YoungUpstarts
MARCH 4, 2014
'By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. Matrix teams are a common method of staffing projects. Just like many other areas of project management, they have their benefits and their challenges. Let us discuss some of the pitfalls in using matrix teams on projects. Money is not needed to save the world. Only in fiction can this be true; in the real world, not so much.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 4, 2014
'I’ve been thinking about the concept of “the duo” a lot recently. Many of the companies I’m involved in have either two co-founders or two partners who partner up early in the life of the business. Examples of founding partners including Andrei and Peter ( Kato.im ), Keith and Jeff ( BigDoor ), James and Eric ( Fitbit ), and Matthew and Cashman ( Yesware ).
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Up and Running
MARCH 4, 2014
'For those of us with an entrepreneurial spirit, the benefits of working from home (autonomy, flexibility, comfort) often outweigh the costs (distractions, interruptions, isolation). But the pros and cons can also be monetary, and it’s easy to overlook that when you’re enjoying visions of working in your PJs in the middle of the afternoon. When you think about it, there are plenty of things that you have to pay for when you report to an office everyday, and working from home strikes these items
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
'In the last few years we’ve recognized that a startup is not a smaller version of a large company. We’re now learning that companies are not larger versions of startups. There’s been lots written about how companies need to be more innovative, but very little on what stops them from doing so. Companies looking to be innovative face a conundrum: Every policy and procedure that makes a them efficient execution machines stifles innovation.
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
deal architect
MARCH 4, 2014
'Who says you cannot learn from airline magazines? Reading Spirit magazine on a Southwest flight I saw quote below from canine expert Cesar Millan I think it is also a good way to think of innovation. Too many back office.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 4, 2014
'Those looking for information about how to sell clothes online with a virtual store may have come across information regarding online consignment. No longer limited to offline stores, the online consignment counterpart can offer the new business owner a host of benefits, one of which is a greater degree of control over several aspects of the business, including profits and fees.
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YoungUpstarts
MARCH 4, 2014
'If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. Indeed since 2012 the daily deal model have been observed to be dying a slow death , and even industry players agree an overhaul of their business models is due in order for them to survive.
Version One Ventures
MARCH 4, 2014
'It’s often said that a CEO should focus on three key things: Do I have the right people on the team? Are those people working on the right thing? And is there enough cash in the bank to keep the lights on? The right investor should help a founder with all three of those questions: 1. Do I have the right people on the team? The best investors are instrumental in helping founders recruit the perfect team.
The Next Web
MARCH 4, 2014
'One month after Microsoft announced Satya Nadella as its new CEO, predecessor Steve Ballmer made an appearance at the Saïd Business School, part of England’s Oxford University, where he discussed many things with his long-time friend Professor Peter Tufano , who’s now Dean of the School. As we noted earlier, Ballmer wasn’t short on advice for fledgling startups and budding entrepreneurs, but when prodded by Tufano specifically on the issue of failure and success – not only in startups but large
Hunter Walker
MARCH 4, 2014
'Approaching Homebrew’s one year anniversary at the end of April so expect some ‘reflective’ posts on my first 12 months in venture capital. . Venture capital isn’t the only way to fund your business and for many at the earliest stages of their startup, it’s one of the worst choices. Whoa, but as a VC, shouldn’t I be telling you that we’re the only game in town for real entrepreneurs?
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 4, 2014
'As you can see from the chart above time spent accessing the web from mobile apps has now passed time spent accessing the web for PCs. Moreover, the trends are only going one way, which begs the question of when it will become the norm for startups to build an app before they build a website. Up until now there have been a few ‘mobile first’ startups, but they have been the exception rather than the norm.
SiliconHills
MARCH 4, 2014
'By TIM GREEN Reporter with Silicon HIlls News It’s Ticketpalooza Day at WP Engine, the Austin-based company that offers managed hosting services for WordPress-based websites. About 30 members of the company’s support staff are gathered around two long tables fielding calls from customers having problems with their websites. The support reps tap on their laptops, […] The post WP Engine Revs Up on WordPress appeared first on SiliconHills.
David Cohen
MARCH 4, 2014
'Wow, the folks in Buffalo are cranking it up. They’re created a $5M business plan competition. It’s called 43North and they will make the following awards: 1 $1m award. 6 $500k awards. 4 $250k awards. Head over and check it out. It looks amazing.
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 4, 2014
'One of the perks of being an author and speaker is that you meet many other authors and speakers. I have met people who I consider to be the masters of their craft. But they’re not – not in their eyes. The best speakers still think they can be better. They see ways to up their game. The best authors think their latest book wasn’t perfect, and that the next one will be that much better for it.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MARCH 4, 2014
'Leadership is Uninvolved with Innovation. Yes, I just said that. Take me out to the wall and shoot me — but in many companies this is a major problem. I used to frequent a bagel shop on the south side of Chicago. It wasn’t a chain. Just a small business with great tasting bagels in a good location. I popped in one day about 9:00 am for a raisin bagel with cream cheese and was a bit startled to find myself the only customer in the store.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 4, 2014
'If you don’t have a dedicated website for your startup or small business, you are not alone. But you’re in grave danger to fall further behind your competition. You might be slowly building a fan base on Facebook ( if you’re buying fans on Facebook by advertising, you’re very likely wasting your money ), sharing small bits of content on Twitter and posting images to Pinterest.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 4, 2014
'Customer Loyalty Is Mostly About Choosing the Right Customers written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I know the title of this post might raise some eyebrows, but it’s true – most businesses have the exact clients they’ve chosen. photo credit: LexnGer via photopin cc. Now, you may not exactly love the clients you’ve attracted, but that’s because you don’t realize the power you wield when it comes to “c
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 4, 2014
'Selling a business is an interesting ride. I’ve had the fortune to do it twice, once to a private equity company and once to a public company. In both cases I learned things along the way that I wish I had known (which is always the case, for example here are 10 things I wish I knew when I started my first company ). 10 things I wish I knew when I sold my business(es): 1.
Early Growth Financial Services
MARCH 4, 2014
'Originally published in Verge Startups. We make hundreds of little decisions every day. Wear the black shoes, not the brown ones. Salad for lunch. Turn left. We don’t often doubt our own judgment in these situations. There isn’t much at stake, after all. But when we run up against big business decisions that come with serious implications, something changes.
TechEmpower
MARCH 4, 2014
'As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second. We understand their excitement is about the performance of their load balancer 1.
The Next Web
MARCH 4, 2014
'This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog and is republished with permission. I’ve written how creativity works in the brain before, and I found it really useful to understand this process. Or, I should say, multiple processes. There’s so much going on in the brain during creativity that science is still trying to pin down exactly how it all works.
Small Business Force
MARCH 4, 2014
There are a lot of paradoxes in business today. It is without question the easiest time ever to start a new business. Technology enables entrepreneurs to begin on a literal shoestring, what with cloud-based systems, tablets and smartphones. To say nothing of just more and more young business people having grown up with that technology. At the same time, it's probably never been more difficult to make a start-up successful than it is today.
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