The Next Web
JANUARY 15, 2014
'James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. The most amazing outcomes start as lofty ambitions. The idea of changing someone’s perspective — or even life — is a notion that many of us aspire to in building our career path.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2014
'By Sean C. Castrina, author of “ 8 Unbreakable Rules For Business Start-Up Success “ Do any of these scenarios hit home? • A lot of pink slips have been showing up within your company recently. And you’re afraid one of the next ones will land on your desk. • You’re struggling to make ends meet as you work your way through school (or you’re waking up in cold sweats as you imagine the bills you’ll be getting once your children hit college campuses). • Your daughter is planning a weddi
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Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 15, 2014
'I love playing offense. FullContact is officially in this mode and today announced that they have acquired Cobook with with Pot, Ski Passes and Dogecoin. Kaspars Dancis – the awesome CEO of Cobook – has a more seriously titled (and equally serious post) up at COBOOK + FULLCONTACT. One of my basic strategies as an investor is to use targeted small acquisitions throughout the life of a company.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2014
'By Nell Merlino, CEO of Count Me In. Economists are predicting a year of economic growth for the U.S. economy but competition is tough for American businesses, especially for small businesses competing against a sea of big box competitors. It’s important to note that many of today’s small businesses are owned and operated by women. They represent nearly 50% of privately held companies but only 2.6% of their businesses generate more than $1 million in revenue.* So how can female entrepreneur
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
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Len Kendall is the founder of CentUp. Prior to starting a company he worked in PR where he helped put out fires and manage digital communications. Headlines Against Humanity was a side project my team created in less than 24 hours. It went viral shortly after, but let’s back up. Running a startup can be a grind. Unless you’ve figured out a way to make lots of money while drinking beer and playing lawn darts, then your days and weeks can be taxing.
Gust
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Boy, do I wish there was a magical Gmail extension to let me manage my startup deals! Unfortunately, there isn’t (and since Google hasn’t fixed Gmail yet, if you’re actually a paying customer for Google Apps, instead of a free customer, you have strictly limited Gmail mail storage, and are not allowed to purchase more, at any price!
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Up and Running
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Eli Goodrich says startups shouldn’t use their money on these four common business expenses. If you’re thinking of starting a business, you’re likely saving every penny to ensure your launch is a success. But it takes time for that savings account to grow. A recent study shows the cost of starting a new business from scratch averages about $30,000.
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Pando just published a great post about the lean startup process. I like it for the way it explains the emotional challenge facing entrepreneurs as they validate their ideas, namely that the idea might not pass and the entrepreneur might be left thinking that the problem is the test rather than the idea. If you can see that in yourself a) be careful, and b) take the extra time to design tests that you believe in.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Bill Boebel and Rob Eanes have launched Pingboard, a new startup focused on creating an office management platform for small to medium-sized businesses. The startup has raised $1.25 million from Silverton Partners and local angel investors, according to an article in TechCrunch. Pingboard spun out of Capital Thought, an incubator founded by Boebel, Joshua Baer, […] The post Pingboard Raises $1.2 Million to Create Office Management Platform appeared first on SiliconHills.
Eric Friedman
JANUARY 15, 2014
'A lot of companies are trying to “solve” calendars. There are many startups that are building calendar apps, desktop apps, and combinations of the two. Some even try to also manage your to-do list. Integrated features like knowing background information , lateness notifications, and notes on important details about people or places – all part of the race to “own” your calendar.
Up and Running
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Have you dealt with this in management? . After serious discussion, consideration of pros and cons, you make a difficult strategic decision. So you want to move on, but somebody you work with keeps revisiting that same decision. So you can never move on, because that person keeps bringing it back up. . For example, let’s say you’re a restaurant owner and you decide you’re not going to offer take-out food.
Gust
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Boy, do I wish there was a magical Gmail extension to let me manage my startup deals! Unfortunately, there isn’t (and since Google hasn’t fixed Gmail yet, if you’re actually a paying customer for Google Apps, instead of a free customer, you have strictly limited Gmail mail storage, and are not allowed to purchase more, at any price!
Mike Michalowicz
JANUARY 15, 2014
'If there is one thing more dangerous than a wild animal , it’s an injured one. If there is one thing more dangerous than an out of control competitor, it’s a desperate one. The best way to overcome the competition is often to stay away from them. Just be the strongest and best you can be. Let the wild competitors (and injured ones) fight amongst themselves.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Blackboard announced Wednesday that is has acquired MyEdu, an Austin-based educational site tailored to college students. The Washington, D.C.-based Blackboard did not disclose the terms of the acquisition. MyEdu, founded in 2008, focuses on helping students create a study plan geared to the career they wish to pursue. It’s like LinkedIn for college students.
Austin Startup
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Pingboard, the modern social company directory, today announced that the company has closed a $1.25M seed round of venture funding led by Silverton Partners.
Babbling VC
JANUARY 15, 2014
'This is just a theory but I would ponder that the likelihood of a VC''s* success is directly related to whether they need to earn their salary or not. If a VC came into the game without needing a job, their decisions are more likely, in my opinion, to lead to homeruns than otherwise. . In my eyes, it''s pretty simple. If fear of financial failure doesn''t factor into your decisions, you will most likely make better ones, all other factors remaining equal.
Austin Startup
JANUARY 15, 2014
'Main Street Hub, the Austin based "do-it-for you" marketing platform for local businesses, today announced the closing of a $14 million Series B equity financing round led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) with participation from existing investors, including Harrison Metal Capital.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 15, 2014
'LiveOak Venture Partners of Austin has invested $2 million in CS Disco, a Houston-based software company. CS Disco plans to use the Series A funds “to triple the size of its engineering, sales, and operations teams and expand its offices in Houston in 2014,” according to a news release. The startup makes software for lawyers […] The post LiveOak Venture Partners Invests $2 Million in CS Disco appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
JANUARY 15, 2014
'A new social enterprise, Verb, has spun out of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin (UT).
Jeff Hilimire
JANUARY 15, 2014
'This week I received two pieces of company schwag, one from Friendly Human (who I mentioned in my blog post yesterday ) and one from Tonx , a coffee subscription business that I recently tested out. Friendly Human was nice enough to give me this awesome jacket for helping them with a company retreat and Tonx gave me this shirt for referring them a new sign up ( get a free trial , its really good coffee).
Guy Nirpaz
JANUARY 15, 2014
'What do you think?
The Next Web
JANUARY 15, 2014
'This post originally appeared on Geektime. There are five strategies, or patterns, that set apart leading internet startups – or the billion-dollar club companies – from all the rest. For the past several years I have been intrigued by what constitutes a successful habit. I’ve poured over myriads of books, professional articles, and TED Talks about consumer behavior, habit forming, thought patterns and the human brain’s capacity for ongoing evolvement.
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