Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Smart people only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. In today’s world, a website is necessary but not sufficient for credibility. Dreamers and gamblers have found out that if the website isn’t validated as credible, it’s probably a scam, and everyone loses.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 20, 2013
'by Aaron Hollobaugh, VP of Marketing & Communications at Hostway Corporation. Search Engine Optimization is the primary plan for helping draw people to a website, but if every business is doing it, is the playing field really tilting in anyone’s favor? Here are some more suggestions for making a website site more attractive: Social Media, Used Strategically.
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Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Yesterday, Techstars launched another accelerator, this time focused entirely on connected devices. The newest accelerator, based in New York City, is called the R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator. R/GA is part of Interpublic Group of Companies, one of four global ad holding companies, and is the most award-winning agency in the digital world today.
Start Up Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
'In what seems like a century ago I built and launched one of the first peer to peer websites – rentoid.com. In order to build the site, I outsourced the coding on a site called oDesk. This site and others of its ilk are a great entrepreneurial equaliser – for they reduce the barriers to entry. Not just in terms of price for the services, but also by allowing non techies gain access to techie services.
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
Business Plan Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Every Tech Startup Needs a Chief Technical Officer. Many entrepreneurs of successful tech-based companies do not come from tech backgrounds. However, the biggest mistake that a non-tech entrepreneur launching a tech business is to neglect bringing on a tech savvy co-founder on the management team. This is like a bakery or restaurant launching without a chef.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 20, 2013
'I have a saying that I employ as a powerful metaphor at every startup with whom I work – “beware of shiny new objects.” It is one of the easiest pieces of advice to give as it is almost always valuable if entrepreneurs follow it as a guideline. Yet sadly most startups have “shiny object” obsessions. In today’s uber-connected, social media, everything-is-public, people tell you there’s killing it with these new features, investor & mentor whiplash &#
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 20, 2013
'This is the third article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap and COC: a new metric for cancellations. You can’t read an article about SaaS metrics without running into LTV — The L ife t ime V alue of a customer. Meaning, the gross revenue you expect to get from a customer over its entire lifetime.
deal architect
AUGUST 20, 2013
'This snarky comment in a Seattle Times blog summarizes the stability and security concerns people continue to have about cloud computing “With the three largest cloud software companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) in the U.S. all having glitches in the same.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Do you think your small business does right by your employees? Have you or are you building a happy workplace that actually helps to retain the best talent and at the same time enhance the effectiveness of your employees such that they contribute positively to your bottom line? If so, you may want to get someone to nominate your company for the inaugural 2013 Best Young Companies to Work For , organized by workplace solutions provider turnstone ®.
Version One Ventures
AUGUST 20, 2013
'At the recent GROW Conference , I caught up Aidan Nulman of Fleetbit. We were talking about one of Version One’s portfolio companies… Talentbuddy. If you’re not familiar with Talentbuddy, it’s a platform where programmers can post and solve programming challenges, covering all different areas and difficulty levels. It’s exercise for a programmer’s brain.
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Samsung are rumoured to be announcing their Galaxy Gear smartwatch on September 4th and Apple is widely expected to release an iWatch within the next year. So smart watches are hot. But will they fly as mainstream devices? To my mind that’s an open question. The Galaxy Gear sounds great. It’s likely to be a second screen for your phone that also has the features you get in a Fitbit or Jawbone Up.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Sid demonstrates the entire CPS process using a rope trick… I got the news in the modern way, Facebook. Sid Parnes had passed away. I felt a grey milestone pass through me, and I smiled. If there is one person I know who gave life his all, who did his best, it was Sid Parnes. He was 91 years old. For my readers who don’t know who he was — Sidney Parnes , Phd is the co-inventor of what is known as the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving process.
Up and Running
AUGUST 20, 2013
'The phrase “my team” gets thrown around in the office plenty where I work. And it’s true—my fellow employees and I are as much a team as any sports team is. We each have our individual role to play, and we rely on each other’s skills to succeed together. That said, merely working together doesn’t allow me to really know all that much about my teammates—I don’t interact with all of them on a routine basis at the office, either because our jobs don’t requ
Life Beyond Code
AUGUST 20, 2013
'I have participated in several charity:water fundraising drives in the past few years. Today at Inbound conference, the “Water Walk” experience made me want to do a lot more for this organization in the future. Reading is not (always) believing. Right on their mission page, Charity:Water invites everyone to experience the problem: We invite you to put yourself in their shoes.
Growthink Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
'There are many websites, such as ODesk, Guru, and Elance, on which you can find people and firms to which you can outsource projects. Regardless of the site you choose, the key is to get the largest pool of qualified providers to apply for your project. This way, you have more people from which to choose. read more.
Up and Running
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Drunk driving is a problem. But in the moment that it’s most preventable—when an intoxicated person leaves a bar or restaurant to drive home in their car—there is no easy or obvious solution. If the bartender takes their keys and calls them a taxi, who pays for the taxi ride? And even if the intoxicated customer decides to call their own taxi for a ride home, where do they leave their car overnight, and how do they return to claim their car the next day?
Guy Nirpaz
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Admitting Failure. Yesterday we’ve experienced probably the worse production down-time that we had since we’ve launched Totango. The intentions were good, we’ve upgrades a significant part of our infrastructure that we’ve worked on for months and unfortunately this upgrade didn’t go smooth… We’ve been working around the clock to resolve the problem, and at the same time I felt that it’s important to openly communicate to our customers directly, wi
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 20, 2013
'How to Use Social Media in Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Smart salespeople have learned to tap the power of social media, but sadly, many companies still see social media tools and networks as a pointless and even scary place for their sales teams to focus. photo credit: BTO – Buy Tourism Online via photopin cc Many sales people don’t fully understand the power of social networks in the sales process or they relegate to s
SiliconHills
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Ambiq Micro, an Austin-based maker of ultra-low power integrated circuits, announced Tuesday that is has secured $10 million in Series B financing. Austin Ventures led the round along with participation from existing investors including ARM, Mercury Fund, Huron River Ventures and other investors. Ambiq Micro makes technology that lets semiconductors operate at low power levels. […] The post Ambiq Micro Lands $10 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
Early Growth Financial Services
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Originally published in Fox Business. What one tip do you have for writing press releases that actually get noticed? The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library and email lessons.
Jeff Hilimire
AUGUST 20, 2013
'This is a blindpost based on the article, How to think like an entrepreneur. Per the blindpost rules I did not read the post before I wrote this, but rather used the title and wrote my own post. Thinking like an entrepreneur can be a both a blessing and a curse for someone that works for other people. I’ve often worked with the leaders in my company to try to get them to think more like entrepreneurs because the more they can do that, the more they can break through the “politics
The Startup Toolkit
AUGUST 20, 2013
'false The bit that bothers me most about the NSA is that if you win at the startup game, you graduate into being their tool. Did any of the big consumer startups really win? Gmail? Dropbox? Facebook? If the world goes sour, how strange to see your legacy weaponized.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 20, 2013
'by Brian P. Moran, co-author of “ The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months “ Think back to the last significant goal you set for yourself, personal or professional. How long did you give yourself to reach it? Chances are you said something like this: “I’m going to lose 30 pounds this year ,” or “I’m going to increase my sales by 15 percent this year ,” or “Our company is going to open five more branch locations this year.
Jeff Hilimire
AUGUST 20, 2013
'Atlanta has a great many startups (roughly 500 based on David Cummings’s back-of-the-napkin math ) and it seems every time I attend a networking event I learn about more. Case in point, I recently met an entrepreneur in town who has a very interesting business model. Essentially she focuses on the design and user experience side of mobile apps.
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