YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2014
'by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “. Blow up your bureaucracy and replace it with teams of 8 to 12 people. This is not as radical as it sounds. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos calls it the “Two-Pizza Rule” — a team should be no larger than can be fed by two pizzas.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 5, 2014
'Today, Orbotix , the maker of Sphero, has raised a new round of $15.5 million, led by Shea Ventures and including new investor Grishin Robotics. We were the original investors in Orbotix and I joined their board in the fall of 2010 after they went through the Techstars Boulder program. The first post I wrote about Orbotix included an aspirational phrase for what they were working on.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 5, 2014
'The cost of entry for an aspiring entrepreneur has never been lower, and the total wealth of opportunities has never been larger. You can start a new e-Commerce site on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2014
'by Regan Billie, Social Media & PR Coordinator at Fleetmatics. There are two ways for a business to increase its profits. The first is to bring in more revenue, whether it’s by raising prices or just selling more of a product or service. Another way is to decrease cost. When running a business, specifically a startup, it’s easy to get fixated on the idea of making money.
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
The Next Web
MAY 5, 2014
'JT Marino and Daehee Park are the founders of Tuft & Needle, an e-commerce mattress startup cutting out the industry gimmicks and markups. As a startup, every day is a battle against distractions—meaningless or nice-to-have ideas from customers, team members and advisors—that may throw you off course. Even more valuable than cash on hand is time.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 5, 2014
'As an entrepreneur, you probably have a longer to-do list than most people who have straight 9-5’s. If you’re also a parent, you could probably have a to-do list long enough to wallpaper your kitchen. In this age of social networking and over-scheduling, it’s hard to complete one task efficiently, let alone get it all done. If you’re feeling a little less productive these days, don’t worry— it’s not a character flaw.
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Start Up Blog
MAY 5, 2014
'Innovation is an interesting word which gets thrown around lot in organisations. No one seems to disagree that it is the life blood of long term organisational survival, but I think it’s clear that the definition of what it actually is happens to be wrong. The definition tends to be most wrong in large stable industrial companies. I should know, once upon a time I was the ‘head of innovation’ in one such large organisation.
Austin Startup
MAY 5, 2014
'The Austin Technology Council (ATC) today released results of a study measuring the economic impact of the life sciences industry in Austin and surrounding communities including Round Rock and San Marcos.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 5, 2014
'Startups and new businesses take time. They often take much longer than the CEO every thought to reach any measure of success. And of course, a bad idea is still a bad idea no matter how much time is allotted for it, but a good idea often needs a great deal of time to realize its potential. So imagine your startup is a plane – no matter what type of plane, in fact, you won’t even know what kind of plane it will end up being for quite some time – then the runway is the amount o
The Entrepreneurial Mind
MAY 5, 2014
'Breaking Business : The State of Equity Financing. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post A Conversation on the State of Equity Financing appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 5, 2014
'Week Two Roundup from the Duct Tape Selling Blog written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. As part of the lead up to the launch of my new book Duct Tape Selling I asked some of the organizations behind the resources I note in the book to contribute guest blog posts. The result of that request has produced some truly awesome content.
The Next Web
MAY 5, 2014
'Rahul Varshneya is the co-creator of Foster.fm, a platform that helps startups grow their business through social media. If you’re going to start up, you are bound to fail. This is not a primer to make sure you succeed, as there are many factors that can contribute to failure. But these are the biggest reasons why most startups fail. When you start up, ensure that you overcome all of these seven reasons which will increase the chances of success by multifold.
Rob Go
MAY 5, 2014
'Seed stage investing has developed significantly over the past 7 years that I’ve been in VC. What started as a rogue, almost anti-VC strategy has become very common. It’d pretty standard for entrepreneurs to contemplate raising an “institutional seed round” prior to approaching VC’s for series A rounds. Many have said that the institutional seed is the new series A.
Scott Edward Walker
MAY 5, 2014
'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. . Top 5 Tweets. Here’s my new post: “Selling Your Company? The 5 Biggest Legal Mistakes” [link]. “How can Larry and Sergey say you should come work as their employee, when they didn’t get jobs themselves?
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