Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Yesterday Apple announced the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. In the past, I would have blocked out my calendar for the keynote address and watched it streaming on my laptop, soaking up all of the new features and desperately waiting to hear when the first available ship date would be. But not yesterday. Yesterday I had completely forgotten about the announcement until about half way through and then only quickly checked to see what was announced before going back to the work I was doing at the time.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Just a week after Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) completed its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, the startup and technology blog today announced that it has also acquired Indonesia-based gaming blog GameSaku from Apps Foundry. Founded just last year in 2012, GameSaku quickly became Indonesia’s top mobile gaming blog – GameSaku.com went from nothing to generating over 800,000 monthly pageviews within 16 months and with just two ful

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low, and most entrepreneurs avoid this option like the plague, knowing the process is painful, and public company executives are seen as greedy sharks.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Every September, as MLB teams overnight expand their 25 player rosters to 40, I think about the iceberg of talent that most of us do not see on the field or in the dugout. I got a glimpse of that.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'The early startup phase of your business is a very exciting time because there is an immense amount of opportunity and success to be had. It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. There will be, at one point or another, a time when your business has collected a considerable amount of information about clients and industry professionals to begin making logical decisions, based on dat

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'John D. Rockefeller. Greatest Wealth – $318 Billion at age 74. First Job – Book keeper. Andrew Carnegie. Greatest Wealth – $298 Billion at age 68. First Job – Textile laborer. Henry Ford. Greatest Wealth – $188 Billion at age 57. First Job – Machinist. Warren Buffet. Greatest Wealth – $62 Billion at age 77. First Job – Newspaper delivery boy. Bill Gates.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Looking to sell into an industry that’s currently undergoing disruption? At first glance, it sounds like a great idea. After all, companies getting disrupted are experiencing some very real challenges and pain points; they need to adapt quickly and could be looking for that silver bullet to save them. During my time at AbeBooks , I was working in the book industry when it was undergoing a major disruption from Amazon.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'The early startup phase of your business is a very exciting time because there is an immense amount of opportunity and success to be had. It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. There will be, at one point or another, a time when your business has collected a considerable amount of information about clients and industry professionals to begin making logical decisions, based on dat

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'One of my responsibilities at ff Venture Capital is helping to accelerate value creation in our portfolio companies. I published the first research study on this topic in the Journal of Private Equity , peHub , Betabeat , and Techcrunch. The Journal of Private Equity has now (temporarily) made our full study available for complimentary download: The Lower-Risk Startup: How Venture Capitalists Increase the Odds of Startup Success.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'I’m a big fan of Jeff Bezos for what he’s done at Amazon and for the things he says. I just read this on The 20 smartest things Jeff Bezos ever said : “I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Sean Thorne is a college senior at the University of Oregon, majoring in economics. He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Here Are Answers To Two Of The Most Important Questions A New Blogger Or Info Product Marketer Will Ever Have… I have two resources to share with you that answer the two biggest questions someone new to online business has -. What niche do I enter? How do I quickly get paying customers? Here are your answers… Just last … Read the rest of this entry » The post My Answers To Two Big Questions Every New Blogger Or Info Product Marketer Faces appeared first on Entrepreneurs-J

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'I spend about 84 hours a week online (I refuse to count Netflix, thank you Apple TV). Granted, I work in the world of social media and email marketing, but most every other person my age logs about the same, if not more, time online. The average American spends about 26 hours a week online. Compared to 84 hours a week that may not shock you, but think about it—across all ages, genders and income levels, the AVERAGE American is spending 1.0833333 (what?

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'I first met Matt Mullenweg , founder of Automattic/WordPress, over a bowl of chili in Wyoming last decade. I don’t recall when I first met Raanan Bar-Cohen , SVP of business things at Automattic, but I do know we were already friends before traveling to Baghdad together in 2009, sharing an amazing week in Iraq. Toni Schneider , CEO of Automattic – well him I barely know but we’ve had nice conversations over the years and he is an exceptional gentleman.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'5 Basic Tips for Greater eCommerce Conversion written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing This post is sponsored by Community Merchants USA. Buying online is huge business. For many it’s become such a convenient way to shop that even staple, every day items such as contact solution and toothpaste are acquired by turning to a trusted eCommerce vendor.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'[contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley? Statistics show that it’s probably kind of futile to even try. Many have tried, but must be content with their small market shares. How can other regions will ever match the MACHINE: Stanford, Andreesen, Draper, Valentine, Doerr, Facebook/Apple/Google Millionaires, 4 Generation VC firms, Hardware/Software partnerships, over 100 Billon $ market cap cos.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'By Alan Lobock, co-founder, Worthworm. As an entrepreneur, you’ll face a bevy of challenges. Sometimes the list of challenges may feel never ending – from writing the business plan to finding the right partner – but one of the single most important challenges entrepreneurs face is calculating a realistic, defensible pre-money valuation. . What is a pre-money valuation and why should I care?

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