deal architect
JUNE 22, 2014
'When you get two ex-accountants together, talk invariably turns to numbers. Dennis Howlett and I spent some time at the Plex conference a week ago and in discussing the book on SAP I am working on he advised me: “watch.
The Next Web
JUNE 22, 2014
'‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ (EIR) is the tech community’s newest job title. They’re popping up at Fortune 500 companies like Dell and venture firms like Greylock Partners to introduce a lens into the changing innovation landscape. “EIRs are the new ambassadors for investors and large organizations,” says Ellie Cachette, a seasoned entrepreneur, product designer and consultant for enterprise brands.
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Gust
JUNE 22, 2014
'Blog image via Pixabay.com. With the estimated 510 million live websites at last year-end, and 280,000 new ones being added every day, the biggest challenge for an entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your brand value, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money.
The Next Web
JUNE 22, 2014
'Amelia works in marketing at Punchkick Interactive. “Big data” is a major buzzword right now. And companies looking to collect, deploy and monetize customer information face a number of hurdles—not the least of which are the customers themselves. Recent revelations that Android may be developing a competitor to Apple’s iBeacon have resparked conversations about the right and wrong ways to track devices and their users.
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
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2014
'I’ve been stalled trying to get through two books: Startup Opportunities (with Sean Wise) and Startup Metrics. (with Seth Levine). Dane McDonald ( FG Press CEO) and my assistant Eugene Wan created a book cover recently to try to inspire me, as an homage to Do More Faster (with David Cohen). It worked. I’ve gotten a lot of writing on Startup Opportunities done in the last week and I expect this week to be a good one.
The Next Web
JUNE 22, 2014
'George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Anybody can start a business. But, very few businesses started have long term, defensible barriers to entry to protect against potential future competitors. As you know, every good idea spawns many new competitors trying to get a “bite at the apple.
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Hunter Walker
JUNE 22, 2014
'I was excited to recently see YC President Sam Altman evangelize for adding an investor or outside Director to a seed stage startup. In his recent “ Valuations ” post, Sam notes that: It turns out to be really good for a company to have a board—it focuses the company if everyone knows they have to present the key metrics to outsiders once a month.
SiliconHills
JUNE 22, 2014
'Capital Factory celebrated its 6th anniversary Friday night with a party at Kung Fu Saloon in downtown Austin. More than 800 people RSVP’d to attend the event and Capital Factory gave away 400 T-shirts. Key employees and founders of Capital Factory received giant wooden Jenga blocks with their names engraved on them to commemorate the […] The post Capital Factory Celebrates its Sixth Anniversary Kung Fu Geek Style appeared first on SiliconHills.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 22, 2014
'I’ve been doing some blogging and work in general for the good people at Pollenizer. My recent focus has been over coming the fear of leaving your job, and things we can do to reduce the risk and make the transition. I’ve written 3 posts in particular which I really think you guys will dig. There’s some links below and a little sound bite for each proving they are worth the 3 minutes each of them take to read.
Pascal's View
JUNE 22, 2014
'As we walked through the Levensohn Vineyard last week with our viticulturist, Zach Berkowitz , and our vineyard manager, Stan Zervas , of Silverado Farming , Zach cut into a green berry from one of our vines. He explained that we are now 50% of the way through the growing season for the 2014 vintage because the seeds in the grapes are now turning crunchy and hardening.
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