YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
by Alex Kurrelmeier, Director of The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur at Culver. Lemonade stands and car washes aren’t enough for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Starting as young as middle school, experiential learning rooted in real world business scenarios is helping to shape the entrepreneurs of the future. It’s advantageous to develop these skills at a young age – our economy depends on it.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Investors will tell you that they love to put money into startups that are scalable, and ready to scale. But what does that really mean? Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets.
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The Next Web
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
The number of new startups is rapidly increasing. According to the 2015 Kaufman Index, which measures startup activity, for the first time since 2010, the U.S. saw an upward trend in startup company activity. While that’s great news for the overall economy, for new entrepreneurs it means more competition for media attention, investors, and customers.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Every entrepreneur has to be a decision-maker, even with information overload, emotional employees, angry customers and competitors hovering from every direction. Making a decision without thinking or over-thinking things to the point of no decision are both deadly in business. The challenge is to find the right balance and make good and timely decisions every time.
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
Hippoland
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Techcrunch makes fundraising look like a breeze. You just mosey on over to Silicon Valley, and there are dollar bills lining the road! Unfortunately, this is NOT reality. While fundraising for my company LaunchBit, I was a wreck. The actual process of going to meetings to talk about your company was not difficult, but the self-inflicted pressure to convert investors started to take a toll.
Start Up Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Prime time used to be a big thing, sure it’s still a thing, but a diminishing one. You can probably remember when the 6 o’clock news mattered. You can remember when the sitcoms hit the airwaves at 7.30 and the movie at 8.30pm. They all made sense because we all worked until 5pm. The shops used to be closed from 12pm on Saturday, and not opened on Sunday.
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