Up and Running
MAY 28, 2013
'As small business owners, we tend to avoid a deep dive into strategy at the best of times. Face it, we are usually too busy fighting the day to day fires, keeping up with communications and managing the finances. Yet the time always comes when we need to put down the fire extinguisher long enough to take a hard look at how we are going to take our businesses to a new level.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 28, 2013
The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. “Companies are facing continuous disruption. Business-as-usual is not a credible response,” Blank writes in the cover story of the May issue of the Harvard Business Review : Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 28, 2013
'Most entrepreneurs struggle with financial projections, not wanting to commit to numbers they can’t deliver, and having no clue what investors might consider reasonable. However, making no projections, or non-credible projections will get your startup marked as unfundable. I recommend a simple set of guidelines, which work for at least 80% of the business plans I see.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2013
'by Tiffany Matthews. Are you thinking of starting your own business? Many people have plans to become their own boss and manage their own company. There are those, however, who get so caught up in their plans and dwell too long and too much on trivial matters. Planning is indeed crucial but you should focus more time on the essentials. Here are a few things you need to keep in mind when starting your own business: It’s Not about the Size.
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
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2013
'Our investment in Gnip keeps getting better and better. While the company is growing like crazy and the financial results would make any investor giddy, what really gets me excited is to see how Gnip is disrupting how business decisions are made. Gnip believes that someday every significant business decision will include social data as an input and they’ve been working hard for the last five years to make this vision a reality.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2013
'by Annie Jie Xu, General Manager of Alibaba.com , Americas. With many women still struggling to find a role in male-dominated boardrooms, a growing number are branching out and setting up their own companies. In the US alone, women-owned enterprises are starting up at a rate of around 550 a day, and this trend is being mirrored across the globe, with figures from the Enterprise Research Centre showing that businesses led by women add around £130 billion to the UK economy.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2013
'How much do Singaporeans price their digital assets? According to a recent Global Digital Assets survey conducted by computer security software company McAfee , that value stands at $57,500 – almost the cost of acquiring a private university education in Singapore. The amount estimates the total financial value across the various digital items – photos, videos and documents – that the average Singaporean owns, according to the survey which compiled responses from over 6,000 gl
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 28, 2013
'I was a terrible student. And by terrible I mean, really bad. So bad that, in fact, that when applying to colleges I was put on the wait list of a school who literally accepted any Mormon kid with a pulse. After some back and forth with the admissions office we agreed that they would give me a test run during summer semester that year and that if I got a 3.0 GPA or higher, they would let me stay.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2013
'Louisville, Kentucky-based online retailer of stock and user-customized on demand products CafePress has launched PressIt , a simple and effective way for bloggers or small businesses to monetize their original images and other content, by making it simple to put them on products like t-shirts, mugs and tote bags. PressIt is a free, downloadable script that can be added to any Web page whose content a blogger or business owner believes may generate unique e-commerce product revenue (images, gra
Business Plan Blog
MAY 28, 2013
'As an aspiring entrepreneur, you will want to launch your startup in a fertile environment with ample funding and quality of life (for good employees and good prospects likely seek out this characteristic in determining where they will put down their roots). To gauge the health of small-business lending in each city, NerdWallet analyzed business loans made by community banks in 2012.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 28, 2013
'Now that I’m an Android phone* guy, I figured it was time I shared my homescreen and talked about some of the apps I’m using. I’m really hoping that some of my Android friends will share the apps that they love as well, because I’m really only a few months into this whole Android thing. My Samsung Galaxy S4 (Android) Homescreen The first thing I did with the Samsung Galaxy S4 was use the app Nova Launcher Prime ($4) to get the look and feel that I prefer.
ithacaVC
MAY 28, 2013
'I have posted about communication often. Just type “communication” into the search field and see what pops up. This morning I read Mark Suster’s post called “8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board” It is all about communication with board members (a bunch of whom are often investors). No surprise – I love what Mark wrote.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 28, 2013
'The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?".
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 28, 2013
'Originally published in KillerStartups How do you go about clearly communicating your startup vision to your team so that each person in the company moves in unison towards executing that vision? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 28, 2013
'I first heard the term in the 4th grade. I was waiting to perform a magic act at my school’s talent show. Off the stage walked Juliana Verde. She had just completed a truly amazing tap dance routine to God Bless America. The applause and cheers were deafening. The teacher patted me on my back and said “Knock ‘em dead, kid.” Two hundreds parents waited in front of the curtain.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 28, 2013
'One of the greatest lead generation tactics around is the trusted referral. I mean, I know you know that, but what are you actually doing to take advantage of it? photo credit: Wicked LIttle Cake Company via photopin cc. What are you doing to make certain that every single day dozens of unpaid sales calls are being made on your behalf? Sound intriguing?
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