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6 Keys To Proving A Viable Startup Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

'How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Too many founders have learned that passion and free beta products do not imply a sustainable business.

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The Religion of Silicon Valley

Feld Thoughts

'There has been a lull in the chanting that “Silicon Valley is the center of the tech universe.” I’m in Boulder for the next three weeks and I woke up pondering something Ben Casnocha said to me the last time we were together. Silicon Valley is a religion, just like Crossfit is a religion. This has stuck with me for a long time and I’ve read many posts about Silicon Valley through this lens.

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Making The Case For Baby Boomer Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

'By Rudy Simondi, founder of FLIPS and a proud Baby Boomer. Retirement is hypothetically just around the corner for the Baby Boomer generation. And yet, many are debating if they want to actually settle down after retirement or continue working. A number of Baby Boomers are choosing a more entrepreneurial path, choosing to launch small businesses.

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9 Pieces of Technology Every Entrepreneur Should Invest in This Year

Up and Running

'The technology world is moving fast. While not every new piece of equipment or software can speed up your business, you should stay up to date. That’s why we asked nine entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what will help them transform their startup this year. 1. An internal chat platform. Many companies still rely on email for intra-company communications.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Do Your Customers Suffer From Buyer’s Remorse? Here’s What to Do If the Answer Is Yes.

YoungUpstarts

'by Jeff Sauro, author of “ Customer Analytics For Dummies “ We’ve all bought a product in-store, only to return it after learning that it was available for a much lower price elsewhere. Or ordered an article of clothing online, only to be disappointed by the quality or fit once it was delivered. Or bought an exciting new gadget, only to find ourselves making frequent (and frustrating) calls to the support hotline in order to operate it.

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VC Value add: Why it probably doesn't matter, but I try anyway.

This is going to be BIG.

'A while back, a larger fund courted one of my portfolio companies heavily. I wasn''t sure if this firm was the best partner for the company, so I reached out to an experienced founder who had been through lots of rounds as both an entrepreneur and an angel investor. He told me the following: There are maybe two or three VCs on the face of the earth that add any value to the eventual outcome of a company, so there''s really just a few criteria that matter. - They should do no harm. - They should

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Mark Cuban’s Tips to Succeed

SiliconHills

'Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, star of Shark Tank and co-founder of Cyber Dust, recently spoke at the University of Texas at Austin. He gave advice to college students on how to successfully manage their academic life and their careers. But the advice could equal apply to anyone at any stage of […] The post Mark Cuban’s Tips to Succeed appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Artists

crowdSPRING Blog

'Art inspires in ways sometimes difficult to articulate. Ideas, metaphors, and themes are the product that artists traffic in, and their ability to galvanize their audiences in a powerful, indirect way can stir us in profound ways. Yet, while we celebrate, even lionize the greatest of our artists we simultaneously relegate the vast majority to poverty and struggle.

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High School Student Launches a Royal Success

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Riley Vergara-Cruz – Dreams Do Come True Princess Parties. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post High School Student Launches a Royal Success appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Drafting a Declaration of Independents

Bryce Dot VC

'Last week Fred wrote a post wrestling with what to call a certain kind of business. In it he sketches out 3 types of companies: Lifestyle – too small for VC, but will generate enough annual cashflow to be a great business to own and operate Indie – might be large enough to justify and provide a return on a VC investment, but the desire to retain control and remain independent makes VC untenable for the entrepreneur VC Fundable – large enough to justify and provide a return on a VC investment an

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Three useful questions for assessing business ideas

The Equity Kicker

'One of the unusual things about Forward Partners is that we invest in business at the idea stage. Often that means we are backing a single entrepreneur with nothing more than a slide presentation. One of our slogans is “No product, no traction, no team. No problem.” Consequently we often get asked “How do you assess ideas?” These three questions which came from the Y C application form and were on Founders Notebook this morning are a great guide: 1.

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Episode 24: Profit First In Germany With Benita Königbauer

Mike Michalowicz

'Show Summary. Benita Königbauer, Tax Advisor and certified Profit First Professional, joins Episode 24 of the Profit First Podcast. Benita shares her story of implementing Profit First in Germany. Our Guest. Benita Königbauer started her career in banking, but soon realized that the new world of banking and sales was not at all what she expected. She decided to become a tax advisor and soon after a business mediator; Benita was happy to provide advice and support to her service professional cli

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How to Repurpose Content in a Clearly Useful Way

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Repurpose Content in a Clearly Useful Way written by Sara Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: pencil-red-lead-paper.jpg via photopin (license). You have read 100 times by now how important content is. You have spent some time doing a bit of research on keywords and have a list of different content formats you know you need to create (blog, newsletter, podcast, email campaigns, advertising, the list goes on… ) but the problem i

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Walker Twitter Highlights: March 30th – April 19th

Scott Edward Walker

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Quora: “What is the single biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when starting up?” A few solid responses: [link].