Up and Running
APRIL 2, 2015
'That bank loan you want for your company? Well, the bank is going to want a lot before they give it to you. Do you find this daunting? Me too. I was really disappointed when I needed my company’s first commercial bank loan to finance receivables of more than $1 million—from well-known distributors no less—and we ended up having to sign a lien on our family home to get the loan.
View from Seed
APRIL 2, 2015
'Accidental VC is a series written by me, Jay Acunzo. Though I never planned it, I somehow wound up working in VC in 2014 as NextView’s head of platform. And since I’m an operator, not investor, I recognize just how valuable all the casual, daily discussions inside a VC’s office can be to fellow operators and entrepreneurs. So, while I’m thankful for what I’m learning, this series is my attempt to share this knowledge far beyond our office walls … one random l
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2015
'Here’s a scary statistic for you – 90% of small and medium businesses in the US don’t use data protection for company and customer information. That’s right, only one in ten small and medium businesses actually put in place proper practices and processes that prevent business disasters – ranging from simple data loss to critical security breaches – from happening.
Up and Running
APRIL 2, 2015
'After years of working for micromanaging bosses, working ten-hour days, and feeling completely drained at the end of a workweek, my husband and I decided to call it quits. We left our jobs in the media world and started our own business, McEwen’s Media. Our business is an extension of the work we did for the corporate world, with one big exception—we’re in charge.
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
APRIL 2, 2015
'by Alex Christo. When it comes to conducting business online, you have to be outfitted so you can work in the cloud and stay connected without the threat of unexpected downtime. Because cloud servers are a necessary component of doing business online, it helps to understand a little bit more about the concept. A Hazy Concept for Some People. When anyone speaks of the “cloud” in computer technology, it sounds rather nebulous, just like a cloud itself.
The Next Web
APRIL 2, 2015
'This article originally appeared on the Crew blog. We’re all busy. But sometimes we go through periods where the work piles up and it seems like it might never end. With the waxing and waning of my freelance work, a startup to manage, and side projects always on the go, this seems to happen to me all too often. So why is it that the busier I get, the less work I seem to do?
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Feld Thoughts
APRIL 2, 2015
'I’m a huge Google Hangouts user. It’s typically a multi-day occurrence that I’m on a hangout and one of the devices connected to the mega-video-conferencing setup in my office is a Chromebox. A few months ago I got Google Hangouts errors intermittently for a few weeks but it magically cleared up. I noticed it again on Sunday and it has been constant on all my computers in multiple locations on different networks.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 2, 2015
'I just read the following quote in a post by Jon Parrish a now successful entrepreneur about pitfalls that founders fall into: Entrepreneurs (myself included) have this incredible ability to ignore reality when it isn’t in line with our goals. We feel threatened by the idea that the answers to the questions we should be asking may prevent us from moving forward, so we don’t ask them.
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 2, 2015
'Yes, you read that right. I’m here to break the bad news to you. You aren’t ever going to make enough money! You simply can’t ever make enough money. It’s the trap of entrepreneurship. But understanding the reasons for it, and knowing the alternative to what you should pursue, can help spare you a lot of time, stress and chasing. You’ll never make enough money because, as you climb the mountain of financial success, you can see farther and farther.
Hunter Walker
APRIL 2, 2015
'When we created Homebrew in Q1 2013 we did it with people like Honor CEO Seth Sternberg in mind. I’d met Seth several years earlier at David Hornik’s Lobby conference and immediately took a shine to his just build it, no b t attitude and quick mind. At the time he was growing Meebo, which later sold to Google for several hundred million dollars.
Berkonomics
APRIL 2, 2015
'How many times have you heard someone say “Let’s do it now and ask permission later?” It’s a common practice in companies where there is a barrier between levels in the chain of command, or lack of communication between contemporaries. The statement represents a failing at some point in the delegation or communication chain by a higher level of management, and should be taken as a warning that there is a problem greater than the issue handled at the moment.
Early Growth Financial Services
APRIL 2, 2015
'No one likes to talk about it, but the odds of an individual startup making it are pretty daunting. If you want to shift those odds in your favor, one of the most important things to do is to understand where the potential traps are. Kevin Smith, Founder and CEO of SEEDCHANGE, and Glenn McCrae, Chief Strategy Officer for Early Growth, gave their insights into some of the biggest threats startups face plus ways to head them off during our Startup Killers webinar.
SiliconHills
APRIL 2, 2015
'Edgecase, the Austin-based retail data and analytics platform, Thursday announced the appointment of Susanne Bowen as its new CEO. Bowen, a veteran technology CEO, replaces Garrett Eastham, the company’s co-founder. He will be in charge of product and technology innovation as Chief Product Officer. “Edgecase is coming off a record 2014 filled with industry-first retail […] The post Austin-based Edgecase Names Susanne Bowen as CEO appeared first on SiliconHills.
VC Adventure
APRIL 2, 2015
I’ve touched on aspects of this topic before, but thought it was worthy of a full post. Companies in the venture business fail all the time. As I wrote last year, the majority of venture rounds fail to return capita l. With all the hype one reads in the startup press these days, that fact can be easily lost. So we know that startups fail all the time, but why do they fail?
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 2, 2015
'Turning Leads Into Customers With an Email Autoresponder written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Today’s Guest Post is by Jack Reamer – Enjoy! Imagine if your marketing ran on autopilot… You could sit back, kick your feet up and watch your sales go through the roof. You could grow your business (and take that much-needed vacation) without worrying about how you’ll get your next customer.
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