YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'by Todd Patkin, author of “ Finding Happiness “ We all know that employee engagement matters. Yet again and again, studies point to a pervasive lack of it (for instance, a recent Gallup report indicates that only 13 percent of employees worldwide are engaged), as well as the incredible costs of this problem. No one can deny that disengaged employees are less productive, less innovative, less collaborative… less everything that leads to successful organizations.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Problem: one of the things I really like about startups and small businesses is also a frequent problem with the way they make decisions. Let me explain. . I love how so many startups and most small businesses are communities that work like small groups without a lot of hierarchy and structure. It’s so often like mice gathering around a big piece of cheese.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'I love dressing informally, maybe too much. My wife frequently reprimands me for dressing down. I recently met with a US Senator in slacks and a collar shirt (which I thought was being respectfully dressy!) and he wryly cracked that I looked awfully comfortable. I sometime teach my HBS class in jeans (please don''t tell the dean). But lately, I have been wondering if entrepreneurs have taken informality too far.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'I got a FitBit for Christmas and have joined the legions of folks who are part of the “quantified self” movement. So, I was tickled that Oracle at its HCM World conference is running a Wellness competition allowing attendees to.

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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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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Most consumer web/mobile companies focus on user growth and usage early in the company’s lifecycle before shifting to monetization. This is a logical thing to do… when we started LinkedIn, my mentor Reid Hoffman instilled a mantra of Growth –> Usage –> Revenue which still holds for many consumer companies. This is especially true for those with a media / ad based business model (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'by Bimal Parmar, VP of Marketing at Celayix. Startup authority and author of “ The Lean Startup “ Eric Ries defines a startup “as a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” With a perpetual air of uncertainty and chaos, the typical startup founders are more rule breakers than rule markers.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'If knowledge is power then every entrepreneurial startup should succeed because the information needed to do so is almost in plain sight, out there on the Internet. Fair enough, there’s probably a lot of weeding and sifting to be done to find the informational nuggets that really hit home. But when you do find them then the culmination of the search can turn into a genuine Eureka moment, one that will hopefully inspire and help push you over the startup hurdles you’ll probably come

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Enrique Allen is the co-director of Designer Fund where he provides angel funding, mentorship and connections to designers creating businesses with meaningful impact. He is also teaches at the Stanford d.school. . We’re on a roll as more designers succeed on the path of entrepreneurship, but how do we decide which startups to work with? We need to be more diligent about not spending our scarce attention working on startups that go nowhere and learn how to pick ones that actually live up to al

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Gust

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Investors absolutely need to know the specific financial status of a company before they invest, because they are going to be part owners of the business. How much would you be willing pay someone to take over their bank account if you had no idea how much was in it? So yes, it is absolutely standard practice for investors to require both existing financials that document the current state of the company into which they are investing, as well as projected financial statements giving them

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'I received several powerful emails in response to yesterday’s post Sometimes You Just Want To Scream. This often happens when I post about personal / emotional stuff – some folks would rather send a private email than post a public comment. I totally respect and appreciate that. A consistent theme in these emails was “I got through some of this by meditating.” That resonated with me as Amy and I have been talking about meditation for the past week.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Business Intelligence (BI) is the gift that keeps on giving. For years, startups have popped up, promising better insights and faster decision making capabilities, consistently resulting in new waves of highly valued companies. Take a look at the past decade, which has seen massive consolidation as well as a hot new set of public companies. For example, SAP snapped up Business Objects for $6.8B in 2009, IBM acquired Cognos for $5B in 2008, and Oracle acquired Hyperion for $3.3B in 2007.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'As a new business owner, you want to be smart with your money. Making wise business decisions and smart investments can vastly improve your revenue stream, but money can be hard to come by when you first open your doors. That’s why it’s important to know which business investments to avoid. We asked three business executives, with decades of small business finance experience, to offer investment advice to new entrepreneurs.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Ben Horowitz joked that he is like Kelly Rowland and Marc Andreesen is like the Beyoncé of their venture capital firm. Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, is a much more visible and famous partner, said Horowitz. Roland was one of the original members of Destiny’s Child, which disbanded […] The post Horowitz on Being Authentic and Success at Startup Grind 2014 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'What does Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Larry Page, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel have in common with me? We’ve all guest lectured at the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar. Here is me doing my best to not embarrass my fellow esteemed lecturers.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'[ Download MP3 | Subscribe In iTunes | Subscribe In Soundcloud ]. Lewis Howes was a college football player in the USA, who had his career cut short due to a broken wrist injury sustained in a game. Lewis left the world of football with no income, no knowledge of how to make money or any job prospects. His sister … Read the rest of this entry » The post Lewis Howes: How A Tragic End To His Pro Football Career Led To Making Millions Online appeared first on Entrepreneurs-J

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'We are looking for a Senior Designer to join our team at Forward Partners. If what we’re doing here is any good (and I think it is…) then it’s an exciting job on at least two levels. This is how I put it in an email to a friend: Here at Forward Partners we are working with entrepreneurs from the earliest stages to build amazing companies.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Listen up entrepreneur. Let’s talk about you, just you, for a moment. In addition to building your business, the most important thing you do everyday is sleep. Without proper sleep your performance flounders. Without any sleep you become immobilized. Unfortunately, us entrepreneurs think there are easy way outs and short cuts. We are innovators after all.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'A year into seed stage investing via Homebrew , I’ve realized what my VC role models have in common: self-awareness. They seem to know what their strengths are, which blind spots they need to correct for, and then not worry about what they aren’t. If 20 years from now it’s been proven that I was a great technology investor, it won’t be because I mimicked the best but rather found my own path.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'CopperEgg today announced year-end results for 2013, achieving 380 percent growth in monthly recurring revenues year-over-year, and adding 440 new customers. The company also named Chad Bockius as CEO, Heidi Farris as vice president of marketing, and Chris Yndo as vice president of sales.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In 2003, Jessica Herrin started Stella & Dot, making jewelry kits out of her home in Austin, Texas. This year, the company will do $220 million in revenue, Herrin said at Startup Grind 2014 in Mountain View, Calif. Stella & Dot sells boutique-style jewelry and accessories through […] The post Optimism and Obstacles on the Road to Success with Stella & Dot appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Famigo, a company providing safer experiences for children on mobile devices, today announced a partnership with United Way for Greater Austin around the Play To Learn initiative. Already proven successful for 200 local families, Play To Learn teaches parents how to help their children become school-ready.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News It can’t have been fun to be Arthur Gollwitzer III Tuesday night. The attorney and former prosecutor spent the evening flanked by Matthew Henry, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Perry Robinson, vice president and general counsel for Rackspace, on a panel that debated what […] The post Privacy in the Internet Age appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Yesterday was a really fun day for me and the Dragon Army team. I set up a field trip for us to go and get a walking tour of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s childhood home and neighborhood. We spent time in the home he was raised in until he was 12, hearing stories about how he did things that all young boys do but that you wouldn’t think of the great MLK doing (like jumping out of the second story window, acting as Superman)!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Lewis Howes was a college football player in the USA, who had his career cut short due to a broken wrist injury sustained in a game. Lewis left the world of football with no income, no knowledge of how to make money or any job prospects. His sister provided a. The post Lewis Howes: How A Tragic End To His Pro Football Career Led To Making Millions Online appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'Son, It’s Time We Talk About Where Start-Ups Come From. : "Much as your mind is screaming, “Go for it!” it is definitely not okay to have a strategy session with Chloë. Even if she is standing there looking all cute in front of a dry-erase board reassuring you there are no bad ideas.".

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'According to an Edison Research and Arbitron report in 2012, podcasting is becoming one of the more viable methods for acquiring and retaining customers. Originally, the study found podcasting awareness had remained rather flat for several years, dating back to about 2006 when the percentage of those surveyed who said they were familiar with the term podcasting sat at only 22%.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

'How Do You Cultivate Work You Love? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Cal Newport. photo credit: Helal Al-Helal via photopin cc. Common wisdom suggests that if you love what you do you’ll do just fine. I’ve found that while passion for your chosen line of work is certainly important – if you don’t get good and what you do and people don’t value what you do – money will not necess

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