Feld Thoughts
MAY 20, 2013
'Over the past few decades, the most compelling engineers and entrepreneurs I’ve met have tended to be working on problems that can be solved with software. Software has some great advantages but it comes with a few big drawbacks, namely it’s tied to a few standard types of input, although we are trying to impact that with some of our investments in our HCI theme.
deal architect
MAY 20, 2013
'I caught a replay of Bill McDermott''s pitch at SapphireNow last week. Loved it. How could you not with acronyms like B2B2C?:) Seriously, tough to not like his sports talk and see him surrounded by sports world luminaries you see.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 20, 2013
'Successful startups are all about turning ideas into action quickly and efficiently. These actions must be the hard part, since entrepreneurs always seem to come to me with ideas, and ask me for help on the actions. That has always seemed strange to me, since the magic is supposed to be in the ideas, and the actions are the same for every business.
ultralightstartups.com
MAY 20, 2013
'Ultra Light Startups®. Home. About. What is an Ultra Light Startup? Who We Are. Our Technology Platform. How To Get In For Free. Media Partners. Community Partners. Sponsorship. Press. Office Hours. Pitching. Apply to Pitch (New York). Pitch Application Example. How to Get Selected to Pitch. How To Pitch. Future Energy. Application Form. Pitch FAQ.
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
deal architect
MAY 20, 2013
'A short talk with some Cap Gemini BPO execs at SuiteWorld last week and reading Phil Wainewright''s post about Cloud SIs had me thinking how the global service firms are changing - and in many ways resisting change. Most larger.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2013
'Almost US$1.2 million, that’s how much. According to the results of a new study examining the effect of net employment creation by startup businesses on state gross product, each net job created by startup firms is estimated to increase state gross product by that amount in a given year. Authored by Pacific Research Institute senior fellow Dr Benjamin Zycher, the Startup Businesses and the Growth of Real State Gross Product study uses a sample of 49 states for the period from 1977 through
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2013
'The trouble with many of those people who’ve been put in charge in leading change in their companies – and usually not of their own fault – is that they’re almost always chosen for the job, rather than having aspired to it. What this means is that while they are probably really good at many things, driving change in an organization may not be one of them.
Start Up Blog
MAY 20, 2013
'These are the four worst words anyone can utter to a customer in retail. We all know they answer it gets 99% of the time – because we all give it. “No thanks – just looking” These 4 words are revenue stoppers, barrier creators, and empathy evaporators. It just says to the potential customer – I’m too bored and uninterested to even use a sentence that isn’t expected, practiced or considerate of the fact that you are the person who pays my wage.
David Teten
MAY 20, 2013
'This is part 2 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “ Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name? ”. (This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz etc. (credit: Wikipedia)). I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportunity. Let me propose a path few take: find an under-monetized domain name and start a business on it.
Hunter Walker
MAY 20, 2013
'When Google purchased YouTube there was lots of skepticism and outright derision. Today analysts estimate its enterprise value is approaching $20 billion. So I guess it all worked out, eh? Being one of the first Googlers to join YouTube after the acquisition taught me a lot about what works, and doesn’t work, when you bring a fast growing community property into a larger entity.
David Teten
MAY 20, 2013
'This is part 2 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “ Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name? ”. (This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz etc. (credit: Wikipedia)). I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportunity. Let me propose a path few take: find an under-monetized domain name and start a business on it.
thebarefootvc
MAY 20, 2013
'It had to happen. Tumblr, a next generation content site that epitomizes media creation, consumption and usage of the 21st century and of the net-native generation, has been acquired by a staid, late 20th century, Web 1.0 media brand, Yahoo (I can’t bring myself to add the exclamation point that was such a part of the brand in its heyday). Why did it have to happen?
Mucker Lab
MAY 20, 2013
'1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. (Internet). 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. (eBay). 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”.
Up and Running
MAY 20, 2013
'I love to write – creatively as well as for business. So last year I decided to take a course at a nearby college to learn how to hone this skill. I learned a very valuable lesson that really should be the golden rule for your marketing. It’s always better to SHOW your audience than TELL them. Speaking is a great way to do this, especially for those of you in service-based businesses.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 20, 2013
'I remember thinking I wanted to be a writer as far back as high school. Only thing is I didn’t really know how to become one. photo credit: geoftheref via photopin cc. Then one day I decided that writing articles would be a good way to build my business, so I just started writing and a funny thing happened. The practiced of writing daily turned me into a writer.
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 20, 2013
'After all the talk of VCs vs. Founders. This. This is the kind of relationship we’re all hoping to build with the founders we back. Congratulations to all involved.
Growthink Blog
MAY 20, 2013
'I had the great good fortune this past weekend to co-host Growthink''s Business Blueprint Live event at the LAX Sheraton Hotel, next door to our Company’s Los Angeles offices. At it, 53 entrepreneurs and business owners gathered for two days and nights with the Growthink team to dream, plan, and network as to how to best grow the revenues, increase the profits and better fulfill the missions of their businesses.
abovethecrowd.com
MAY 20, 2013
'Today, Seamless and Grubhub announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge two of the nation’s premier services for ordering takeout online. As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. There are many synergies – different geographic strengths, different core customer bases, and different product strengths.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 20, 2013
'Studies show that blogs with pictures of happy people or kittens get more views. I just nailed both. This is a blindpost recommendation from @gumboshowjoe. You can see the original article if you want to compare (which I still haven’t). And I write a lot about being a happier, more positive person , but I don’t think I’ve ever written about the things you should give up in order to do so, which turned out to be a fun challenge. 15 things you should give up to be happy: Give u
Scott Edward Walker
MAY 20, 2013
'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 20, 2013
'Nice piece on one of our more under that radar companies- Path Intelligence. . The team is doing some amazing work with passive tracking and the underlying analytics that are generated thanks to the ubiquity of mobile phones. They have a large and growing customer base that is using their technology to adapt and iterate in physical space with the same measurement that marketers use on the web.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 20, 2013
'I’m both literally back from a great vacation but I’m also back to the blogging world. Over the last month I slacked a lot and let life fill me with excuses not to blog each day. What I have to constantly remember is why I blog and what I personally get out of it. So I went back and looked at what I’ve written about blogging to inspire myself again.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 20, 2013
'Venturebeat has an article up this morning titled Startups and big corporations embrace the maker movement which reports that the annual Maker Faire has this year introduced a ‘Startup Pavillion’ which it cites as evidence that the maker movement is moving beyond hobbies to being a ‘rich source of economic potential’. Here’s a selection of the 20-odd startups at Maker Faire: SeeedStudio, an “open hardware company develops and brings to market innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions
Occam's Razor
MAY 20, 2013
'The art of analysis often fails to deliver ginarmous success simply because of how limited our worldview is when we go about identifying bottom-line impacting insights. Hence, this is a post on a simple concept that will drag you out of your current "what is happening on my website?" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo.
Genuine VC
MAY 20, 2013
'Compared to most other areas of finance, venture capital is practiced as more of an art, as opposed to a science. For that reason, it’s often said that VCs learn the business best through an apprenticeship model, under the wing of a more experienced pro. The art of venture capital also means that for entrepreneurs raising it, there isn’t one definitive playbook which can be used as a guide.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2013
'by Joseph and JoAnn Callaway, authors of “ Clients First “ Picture this: You’re relaxing on your couch and watching your favorite crime drama after a long day at work. You’ve halfway tuned out during a commercial break when something catches your attention. “Come see what we have to offer. We’re proud to be second in area sales and customer satisfaction since 1992!
Feld Thoughts
MAY 20, 2013
'This post originally appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal as part of their Accelerators Program in answer to the question “ When and how should you wind down a failing business.” Some entrepreneurs and investors subscribe to the creed “failure is not an option.” I’m not one of them. I strongly believe that there are times you should call it quits on a business.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 20, 2013
'You can do the math on Tumblr''s pageviews, throw in some expected CPM, weighted average cost of capital, and try to justify the billion dollars that Yahoo! is spending on Tumblr. I think you''d be kidding yourself if that''s what this was all about. The Tumblr community isn''t going anywhere, but that''s not the asset Yahoo! bought. It will be run on it''s own and probably not touched too much.
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