Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 1, 2015
'Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and Angel investor, I still see too many common failure causes that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm.
OnlyOnce
APRIL 1, 2015
'How to Get Laid Off. One of my colleagues at Return Path saw my post about How to Quit Your Job and was inspired to share this story with me. Please note there is no other method to my posting it other than thinking it’s a very good way of approaching a very difficult situation. In 2009 I was working at a software security start up in the Silicon Valley.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 1, 2015
'We built MakeSpace’s logistics systems and customer applications (to see all of your items in storage in beautiful photography) in the first year. Then we launched our service in NYC and in just one year captured 2% of all new storage customers in our target demo in just one year with almost no marketing budget. How did we achieve these initial results?
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 1, 2015
'When you are working in an office or even better yet, running an office, there are lots of things that you have to be concerned about. One of the things that you need to be thinking about within an office is ensuring that all of your staff are happy and safe in the working environment. When you’re talking about your staff being safe you’re not just talking about ensuring that they not hurting themselves in the office with a rogue stapler or a paper cut.
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
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 1, 2015
'I''ve said before that I wouldn''t take on a partner. I didn''t think I needed one, and I''m happy to say that it seems that I''ve done just fine without one. I''ve had the good fortune of investing in standout companies like Canary, Tinybop, Floored, Orchard, and Ringly, just to name a few. The fund is performing really well and we''ve had lots of inbound offers to invest in the second fund, which was being rounded up until recently.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 1, 2015
'by Ezra Gottheil, principal analyst at Technology Business Research. The Internet of Things offers device vendors like Lenovo the opportunity to diversify their consumer portfolios, increase revenue and profits, and establish deeper relationships with customers. Lenovo has been working on its things portfolio for about a year, and the company is poised to bring its expanded collection of products to market in China.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 1, 2015
'by Rob Wilson, CEO of Employco USA. Generation gaps are nothing new, but the battle between baby boomers and millennials is one for the record books. Never before have two generations been so at odds and so out of touch with each other’s culture and desires. The older generation just doesn’t get today’s young people. All they see is a bunch of distracted kids playing on their cell phones and posting on Facebook in the middle of the workday.
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 1, 2015
'SXSW 2015 was amazing (albeit a bit overwhelming). After speaking about Profit First at the Austin convention center, my friend (and awesome author of the new book, Stand Out ) Dorie Clark scheduled a dinner for some of the authors who were at SXSW. Here are some selfie’s I was able to get: Daniel Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human , and me at SXSW.
SiliconHills
APRIL 1, 2015
'Salesforce confirmed it has acquired Austin-based Toopher. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is not an April Fool’s joke. Salesforce confirmed in an email to Silicon Hills News that it has acquired Toopher. Toopher originally made the announcement on its website. “Today it is with great excitement that we can unveil our […] The post Salesforce Acquires Austin-based Toopher appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
APRIL 1, 2015
'David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. It’s like the plot of a Hollywood movie: Three best friends, with no prior business experience, decide to band together and form a startup business. They hope to create an innovative platform that will shake up the floral industry, and help both customers and florists alike.
SiliconHills
APRIL 1, 2015
'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News The tech industry is losing a lot of value by not having more diversity in its workforce, said Joel Rojo, founder of TicketKarma.com. Cultural diversity leads to greater creativity and problem solving, Rojo said. Rojo is working to change the tech landscape in Austin. CODE2040, a nonprofit […] The post CODE2040 Austin Winner is Joel Rojo appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 1, 2015
'I love our new logo! It’s great to finally have an icon, I love the way we’ve shifted the emphasis to the ‘Partners’ in Forward Partners and, last but not least, the process we went through is a great example of how we work. Kudos to Seth, who recently joined our design team, for running a great process and producing a great result.
SiliconHills
APRIL 1, 2015
'Got a hankering for a new Mercedes Benz and some Cheetos? Then Burpy, the Austin-based startup that delivers groceries, has got you covered. The company announced today the launch of same day delivery of cars to consumers in Austin, San Antonio and Houston. “We believe including cars into our product listings will not only interest […] The post Burpy Cars, Lake Travis Iceberg, Google Fiber Dial Up and iHarpRadio and More April Fools’ Jokes appeared first on SiliconHills.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 1, 2015
'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this brilliantly clever album cover design in this Print Design project. Let us start the slow clap for DavidStHubbins. Check out more great work on DavidStHubbins ’ profile page. Nicely done, DavidStHubbins, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
APRIL 1, 2015
'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Colin Alcorn- Corner Catalogue. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Student Balances Class and Startup appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
SiliconHills
APRIL 1, 2015
'San Antonio-based Payment Data Systems, which processes electronic payments for other companies, saw its revenue increase 159 percent in 2014. The company announced it had $13.4 million in revenue for 2014, compared to $5.2 million a year earlier. The increase came from higher transaction volume across its automated clearinghouse and credit card business segments.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 1, 2015
'Cracking the Content Code written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark W. Schaefer. Content as a category of marketing has continued to evolve. At first we created articles to get found by those using search engines. Then we realized we needed to use content to build our audience and start capturing email leads.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 1, 2015
'This is one of my favorite lines to use to explain the business life I live. When asked what it’s like to be a partner in a VC firm, be on a bunch of boards, and have a continuous stream of random interaction come my way, I like to level set my reality. It’s simple. Something new is f *d up in my world every day. Now, just because something new is f *d up, doesn’t mean I’m unhappy.
Up and Running
APRIL 1, 2015
'As far as pitching an idea goes, business solutions very rarely sell themselves. If you’ve ever had to stand up in front of people with the power to decide the future of your enterprise, you’ll know how daunting it can be. The following article is divided into two sections. First, I’ll address a few of the things entrepreneurs need to know about pitching potential investors.
Jeff Hilimire
APRIL 1, 2015
'I’m currently reading two books. Actually, I’m listening to one and reading another. The one I’m reading is the new Steve Jobs book, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader. The book I’m listening to when I drive or go for a run (via Audible ), is Einstein: His Life and Universe. It’s a really interesting experience to go through these two books at the same time.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 1, 2015
'by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Is selling an art or a science? Do new school algorithms and big data trump old fashioned methods such as a charming smile and a firm handshake? This has become an industry-wide debate, in fact, using more science and data is now a debate across all industries including “Money Ball” in sports or native advertising in marketing.
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