YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'by Tricia Meyer, managing attorney at Meyer Law. Although it’s impossible to know exactly what will happen as your business grows, many issues can be avoided, and many others made easier to overcome, if your company has carefully laid its legal foundation. Too many startups expose their business to unnecessary risk by making some common legal mistakes.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Rameet Chawla is the founder of Fueled , an award winning development and design company based in New York and London, and the Fueled Collective , a co-working space in downtown Manhattan. This post was originally published on his company’s blog. With the rise of e-commerce platforms like Shopify, Squarespace, and now Weebly , the painstaking process of setting up an e-commerce website no longer takes months, but just a few hours in a day.
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Up and Running
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Adi Bittan, co-founder of a startup that failed due to a bad partnership. Like every new entrepreneur, Adi Bittan planned for success. With her business savvy and the scientific minds of her three other partners, the team planned to take Wall Street by storm. They were creating a high-tech calculator of sorts. Their product would help a financial firm crunch numbers instantly, so investors could make trades faster and set themselves apart from competitors. “We spent months at a venture fi
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a creative marketplace connecting mobile and Web projects with vetted, handpicked developers and designers from around the world. This post originally appeared on the ooomf blog. Cleaning out your closet, emptying your inbox, putting things where they “belong.”. A few years ago, I worked at a Web design agency as a product manager.
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 Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. If you missed these when they went out live, we encourage you to watch them now , as they lay a strong foundation for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 -11 in San Francisco—less than two weeks from today.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'One of the unavoidable realities of building a startup is having to fire people. In a normal business you can often sweep bad performers under the rug and not deal with them. When you have millions or billions of dollars of revenue you can suffer a few bad performers or bad apples. You can miss a quarter’s target and not cull the inefficiencies.
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deal architect
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Have 2 interesting sessions coming up: On December 3, Phil Fersht and Ned May of HfS and I will have a fireside chat at their Blueprint conference in New York on “Five Disruptions Shaking the Foundations of the Modern Enterprise”.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'By Sean C. Castrina, author of “ 8 Unbreakable Rules For Business Start-Up Success “ Most people look forward to retirement, viewing it as a time of relaxation, freedom, and fun. Finally, I’ll be able to do what I want , they think. No boss breathing down my neck; no need to get up at a certain time; no stress. And for the first few weeks or months, retirement lives up to the hype.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Innovations from various parts of the world we don’t usually expect innovation from Big Bertha – Seattle Aviation Powerhouse – Dubai Tweet Experience Hotel – Spain Starchase – various US police departments Breaking the mold – UK, Denmark, Thailand earlier.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'by Tracy Norris, CEO of online furniture company iFurn.com. You want your team to be more productive, but you can’t just wave a magic wand and make it happen. It has to be designed right into your office. Everything from furniture to layout to how much office space you have can all make a dramatic difference in how productive your employees are.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Serguei Beloussov is the CEO of Acronis , a technology company focused on data backup software and disaster recovery solutions. A company’s owner and a hired CEO can both hinder its growth; the determining factor lies in what period the company is facing. Six months ago, I stepped into my new/old role as CEO of Acronis — a company that I had founded in the early 2000s.
Gust
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'My thoughts on this have changed a bit over time, as the general pace of—and level of activity in—the startup world has begun to hyper-accelerate. It’s always a good idea to be able to approach someone with whom you’ve had at least a nodding relationship, because that immediately differentiates you from a pure, over-the-transom funding request, and you are much more likely to at least get an answer.
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Amazon has long pursued a strategy of winning by pricing low. Many of you will have experienced that strategy first hand with regular price reductions from Amazon Web Services , but it goes right across their business. Their approach has led to strong revenue growth but few profits which has analysts sharply divided – some believe they will never make large profits and the shares aren’t worth much whilst others believe that they are building controlling positions in market after mar
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Graham Weston, co-founder and chairman of Rackspace Hosting, grew up in the greater San Antonio area. At his first job, he worked in his dad’s cookie plant packaging cookies. His dad owned Grandma’s Cookies and later sold the company to Frito Lay. Weston’s first venture into entrepreneurship in high school involved selling organic pork from […] The post Startup Grind Features Graham Weston of Rackspace appeared first on SiliconHills.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Long time readers of EJ will recall the early few years where much of my writing on this blog focused on my business at the time, a proofreading service called BetterEdit. The site connected international students studying at universities in English speaking countries, with academic editors, mostly PhD level academics or active postgraduates. My job was to act as … Read the rest of this entry » The post How To Sell Your Blog Or Web Business For Life Changing Money appeared first on E
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'This is my answer to a Quora question, What are good ways to turn a business idea into a business plan? : Think of a business plan as a collection of interconnected modules. There’s strategy, market, milestones, tasks, measurement, review schedule, projected sales, costs, expenses … some people like verbiage, some prefer just the core concrete specifics.
Mike Michalowicz
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'I want to let you in on a little secret: Today, Black Friday, didn’t just happen, it was manufactured. People didn’t miraculously figure out that the best shopping deals of the year were today (there not, by the way). Black Friday was a fake. Many moons ago, retailers figured out that the Friday after Thanksgiving represented a tremendous opportunity.
Business Plan Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. Along with our Entrepreneur Spotlight video series, The Startup Garage is going to cover monthly startup events to showcase the exceptional talent in our local area.
Mike Michalowicz
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'I was complaining to my accountability partner about the tight cash flow I was experiencing this fourth quarter. She responded by saying “Good thing you have a first world problem. Not enough food to eat; seeing your child die from malnutrition; no sanitary water. those are real problems. Anything else is a first world problem, and in the grand perspective, really isn’t that much of a problem.” Thanks for the reality check Christina.
Early Growth Financial Services
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'You know that moment, when you are looking around the table at your family and friends who are clutching their silverware in anticipation of the steaming, delicious food that sits on the plate before them? If you are in a Navajo household, this pause is a good 20 minutes while grandma does a lovely blessing over the food. This pause sums up the best part of any creative endeavor: The moment when you look at the beautiful things in front of you and say: I made this.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'Is Work Killing Us written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Tom Rath. By now you’ve read or heard one or more of the reports about the negative health impact of sitting hunched over a computer all day. No? Here’s one from the Mayo Clinic and here’s another from Lifehacker.
Venture Chronicles
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
'With the well covered healthcare.gov fiasco in it’s second full month and no relief in sight, certainly not before the self-imposed end of November deadline that the Obama Administration set for itself, I can’t help but think back to the President’s proclamation that he would bring the “best and brightest of Silicon Valley” to bear to fix it.
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