Wed.May 20, 2015

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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. Between the US & Europe alone the video sector is worth around $500 billion. And TV / Film / Video Games / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality and frankly the Internet will all merge. Western countries watch > 5 hours of TV per day.

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The Real Deal: Jos Duarte on Digital Disruption in the Service Economy

deal architect

This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. This time it is José Duarte, CEO of Unit4. José developed most of his professional career at SAP where he held multiple leadership.

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10 Ways Entrepreneurs Foster Team Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

Getting things done effectively in a startup requires total individual and team accountability. You can’t afford excuses and multiple people doing the same job. In my view, “taking responsibility” is the core element behind accountability. Many people hear responsibility as an obligation, but I hear it as “the ability to respond.” Unfortunately many people don’t have the ability to respond, because they lack confidence in themselves, or simply don’t have the skills required.

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8 Pieces of Advice For CEOs That Need To Scale Their Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Philip Acuña. A startup’s ability to scale its services in response to increasing demand is one of the most important factors in determining its success. While certain processes and strategies may have worked for a business early on, a rapidly increasing customer base and the increased bandwidth needed in response will often bring those very same process to their natural breaking point.

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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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Cynic or Optimist?

Feld Thoughts

There will be a downturn. It might be in a day. It might be in a year. It might be in a decade. We have no idea when it will come, but it will come. I was talking to a VC yesterday who was an entrepreneur in the late 1990s, which we is now commonly referred to as the Internet bubble. He was very successful as an entrepreneur and has continued to be very successful as a VC.

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Use Your Tax Refund To Grow Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

By Carla Freberg, Vendor Services Manager at Balboa Capital. Tax season is one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year for small business owners. It involves an immense amount of time and effort to get all of the necessary paperwork together. CNBC reported that half of small businesses in the United States will spend at least $5,000 to come to terms with their tax bills.

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Seven Ways Start-Ups Can Save Money Everyday

YoungUpstarts

You’ve set the wheels of your new business in motion and are poised to take on the competition – but then come the bills, fees and overheads. From energy firms to invoices, there’s always someone or something looking to take a chunk of your revenue. Here, we provide seven ways start-ups can save money everyday by reducing operational overheads and being savvier about outgoings: Reduce Energy Use.

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Fundraising is for CEOs

K9 Ventures

I’ve been on the receiving end of many many pitches by this point both via email and in person. One of the patterns that I have seen is that for pre-seed and seed stage companies (could be for later stages like Series A and B as well, but once a company is mature, some CFOs can handle the pitching as well if not better than the CEO) if the CEO is not the primary person pitching the company, then that’s a bad signal.

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Lessons From Conducting A Webinar For Our Business

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. We recently started organizing webinars for our customers and prospects. While at the outset, webinars seem no different from the other forms of content and video marketing, there are some inherent advantages and challenges that we realized through the process of conducting one. Attracting attendees for a webinar is a lot more challenging than getting visitors to your Youtube channel.

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The correlation between intellectual honesty and great companies

The Equity Kicker

Intellectual honesty is tough, but a powerful enhancer of company performance and driver of personal growth. That’s the message of this post from Joanna Lord, and I couldn’t agree more. Here’s how she puts it: I think great companies appreciate intellectual honesty. I’ve seen this at Porch. The past few weeks I’ve pushed on some big things and asked some hard questions.

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A Technology Revolution is Brewing in San Antonio

SiliconHills

Tom Cuthbert founded Click Forensics in San Antonio a decade ago but he moved the startup to Austin because he couldn’t find funding and technology talent locally. That company evolved into Adometry, an ad tracking and fraud detection firm, which Google acquired last May. Now Cuthbert wants to grow San Antonio’s startup community as a […] The post A Technology Revolution is Brewing in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Lauren Shuttleworth: How This Stationery Entrepreneur Educates Girls, Helps The Environment & Makes A Profit At The Same Time

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Like many entrepreneurs I’ve always had a strong urge to help other people, not just directly helping customers with my business, but in a broader social sense too. Donating to charities is great, but I’ve never felt. The post Lauren Shuttleworth: How This Stationery Entrepreneur Educates Girls, Helps The Environment & Makes A Profit At The Same Time appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ D

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Is a Lender or Broker Deceiving You? Here’s How to Tell

Up and Running

Anyone who has spent any time in the loan industry knows how perilous it can be for small business owners. Due to the complicated nature of loans and legal speak, brokers and lenders often try to take advantage of small business owners. That’s why we have written this article, to explain three ways brokers and lenders try to deceive small businesses, so you and your business are not another casualty of the lending industry. 1.

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Increase Your Close Rate By 25% With This Killer Sales Technique

Mike Michalowicz

I originally started the introduction to this article by explaining to you that my industry is soooooo competitive. It is…truly. I’m an author, and any time I’m pitching a new book, there are literally hundreds of other writers all doing the same thing – all wanting their piece of a publisher’s pie. But then I thought back to my previous experiences as an entrepreneur, and I realized that competition has always been stiff.

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What Does It Take to Start a Comic Book Business? With Brian Wyrick of Robot Paper

Up and Running

Wyrick, on the right, sits with artist Dave Dorman at a convention promoting Henchmen. What goes into the creation of a comic book? And, how do you successfully start such a niche publishing business? To get an insider’s perspective, we sat down with Brian Wyrick, the editor and publisher for Robot Paper, a comic company. Brian, who is also the COO of Raidious, a digital agency for content marketing, is one busy man.

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Fresh from the SPRING: ronaldmahaputra

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for ronaldmahaputra. Check out more great work on ronaldmahaputra’s profile page. Nicely done, ronaldmahaputra, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB.

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Master the Habits of Your Life

Duct Tape Marketing

Master the Habits of Your Life written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Gretchen Rubin. Habits are big business. In fact, creating, chaning and keeping habits has created an entire multi-billion dollar industry for books, apps, coaching, training and countless products. And why not, habitual behavior makes up about 90% of how we go through the day whether we are conscious of it or not.

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Becoming Steve Jobs

Jeff Hilimire

Last week I finished the book, Becoming Steve Jobs. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in: entrepreneurship, Jobs / Apple, or success stories. Below are some of the passages that stood out to me: Most great Silicon Valley startups start out lean and simple. The advantage they have over established companies is the focus they can bring to a single product or idea.