Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 24, 2016
Every new business quickly realizes that revenue coming in every period on a committed basis is the Holy Grail to survival and growth. According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), is rapidly becoming the norm for new products and services.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 24, 2016
By Amy Zimmerman, Global Head of People, Kabbage. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to creating the right company culture. However, defining your values that will be the building blocks for your culture early on is integral to the future success of your company, particularly as it achieves new stages of growth. A strong culture is one that is evident even to newcomers and is cultivated through dedication to a clear set of values and embodied by all members of the community.
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Hippoland
APRIL 24, 2016
“We’re raising $1.5m.” I cringe. There’s nothing inherently wrong with raising $1.5m…UNLESS you have not thought about your raise strategically (99.9% of entrepreneurs I meet with). Most entrepreneurs understand on some level that fundraising is all about messaging. But, most people only think about this in the context of storytelling.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 24, 2016
If the Quiksilver bedding wasn’t enough, Quiksilver have done it again and introduced possibly the worst, most ill conceived product in surfing history. The Wetsuit Suit. Yes you read that right, a wetsuit designed in the shape of a business suit. I can only hope that this is some kinda hoax – and even if it is, it surely isn’t worth the effort and ridicule?
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
Hearpreneur
APRIL 24, 2016
Share The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it.
VC Cafe
APRIL 24, 2016
I invite you to join Techbikers 2016 , and cycle from Paris to London with fellow entrepreneurs, investors and techies. Why do we do this? To help children get access to education in the developing world by raising money for Room to Read. Over the past 5 years, we’ve sponsored the building of 5 schools, 8 libraries and 3,000 scholarships for girls in Nepal, Cambodia and India.
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Austin Startup
APRIL 24, 2016
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Hunter Walker
APRIL 24, 2016
I grew up in the age of MTV, so it’s no surprise that I often fall down the music videos rabbit hole on YouTube. Many of those videos are provided by Vevo , a joint venture among several of the music labels. Vevo’s formation with YouTube was a turning point in our relationship with the labels and YouTube later became a partner in the JV.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 24, 2016
When starting something new it is useful to invent some boundaries. Inventing boundaries around tiny spaces to create testable markets give us a better chance to find out commercial truths. Boundaries create a commercial lab of sorts within which we can test, learn and validate. We need smaller boundaries than we originally imagine. I use these: Geography: What’s the smallest possible geography we can serve?
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