Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. Building an ethical business is more than just compliance and meeting legal requirements, and it has big paybacks.
deal architect
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'My EI colleague Michael Krigsman pointed me to a new Gartner eBook The Wolf in CIO’s Clothing Author Tina Nunno says “Over the course of my career working with CIOs and other executives, whenever I encountered particularly strong CIOs, I.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'By Steve Apfelberg, Vice President of TriNet. Online marketplaces have become de-facto targeted marketing centers for small businesses. After all, the small business economy in the United States has extensive purchasing power. With estimated revenues of over $7 trillion a year, small businesses have been cited as one of the driving factors in the nation’s economic recovery.
deal architect
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Innovations from various parts of the world we don’t usually expect innovation from The bookless library – San Antonio, TX Changing global wine map - Georgia, China, Chile Battling remote Oil spills – Arctic Circle Common Core Standards – State.
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
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'by Jen Hawkins, Director of Marketing at DoubleDutch. Marketing well at a niche business event can be incredibly beneficial to the overall business development efforts of your company. Making the right moved can bring in more sales, the right niche clientele, and it can keep your company at the forefront in your industry. There are opportunities at something as simple as a sales incentive meeting at your place of business, or as big as sponsoring an industry leading conference or trade show.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Folks in Silicon Valley seem to have been indoctrinated in the "Think big" mentality fully - and it''s contagious. I''ve spent the past couple of weeks working with my American colleagues in New York and San Francisco and meeting our global partners. If there''s one thing I could say is a stark difference between European entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley ones, is this 10X, or "moonshot" thinking. [[ This is a content summary only.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Social media sites by definition involve user generated content. In some cases, like Youtube comments or Chatroulette, that makes for some unpleasant behavior. In other cases, like Pinterest and Quora, the better angels of our nature win out. The difference comes down to user culture. I wrote a guest post over at Forbes about how the user culture of social media sites determines whether you good good behavior or bad behavior.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. If you ever wanted to join in with me and a friend as we talk about business and technology, and just listen to our conversation, this podcast is a pretty good representation of what happens. Walter and I jump around from topic to topic in this episode, but I have to say it’s all … Read the rest of this entry » The post Buying A Business Instead Of Starting One, Split Testing For Sales Conversion, User Experience Design, Ad Buys For Traffic
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News The University of Texas at San Antonio held its inaugural 3 Day Startup event last weekend. Friday afternoon, 35 students began working to create startups with viable business models within a 52 hour deadline. At the final presentation Sunday evening, the students pitched six startups to a […] The post First 3 Day Startup Program at UTSA appeared first on SiliconHills.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'The Best Way To Learn Is To Teach… One of the aspects of creating products I enjoy the most is the lessons I learn. As they say, the best way to learn is to teach. This is so true because it forces you to focus and prepare since people are expecting something from you. The responsibility you have to … Read the rest of this entry » The post What I Recently Learned From My New Interviews With Top Internet Entrepreneurs appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
Venture Chronicles
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'My very good friend Nenshad Bardoliwalla launched his latest company, Paxata. Nenshad is an amazing entrepreneur who co-founded Tidemark in addition to literally writing the book on implementing performance management with analytics. What is really interesting about Paxata is that they are focusing on the fundamental problem anyone attempting to perform complex data analytics faces, which is that your data doesn’t live in one place and getting it into a model that improves over time is a
ithacaVC
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Kathy Savitt, the CMO of Yahoo, gave a presentation at the Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit NYC on October 11, 2013. All the presentations from Summit will soon be up via video on the website. Kathy presented a bunch of her personal rules of the road for startups. Yahoo clearly still considers itself a startup (the world’s largest!). Her last rule was to get enough sleep.
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Ok guys, this Friday is the premiere of the movie, Ender’s Game. In case you missed when I explained before how we came up with the name, Dragon Army , you’ll need to either see the movie or read the book to get the reference. To make it easier, we’ve created a Facebook event for 5:30pm this Friday to come to the movie with the Dragon Army team.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO of Twoodo. Twoodo lets your team get rid of internal emails once and for all using an efficient and easy-to-learn hashtag system. Denis is passionate for sharing tips and tricks on startups, online collaboration, and working remotely. He likes getting things done fast and is deeply in love with pizza. “There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”. ?
Start Up Blog
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'There’s a lot of talk in Australia about what makes a good Fish & Chip shop. It just so happens I know the answer to this question, and based upon this tweet by Heath , it has become clear I must share my rules right here. Fish & Chip Shop rules: Cannot sell other food items which traditionally live outside of the Fish & Chip ecosystem.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'How You Handle Controversy Speaks Volumes About Your Brand written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Over this past weekend social media start up Buffer got hacked. Apparently hackers were able to gain access to users permission tokens so without the need for a password were able to post spammy weight loss messages all over user’s Facebook pages.
Mike Michalowicz
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'I was at a conference for technology service providers – the folks who setup computers, network them together, and fix them when things go awry. The event was filled with tips, tricks and strategies on how to market and grow technology businesses. The only problem with the event was that there was too much head nodding. As different technology experts and gurus took the stage to share their “secret formulas,” the audience acknowledged idea after idea with nodding heads and occ
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