Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
'Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. You should read it. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” His argument is as follows. Spend time building investor relationship long before you raise money. .
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 27, 2013
'One of the most common failures I see in startups is lack of focus. Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition.
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deal architect
MAY 27, 2013
'Last month I wrote about a USA Today story on Infor. Instead of focusing on Infor’s micro-vertical and other investments, Jon Swartz chose to focus on beanbags at HQ and the gossipy aspect of Charles Phillips versus former boss, Larry.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 27, 2013
'Crowdfunding platforms for startups have been lacking in this part of the world – there’s no version of StartupValley , Fundable or Startup Stock Exchange in Asia, for example. Until this month. Shanghai, China-based SeedAsia was officially launched in mid May as Asia’s first online equity funding platform for Asia-based technology startups.
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
Feld Thoughts
MAY 27, 2013
'My long time friend Terry Kawaja (history question – which Colorado-based company was Terry once CFO of) from Luma Partners sent me his latest parody video titled Use Bitcoin. I knew it was a parody of something, but I didn’t remember “ Wear Sunscreen ” (which I saw when it first came out in the late 1990′s) until I read the liner notes on Terry’s Youtube post.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 27, 2013
'California’s Silicon Valley and New York tend to hog the headlines as America’s most lauded hotbeds of innovation, but Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) wants to prove that the country’s South also features plenty of innovative startups that can challenge for dominance in the global marketplace. Launch Tennessee , a public-private partnership that supports the creation and development of high-growth companies in Tennessee, will draw attention on the top 50 early-stage companies in t
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crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 27, 2013
'“Model” is a verb. It traditionally means to fashion or shape an a three-dimensional out of a material such as clay or wax. In business the verb usually refers to tools that are created to make projections of sales or profits, but can also be used to predict anything from website traffic to manpower requirements to employee health care costs.
SiliconHills
MAY 27, 2013
'By Ian Panchèvre Reporter with Silicon Hills News With over 91% of smartphone owners taking a mobile photo at least once a month, it’s no secret that as the Internet continues to shift towards mobile, so does consumer photography. One San Antonio entrepreneur, Jim Drought III, recognized this trend and spotted an opportunity. However, rather [.] The post Teenager Develops Photo Printing App: Rectangle appeared first on SiliconHills.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 27, 2013
'Weird is the new normal. Mass is dead. And the rich, who is anybody who can afford to buy stuff or do stuff for fun, are no longer embracing the mediocre middle of the bell curve. With a book cover like the one above, and a title like “ We Are All Weird “, you can probably guess that marketing maven Seth Godin’s latest effort isn’t a normal business book.
Up and Running
MAY 27, 2013
'This is an overview of online lead generation and will serve as the introduction to a seven-part series about online lead generation. The information used in this series is the result of many conversations with a mentor of mine, Andrew Pawlak, who is an industry authority and CEO of leadPops , a cutting edge landing page solution. I’m a firm believer that everyone should do sales, including cold calling, at some point of their career.
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