Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing.

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deal architect

MAY 2, 2015

In the 90s, SAP used to fly a handful of Gartner analysts to Walldorf, Germany for several days of briefings. It allowed analysts “full immersion time” with executives and product development/strategy folks. It required significant investment on both sides, and.

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SiliconHills

MAY 2, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Cerebri perfected its pitch, built its network and solidified its business plan during Longhorn Startup, said Bri Connelly, its CEO. The original team behind Cerebri won the inaugural IBM Watson University Competition in January. They received $100,000 and are working with the United Way Texas to develop […] The post 13 Longhorn Startups Pitch at Demo Day appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2015

Weekend Favs May Two written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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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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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 2, 2015

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Dave McClure , a smart entrepreneur turned angel investor and founding partner of 500 Startups , a venture capital firm and startup incubator in Silicon Valley.

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Guy Nirpaz

MAY 2, 2015

Steely Dan: The Making of Aja. One of my favorite weekend activities is finding stories about figures I like and learn the behind the scenes story. I’ve found this great movie on YouTube about the making of Aja, probably Steely Dan’s #1 all time album. It was really interesting to learn about the thorough process which included many great musicians that have ‘competed’ in making this album.

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