Gust
AUGUST 17, 2014
'Zappos logo via Flickr by Ben Spark. One of the most common failures I see in startups is lack of focus. Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 17, 2014
'Most entrepreneurs struggle with financial projections, not wanting to commit to numbers they can’t deliver, and having no clue what investors might consider reasonable. However, making no projections, or non-credible projections will get your startup marked as unfundable. I recommend a simple set of guidelines, which work for at least 80% of the business domains I see.
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 17, 2014
'by Alex Miller, Co-founder of PosiRank . Marketers hope to disseminate information and inspire sales. However, marketing in the 21 st century is different. CEOs of ago never dreamed today’s marketers could solve problems with the push of a button. Automation helps with mass emails, social media replies, and on-page content. But what do you need to know before you start the automation train in motion?
The Next Web
AUGUST 17, 2014
'Ariel Rosenthal is a co-founder at Xprt, a new startup looking to save people the hassle and the headache of doing extensive research before buying a product. I don’t know if you ever experienced a eureka moment - a second when everything comes together and an amazing idea pops into your head. As someone who is in the business of creating new things and has seen various ideas blossom into fully functional products, I can tell you that there is nothing like that feeling.
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
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 17, 2014
'I recently talked to Larissa Herda, the CEO of TW Telecom (in the process of being acquired by Level 3). Larissa reached out to me through an employee who knows me because of my own struggles with depression. Larissa is another example of a leader / CEO who has been open about depression, especially in the workplace, and we had a great conversation.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
AUGUST 17, 2014
'We are excited to announce our new Series A investment in EverString ( www.everstring.com )! CEO and co-founder Vincent Yang, a mathematician by training, had built a system while he was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm, to comb the Web looking for investment opportunities. At EverString, he took his thinking to an entirely new level. He has assembled a crack team of experts in natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, computational optimization, and unstructured d
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crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 17, 2014
'The other day while sitting on the deck, we heard a great splashing sound from across the way. We looked over to see a neighbor pouring a huge bucket of ice-water over his head while his girlfriend recorded the chilly event on her smartphone. It took me a second to grasp what was happening, but I quickly realized that he was not crazy and not trying to cool himself off from the heat of a Chicago August.
Scott Edward Walker
AUGUST 17, 2014
'We’ve gone fishing for the next couple of weeks. No blog posts (or tweets) until September. Cheers, Scott. [link].
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