Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'If you are a new entrepreneur, or entering a new business area, it’s always worth your time to assemble an Advisory Board of two or three executives who have travelled that road before. You need them before you need funding, and if you select the wrong people, or use them incorrectly, no amount of money will likely save your startup. Even top executives rely on their advisors.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'Entrepreneurship is risky and time consuming. It’s why more people don’t do it. If you have a fledgling start-up, you may find yourself working 80-100 hours a week to make things work. In the best of times, you’d have a level head to deal with every aspect of your business, but at this point you really need some help to tie up loose ends. Fortunately, services exist to cover some of your most time-consuming tasks, leaving you free to deal with more pressing matters or… egads … take

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NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'Quote from Steve Jobs via Flickr. Steve Jobs was one of those entrepreneurs who seemed universally either loved or hated, but not many will argue with his ability to innovate in the technology product arena over the years. He was instrumental in creating Apple, which has pioneered a dazzling array of new products, and even surpassed Microsoft, to become the world’s most valuable technology company.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, speaker and freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the SumAll blog. Online video has very quickly become one of the most engaging and ubiquitous forms of content marketing. ComScore reports that in 2013 more than half of all Americans watched a combined 52 billion online videos. According to that same report one platform netted more hours of viewing than all others combined.

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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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Quote from Steve Jobs via Flickr. Steve Jobs was one of those entrepreneurs who seemed universally either loved or hated, but not many will argue with his ability to innovate in the technology product arena over the years. He was instrumental in creating Apple, which has pioneered a dazzling array of new products, and even surpassed Microsoft, to become the Read more >.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'At many startups, technical hires are the backbone of the business. Their role is critical. But if you don’t have a foundation in tech yourself, how do you measure their success beyond just delivering a successful product? What factors should influence how you evaluate their performance? To learn what founders should look for — or systems they should set up — I asked eight entrepreneurs from YEC the following: What specific metric does your company use to evaluate the success of your technical

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'I''ve been getting involved with a couple of different models related to labor marketplaces and platforms lately. My interest dates back to my 2010 investment in chloe + isabel back when I was with First Round. I was still at FRC when we invested in TaskRabbit and Uber, even though I wasn''t on those deals. I''ve also run about 30 Kitchensurfing dinners across NYC for tech and startup folks in the last two years.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Dennis Crowley , Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare and very smart entrepreneur. In this interesting, three-minute clip from a couple of years ago, Dennis shares some words of wisdom for founders with respect to listening to your customers and iterating.

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