups are the engine of growth for employment and the UK economy more
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Up and Running
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'If your business is considering filing for bankruptcy, read on to see how to proceed. If your business has been experiencing financial difficulty for some time, is filing for bankruptcy the appropriate step? And if so, what bankruptcy options do you have? A business can experience financial problems for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to: Changing market conditions.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'Got any trips planned? Business junket? Family vacation? Around the world in 80 days-tour? Well if you’re traveling these days, you need not only to be aware of long lines, crazy security, ebola screenings, weather emergencies, and radar tower mishaps, but also of the great tools and resources available to travelers. I am talking sweet mobile apps, resource-rich websites, wonderful journalists and bloggers, cool new hardware, and tips on everything from avoiding jetlag to finding the tast
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'Rooster Teeth, which started 11 years ago in Burnie Burns’ spare bedroom in Austin, just got acquired by Fullscreen, a global youth media company based in Los Angeles. Rooster Teeth created the long running video series on the Internet Red Vs. Blue. The company has about 70 employees in Austin and will remain here, operating […] The post Fullscreen Buys Austin-based Rooster Teeth appeared first on SiliconHills.
Scott Edward Walker
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Quora: “What are the most ridiculous things VCs have said to you?” A few interesting responses: bit.ly/1zznfUV.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'SunPower Corp., one of the nation’s largest producers of solar panels, Monday announced it has purchased Austin-based SolarBridge Technologies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. SolarBridge is a leader in making integrated microinverter technology which converts direct current generated by a solar panel into alternating current. Its technology is already integrated into the […] The post SunPower Corp.
Bryce Dot VC
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'Jonathan was adamant- Timehop would never be a backup service. Despite many requests to offer backup. Despite an obvious business model in offering backup. And despite numerous heated arguments about how we could do a better, more Timehoppy?, version of backup it was never in serious consideration. Because, as Jonathan was quick to point out, backup was a solved problem.
Jeff Hilimire
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'This is the Droid Turbo I have (red, glass back). I loved the Nexus 5 for the 11 months that I had it. But in the end, it started to really struggle with battery life. It’s possible that was the result of how I use the phone as I have another friend who had no issues with the battery life of the Nexus 5. But so be it, I’m a battery hog, better to embrace it :).
Bryce Dot VC
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
'3D Robotics is building the drones that just about anyone can fly : If you’ve wanted to get into drones but were concerned your first flight could be your last, the Iris+ was made with you in minds.
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