Up and Running
AUGUST 18, 2014
'In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7% per week in their initial stage – Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. When I hear the word ‘startup’, my mind immediately begins playing a reel of a bunch of twenty-something year old web developers, huddled together in a retro office somewhere in the SF Bay Area.
deal architect
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Last week, at the grocery store checkout I overhead a man congratulate another about his new book. Curious I asked the author what his book was about. Hugh Sullivan has written about his 40 year career as a Navy Corpsman.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan. Is it any wonder why so few entrepreneurs ever find the professional investors they seek?
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Want to be where the action is, networking, creating awareness of your organisation, or learning about others? Then get flights arranged, prepare out that travel money card and get yourself in town for one of these major conferences taking place in 2015. One of the world’s leading events for members of the further education profession takes place in Washington, DC, from 15 th to 18 th February.
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
The Next Web
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Paul Jarvis experiments with words and design. His latest book is called The Good Creative: 18 ways to make better art. It’s all well and good to talk about using your blog and mailing list to connect with your audience by writing articles. But it begs the question I hear almost daily: “How do I create consistent content that I don’t get paid to do?
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Many people go into business to make money, so they can use it to do things that make them happy. The problem is others go into the same line of business because it makes them happy, and yet they kick the crap out of the people who are just doing it just for the money. I’m not talking about kicking the crap out of them in a violent way. I mean they’re actually making more money than the money focused guys.
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Up and Running
AUGUST 18, 2014
'It can be hard to pitch your startup, but with a little practice, you’ll be able to naturally bring it up in social situations—without feeling pushy or rehearsed. You’ve struck stones together and you’ve finally seen a spark. You’ve worked hard to develop your ideas and build something worthy of faith and investment. But finding natural ways to pitch your startup may still seem like the most daunting task you’ve faced yet.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Our freshly minted investment in Comprehend ( www.comprehend.com ) was announced today. We are thrilled to back co-founders Rick Morrison and Jud Gardner and their team as they continue their mission to use next generation data analytics to help life science companies transform the way they bring products to market. Like many of our most successful companies, what Comprehend does is simple yet powerful and has a profound impact on their customers.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 18, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Dr. William Henrich, president of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, recently sat down with Silicon Hills News to talk about all of the innovation happening at the institution he oversees. Dr. Henrich joined the Health Science Center in 2006 as dean of […] The post The Huge Impact of the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio on the City appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
AUGUST 18, 2014
'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Jonathan Murrell. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Entrepreneurs Bring Escape Game to the US appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Jeff Hilimire
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Wow. That was some kind of break! It’s been over three weeks since my last blog post which I think is some kind of record since I started this blog in 2008. Where have I been? Well, we took our family on an Alaskan cruise and tour, which lasted from July 24th until August 6th. It was FREAKING AMAZING. My wife posted about it on her blog , but here is some of what we saw: Insane, right?
entrepreMusings
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Yes, the elephants did strike back ! The trip was amazing and despite me thinking I might have time to type up some blog posts on the plane, sleep, kids, and other distractions (free movies) got in the way. I think we took close to 900 photos in the many cities and tourist sites that we went to on the island. The kid’s impressed me with their ability to tolerate the long travel and long days with different eating schedules.
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Can you expect a market salary from a startup that has received venture capitalist investments? Tom Nora , Startup Growth Advisor, Code Slinger. . Typically yes, but it depends on a few things. Getting VC funding isn’t as hard as it used to be, and often companies get $25K from Google Ventures and make it sound like a real round. So… 1) Amount of Funding.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2014
'It’s not always true that the best way to run a startup is to find a team of similarly-minded and entrepreneurial-minded co-founders to help drive the business forward. The evidence? There are actually quite a number of startups in the world with just a single founder. Just take online commerce giant Amazon, for example, started by just one man, the driven Jeff Bezos.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 18, 2014
'Why You Must Change Your Content Marketing Approach written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Now that pretty much everyone on the planet gets the importance of content marketing it’s time to throw a wrench in the works. To remain effective with your content marketing efforts you must constantly evaluate, change and evolve!
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