YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2015

'by Dan Prosser, author of “ Thirteeners: Why Only 13 Percent of Companies Successfully Execute Their Strategy – and How Yours Can Be One of Them “ It happens again and again. You come up with a viable strategy that you believe will “fix” your ailing company. You hold lots of employee meetings to talk about it. Maybe you leave fired up with enthusiasm, or maybe you harbor a nagging sense of doubt — worried that perhaps you just have the wrong people.

Conversion 186

Conversion Employee Houston Leadership 186

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2015

'A popular approach for aspiring entrepreneurs these days seems to be to corner anyone who will listen, with a pitch on their current “million dollar idea.” The initial monologue usually ends with the question “How much money do you think this is worth?” In my opinion, ideas are a commodity, and are really not worth much, outside the context of a visionary leader who can execute.

Bootstrapping 232

Bootstrapping Startup Angel Investor Differentiation 232

The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2015

'Erik Torenberg is Product Hunt’s first hire. This article originally appeared on Medium. Anxiety. Depression. Burnout. We don’t really talk about it. Many people go through it, but most people suffer alone. We want to kickstart a conversation in tech around stress and mental health, and to create a space where it’s okay for people to feel depressed and to talk about it.

Startup 131

Startup Web Conversion Hiring 131

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2015

'A few days ago, David Brown at Techstars wrote a great post titled “ Staying Organized with Workflow ” about how he stays organized. Brown and I work across the hall from each other and interact regularly. Often he’ll send me a note about something and I’ll just wander over and talk to him. He’s always available, super responsive on email, and very good at having a three minute meeting that results in a decision.

Email 114

Email Conversion Product 114

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

Startup

David Teten

MARCH 8, 2015

'At least ¼ of the investment proposals I get have a “market map” of some sort: a graphic analysis of the competitive landscape. I think competitive analysis is critical. Any useful startups is trying to perform some useful job for a client, and you have to understand what people are currently using to get that job done before you can articulate why you’re better.

Marketing 96

Marketing Analytics Cloud Differentiation 96