crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 16, 2014
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
Feld Thoughts
MAY 16, 2014
'As Boulder Startup Week 2014 comes to an end, I have been reflecting on the power of startup communities today. When I wrote Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City , I made some assertions about how to build startup communities and what the impact of them would be on society. As I sit here at the end of a week pondering everything that is going on in the world around startup communities, I believe I have vastly underestimated their potential impact.
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The Next Web
MAY 16, 2014
'Paul Orlando is an entrepreneur, co-founder and director of AcceleratorHK, a mobile startup accelerator. He is the author of Startup Sacrilege for the Underdog Entrepreneur. I co-founded and ran a startup accelerator in Hong Kong, a city which was recently called the number one tech capital to watch by Forbes. That being said, Hong Kong is not yet what we’d call a tech hub.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 16, 2014
'Metrics such as cumulative registered users and total number of downloads are often called vanity metrics because they can make you feel good even when your startup is going south. Eric Reis coined the term back in 2009 to make the point that collecting metrics per se can be worse than useless and actionable metrics are the only ones worth collecting.
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
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 16, 2014
'Dollar Tree. Smucker''s. Uber. If the Bloomberg story is right, all three of these companies are now worth about $10 billion. I don''t know about you, but I''m pretty sure I''d rather own Uber than all of the crappy Dollar Tree stores or a peanut butter company. Plus, I''m more of a almond butter guy anyway. I don''t totally understand why people get obsessed with valuations--especially given that the complete lack of context around a deal.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 16, 2014
'More people are starting businesses than ever before. The fact is many of these entrepreneurial start ups are guaranteed to fail, since they were started for one of these 5 WRONG reasons: Desperation. Desperate people do desperate things. With the unemployment rate being so low, former great employees are trying to become (marginal) entrepreneurs. Unfortunately this does not work.
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David Cohen
MAY 16, 2014
'Technology is changing lives — even saving lives — in Africa, the world’s second most populous continent. For entrepreneurs, this also presents an opportunity of epic proportions. In Rwanda, for example, where electricity is available to less than a quarter of the population, more than 60 percent of people now have access to mobile phones.
Start Up Blog
MAY 16, 2014
'I’ve recently watched a few presentations which really below my mind. Re-shaped my thinking on the next iterations of the technology revolution. Most interestingly, they all focus on independent systems, peer to peer and the end of the middle. Jeremy Rivkin – The zero marginal cost society. Mike Hearn – The trade net. Albert Wenger – World in Transition.
Austin Startup
MAY 16, 2014
'StepOne, the adaptive self-service company, today announced the launch of their Contextual Care™ system in limited distribution. The company’s flagship product Contextual Care makes it easy for customers to resolve their own problems online by proactively delivering personalized support recommendations based on contextual data. StepOne has deployments currently with two global communication service providers, Telstra (Australia''s largest telecomm, a $38B company) and a Tier 1 U.S. cable compan
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 16, 2014
'The Best Marketing Doesn’t Feel Like Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Mark Penson – Enjoy! . photo credit: Survey Anyplace. The relationships we have with the brands in our lives hinge on the quality of the interactions.
The Startup Lawyer
MAY 16, 2014
'Tech Wildcatters Pitch Day 2014 will be held on Thursday, May 22 from 1 to 3:30pm (Dallas Time) at the Granada Theater. At Pitch Day 2014, the 13 startups of the 2014 Tech Wildcatters class will present: -Akros Tech Labs -GetReal.Estate -GruupMeet -Guideally -iCcode -InstantAPI -My Dealer Service -Nexiden -Pledgecents -Upswing -Whichbox -YooLod -Zephos Tech […].
Up and Running
MAY 16, 2014
'According to Small Business Administration research , only half of new businesses survive for the first five years and only one-third of new businesses are able to survive for 10 years. The inverse is compelling as we can conclude that if only 50% of new businesses survive for the first five years, then the other 50% fail in the first five years. We can also conclude that about 65% of new businesses don’t make it to the ten-year mark.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 16, 2014
'I’m excited to announce the Aima event next Wednesday (the 21st, 6:30 – 9:30) that I’m moderating. The title of the event is, The real life of a social media marketer rock star. I have three terrific social media experts on the panel (including the guy that did this ) and I’m eager to ask them the tough questions ;). And the event is at the Atlanta Tech Village (home to my startup, Dragon Army , and 185 other startups!
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 16, 2014
'I’ve always said that startups are all about execution. Sometimes I encounter self-proclaimed entrepreneurs who have been “thinking” about a concept for many years, and haven’t started yet. Some of these may be visionaries, but none are real entrepreneurs - yet. Elon Musk has built several innovative companies, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and is worth about $12 billion.
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