Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

We are experiencing a frenetic time. I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus mak

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Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2015

My favorite quote on business planning is when former president Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “The plan is useless; but planning is essential.”. What I’ve always taken from that is the importance of keeping a plan live; reviewing it, and revising it. The core concept of my work on lean business planning is that cycle: plan-run-review-revise. One of my favorite quotes from what I’ve written previously is “The value of a plan is the decisions it causes.” All of which brings me to the sub

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 18, 2015

How to Use Email Tracking to Dramatically Ramp Up Sales written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s no secret that email marketing metrics offer great insights. They let you learn from your customers’ behavior and steer your marketing ship accordingly. But how do you find the best strategy for connecting with customers and prospects directly?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2015

Nearly 6.8 million Americans work at least two jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The advice to moonlight or start a side gig may point to a struggling economy, job losses or a way to simply bolster your earning potential and learn new skills. Regardless of why you want to launch a side business, there are issues to consider. Protecting your day job and ensuring high productivity can lead to burnout without the right processes and tools in place.

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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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Version One Ventures

JUNE 18, 2015

Last October, we made our first investment out of Fund II and are excited to announce this news today as the company launches publicly out of beta. Volley is a friendly place for helping others solve problems online. Volley members can post requests in response to the question, “What are you looking for?” You can sift through a list of requests quickly and either reply directly to a request, volley it on to someone you know who can help, or just skip it if you can’t think of anyone in your net

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. When recruiting elite sales talent, nothing can be more debilitating than making a poor offer of employment. Once time, money and hearts are invested in a particular candidate, losing them to a counter offer can be devastating. Great employees are hard to find, highly sought after and almost always gainfully employed.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2015

A lot of young entrepreneurs rush into business without giving it the proper thought and consideration beforehand. This is never a good idea. So, make sure you can answer these questions in detail before you get started: Is My Idea Original? Each business needs to be doing something new and original when they start a new business. There’s little point in starting a business if there’s an established business out there already doing what you’re doing.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 18, 2015

We like to turn startups into graphs – valuation graphs, usage graphs, market share graphs. But they’re actually stories; stories about people. After 18 months of quiet, now we get to share stories about Bond Street , a SMB lending platform which announced their $110 million equity + debt Series A raise today. Our Bond Street story starts in the fall of 2013 when we’re introduced to CEO/cofounder David Haber by a founder we backed earlier in the year. “David and Peyton a

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2015

I started writing this blog back in 2006 when Twitter was only three months old and long form content user generated content was all the rage. Back then lots of people wrote blogs whereas today most folk rely on Twitter to share their views and news with the world. Periodically I revisit whether I should change from my pattern of daily blogging in favour of more tweeting, which would give me more reach for less effort, but I haven’t made the switch in part because of the feeling that blogg

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 18, 2015

When you’re running a business, you need reliable employees who show up when they’re needed and put in their time.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

If you could predict a crisis within your business before its occurrence, wouldn’t you move to prevent or reduce its impact? Making such predictions is a skill that can be developed, and here’s one method of doing so. There are five basic kinds of internal risks than a business faces over time. Of course, there are external risks that cannot be controlled or predicted, but can be planned for as well –. natural disasters, sudden political or economic events that rattle the entire economy, and mo

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 18, 2015

Daily task management is absolutely essential for improving team performance.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 18, 2015

Here is the video recording of the talk I gave at 500 Startups ‘ PreMoney Conference in San Francisco on 12 June. . Seed Is The New A: What The Seed-Stage Explosion Means For Founders, GPs & LPs. And the deck from my talk. Thanks to 500 Startups #PreMoney. As always I welcome your thoughts and feedback. You may also follow me on @Twitter at @ ManuKumar , and for all things @ K9Ventures K9 Ventures is also on Facebook and Google+.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 18, 2015

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Ian Brennan , best known as the creator of Glee (and a little bit different than some of our other featured speakers).

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

[soundcloud url="[link] params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]. In this wide-ranging conversation that took place at our annual investor meeting, Fortune's Dan Primack interviews Marc Andreessen -- and asks him the tough questions about lots of 'stuff'.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JUNE 18, 2015

“A technological singularity is a fundamental change in the nature of human civilization, technology, and application of intelligence, to the point where the state of the culture is completely unpredictable to humans existing prior to the change.” –Siri There has been and there is still a lot of heated debate, with partisans lined up on both sides, and many competing claims surrounding singularity: what it means, when it might happen, and what the implications are.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 18, 2015

I am in the final month of my dissertation at George Mason University. This blog grew out of my early research, as did the twitter handle Campus_Entre. I’ve learned a great deal and am happy with the database of high growth student entrepreneurs, their firms, and schools, as well as the case study of the University of Chicago. . I also developed basic campus ‘pathways’ based on themes that emerged from the qualitative and quantitative data collected.

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Brandanew

JUNE 18, 2015

It’s not uncommon for clients to think about getting their own Content Marketing strategies and implementation plans in place. Content Marketing and not SEO back-linking or keyword infested text is a long term and serious brand investment. How much does Content Marketing cost is dependent on several factors including your existing properties. In this post I will try and go through some of the factors that the cost varies with.

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