Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 14, 2014
'Entrepreneurs seem to have blinders on when looking at competitors. Generally they are so focused on killing competitors that they fail to see the positive potential of a strategic partnership or some other type of collaborative relationship. Sometimes you have to put aside the emotion and the passion, and just look at what is best for your business.
The Next Web
JUNE 14, 2014
'Gregg Schwartz is the Director of Sales at Strategic Sales & Marketing, an industry founding lead generation company started in 1989. Connect with him and SSM on LinkedIn and Twitter. You’ve developed a great new technology. You’ve invested thousands of hours of work. Now comes the tough part: selling your product. Many start-up CEOs don’t have sales teams to rely on, and they struggle with sales – but this doesn’t have to happen.
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Gust
JUNE 14, 2014
'It happens, but it’s not typical, given their limited time and the large number of companies they need to process in order to find the “keepers” Things that increase their likelihood of being open to another meeting after having previously passed on an investment: A case where the entrepreneur was specifically asked to “come back after they have more traction.” A major, public, positive event affecting the company.
The Next Web
JUNE 14, 2014
'Corey McAveeney is a Culture Geek at Culture Amp, the creators of Murmur, a survey and analytics platform for measuring and improving your workplace. “Work hard play hard” is an often repeated motto among many startups, as is the popular “Get s**t done.” I’m all for those who bring it to their startup culture, but what is the meaning behind these platitudes?
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
Start Up Blog
JUNE 14, 2014
'We often forget that the thing we don’t like about something is also thing that makes it possible. The annoying part of something good, is usually what keeps it alive and provides us the gifts that surround it. One case in point is Youtube advertising. It’s so annoying isn’t it, to spare that 5 seconds before clicking out, or that entire 30 second advertisement you can’t even click out of – how dare they.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 14, 2014
'Nope – Amy and I aren’t moving to Homer. While we have a home in Homer, where we will be for the next three weeks, we still call Boulder, Colorado our home. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. We were living in Boston at the time. I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble.
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Hunter Walker
JUNE 14, 2014
'I believe regulations lag innovation and are often employed by entrenched entities to preserve their dominant position. Immoral? Maybe, but from an economic standpoint it’s entirely rational. Similarly, startups using new models or new technology often have to function in a grey area. Either the laws are unclear because they never anticipated the innovations or complying with the regulations are functionally burdensome prior to understanding exactly what your business looks like and wheth
Scott Edward Walker
JUNE 14, 2014
'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Larry Page , co-founder of Google and a brilliant entrepreneur. In this brief speech (via Corporate Valley ) from a few years back, Larry shares some solid nuggets for entrepreneurs, including the following: “We actually tried many things that didn’t work.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 14, 2014
'Weekend Favs June Fourteen written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
JUNE 14, 2014
'Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Its All Simply About Economics appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Bryce Dot VC
JUNE 14, 2014
'I’m not a hockey fan. I can count the number of hockey games I’ve ever watched on one hand. But last night, I turned on my TV and the channel was set to the Kings/Rangers game. It was the 3rd period and the Rangers we leading 2-1. Soon a stat popped up on the screen and I knew, despite the score, who was going to win the game. The stat?
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