YoungUpstarts
JULY 23, 2013
'by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D. Today, as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, it seems we are approach a new Middle Ages in America, as inequality increasingly spreads through the land. It is as if the superrich are like the new royalty and the top 1% are living in mansions like the old castles of kings in the kingdoms that eventually melded into Europe and the U.K.
Growthink Blog
JULY 23, 2013
'Every successful business requires a lot of planning. From market research to internal corporate structure, the planning stages of starting and growing a business can be quite extensive. While this preparation is a key factor in the success of any company, there are a few things which far too many business owners neglect. Planning for success and growth is important, but smart businesses are also prepared for the worst case scenario.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
'I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. It’s why it’s important to establish a brand, know what your key messages are and communicate them often and simply. I have published many of these PR Tips before.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 23, 2013
'Marketo filed for IPO with impressive 80% year-over-year growth in 2012, with almost $60m in revenue. Except, they lost $35m. WTF? It’s not impressive when you spend $1.60 for every $1.00 of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. Don’t tell me this is normal for growing enterprise SaaS companies. I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel.
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
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 23, 2013
'Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “Founder’s Syndrome.” A few years ago I was intimately involved with a promising startup that taught me about this issue.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 23, 2013
'[ Screenshot from Prayer Times in Islam ]. The Holy Month of Ramadan has begun! Muslims around the world have been leveraging the use of technology, especially mobile applications, to help them observe the holy month with ease. iOS or Android device owners especially have a wide range of choices; if you’re a Windows 8 or Windows Phone user, no worries, there are plenty of options to choose from as well, whether it is finding out prayer timings, find the Qibla or listen to Surahs from the
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 23, 2013
'To-do and task manager apps are a dime to the dozen, but a really good one that can be used across pretty much any mobile device or browser and have data synced across every one of them? None too common. But there’s where Todoist shines – the task management software is available on a whopping 11 different platforms, with the recent introduction of its iOS and Android tablet app versions.
The Next Web
JULY 23, 2013
'Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Brian Mosko. Here he discusses how to manage relationships and make the most of outsourcing development work. 1. Judge the work, not the person. Any country is fine to work with. Don’t hold on to stereotypes, and judge based on the performance and submitted portfolio. Yes, there may be some language barriers, but for the most part, it’s normally syntax, so subjects may be in the wrong place.
Version One Ventures
JULY 23, 2013
'People say that hindsight is 20/20. After working knee-deep in the trenches for a year or two, you gain a better appreciation of where to focus, what to let go, and how you can do things (or should have done things) better. There’s no shortage of advice out there for startup founders. But since entrepreneurs are usually the best qualified to give fellow entrepreneurs advice on how to deal with the challenges of the job, I’ve asked several portfolio founders to share the invaluable lessons learn
VC Adventure
JULY 23, 2013
'Update below with the final email in the chain where the entrepreneur apologizes (and talks about some challenges around fundraising that led to his frustration). I just tweeted about an unfortunate email exchange I just had with a company founder, but 140 characters isn’t enough to really do the matter justice. And more important than my venting (and to be clear this post is definitely part that) is the real issue that many entrepreneurs face about how to handle a “rejection”
Mucker Lab
JULY 23, 2013
'At som e point in the life cycle of any successful company, it will have to abandon what made it successful in the first place. In the search for growth, the original customer, the initial wedge entry point, the early adopter will, by definition, will have to be left behind for the larger and more mainstream market opportunity. Today’s eBay looks vastly different than the eBay of the early 2000′s.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 23, 2013
'I just watched this Techcrunch TV interview with Mike Jones, CEO of Science Inc , an LA based startup foundry focused on ecommerce (apologies for not embedding it, but I couldn’t make it work – any ideas welcome). As I see it, along with Betaworks , Science is one of the top two startup foundries in the US and it is interesting to note the things that Mike thinks are important to say when he describes what he was up to.
SiliconHills
JULY 23, 2013
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The culture of a business is partly planned, partly organic and partly pure accident or serendipity, according to the speakers at Extraordinary Culture/Extraordinary Business at Mass Relevance Monday night. Matt Chasen, founder of uShip, Sam Decker, co-founder and CEO of Mass Relevance, Liz Elam, curator of Link [.
VC Adventure
JULY 23, 2013
'Maybe it’s because I always love the back story of how an idea came together or because I’m particularly partial to team stories, but I love checking out the “About Us” or “Team” pages on websites. And while many (too many) are really bland, some companies really take the opportunity to show off their story, talk about their mission or present their team in an interesting way.
Up and Running
JULY 23, 2013
'Making customers happy is great for business, and so most managers don’t think beyond the basic tenet of customer service that “the customer is always right.” They train their employees to embrace that principle and do whatever it takes to please a customer. Which is great, except for the times when the customer is wrong. Customers are human, and they can be rude, condescending, mean and even bigoted.
Babbling VC
JULY 23, 2013
'Enough with the excessive "value-add" posts.please.begin rant: I have advised to find the best VC when raising capital and not just the ones who give the highest valuation. Nevertheless, I think a lot of VC''s are a bit delusional as I may have been too. Ever more VC''s are blogging about all this value-add they deliver and the topics of their posts are often so detached from the reality out there that it''s comical. .
Up and Running
JULY 23, 2013
'In start-up culture, things move fast, and you depend on your employees to pull through and get big projects done on short timelines. But after logging a few long days and working hard, your employees can start to lose their juice. We asked members of the Young Entrepreneur Council —an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising entrepreneurs—a simple yet interesting question: How do you keep your employees motivated when there’s a big project or deadline?
Mucker Lab
JULY 23, 2013
'Erik happened to be on vaca so they ended up having to interview the looser canon on the team. I hope I didn’t say anything stupid More on Inside MuckerLab on TechCrunch.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 23, 2013
'The Anatomy of Inbound Selling written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing For that last few years marketers have been using the term “inbound” to define a major shift in buyer behavior. With so many ways to block out unwanted messages and traditional outbound marketing and sales efforts, smart marketers have turned heavily to an approach that is more about being found than going out and hunting. photo credit: contemplative imaging via photopin cc
VC Adventure
JULY 23, 2013
Maybe it’s because I always love the back story of how an idea came together or because I’m particularly partial to team stories, but I love checking out the “About Us” or “Team” pages on websites. And while many (too many) are really bland, some companies really take the opportunity to show off their story, talk about their mission or present their team in an interesting way.
Jeff Hilimire
JULY 23, 2013
'I’ve been enjoying reading some of Mark Suster ‘s blog posts and watching some of his videos on YouTube lately. He’s both an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist and I find I agree with almost everything he says. In the video below, Mark gives advice to new entrepreneurs and talks about “wantrepreneurs” These are people that want to be an entrepreneur but never actually do it.
VC Adventure
JULY 23, 2013
Update below with the final email in the chain where the entrepreneur apologizes (and talks about some challenges around fundraising that led to his frustration). I just tweeted about an unfortunate email exchange I just had with a company founder, but 140 characters isn’t enough to really do the matter justice. And more important than my venting (and to be clear this post is definitely part that) is the real issue that many entrepreneurs face about how to handle a “rejection”
Early Growth Financial Services
JULY 23, 2013
'Originally published in Upmarket. What is ONE thing you did in your company that had the biggest impact on culture? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library and emai
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 23, 2013
'The claim that social media will drive more customers to your business than search, email or other traditional and online marketing channels has once again been exposed as a myth. Or has it? A recent study by Custora found that email marketing and search deliver more profitable customers than social media. I wrote an opinion for Entrepreneur Magazine about the Custora study: Does Search Produce Better Customers Than Social Media?
Business Plan Blog
JULY 23, 2013
'Startup Valuation is Tricky Business. A valuation is simply an estimated value of a company and is often based on assumptions surrounding the company’s current and future potential. There are several factors to consider when valuing a company including the startup stage that the company is in, prior successes, how much money is needed and for what purposes, the type of investor that is being targeted, how similar companies are valued, the management team of the company and the exit strat
YoungUpstarts
JULY 23, 2013
'Akamai just released its State Of The Internet report for the first quarter of this year, and Indonesia has gotten itself into the report for mostly the wrong reasons. When it came to attack traffic – defined as malignant Internet traffic malignant traffic such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks – the fourth most populous nation in the world barely ranked at all in last year’s 4th quarter report.
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