YoungUpstarts
APRIL 23, 2013
'By Ella Sorenson. Starting your own business is a huge gamble, but you can increase your chances of success before you begin by making sure that you have the best possible plan. This post will offer five criteria to evaluate your business idea before you go ahead with it. It Is Financially Viable. Money talks, so carefully consider the financial side of your business to determine whether it is actually a viable idea.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 23, 2013
'When someone asks me for the best way to fund a startup, I always say bootstrap it, meaning fund it yourself and grow organically. Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. A few years ago I interviewed a serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen , who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 23, 2013
'Silicon Valley is the pinnacle of a startup community that embodies the very essence of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, so much so that many startup ecosystems around the world aspires to be like it. Silicon Valley is the home for dreamers, but more importantly, it is the home for dreamers who do. Take Priya Haji, for example. The entrepreneur started World of Good , an online retail marketplace of sustainable craft goods which was acquired by eBay in 2010.
Version One Ventures
APRIL 23, 2013
'Few decisions can be as life-changing for founders as deciding when to sell a business. Companies get sold for a whole host of reasons: founders break up; money runs out; shareholders force a sale. And in many cases, the financial upside of a sale is just too seducing for the entrepreneurs, particularly for first-time founders. When making such a major decision, you’ll undoubtedly need to weigh many factors and most likely, some competing interests.
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
Up and Running
APRIL 23, 2013
'For 20 years now, Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott has called music his job. A rapper, tour manager and talent manager, Cool Nutz has generated a lot of buzz and revenue for himself and other local artists. I sat down with him to try to understand what’s made him so successful, and why there aren’t a lot of rappers in his position. When did you realize that you could make a living off music?
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 23, 2013
'I’ve been reading a lot more lately – mostly on the weekends – but I’m getting back into a good book rhythm. I can feel it helping my brain and my soul – I’ve always been a huge reader and when I go through phases where I’m not reading something is clearly off. The second of the three books I read this weekend was Worm: The First Digital World War.
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SiliconHills
APRIL 23, 2013
'By Ian Panchèvre Reporter with Silicon Hills News The legal industry is facing disruption. Outsourcing legal services abroad is becoming increasingly common. Online companies such as Legalzoom and WireLawyer are making documents more accessible to casual legal consumers. And in the midst of all the change, a San Antonio law firm is blazing its own [.
Growthink Blog
APRIL 23, 2013
'Crowdfunding is getting a group of regular individuals to collectively fund your venture. And when I say "regular individuals" I am contrasting them to professional investors and lenders like banks, venture capitalists and angel investors. Clearly, Crowdfunding gives the key benefit of providing funding to your business. But, I have found other key benefits.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2013
'I am fortunate to meet thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners every year. Many ask how they can improve their small business brand. This is not surprising – successful businesses avoid making branding mistakes that cripple other businesses. If your branding is confusing, inconsistent, generic, or otherwise sub-par, you can easily undermine your business’s credibility and ruin your chance for success.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 23, 2013
'This chart from recent Ofcom research is up on Techcrunch today. It shows pretty clearly that an increasing number of people are social networking across all ages, with an especially large increase amongst those age 55+. I imagine this activity is largely on Facebook, with maybe a little on Twitter. One intesesting thing to note is the length of time it takes older folks to pick up on tech trends that are popular with kids.
Up and Running
APRIL 23, 2013
'Once a small business gains traction and really starts to get some miles under its belt, many of the factors that can cause roadblock along the way are actually self-induced. When it comes to marketing and establishing your brand, more often than not, you are your own worst enemy. Don’t Dilute Your Brand. Case in point: did you know that without even being aware of it, you can unintentionally weaken and dilute your brand?
ConversionXL
APRIL 23, 2013
'What’s the best way to persuade somebody when talking to them? You have to be confident, talk fast and swear a little among other things. But what about persuading somebody without words – possible? You bet. Researchers installed a ‘fly’ onto urinals across different airports around the world: The presence of a fly in a urinal literally changes human behavior.
Up and Running
APRIL 23, 2013
'Once a small business gains traction and really starts to get some miles under its belt, many of the factors that can cause roadblock along the way are actually self-induced. When it comes to marketing and establishing your brand, more often than not, you are your own worst enemy. Don’t Dilute Your Brand. Case in point: did you know that without even being aware of it, you can unintentionally weaken and dilute your brand?
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 23, 2013
'Today’s guest post comes from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Nicole Crozier. photo credit: noodlepie via photopin cc. Without the same budget, resources and in-house expertise of larger companies, small businesses are at a disadvantage when it comes to marketing. By default, responsibility for marketing often falls to the business owner, who usually isn’t a marketing expert and is already strapped for time.
Hunter Walker
APRIL 23, 2013
'The iOS app store will pass $20b annual runrate this year and yet app discovery is still terribly suboptimal. At first I thought it was merely product limitations that Apple would aggressively move to solve – better search, social discovery, improved ratings system. Then I claimed conspiracy theory – that Apple likes having editorial control and thus the ability to play kingmaker via the featured section.
Austin Startup
APRIL 23, 2013
'Omni Water Solutions, a provider of highly automated mobile water systems for water treatment and re-use, announced today it has secured $4 million in additional equity from existing investors, led by Austin Ventures, and has added former FTS International CEO, Marc Rowland, to its Board of Directors. The new funding enables the company to add to its HIPPO product line for strategic customers in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale.
Early Growth Financial Services
APRIL 23, 2013
'Originally published in Business2Community. How can you improve or shore up your company or personal brand? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit 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 em
Lightspeed Venture Partners
APRIL 23, 2013
'Supercell raised $130M at a $770M valuation and got a lot of press for it recently. It is well on its way to being a billion dollar game company. Also on that track are companies like Kixeye (a Lightspeed portfolio company), Kabam, and many others in the social, mobile and tablet space, joining Zynga, Riot Games, Wargaming and others who already have a valuation north of a billion dollars.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 23, 2013
'According to data in the latest State of the Internet Report provided by Akamai Technologies , 56% of all malignant traffic observed by its customers – such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks – originate from the Asia Pacific/Oceania region, with China contributing a full 41%. In 2012 Akamai tracked a total of 768 DDoS attacks, up more than 200 percent from 2011.
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