YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2014
'by Asif Khan, CEO of Caremerge. Fundraising is arguably the most important issue for any entrepreneur. Without financial backing, even the most brilliant idea will never see the light of day. This is a daily fight for start-ups as they delicately balance cultivating their billion dollar idea while struggling to come up with the next hundred dollars to keep the lights on.
Growthink Blog
MAY 28, 2014
'I have greatly appreciated the positive responses to my posts last week on " Doing As Warren Does " as to applying the principles utilized to make Berkshire Hathaway the most successful investment company of all time. And it is understandable why so many people - from very different world views and levels of financial sophistication - rightly consider Mr.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2014
'Video conferencing may be a staple of modern communications, but the technology is still young enough to leave room for improvement. Depending on how you prepare, a video conference can be the easiest thing on Earth or one of the most unpleasant experiences you can imagine. The following 10 tips should help ensure that whenever you conference, you conference in an enjoyable, productive way: 1.
deal architect
MAY 28, 2014
'I did a couple of (un-enjoyable) years to start my career at Price Waterhouse. I audited accounting processes at several companies and government agencies. 3 decades later I am still surprised how inconsistently many of those processes have evolved. Accounts.
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
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2014
'In the old days, companies purchased PCs that either had an operating system (most likely Windows) already installed, or they installed Windows using a CD-ROM to each individual machine. Workers would boot up their computers and do work from their own desktop. With today’s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), instead of installing corporate desktops on every endpoint machine, companies store workers’ desktops on servers.
Rembrandt Communications
MAY 28, 2014
'Are you doing what it takes to grow your business? If you are a small business owner, you know how difficult it can be to compete. You not only have competition on a local level, but you may be struggling to win new clients from large, national corporations as well. Being an entrepreneur is tough, […].
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 28, 2014
'Post written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts for The Lean Startup Conference We’re seeking speakers we don’t already know for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 10 -11 in San Francisco. Our call for proposals is open now , and if you know already that you want to apply, jump to it (but read the directions first!). If you’ve never applied to speak at The Lean Startup Conference before—or never even considered it before—here are a few things to keep in mind, some of them s
The Next Web
MAY 28, 2014
'John McLaughlin is a start-up founder and entrepreneur based in Manhattan and a writer for Fueled, a mobile development company based in New York City. These days, it seems like some tech companies go from zero to a million users overnight. The growth of these firms — Airbnb and Uber might service as recent examples — can seem magical… but it’s not.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2014
'I’m an investor in a bunch of VC funds. Some of them recycle their management fees; others don’t. I’ve never really understood why funds don’t recycle their management fees. Understanding what “recycling management fees” means is a fundamental part of understanding the economics of a venture firm. Here’s how it works.
VC Cafe
MAY 28, 2014
'When I was a product manager at Gerson Lehrman Group, Ask.com and AOL, I developed an addiction to trying out new products as soon as (or before) they hit the market. This got me the nickname ‘Beta W**re’ (I personally prefer ‘Beta addict’) by some of my colleagues. Behind the fascination of playing with a new toy for the first time, there was an element of research: How did the PM think about onboarding a new user?
The Next Web
MAY 28, 2014
'Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures. The team, the product and the size of the market: these three ingredients are typically preached to us as the key to a successful startup. But what if someone much bigger or much better funded comes along, essentially copies the product, devotes a much larger team to the task and spends heavily on sales and marketing to grab the market?
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 28, 2014
'Have a great idea, protect it!! Here are a few ways to help secure your proprietary information. 1. File A Patent. Depending on the industry, it may be the best option even though it can be very expensive. Filing for a provisional patent can be done through websites like LegalZoom.com and cost about $300, a well worthwhile investment in the long run. 2.
Up and Running
MAY 28, 2014
'Vanity metrics measure how much you’re being seen, but they don’t tell you much about how your business is doing. With the ease of data collection in today’s technological landscape, it’s easy to get bogged down in performance metrics. But “more numbers” doesn’t always translate into a better understanding of what your company needs.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MAY 28, 2014
'How do you make a sale online? You need a product or service. You need people who are motivated enough to buy it. And you need the technology to facilitate the transaction and delivery. Easy right? Some People Sell “Harder” In Order To Make A Sale Than Others. You can feel the difference between a hard sell and a soft … Read the rest of this entry » The post How Do You Make A Sale?
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MAY 28, 2014
'Have you made the Creative Choice? There is a ton of written material about creativity and innovation. I make an effort to keep up with the waves of literature — there’s a new methodology, a new process, fresh brain research, best practices, anti-best practices, etc. Some of this literature is quite good. There is also stuff about how creativity relates to mysticism and spirituality, also quite interesting.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 28, 2014
'My news feeds were buzzing this morning with talk of two product demos at codecon yesterday. Interestingly they were both from large, established companies, not startups: Google co-founder Sergey Brin demonstrated a ‘built From scratch to be driverless’ car with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Microsoft’s new CEO Saya Nadella demonstrated real time speech-to-speech translation on Skype (which he brilliantly described as fulfilling a dream that humanity has had for thousa
Start Up Blog
MAY 28, 2014
'I recently saw a prototype for the Google self drive car – It’s picture is below and looks kinda cute / cool / weird. Anyone who follows the technology world will know that Google have successfully driven their self drive cars without incident for more than million miles. But up until now, the cars have been retro fitted Toyota and Lexus’s – other companies cars they fitted their self drive technology to.
SiliconHills
MAY 28, 2014
'Yan Engines, a recent graduate of the Austin Technology Incubator, has closed on $2 million in funding. The company has also developed a fuel efficient car engine and landed a contract to create a truck engine for the U.S. military. Yan Engines recently graduated from ATI’s Clean Energy Incubator. The company also works closely with […] The post Yan Engines Closes on $2 million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
MAY 28, 2014
'The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), part of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), today congratulates Yan Engines on its company momentum.
Rob Go
MAY 28, 2014
'I’ve seen many founders make this mistake over the past 7 years, so I thought it was worth a post. Surprisingly, one of the hardest types of VC pitches (and one that a lot of founders struggle with) is the pitch to existing investors. This is the “update meeting” to the broader investment team of an existing VC. Often, this might happen relatively early in the fundraising process, but sometimes, it happens later.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
MAY 28, 2014
'I had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with the folks that blog at Insurance 321. I shared my continued concerns about the recession plaguing Main Street and small business owners: Small business owners and entrepreneurs face an endless stream of challenges, and one of the biggest that’s been nagging them since 2008 is the weak economy, says Dr.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 28, 2014
'Are You Sending the Message You Want to Send? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Nick Morgan. You’ve probably come upon some variation of the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote – “Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.” . photo credit: greggoconnell via photopin cc.
abovethecrowd.com
MAY 28, 2014
'In early April, Neel Mehta of Google first publicly reported the web vulnerability that we now refer to as the Heartbleed bug. Early analysis suggested that 17% of the servers on the Internet were vulnerable, which represents about half a million unique computers. This list included some of the world’s most heavily trafficked sites including Facebook, Google, and Yahoo.
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