Up and Running
JUNE 23, 2015
Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. Maternal health is a concern the world over, especially in developing nations. Childbirth can be a precarious process; for some women and their infants it can be life-threatening. According to the World Health Organization, 800 women die every day during childbirth, with 99 percent of those deaths taking place in the developing world.
Rob Go
JUNE 23, 2015
When an investor “does work” on a potential investment, it usually means engaging in some form of due diligence. One of my favorite VC sayings is from an investor that has said that “due diligence is something VC’s do very studiously when they want to kill a deal” I’ve often quoted this, half joking, half in truth.
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View from Seed
JUNE 23, 2015
Traction is NextView’s twice-monthly podcast sharing the stories of creative and unusual ways entrepreneurs gain initial results. Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale, so we wondered … what ARE those things? Available on iTunes , Stitcher , and SoundCloud. In this episode of Traction, Pando Daily tech writer Dennis Keohane joins me to discuss his insanely fast rise from teacher to local reporter to national reporter in our industry.
Rob Go
JUNE 23, 2015
When an investor “does work” on a potential investment, it usually means engaging in some form of due diligence. One of my favorite VC sayings is from an investor that has said that “due diligence is something VC’s do very studiously when they want to kill a deal” I’ve often quoted this, half joking, half in truth.
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
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 23, 2015
Spare a thought for your poor teacher anywhere from the year 2005 backwards. Anyone who was in school, teaching TAFE courses or delivering university lectures before this time probably remembers their teacher scribbling on an overhead projector’s transparent sheet with a whiteboard marker, scratching on a whiteboard or even a chalkboard in an illegible scrawl; and they probably remember how un-interactive and uninspiring some of their lessons were.
Version One Ventures
JUNE 23, 2015
It’s widely accepted that SaaS has permanently changed software sales. Enterprise software sales once meant a large “boots on the ground” field sales team who knew how to wine and dine the right individuals and stakeholders. With the emergence of SaaS, the sales process became more transactional and less about relationships. With software products at lower price points, companies need to make up revenue via volume.
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The Equity Kicker
JUNE 23, 2015
Jeff Jordan , now a partner at Andressen Horowitz, and previously CEO of OpenTable and senior exec at Paypal and eBay, has a post up on the A16Z blog about online marketplaces. He argues that all online marketplaces are fundamentally the same and hence should be managed by the same principle of “nurturing and managing perfect competition” Jeff offers a full definition of perfect competition in his post that’s worth reading. … If you want the quick version, perfect competi
YFS Magazine
JUNE 23, 2015
You’ve been hustling and putting your customer’s needs first, for a long time. But that can’t last forever.
SiliconHills
JUNE 23, 2015
Burro, a startup that connects truck owners to people or stores that need goods transported, won the TechCrunch Pitch Off event Tuesday night. A packed house of people showed up at the Palm Door on Sixth to listen to ten startups give one-minute pitches to a panel of judges. The judges then asked them questions. […] The post Burro Wins TechCrunch Pitch Off in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
Mike Michalowicz
JUNE 23, 2015
When you lack the money to do what others do you are forced to find a new way. When you lack the resources you need to get the work done you are forced to innovate. When you lack the contacts to gain the exposure you need you are forced to blaze a new trail. Lack changes paradigms. Lack changes industry. Lack changes everything. Lack is a gift. It may come in damn ugly gift wrapping.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 23, 2015
I was speaking with a friend about some of the great quotes from long gone captains of industry. J.D Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin and cohort. One quote that got me thinking was this: “If I went broke, just give me my 5 best people, and we’ll be double the size in 5 years.” I searched Google, Wikiquotes, Brainyquote and all sorts of places to find who it was with no luck.
SiliconHills
JUNE 23, 2015
Alert Media, a platform for interactive mass notification, announced Tuesday that it has raised $4.16 million in a Series A funding round. The Austin-based startup plans to use the money for product development and to hire more sales and business development employees. Silverton Partners led the founding round which included participation from ATX Ventures and […] The post Alert Media Raises $4.16 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 23, 2015
I’ve been meaning to write about how thrilled we are to have Beth Scheer join Homebrew as our Head of Talent. But Memento style, I want to work backwards and instead start with one responsibility that Satya and I believe we’ll always do ourselves: helping founders close potential hires. Here’s what we stress to our CEOs: Helping you bring the most talented people on to your team is an evergreen top priority for us.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 23, 2015
In 2014, I had both the best and worst year of my life! I fell in love. And then… My business fell apart.
Early Growth Financial Services
JUNE 23, 2015
Originally published in Bplans. The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invitation-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs, asked eight of its members for their best advice on identifying new business opportunities. Here are their answers. 1. Use Google Trends Google Trends is a tool that lets you see how the number of searches for a given term has changed over time.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 23, 2015
Can intelligence prevent you from being wildly successful in business? Researchers insist that it's highly probable.
Campus Entrepreneurship
JUNE 23, 2015
The WSJ ran the headline, College Dropouts Thrive in Tech , a couple of weeks ago (sub required). The article highlights well known dropouts (Jobs, Zuckerberg) and Thiel Fellowship winners, even referring to one as a wunderkind (a concept I reference in my forthcoming research on student entrepreneurs at US colleges and universities). From the piece , Messrs.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 23, 2015
When you master these things, you’re in a powerful position to succeed in life and business.
Bryce Dot VC
JUNE 23, 2015
“More high-quality entrepreneurs are starting mission-driven businesses, he said. At the same time, a new generation of consumers cares more about who is involved in making products and how a company makes a product or service they pay for.
Hearpreneur
JUNE 23, 2015
Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.
Bryce Dot VC
JUNE 23, 2015
One of our portfolio companies puts this chart in each of their board decks. I find it frames the high level conversation around finances in a nice, clear way.
Brandanew
JUNE 23, 2015
Our ongoing Social Content Expert series travels to Netherlands today. I spoke with Digital Storyteller Hans Heesterbeek, a Rotterdam based digital storyteller about his experiences with what makes for winning Content Marketing strategies. Hans has been creating authentic and passionate storytelling experiences using different media for the last 30 years.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 23, 2015
Crosscut Ventures has just announced their 3rd fund and clocking in at $75 million , which will be focused heavily on Los Angeles – FTW. A seed fund this size (and with increasing numbers of venture funds being raised by LA-based VC’s) has overcome a decade-long resistance and belief that you could only build great tech companies in Silicon Valley.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 23, 2015
It can be a difficult task to keep up with a busy schedule and daily commitments as well as your health. Luckily, in the past few years, there have been more and more gadgets created to help you reach that balance. Of course a single gadget or app cannot physically drag you off the couch or slap fried food out of your hand, but they have some awesome and kind of sneaky ways to help motivate you to be the more healthy and fit.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 23, 2015
by Sally Poblete, CEO of Wellthie. There are plenty of reasons why more people don’t take the plunge from Corporate America to entrepreneurship. It’s hard to leave the security and a paycheck from a regular job and the risk of failure is great. An entrepreneur also has to wear many different hats, like needing to sell to customers, even if your main expertise is in technology or finance.
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