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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

'Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

'I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). I was telling him that it was much easier when I started because there were fewer deals, life was less public and somehow the world seemed to be spinning more slowly.

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Businesses Must Connect To People For Real Success

Startup Professionals Musings

'Entrepreneurship is more about building a business than inventing a product. It’s more about the quality of the execution, rather than the quality of the idea. Most importantly, it’s more about being a proactive leader who connects to customers and the team deeply, rather than a bright light that struggles to be seen amidst the glare of a million other bright lights.

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Five Critical Steps For Building A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

'by Mike Matousek, CEO and founder of Flashnotes.com. It doesn’t matter your age or experience, starting your own business and keeping it afloat is an endeavor many people don’t have the passion or drive to do. A true entrepreneur is someone who is so confident in their idea and the vision for their company – they will not allow any negative comments, events, or situations to break them or get in the way of their determination.

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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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Should you make your salaries public?

The Next Web

'Ilya Pozin is the founder of Open Me and Ciplex and is a columnist for Inc, Forbes and LinkedIn. What if everyone at your company knew your salary? Would it make your company more transparent, lean, productive, and motivated? Or would it lead to hurt feelings and foster a more toxic company culture? One of the newest company culture trends is the transparent salary, where organizations make the salaries of all employees public knowledge within the company.

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Supporting the New Museum of Boulder

Feld Thoughts

'Amy and I recently agreed to support the new Museum of Boulder with a substantial gift that entitles us to sponsor all the bathrooms in the new museum. This highly interactive museum of history, science, and technology of Boulder will be located in the old Masonic Lodge building at the corner of Pine and Broadway. The Boulder History Museum purchased that building last year and is raising money for the renovation of the building and the construction of the new exhibits and facilities.

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Book: Sailing an Alien Sea

Feld Thoughts

'I love reading books written by friends. Knowing how incredibly hard it is to write a book, I enjoy fiction even more, since it’s something I’ve never tried to write. My friend Cindy Gold wrote Sailing an Alien Sea about a year ago. I read it last month and loved it. I’ve known Cindy and her husband Terry Gold since 1996, shortly after I moved to Boulder.

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Investors Updating Their Investors: Inside Homebrew’s First Annual LP Meeting

Hunter Walker

'Our seed fund Homebrew celebrated its first birthday yesterday, meaning we’re still in diapers but walking tall. I’ve written before about our fundraising process and how it very much resembles that of a startup. Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results.

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Erika Awakening: From Lawyer To Seduction Coach And Tapping Trainer Making As Much As $370,000 A Year

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Erika Awakening tells a thoroughly entertaining story in this podcast interview. She explains how she went from a full time lawyer, had a near death experience, then started an internet business where she has been paid as much as $30,000 per client for coaching. [ Download MP3 | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ]. What’s unique about this story … Read the rest of this entry » The post Erika Awakening: From Lawyer To Seduction Coach And Tapping Trainer Making As Much

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When receiving is better than giving

Start Up Blog

'I’ve had a few discussions with friends lately about their social feeds. A few of them have mentioned that they don’t even read their twitter feed. That they don’t read other peoples blog posts, or tweets and they only pay attention to the attention their own content is getting. The views, the shares, the open rates, the followers, that’s what they care about.

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Small Business, Culture and Pancakes

crowdSPRING Blog

'Remember when you were a kid and mom would hang one of your drawings on the door of the fridge? How good did that make you feel to be recognized? To have your wonderful talents displayed for everyone to see? When we celebrate the work of a family member or a team member it is an affirmation of belonging and a recognition of the contribution any individual can make to the group.

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Two mobile apps I’m really digging: Timehop and circa

Jeff Hilimire

'I love exploring and testing new mobile apps. My process is typically that I will download a new app and keep it on one of my homescreens until I test it, after which its either deleted or it finds a more permanent home on my device. Two apps that have passed the test are Timehop and circa. Both are in my “Read” folder on my homescreen. ( more on my homescreen apps ).

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“You Want Something, Go Get It. Period.”

Scott Edward Walker

'“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar. Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we post a short video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or trying to raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the

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This is a Test with Images

entrepreMusings

'I think I might have finally found the code culprit (with lots of help from friends and one who also happens to be a co-worker plus talented developer) that was causing the spam issue with my blog. This is a final test to see if it still works if I insert an image. Since the kids and I have really been enjoying watching COSMOS every week, here’s an image for that show with a link back to wikipedia.

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