Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. In episode #12 of Everything Entrepreneurship , the final for 2013, Walter and I look back over the previous year and talk about some of the most significant moments in both our personal and business lives. We review how these events changed us and changed the direction we took during the year. We also … Read the rest of this entry » The post Reflections On 2013, What Walter Discovered About Starting A Business After Listening To Podcast Interview

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. Real companies making real products that real people, you know, spend real money on. That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hottest of hot startups in 2013 and, for the most part, we were right. 2013 showed us new hardware built by smaller companies for what seems like the first time in a long time.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Vivek Wadhwa writes “Why I have become pessimistic about Indian IT” “It is not that Indian outsourcers have become less capable of servicing Western needs. It is that their customer base—the CIO and IT department—is in decline.” He is right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and probably not working on an idea that’s worth doing. The challenge in to know when and how to ask for help, and not let bravado and ego mask anxieties. The best people know when they don’t know, and know how to find the right help.

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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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deal architect

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'The New Florence blog ended 2013 with 730 posts. No, not a record – 2012 had 750. However, November and December had 200+ entries – each way above monthly average. So, we can dream of a 1,000 entry 2014. There.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'There are a litany of points to consider when you’re launching a startup, namely: “What’s the company purpose?,” or “What’s unique about my brand that’ll make people care and pay attention?”. When you’re creating a business, you will naturally have a lot on your plate. As 2013 come to a close, we’re counting down startups that’ve made a splash in using “social good” as their primary motivator.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Jeremy Goldman is the founder of Firebrand Group and the author of the book GoingSocial. Part of my job as a digital and social media strategist is following expert predictions, in order to better help my clients at Firebrand Group innovate. The end of 2013 saw even more lists of predictions than I’ve ever seen previously – some of which were silly or just plain obvious.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'A bad decision is better than no decision. Yep, I’d rather get it wrong than suffer from inertia. I will point out that I’m talking here about non life threading concepts, or decisions which could lead to total financial disaster. But generally, most the of the decisions we need to make personally, in business and startups fall into neither of these categories.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. If Steve Jobs was adopted by a Belgian family rather than an American family, it’s extremely possible he may have ended up working in a bank instead of co-founding Apple. Why? Because starting a company and growing it is hard no matter where you are, but the difficulty is magnified in Europe, where people are divided by geo

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Never confuse significant income with significant wealth. Never confuse activity with efficiency, nor efficiency with productivity. Never confuse workaholism with actual results. Forever spend less than you make, and significant wealth is yours. Forever focus on efficient productivity and a balanced life is yours. Forever be a result-aholic, and you will never again brag about being a workaholic.

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The Startup Lawyer

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'When your startup goes through due diligence for an investment round or an exit, investor’s or buyer’s legal counsel will typically send a laundry list of document requests. These documents range from the startup’s bylaws to stock option agreements to third party contracts to prior financing documents. Quite often, these diligence materials are not readily […].

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News In college, when most students are the very models of poor nutrition choices, Michael Olaya and Taylor Pechacek, the founders of Loop Health, were hashing out technological solutions to the question: How do we empower positive health decisions in between doctor’s visits? Olaya is the son of […] The post Pictrition Helps People Eat Healthier appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Happy New Year’s Eve! 2013 has been a very special year for me. In addition to working with some amazing people, traveling to great events and having fun with my family, I wrote a brand new book, Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together that I believe will define my own body of work (pun intended!) for the next ten years.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'What Angels Look For In a Pitch Deck. What topics should I include in my pitch deck? Every pitch should be a clear, complete, yet simple story. It should have a beginning–the problem you have identified, and an end–how much money will be needed to solve it. Chances are there is a lot of information you want to share in between these point, but don’t.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Happy New Year everyone!! The WordPress.com stats folks prepared a 2013 annual report for IthacaVC. Has some funny facts in it. My stretch goal remains Fred Wilson in terms of community :))). Here’s an excerpt from the report: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Small Business Force

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Most entrepreneurs (at least the ones who want to stay around for a while) watch every penny, especially in the early going. But there's difference between being fiscally conservative and just plain old "cheap!" The trick is knowing what you're "really" paying and what you're "really" getting in return. And, this is critical when dealing with both employees and suppliers.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Ever wonder why your site has a lot of visitors, but not enough transactions, purchases or inquiries? In this post we will look at both marketing and UX metrics at a slightly different angle. The post will be particularly interesting for those of you who want to grow your online revenue and not concentrate on just generating a lot of traffic! Conversion is the key.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 31, 2013

'Originally published in Right Startups. In the world of business there is nothing more valuable than experience, and the advice of those more experienced than you. This week, 8 startup founders shared their views on what they perceived to me the best decisions they ever made concerning their businesses. Each one disclosed their single most important decision ever made and why.

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