YoungUpstarts
MAY 7, 2015
by Alex Sebuliba, digital marketing strategist for STA International. Starting a business is an undoubted risk at any time – you’re pouring your time and finances into a venture that might easily fail. In fact, it’s much more likely to fail than it is to succeed, so you need to do everything you can to maximise its chances of becoming a viable proposition in your chosen industry.
deal architect
MAY 7, 2015
At the recent White House Correspondent’s Dinner, President Obama joked “People ask me, do you have a bucket list?' I say, well I have something that rhymes with bucket. Immigration executive action? "Bucket!" Stricter climate rules. "Bucket!"” At Sapphire this.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 7, 2015
by Scott James, manager of brand strategy at Greenleaf Book Group. This spring, I spent a lot of time at happy hours during SXSW Interactive, and while the venues changed, many things stayed the same: Smart people wearing clunky lanyards, sipping free drinks and talking about the future. The energy was electric, and everyone was there to learn, meet interesting people, and grow.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 7, 2015
For many years I was often the youngest person in the room. I started my first company at 19 and had already had several bizarre “too young” experiences by the time I was 21. I vividly remember almost losing our largest client at the time because they had taken my partner Dave out for drinks (he is three years older than me) and they somehow pried out of him that I was only 21.
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
MAY 7, 2015
by Timothy L. Stewart and Bryan Browning . Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) can be an attractive way for an owner to sell a company and for employees to gain an ownership stake. ESOPs are qualified retirement plans that buy, hold and sell company stock for the benefit of employees. One of the main reasons ESOPs are often dismissed by business owners (and their advisors) as a legitimate succession planning option is due to the many unfounded misperceptions about them.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 7, 2015
Steve Blank gave us this now famous definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. At Forward Partners we are in full agreement with this definition (although we spell organisation with an s… ) but have found that it is a bit confusing for startups in their first weeks and months.
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Mike Michalowicz
MAY 7, 2015
The best athlete takes one more lap than the other guy. The best student studies one more hour than the other guy. The best entrepreneur does one more thing than the the other guy. The best isn’t a thousand times more. It’s usually just one more. But it is always more.
Up and Running
MAY 7, 2015
What’s the value of a business plan? Decisions. Action. How do you build decisions and action into your business plan? Milestones. What makes a business plan more than just strategy and wishful thinking? Milestones. Milestones are concrete, specific achievements, such as a product launch, some number of customers, opening of a new location, number of reviews, presence in some list, overcoming some legal hurdle such as approval by the FDA or a patent, finishing a draft or a complete document, rea
Berkonomics
MAY 7, 2015
This is like a Hans Christian Anderson parable, but aimed at you and your business… There are big fish and small fish, potential customers, all swimming in the sea that is your potential marketplace. You, the lonely fisherman, have to weave a net to catch your fish. Should your net be large and bulky, requiring more effort and expense to weave? Or should it be small and delicate, to catch those fish that would otherwise fall through the net?
SiliconHills
MAY 7, 2015
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank will serve as the keynote speaker at this year’s Austin Technology Council’s CEO Summit. WP Engine‘s CEO Heather Brunner will conduct an onstage interview with Plank, who is fashioning his footwear, apparel and equipment company into a technology company, according to this article. Under Armour bought Austin-based MapMyFitness in 2013 […] The post Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank to Speak at ATC CEO Summit appeared first on SiliconHills.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 7, 2015
In addition to partnering with co-working spaces and business accelerators, EGFS participates in a number of events, workshops, and office hours at top tier universities including Stanford, Berkeley, USC, University of Washington, and NYU. Recently, I had the chance to sit through several mock pitches at Columbia’s Startup Lab in New York. Chris McGarry, Director of Entrepreneurship at Columbia Startup Lab, and David Ehrenberg, Founder and CEO of Early Growth Financial Services, coached and crit
SiliconHills
MAY 7, 2015
Rackspace announced it is now providing support and managed services for Microsoft Office 365, a suite of business software programs. The San Antonio-based company will offer migration assistance and support to customers for Office 365 licenses. Rackspace will resell and support six Office 365 plans with management services for small and medium sized businesses and […] The post Rackspace Now Provides Support for Microsoft Office 365 appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 7, 2015
Why MORE Marketing Isn’t What You Need written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Unsplash. Your marketing isn’t quite getting the results you want. In fact, it seems like the latest “thing” is taking far too long to work. So you decide that what you really need to do is add another tactic to the mix because it just may be the thing that helps you reach your goals.
SiliconHills
MAY 7, 2015
Bitfusion, an Austin-based startup, closed on $1.45 million in seed stage funding. The company also announced it has been selected as a finalist in TechCrunch Disrupt’s 2015 Startup Battlefield. Bitfusion, which participated in the Techstars Cloud program in San Antonio this year, has created specialized software that brings supercomputing performance to a variety of hardware […] The post Bitfusion Lands $1.45 Million in Seed Stage Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 7, 2015
My favorite bike shop is not the biggest or the best stocked. It’s not the closest or even the most convenient. Their hours can be hit or miss and their inventory isn’t all that consistent. That said, every time I need something for my bike in SF I’ll trek all the way across town to give my business to a little tiny shop called Mash Transit. I found the store through their social media accounts and the content they generate that has nothing, and everything, to do with their retail shop.
Up and Running
MAY 7, 2015
All too often in the business world, it’s all about finding the scapegoat. Something goes wrong and everyone immediately wastes precious time and resources trying to pin the blame on someone else. Unfortunately, this type of mindset clouds us from truly assessing situations without bias, often resulting in false answers that get us nowhere. This is especially true for bosses.
Hunter Walker
MAY 7, 2015
Last week Homebrew held its second annual LP meeting, coinciding with our second anniversary as a fund. The agenda was very similar to 2014’s, which I discussed last year in this post. Now that we’re another 365 days in, thought I’d add (a) what’s different about a Year Two annual mtg vs Year One and (b) why we think annual meetings are valuable to Homebrew.
ConversionXL
MAY 7, 2015
You want to speed up your testing efforts, and run more tests. So now the question is – can you run more than one A/B test at the same time on your site? Will this increase the velocity of your testing program (and thus help you grow faster), or will it pollute the data since multiple separate tests could potentially affect each other’s outcomes?
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