K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

As marketers we are always up-to-date with what’s trending in the industry – or at least try to be! But more often than not we hit a dead end when it comes to explaining what these trends are. Today, I’ll share three slideshares that define the future of marketing, so that YOU don’t have to struggle! Long gone are those days when you could fill up your website with product and services specifics along with a price range.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The mobile phone is today an indispensable part of our lives, the one on-the-go device that keeps us connected at all times. But the problem is that these rather fragile devices can get damaged easily. A study on smartphone protection habits by OtterBox – which sought to understand how the habits of 2,500 smartphone owners over the age of 18 years from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore lead to phone damage, and examine how they are protecting their devices – revealed that on

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

When you’re in the midst of building a company, it’s hard to fully assess the significance of various activities and decisions- particularly for first-time entrepreneurs who don’t yet have the wisdom learned from prior mistakes. As an investor (who was also once a first-time entrepreneur), I have noticed several key areas where founders either overestimate or underestimate the value to their company.

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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

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. Intel’s newest chipset – Skylake – shows that the stalwart chipmaker’s renowned “tick-tock” release schedule is no longer entirely about adhering to Moore’s Law. Numerous announcements in early September 2015 at renowned consumer electronics showcase Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) by nearly every PC OEM of new Skylake-equipped PCs, compute sticks and tablets set highlight how the conversation is shifting to what tasks the

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The chart above shows the number of guests AirBnB has hosted each summer for the last five years. It was on Techcrunch this morning. It’s an amazing chart. AirBnB has delivered on the proverbial hockey stick growth that I imagine they had in their pitch deck back in 2010. They’ve lived the dream. We can draw lessons for this for new startups.

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Here are five important reasons why it is important for business owners to set goals, and tips on how to make those goals work for your business.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In April 2014, in the post Making Moves , I wrote about K9’s impending move to a new space and outlined my reasons for leaving downtown Palo Alto. I loved being in downtown Palo Alto, but it was simply becoming too expensive to be able to consider staying there long term. I deliberated for a long time before ultimately pulling the trigger on the move.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Deciding on a college can be one of the most perplexing decisions a high school student and their family face. Some students don’t know about all the opportunities available to them, said Katie Fang, founder of SchooLinks. “It’s very hard for a student to navigate the admissions process,” Fang said. To help match students with […] The post SchooLinks Serves as Matchmaker for Students and Colleges appeared first on SiliconHills.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The charts of the day comes from a new Mattermark report on the current pace of financing. Both relate to the pace of seed funding in the US and the challenge of raising Series A financing. The first chart shows the pace of deals (measured by number of rounds) by category: Pretty hard to miss the huge blip in Seed/Angel deals in 2013 (but really from 2011 and continuing through 2015, with a peak at 2013).

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Don't let these signs discourage you from starting a business. Keep a journal of all of your ideas, and test the validity of each one.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I’ve mentioned previously that I’m working on a research study on disruption of the asset management business. We are now sharing the final draft of our research study with reviewers. If you’d like to take a look, please send me your email ASAP. . My co-authors are Katina Stefanova (former senior executive at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund) and Brent Beardsley (the global head of wealth and asset management at the Boston Consulting Group).

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Turns Out The Future of the Office Isn’t an Office at All written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. This past week I made a business move that to me embodies a great deal of the change that’s gone on in business over the last few years. I’ve owned my own business for twenty-years now and in some fashion have operated pretty much like most traditional small businesses.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I saw this article headline, 6 things no one tells you but really should about starting a company , on Medium and though it would make a good post. So, per the #blindpost rules, I took the headline and wrote my interpretation of it, without reading the article itself. 6 things no one tells you but really should about starting a company. 1. Let’s start with this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Turns Out The Future of the Office Isn’t an Office at All written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This past week I made a business move that to me embodies a great deal of the change that’s gone on in business over the last few years. I’ve owned my own business for twenty-years now and in some fashion have operated pretty much like most traditional small businesses.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to startups and entrepreneurship, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly) for the past six weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Quora: “What 3 pearls of wisdom would you give a 1st time CEO of a small technology startup…?

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. Scott Spiro and Tony Lillios join us for Episode 44 of the Profit First Podcast. Scott sheds some light on the importance of credibility. Tony shares his success story with Speck products and how his company skyrocketed to profitability. Our Guests. Scott Spiro . Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Are you considering starting your own consulting business? I’ve been there. In fact I left a very good job as a vice president in a market research firm to go out on my own as a planning and market research consultant, and, after some rocky months at the beginning, I made that work. It was how I made a living for 12 years between leaving Creative Strategies International and creating the product business for Palo Alto Software.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

As with previous books, I have been excerpting 10% of the contents. You can buy the book at several stores (online in paperback at CreateSpace and ebook at Amazon). 2.0 looks at the prospects of S/4HANA which SAP launched in.

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