Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Ari Newman is an entrepreneur, mentor, investor, and a friend. He works at Techstars where his responsibility is to ensure that the connections between alumni, mentors, and staff are as robust as they can be – helping entrepreneurs “ do more faster ” day in and day out. His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'by Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners. Often consumed by the day to day, it is difficult for small business owners to find time to focus on the big picture and be truly forward thinking. But if you want to stay competitive, there are four questions entrepreneurs can constantly be asking themselves to set their organizations up for significant growth. 1.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Alex M. Chong and Jacky Li are product designers at Pivotal Labs. This post was originally published on Xtreme Labs’ blog , which was acquired by Pivotal Labs in October 2013. For an adult with no prior exposure or experience, learning how to use a desktop computer can be a confusing challenge. The desktop computing experience is neither intuitive nor innate to human beings – it requires significant training, time, and ideally early-age immersion in order to understand the paradigms of com

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'by Annie Tsai, author of “ The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook: Converting Online Conversations to Offline Sales “ The technology takeover is here. As a small business owner, you know you can’t fight it anymore. Whether you’re excited, apprehensive, or both, you’ve decided that the best thing for your business is to get tapped into the opportunities available to you online.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Many people seem to have the sense that ethics are spiraling downward in business, yet most business professionals and entrepreneurs I know don’t believe they can make a difference. They don’t realize that if they don’t take an active role in the solution, they really become part of the problem. I do believe that most business people want to do the right thing, but many just don’t have the skills to develop an unemotional ethical position, or confidence to act on their ethical beliefs, or simpl

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Frank Scavo pointed out recently “You really like to write about sensors” He is so right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder. Diane’s work suggests that even educational organizations—notoriously bureaucratic and slow—can effectively implement Lean Startup methods.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'I’m a seed investor in MobileDay , a Boulder-based company that has helped its users make over two million mobile-based conference calls in the past few months. Its popularity comes from One-Touch Dialing where users press a big green button that shows up on their phone just before a conference call and they’re in. I use it every day – for every call – and am no longer in conference call hell on my iPhone as I go from my calendar to my dialer back to my calendar back to my dialer as

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Abinash Tripathy is the CEO of Helpshift , a mobile help desk that powers customer service for hundreds of mobile applications. Mobile apps and games are known for their unprecedented customer growth and scale, unlike anything seen in traditional retail or Web commerce. Tiny, unknown apps can suddenly go viral and, seemingly overnight, grow to millions of users.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Bitcoin has been on a nice run over the last few months, currently trading above $500 USD/BTC. A large driver of the run up has been growing demand for Bitcoin in China. BTC China has always been the biggest Bitcoin exchange in China, and is now the biggest Bitcoin exchange in the world. We’ve been bullish about the opportunities in Bitcoin for a while and are excited to be able to announce that, together with our partners in China at Lightspeed China Partners , we are investors in BTC C

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Unicorn hunting is hard! As Aileen Lee’s recent blog post suggested , there are only a few dozen billion dollar+ companies created each decade. If you’re a large venture fund, you need to be invested in several of them in order to show returns considered upper-echelon. For early stage funds like ours ( Homebrew is a $35 million seed fund), backing a unicorn can result in overall ROI of 10x or higher.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News There was something almost surreally Texan about the Best of Great Britain Showcase Friday night at the Moody Theater at ACL Live. At one point, a conclave of what appeared to be seven-foot men in 10-gallon hats created a kind of Texan Stonehenge, towering over the crowd […] The post Formula One Fuels Tech Connections Between Austin and the U.K. appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Ari Newman has a guest post on Brad Feld’s blog which gives some great examples of how a board of directors can be useful. This is not your usual ‘access their rolodex and give strategic guidance’ faire which gets regularly served up, but more about how a board can help founders avoid mistakes, including mistakes that can kill a company.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'The Olympics are just around the corner. Just like the prior Olympics and the ones before that, the first place medal winners will be two seconds or two inches or two pounds faster, closer, or stronger than the competition. And those athletes will receive all the rewards and recognition. The waiter who caters to his customers just a little bit more than any other waiter wins.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. It’s time for our regular weekly podcast, the first with our new title – “Everything Entrepreneurship With Walter And Yaro” , including catchy intro and outtro music thanks to Carl from The Voice Market. In this episode we focus on the concept of Product Is Marketing , which was the topic of my … Read the rest of this entry » The post Applying The “Product Is Marketing” Principle To Information Products And Buyi

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Asking Startup Founders For Human and Financial Capital. Another group to consider asking for funding from is other startup founders and entrepreneurs. I know what you must be thinking, “I’m a startup founder and don’t have any money. I thought we were all in the same situation. How is another founder going to be able to afford and give me the funding I need to turn my idea into something tangible?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'How to Create a Culture of Referral Giving written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing This week I’ll be out in San Diego talking to owners and marketers of health clubs about referrals. I plan to use the occasion to make a point about how to create a culture of referral giving. photo credit: djwhelan via photopin cc.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'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 two weeks. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets “You have to think about people first and technology second” (& other solid nuggets via @biz ): tcrn.ch/1gsT8VL Quora: “What is the average amount of equity to give first round (seed) investors?

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Three months ago I was President and Chief Digital Officer of Engauge (a 250-person digital marketing agency) and had a wide range of responsibilities. Five different departments reported to me across three offices. There were days that I felt the meetings would not end. In no particular order, my responsibilities included: - Help keep our culture great. - Oversee our business development and marketing efforts. - Oversee the media department. - Oversee the technology department. - Oversee the i

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. The class has talked to 2,056 customers to date. Part 1 : issues in the therapeutics drug discovery pipeline. Part 2: medical devices and digital health. Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'What is the secret to long-term success? Why do some kids do well while others falter as they journey through life? The answers to these and more are found in Paul Tough’s “ How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character “ Written with the flourish of an accomplished New York Times journalist, the book takes you on a fascinating journey across different cities in the US while exploring how experiments in education revealed new insights to an age-old

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

'Jake Athey is the Marketing Manager for Widen Enterprises. When was the last time you were enthralled by B2B “content?”. If you’re struggling to remember, or are having daymares about your own content, the first thing you need to do is stop thinking of content as just “filler,” like packing peanuts or bubble wrap. Visiting a website with filler content is a lot like walking into a living room and finding a coffee table book like “ Extraordinary Chickens ” or “ United States Coinage: A Study By

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