SiliconHills

MAY 31, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Software developer Tony Broomes wants to see San Antonio develop into a high tech region along with Austin. He’s working to make that happen. On Saturday, Broomes participated in the Alamo Civic Hackathon held at Geekdom on the seventh floor of the Rand building in downtown San […] The post Making City Data More Accessible at the Alamo Civic Hackathon appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

'Entrepreneurs looking for investor funding often fail to realize that all money comes with strings. For example, if you have watched the Shark Tank TV series, you probably noticed that the Sharks always ask the entrepreneurs for their intended “use of funds.” Those who respond with one of the wrong answers, such as “I want to pay myself a salary,” usually go home empty-handed.

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Steve Blank

MAY 31, 2014

'If you can’t see the video click here Filed under: Customer Development.

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The Next Web

MAY 31, 2014

'Eddy Lu is the co-founder and CEO of Superb (formerly Grubwithus), a mobile app that helps people collect, share and experience must-try places with their friends. For many founders, “pivot” is a dirty word. It hints at uncertainty, even failure. But with three out of four startups flopping, we founders shouldn’t shy away from the word. We shouldn’t be afraid to acknowledge that change can be good; change gained from experience can benefit companies and users.

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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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Gust

MAY 31, 2014

'A company’s board of directors is technically elected by the company’s shareholders. So before a startup receives outside funding, the board is “elected” by—and usually consists of—the founders (although it may exist in name only.). Once a company receives its initial seed, angel or venture funding, the documents prepared for the investment will include a Shareholders Agreement that gets signed by everyone.

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The Next Web

MAY 31, 2014

'Yariv Dror is the CEO of StoreYa.com. Discounts work. Everyone likes them. Customers feel like they saved money, merchants increase their sales. Everyone is happy. Want quantitative proof? Just four months since our Coupon Pop marketing tool was launched, it is already responsible for 20 percent of our merchants’ sales.

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The Next Web

MAY 31, 2014

'Sara Agarwal is Director for International Finance Organizations at Hewlett Packard. Dr. Parag Khanna is a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan public policy think-tank based in Washington, D.C. Since the rise of mobile communications and the Internet, movements have emerged to leverage such technologies to for economic growth, social equity, improved education and healthcare, and other public goods.

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For Entrepreneurs

MAY 31, 2014

'Traducido por Alberto Peralta. Introducción Esta página complementa el artículo Métricas SaaS 2.0 – Guía para medir y mejorar lo que importa. Proporciona la definición detalladas para cada una de las métricas principales que se que se usan en ese artículo. Calculando el LTV y el CAC para una startup SaaS Las finanzas individualizadas son […].

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2014

'This is the simplest, easiest concept to understand, yet only an elite few seem to execute it. Perhaps most people just can’t wrap their head around the idea that, in order to provide great customer service, you need to avoid promising your customers everything. Instead, focus your efforts on under-promising, yet delivering far more than they expected.

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 31, 2014

'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Mark Cuban , the superstar entrepreneur and angel investor, and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. In this short clip, Mark shares a few words of wisdom for entrepreneurs, including the following: “You need to understand accounting and finance.” (0:14).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 31, 2014

'Weekend Favs May Thirty One written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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entrepreMusings

MAY 31, 2014

'Thankfully, my life has been very busy with many good and sometimes challenging opportunities. It’s kind of like waking up with a new puzzle at your feet almost every morning and thinking to yourself that someone must have decided that you love solving puzzles but they forgot to clue you in that you like them. By the end of the day, you realize you do in fact like solving puzzles and you feel like you’ve accomplished something by solving part of the puzzle put at your feet that m

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