Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 28, 2014
'It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.
Steve Blank
APRIL 28, 2014
'D.R. Widder is the Vice President of Innovation and holds the Steve Blank Innovation Chair at Philadelphia University. He’s helping city government in Philadelphia become more innovative by applying Lean startup methods and Philadelphia University’s innovation curriculum. I asked him to share an update on his work on teaching lean techniques to local governments. —-.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 28, 2014
'As the founder of WP Engine, I receive weekly emails from startups proposing a “win-win” deal. So far, approximately zero have resulted in an successful deal. Here’s the problem , and how you can change your approach to business development so that it can succeed. Distribution is the hardest thing for a young startup, defined as “getting in front of potential customers.” Large companies, on the other hand, have solved the distribution problem (proof: 100,000 payin
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 28, 2014
'by Michelle Joseph, CEO of PeopleFoundry. An effective hiring plan and process is important to the infrastructure of any company. There are many steps to take when onboarding new employees. Many companies make the mistake of hiring under certain limitations such as time constraints or for new projects. This can be detrimental to the company for a number of reasons: The candidate does not exemplify the company and its goals, but will suffice for a small amount of time.
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
SoCal CTO
APRIL 28, 2014
'There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. So I promised that I would provide a follow-up after the session. This is that follow-up and hopefully it’s useful to people outside of the session as well.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 28, 2014
'Thailand’s resort island of Phuket is well known for its lush tropical beaches and luxury resorts that attract a large number of tourists from around the world, when its population can double from half a million to over a million during the peak tourist season. Phuket’s western beaches, thankfully, have recovered from the extensive damage they suffered during the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, the catastrophe that also ravaged many other coastal communities around the Indian Ocean and
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 28, 2014
'One of the greatest difficulties in business is getting funding – whether it is landing sufficient investment to get your startup idea off the ground, or obtaining a sizable enough loan in order to finance that expansion plan to take your growing business to the next level. Far too many entrepreneurs miss out on great business opportunities as a result, some of which could make or break them.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 28, 2014
'While driving down Highway 36 from Boulder to Denver for a FullContact board meeting, TA McCann told me a wonderful phrase that I’ve been carrying around with me for the past month or so. “At RivalIQ , we’ve implemented ‘I Will’ instead of ‘We Should.’” I’ve worked with TA since we invested in Gist in 2009.
The Next Web
APRIL 28, 2014
'Jen Quinlan is the Senior Marketing Director at Mutual Mobile, an emerging technology agency. The quantified-self movement, which started in 2007 with small groups of personal trackers who kept logs of what they ate, how long they slept and how many steps they took, has morphed mainstream. Today, a tiny device worn around your wrist can monitor all of these pieces of data and more, no excessive journaling required.
SiliconHills
APRIL 28, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Growing up in India, Rohit Saxena often used biodegradable bowls and plates made from leaves. When he moved to the U.S., he couldn’t believe how many disposable paper and plastic dishes get tossed into the trash and landfills every day. Saxena’s team at 3 Day Startup Green […] The post 3 Day Startup Green Tech in San Antonio Sprouts Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
APRIL 28, 2014
'When Laura Cleminson became a mom, her baby girl inspired her to create a fun line of baby clothes. She thought clothes should be as creative as kids, so she held drawing competitions and featured the winning artwork on her clothing line. She wrote a business plan, got a bank loan, set up a board of directors, and hired employees. And things went great, for a time.
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 28, 2014
'Success is just as much about clinging onto ideas as much as it is letting them die. When your friends tell you it will never work, it’s time to cling. When you’re terrified to see how the market is going to react, it’s time to cling. When someone flippantly says, “It can’t succeed. No one has done it before,” it’s surely time to cling. But not all ideas are good ones.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 28, 2014
'The idea has been building for a while now that tablets are losing significance as a category of devices and last week Benedict Evans posted data that to my mind makes the case unequivocally. The main news here is that iPad sales have flattened: Evans also has data showing that Android tablets aren’t having much of an impact. The other parts of the story are that smartphone sales continue to rocket and PC sales continue their slow decline.
ConversionXL
APRIL 28, 2014
'Listing building is a top priority for a blog. In this review we look at 2 different blogs, and see how good of a job they’re doing at capturing emails. Watch this quick 4-minute review: Blogs covered in this review: Valoro Kreo. ConversionCast. Here’s the slide deck: Got questions or comments about getting more email subscribers through your blog?
Rob Go
APRIL 28, 2014
'Early stage founders have to do a lot of storytelling. It’s important for fundraising, obviously, but also for recruiting, speaking to the press, motivating the team, etc. There has been a meme going around about a talk that Kurt Vonnegut gave regarding the “shapes” of stories. The idea that there are only so many different story-arcs out there, and that they can be illustrated in a particular way.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 28, 2014
'I’m pretty convinced that a sign of us living a good life is when all days seem to be created equally. When a Friday is equal to a Tuesday is equal to a Sunday is equal to a Monday. Entrepreneurship is about a lot of things; achieving something, recognition or maybe even wealth accumulation. But surely it’s about what the actual days feels like.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 28, 2014
'Week One Roundup from the Duct Tape Selling Blog written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. As part of the lead up to the launch of my new book Duct Tape Selling I asked some of the organizations behind the resources I note in the book to contribute guest blog posts. The result of that request has produced some truly awesome content.
The Startup Toolkit
APRIL 28, 2014
'It’s hard to internalise exactly what a VC (or even YC) rejection really means. But here it is: it means nothing. An acceptance holds some information, since it shows you’ve passed a minimum threshold. But a rejection? It doesn’t really tell you anything. Investors turn down lots of companies who meet their standards, sometimes because they make a mistake and sometimes because it’s the wrong fit (sector, stage, etc).
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