David Teten
MAY 1, 2013
'This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. (This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz etc. (credit: Wikipedia)). It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space. Foursquare won vs.
Up and Running
MAY 1, 2013
'Do me a favor … tell me what a “phone“ is? . A device to call someone? What exactly constitutes a “call”? While you’re at it, what’s a “smart phone” anyway? And how much longer must I drag along this 9 digit distraction ? I don’t know about you, but my so-called phone is used to actually ‘talk’ to people about 10% of the time it is in use. Maybe less.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
MAY 1, 2013
'What does “big data” mean to you? When most of us hear the term, we immediately think about mainstream use cases that leverage smarter data sets to assist companies in making better decisions that optimize business operations, improve enterprise application performance, and even create apps for children to foster more engaged and successful learning.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2013
'Every dark cloud has a silver lining. Driven by the recent recession, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. I see it most in the newest generation of entrepreneurs (Gen-Y), who were shocked out of entitlement into action by the recession. Donna Fenn, in her book from a while back, “ Upstarts!
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 1, 2013
'LinkedIn first established an office here in Singapore back in 2011. Then the online professional networking site had around half a million members – earlier this week the company announced that its membership base has approximately doubled to over a million members, addressing about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population.
deal architect
MAY 1, 2013
'In a panel last week at the Inforum Executive Forum I marveled at how much personal data consumers are voluntarily sharing via social networks. We are uploading 350 million photos a day on Facebook, then helpfully tagging them, sharing what.
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Feld Thoughts
MAY 1, 2013
'For the past two days I’ve been at an even called SERGE (Seasoned Entrepreneurs Gathering Exchange). I co-founded it with two long time friends, Martin Babinec (founder of Trinet ) and Keith Alper ( founder of Creative Producers Group ). Martin, Keith and I have known each other since the mid-1990s when we were much younger entrepreneurs playing leadership roles at the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (now simply “EO”).
David Cohen
MAY 1, 2013
'TechStars Seattle is on fire. Haiku Deck recently announced a new $3M in funding from Madrona and others, for a total of $3.9M in funding. Everymove is now at 6.1M in funding after a recent 3.5M new round. Romotive recently raised 6.5M from investors including Sequoia. And Tred has raised 1.7M from Maveron, Chris Sacca and others. In total, the 29 past TechStars companies from the Seattle program have raised nearly $40M in venture capital so far.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 1, 2013
'Inn0vation Matt3rs have analysed jobs listings by European VC backed companies by looking at the data on Ventureloop.com. There were nearly 1,500 jobs posted in the last seven weeks, which would mean c11,000 over the course of the year if that rate was maintained. These are jobs listings which I guess are a little higher than jobs filled, but the order of magnitude should be right.
The Next Web
MAY 1, 2013
'Streaming live on The Next Web, Pancake Labs founder Jim Belosic will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, May 2. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council ’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Jim will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. Jim Belosic is the co-founder and CEO of Pancake Labs, a software company based in Reno, Nev.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 1, 2013
'Many small business owners and young entrepreneurs are intimidated by marketing. There’s a good reason for this: marketing is expensive, can be time-consuming, and can be a waste of time. But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. Whether you plan and execute traditional and online marketing strategies yourself, or pay consultants or vendors to help you, it’s important for you to understand the types of marketing available to you.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 1, 2013
'I hear a lot of funny things about other VCs. This one doesn''t really do early stage, that one doesn''t really get consumer. It usually stems from entrepreneurs who have been passed up on. Often times, I''ve literally just closed on an early stage opportunity with that VC--so I''m quite sure they go early. Beware of the intel you get on VCs from other startups.
David Cohen
MAY 1, 2013
'Definition: Busman’s Holiday – a break, holiday or vacation during which you engage in activity that is similar to your usual work. Summer is almost here and you might be planning a vacation or overseas trip. As an alternative this year, why not take a Busman’s Holiday to TechStars London? We would like to invite mentors and alumni from across the entire TechStars network to our new shiny office in TechCity London.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MAY 1, 2013
'Tweet I recently had the opportunity to play with a couple of great cameras to record some videos. After some trial and error with lighting, I finally came up with a setup that combined the Canon 6D with an Ikea lamp and a Rode lavalier lapel mic and went to work recording videos.
Up and Running
MAY 1, 2013
'Every time I hear the old blues song “God Bless the Child” I think of startups, bootstrapping, and owning your own thing. During the last few weeks I’ve had to explain to several people hoping for angel investment that their startup wasn’t getting into the finals for our local angel investment group, the Willamette Angel Conference.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 1, 2013
'In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 1, 2013
'Marketing podcast with Brian Solis. photo credit: peasap via photopin cc The more things change, the more they change. That’s my take anyway and it seems like we are in the middle a significant change once again when it comes to marketing. Search revolutionized the way we find things and altered how companies are chosen. Blogs and social networks shifted the playing field dramatically once again just a few short years ago.
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 1, 2013
'…”look at how rich people are living today” Was said as a passing comment in a recent conversation. But I couldn’t let it just pass. Think about it. When you imagine Gordon Gecko from the movie Wall St. what image do you have in mind? Mine is the one of the poster boy of wealth clutching his massive brick of a mobile phone while brokering another million dollar deal.
SiliconHills
MAY 1, 2013
'Registration for RISE Week 2013 kicked off today and already some sessions have almost filled up. Do you want to know about veteran entrepreneur Gary Hoover’s latest venture, his fifth startup, and how he comes up with great ideas? There’s a session for that. Hoover founded the Bookstop book store chain and Hoover’s in Austin. [.] The post RISE Week 2013 Registration Kicks Off appeared first on SiliconHills.
Hippoland
MAY 1, 2013
'image credit: Victor1558. I’m going on my 5th year of running my own company, so it’s been fun to look back at all the mistakes that I’ve made. . With my first startup Parrotview, the biggest mistake we made was not using the Lean Startup methodology to see if anyone even wanted our product that we spent so much time building. (No one wanted it.) .
ithacaVC
MAY 1, 2013
'I read an article this morning in DealBook titled “ In Venture Capital Deals, Not Every Founder Will be a Zuckerberg “ Go ahead and give it a read. I actually like the Deal Professor very much and think he usually writes good stuff. But this time he missed a few things. My first reaction was “no kidding” and that was just to the title of the article.
Hippoland
MAY 1, 2013
'image credit: Victor1558. I’m going on my 5th year of running my own company, so it’s been fun to look back at all the mistakes that I’ve made. . With my first startup Parrotview, the biggest mistake we made was not using the Lean Startup methodology to see if anyone even wanted our product that we spent so much time building. (No one wanted it.) .
Campus Entrepreneurship
MAY 1, 2013
'Received a thoughtful email from Greg Hahn at Boise State University the other day telling me about their new Venture College. Sounds very exciting and it seems they have buy in and support from the entrepreneurial community in Boise. Can’t wait to hear about their incoming class. From Venture College’s homepage : Venture College prepares students to launch businesses or nonprofits.
Mucker Lab
MAY 1, 2013
'A little more than one year ago, Marc Andreessen wrote a seminal piece which has defined venture investing and entrepreneurship since. The global trend for software powered innovations to permanently impacting every part of our lives and every part of our work is unstoppable and just at the beginning. Three generations into the birth of information technology, we are at the global inflection point – while it might not seem like it today, a hundred years from now it would be obvious and self-evi
Campus Entrepreneurship
MAY 1, 2013
'This evening, I was able to work with Arlington Economic Development and Amplifier Ventures in putting on a 3D Printing Venture Camp event at GMU’s Arlington Campus. Dan Wilson of TechShop and Brian Jacoby of Nova-Labs, both hacker spaces, exhibited and sat on our panel. Turns out that the NY Times published a piece on maker spaces today. Wonder if I can talk someone at Mason into funding maker spaces on our campus?
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 1, 2013
'When we focus on the top line, any sale is a good sale. Any paying client is a good client. Anything that makes money is everything we want. Top line addiction results in a single need: sell, sell, sell. Sell everything and sell anything. That’s a problem, since all sales are not the same. The ten thousand bucks you made from one client delivering on your core competency is way different than the ten thousand dollar sale to the impossible to satisfy client who needs you to reinvent the wh
Diego Basch
MAY 1, 2013
'In SiliconValleyStartupLand there are memes that some repeat as if they were absolute truths. One of them is “ the first employee of a startup gets screwed. ” Sure, and the black guy always dies first in movies. While we are at it, you cannot get pregnant the first time you have sex (yes, some people believe this ). The truth is that being the first employee of a startup could be shitty, or it could also be a great investment of your time and effort.
OnlyOnce
MAY 1, 2013
'Return Path’s Newest Board Member: Jeff Epstein. I’ve written before about how much I love my Board. Well, I’m pleased to announce I have a new reason to love it – today, I’m officially welcoming Jeff Epstein to the Return Path Board of Directors. He is joining an all-star cast that includes Greg Sands , Fred Wilson , Brad Feld , Scott Weiss and Scott Petry.
Scalable Startup
MAY 1, 2013
'Audacity. Boldness. Risk Taking. Vision. Audacity is required to build an innovative startup, to invent something new, try to do things others say you cannot do, and Southern California needs many more audacious people in its tech and media startup ecosystem. So Cal is a perfect environment for innovation and bold risk taking. We have sunshine, 20+ Universities, a great history of tech innovation, and more idle capital than most places in the world.
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 1, 2013
'“While technology is doing amazing things to democratize what used to be exclusive to the rich, it’s still got a long way to go. Uber, despite its slogan, isn’t “everyone’s private driver,” it’s the upper middle class’s private driver. There are people in real need. And yes, cell phone penetration is amazing, but people are still hungry. So we need a fusion of the two ideas: the optimism of tech, so that policy doesn’t shoot behind the adoption curve, but the compassion to understand what probl
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