Mon.May 23, 2016

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NYU Commencement Speech 2016

Steve Blank

NYU Engineering Commencement Speech. Thank you for the opportunity to address you on your graduation from this esteemed engineering school. I’m honored to help you celebrate this important milestone. Your life is already full of milestones: Your first steps, your first kiss, passing a driving test, this graduation. And there are more to come: your first job, getting married, buying a house, having a child, becoming a manager, starting a company, retirement – and eventually commencement speaker.

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NetSuite and the Year of the Vertical Cloud

deal architect

I wrote in January I expect this to be the year of the vertical for cloud applications. There are too many horizonatal cloud apps in accounting, hr and crm, not enough in industry specific functionality. Every event I have gone.

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Business Liability 101: What You Need To Understand About Risk And Your Business

YoungUpstarts

By Ryan Hanley, Vice President of Marketing at TrustedChoice.com and author of “ Content Warfare “ Business liability and risk apply to each and every business in each and every avenue. No matter what your business is, there is some form of risk management needed, or liability to properly understand. It’s critical to comprehend the exposures your business will face, what helps and doesn’t help, and the best techniques to employ when it comes to risk management.

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SapphireNow: Too Little, Too Late?

deal architect

I was in California last week relishing NetSuite’s SuiteWorld – and its two decades of cloud maturity and growing industry functionality as I summarized here. I happened to see a 8 page color SAP insert in the Wall Street Journal.

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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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6 Principles For Overcoming Entrepreneurial Adversity

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur knows what it’s like to face adversity. It comes with the territory, and includes cash-flow challenges, fickle customers, belligerent investors and unpredictable economic downturns. The best entrepreneurs tackle these one at a time without losing their stride or their passion and many secretly get their highest satisfaction from overcoming an impossible problem.

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6 Tips For Managing Millennial Sales Representatives

YoungUpstarts

by Geoff Winthrop, Executive Vice President and Partner at Acquirent, LLC. Millennials continue to enter the workplace in record numbers, a talent-rich resource for prospective sales representatives. However, sometimes managing millennials, takes a little extra “care and feeding” in order to get the most from these young men and women. The good news is, they’re naturals when it comes to multitasking, workplace collaboration and social selling.

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RideAustin Turns TNC Lemons into Lemonade

Austin Startup

Proposition 1 failed and Uber and Lyft left town. Business is down at restaurants and bars and it sometimes takes 45 minutes to get a taxi… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. If you want a slice of the pie, there isn’t a better time to get involved.

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Extremely rapid early growth opens the path to venture capital

The Equity Kicker

“Venture capital is only appropriate for the small percentage of businesses that want to go loss making to grow very fast.” is a sentence I say a lot. As Jeff Bussgang notes in his recent post Growth vs. Profitability and Venture Returns and Fred Wilson has noted before him successful venture funds have a small handful of big winners, and the only way for a company to become a big winner in the 7-10 year lifetime of most funds is to grow really fast – which isn’t for ev

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New Registration Status at Foundry Group

Feld Thoughts

We have some entertaining news to share with you today. We have recently registered with the SEC and are now considered Registered Investment Advisors. Did we do this so that we can have cooler business cards? No. Did we do this because our back office was lacking in purpose? Heck no. We had to, per the SEC rules. And the reason you ask? Well, we can’t tell you that or we could possibly break some other SEC rules.

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6 Covert Ways To Grow Your Business Using Facebook Groups

YFS Magazine

Even though you can use Facebook Groups to promote your business, don’t forget that your main goal is to build a community.

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What Is The Essence Of Sales?

Austin Startup

Last week I had three nearly identical conversations with three different early stage startups about pricing. Specifically, how to price… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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3 Secrets To Creating A Collaborative Company Culture

YFS Magazine

But creating a collaborative team isn’t as easy as hiring a few high performers and hoping they’ll become outstanding collaborators.

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Wingz Launches Peer-to-Peer Ride Service in Austin

SiliconHills

San Francisco-based Wingz announced it has launched a peer-to-peer ride service in Austin with a focus on providing rides to and from the airport. Wingz allows customers to pre-book a driver to take them around town at a flat rate, surge-free price, according to a news release. The rides start with a minimum price tag […] The post Wingz Launches Peer-to-Peer Ride Service in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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This is the best efficiency hack I know

Start Up Blog

Have you ever noticed how you floss more frequently when a dentist appointment is looming? Our brains have a bias for focus on imminent events. Knowing this, here’s the best hack ever to GSD. Set up a meeting which creates a deadline before the work is done. And then make the meeting sooner than you think you can finish the work. You’ll find a way, simply because this leverages another human bias we have – our need to maintain social contracts.

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eyeQ Gets $3.5 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

EyeQ, a shopper intelligence platform, announced it has received $3.5 million in Series A funding. Align Capital, a new investor, led the round with participation from existing existing investors. As part of the deal, Lisa Harris, managing partner of Align Capital, joins eyeQ’s board of directors. The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds for […] The post eyeQ Gets $3.5 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Manu Kumar on The Twenty Minute VC

K9 Ventures

Last week I had the pleasure of chatting with Harry Stebbings from The Twenty Minute VC. Harry has done a phenomenal job of getting some of the top people in venture capital on his show and had high-quality, high-bandwidth, and chock full of good information conversations with them in a medium that is highly conducive to listening in those few spare minutes of time when your eyes may be busy, but your ears are still available.

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Protected: How Austin (and not Silicon Valley) is Changing VC/Tech Law

SiliconHills

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: How Austin (and not Silicon Valley) is Changing VC/Tech Law appeared first on SiliconHills.

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New Registration Status at Foundry Group

VC Adventure

We have some entertaining news to share with you today. We have recently registered with the SEC and are now considered Registered Investment Advisors. Did we do this so that we can have cooler business cards? No. Did we do this because our back office was lacking in purpose? Heck no. . We had to, per the SEC rules. And the reason you ask? Well, we can’t tell you that or we could possibly break some other SEC rules.

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RideAustin Seeks to Fill the Void Left by Uber and Lyft

SiliconHills

Austin tech leaders Monday announced a new ride-hailing service based on a nonprofit model. The service is called RideAustin and plans to rollout starting in June. It plans to expand its service to the entire city of Austin by the end of the year, according to information on its website. Joe Liemandt, founder and CEO […] The post RideAustin Seeks to Fill the Void Left by Uber and Lyft appeared first on SiliconHills.

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This is the best efficiency hack I know

Start Up Blog

Have you ever noticed how you floss more frequently when a dentist appointment is looming? Our brains have a bias for focus on imminent events. Knowing this, here’s the best hack ever to GSD. Set up a meeting which creates a deadline before the work is done. And then make the meeting sooner than you think you can finish the work. You’ll find a way, simply because this leverages another human bias we have – our need to maintain social contracts.

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What Trial And Error Taught Me About Hiring New Employees

YFS Magazine

I didn’t get my hiring model right on the first try, and it almost broke my business.

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15 Cause Marketing Ideas to Supercharge Your Referral Marketing Efforts

Duct Tape Marketing

15 Cause Marketing Ideas to Supercharge Your Referral Marketing Efforts written by Kevin Jordan read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It’s no secret that gaining new customers by way of referral is one of the most cost-effective ways to grow a business. Not only is it cheaper to acquire new customers this way than through advertising or other methods, but referred customers also tend to be a better fit for your style of doing business.

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Monday Motivation – Greatness Has A Cost

Hearpreneur

Share. Greatness demands everything from you. Lack of skill is from a lack of mind. How do you go far enough if you don’t go to far? .

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The future of a virtual reality world?

Jeff Hilimire

At Dragon Army we talk about virtual reality a lot. Partly because we build virtual reality experiences for clients, but also because it’s really freaking cool :). Last week we were passing around this video that paints a picture of a world where virtual reality is the new reality, and it’s…unsettling, to say the least. Take a peak: HYPER-REALITY from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

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Don’t Pivot, Do the Eurostep

Rob Go

In honor of the NBA Playoffs, I thought I’d sprinkle a little basketball lingo into this post I’ve been thinking about for a while. I think the most dangerous place to be for an early stage, venture funded company to be is where things are “sort-of-working”. When things are totally working, it’s clearly better. When things are not working at all, at least it’s obvious and the path before you is relatively clear as well.

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Episode 90: The Adversity of Profitability with Dr. Rob Garcia

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we hear a story that will tug at your heartstrings as we explore overcoming adversity. What if you grew up in a household where the family surrounding you did drugs? What if you failed out of high school and got kicked out of college – can you really have a successful lifestyle? The answer is a resounding yes.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: April 26th – May 22nd

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly ) for the past four weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Quora: “Would you rather invest in an A team with a B idea or a B team with an A idea?