Agile VC
MAY 13, 2013
'When we meet with entrepreneurs and ask about their competitive advantage or special sauce, one of the common responses is first mover advantage. ”We’re the first company to do X in an rapidly growing market” or similar. I’ve always felt being the first mover is a comparatively weak advantage and have been thinking about this more recently.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2013
'by Christine Comaford, author of “ SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together “ Most leaders know that command & control is dead and that fear doesn’t motivate employees. Quite the opposite, in fact. That’s why, for the most part, we refrain from doing scary things. (Only the worst “bully bosses” make it a practice to scream at an employee, or call him abusive names, or threaten to fire him the next time he makes the coffee too strong.
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Start Up Blog
MAY 13, 2013
'I’m totally in love with Modern Seinfeld on Twitter ( @seinfeldtoday ). Each day I tune into the stream hoping for some more tweets which serve up more 140 characters of Seinfeld goodness. For the uninitiated, Modern Seinfeld is an ‘unofficial’ tweet stream in which each tweet is the synopsis for a fictional modern day Seinfeld episode.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2013
'by Jeff Hindenach, Editor with NextAdvisor.com. Getting a business loan is not always easy, especially in the current credit market. Many businesses are looking to business credit cards to help them fund startup costs when they are first building their business. So what should you consider when looking for a business credit card ? Why get a business credit card?
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
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
'For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! has now employed the same strategy. And who cares, right? A couple of tech giants throw millions around in either cash (for which they have hoards) or part with some publicly traded stock.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 13, 2013
'The universal challenge of every startup founder is to get everything done that needs to get done, and still have a life. Even outside of business, everyone wants to accomplish more, while working less. I’ve been a student of these techniques for some time, but some time ago I saw a great summary that seems to pull all the key principles together. Stever Robbins, known on the Internet as the Get-It-Done Guy, outlines his strategies in his book “ 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More.
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Steve Blank
MAY 13, 2013
'The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it’s just going to get worse. It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees. —-. I grew up in New York City and for a few years heaven on earth for me was going to Boy Scout camp in the summer near the Delaware River.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2013
'by Matt Boyd, co-founder of Sqwiggle.com. They’re staring you in the face. Emails. Your inbox says you have 27 unread messages waiting for your response. You know for a fact there are some important ones but you don’t care. It can wait until tomorrow. Or can it? Does procrastination have a dominant position in your daily life cycle? If so, then you’re just like the millions of people who deal with the same issue.
Steve Blank
MAY 13, 2013
'The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it’s just going to get worse. It’s time to teach Cyber Security as integral part of the high school and college curriculum and to all corporate employees. —-. I grew up in New York City and for a few years heaven on earth for me was going to Boy Scout camp in the summer near the Delaware River.
The Next Web
MAY 13, 2013
'If you’re a student and aspiring startup founder, you’re going to want to pay close attention to the following. Startup Dream Team , started by Paris, France-based student organization Silicon Students , is actively looking for 45 young aspiring entrepreneurs from all around the world who are interested in joining a 9-week summer program in Silicon Valley.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2013
'by Ade Putra. Singapore is no stranger to the magic of crowdfunding. We’ve seen local filmmakers, musicians and product designers leverage on the new medium but strangely enough, not game developers. That changes with Dusty Revenge , the latest from Singapore-based PD Design Studio. They’re only looking to fund their artbook but before we get into that, let’s see what the game’s all about.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
MAY 13, 2013
'For decades the leading network companies have been tightly coupling their software to complex, custom-built chips. Besides leaving IT buyers with a staggering array of appliances, the reliance on custom silicon has chilled industry startup activity. But with software defined networking (SDN) , that is beginning to change. Check out my article in Network World for a look at the evolution of the SDN market, where we are today and what it means for entrepreneurs [link].
Feld Thoughts
MAY 13, 2013
'The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU is looking to hire a new Director. As part of the Leeds School of Business, the Deming Center prepares students across CU’s campus to think like entrepreneurs, act as social innovators and deliver as successful business leaders. It actively engages the community members of Boulder in order to accomplish this.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 13, 2013
'Paul Graham just published an essay which details eighteen reasons startups fail. As he points out, somewhat tongue in cheek, an exhaustive list of reasons why startups fail is actually a prescription for success, and therefore a very big ask. That doesn’t stop him trying though. And who better to have a go? The whole essay is worth reading, but for those of you that don’t have time I’m going to pull out two of his points.
The Next Web
MAY 13, 2013
'There are lots of ways to finance your latest business venture, but one of the funnest ones remains offering a product or service in exchange for money, and people paying for it. You should totally employ that strategy for your startup! We kid, we kid, but not really. It’s no secret monetizing a digital service can be tough, but all too often ‘advertising’ – rather than charging users – is the answer to the vital question “so what’s your business plan?
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 13, 2013
'Have you run meetings where no one actively participates? Where no one voices an opinion or asks a question? Where you just get lots of blank gazes, empty nods and half smiles? Not all meetings are necessary, some can be run as a huddle and others need to be the traditional presentation, minus the empty nods and half smiles. In those circumstances, you can use a group goal list to get everyone more engaged.
The Next Web
MAY 13, 2013
'There are lots of ways to finance your latest business venture, but one of the funnest ones remains offering a product or service in exchange for money, and people paying for it. You should totally employ that strategy for your startup! We kid, we kid, but not really. It’s no secret monetizing a digital service can be tough, but all too often ‘advertising’ – rather than charging users – is the answer to the vital question “so what’s your business plan?
Growthink Blog
MAY 13, 2013
'It is hard not to laugh when I hear tired old refrains like "Nobody reads business plans anymore" or "In the world of lean startups, there is no time for strategic planning." Why do otherwise intelligent and well-meaning businesspeople think things like this? Well, for starters as human beings we all struggle to emotionally grasp the impact of the history not made, of the things that don''t happen.
SiliconHills
MAY 13, 2013
'Damon Clinkscales, organizer of Founder Dating in Austin, is organizing AngelHack in Austin, which takes place on June 1st at Mass Relevance’s headquarters at eighth and Brazos. Clinkscales provided the post below and even included a discount to the event for Silicon Hills News reader. So don’t wait, act now. Ready to take your big [.] The post Sign Up for AngelHack in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
OnlyOnce
MAY 13, 2013
'Book Short: Getting to MVP. Usually, when we hear the term MVP, we think Most Valuable Player. But in my line of work, that acronym has come to mean something entirely different: Minimum Viable Product. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works , by Ash Maurya, is an incredibly useful, practical how-to guide for any entrepreneur with an idea from concept through to MVP, or the smallest bit of functionality that you can get customers to pay for.
SiliconHills
MAY 13, 2013
'By LAURA LOREK Founder Silicon Hills News Startup founders can learn a lot from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that. And on Monday, three serial entrepreneurs in Austin shared some of the challenges they faced in building their companies and some tips on how others can succeed. Sam Decker, co-founder of Mass Relevance, [.] The post Startup Advice from Serial Entrepreneurs in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
MAY 13, 2013
'TheStreet, a leading digital financial media company, announced today an agreement with 9W Search, Inc. of Austin, Texas to provide visitors of The Street.com with access to its innovative financial answer engine.
SiliconHills
MAY 13, 2013
'More and more women are starting up companies. Intuit, which has a venture capital firm, ranks the best cities for female entrepreneurs and found that San Francisco ranks first, followed by Seattle and Washington, D.C. Austin ranks seventh and Houston earns an honorable mention. San Antonio is not on the list. For more on female [.] The post Austin Ranks Seventh in Top Cities for Female Entrepreneurs appeared first on SiliconHills.
ithacaVC
MAY 13, 2013
'A friend of mine sent me a 10 page VC Rejection Letter (that landed in his inbox). I am going for put this into the “almost must read category” It completely cracked me up, and will either make you (i) hate VCs, (ii) realize that VCs can find a way to get to “NO” under almost any circumstance, (iii) realize that the letter actually has some very good tips for those raising $$ and/or (iv) make you laugh.
SiliconHills
MAY 13, 2013
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Brandon Knicely, managing director of Portico International and founder of Austin Innovation Partners, has started mid-cap companies and small companies, invested in developing nations and worked for non-profits in New York City. He’s served on advisory boards from New York to Silicon Valley and he’s almost never [.
Campus Entrepreneurship
MAY 13, 2013
'I love when data for my research arrives in my email inbox. Thank you Sramana Mitra , Jeff Nobbs of Extrabux, and USC!: Sramana: Jeff, let’s start with the beginning of your story. Where are you from? What are the circumstances that led up to the Extrabux story? Jeff Nobbs: I am from San Diego. I was born in Northern California and spent two months there before I decided it wasn’t for me!
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 13, 2013
'Land grab. That''s the term that Fred Ehrsam, founder of Bitcoin startup Coinbase, used to describe the current state of play in the Bitcoin ecosystem. It''s an interesting term, one that a) makes me uncomfortable as an investor and b) I''m not sure totally applies to a marketplace that is all about decentralization and openness. First of all, it''s a real estate term, obviously.
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