Steve Blank
JANUARY 20, 2014
'When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Many entrepreneurs forget that their success is more about helping other people than about personally becoming famous, or overcoming the odds and getting rich. A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. That means more focus on helping others achieve their goals.
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Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 20, 2014
'On April 16, 2013 I wrote a post about the horrific tragedy at the 2013 Boston Marathon. Here’s how it started: At 3:55pm yesterday I cried. I was getting ready for a Google Hangout back to my office with my partners and I noticed something about an explosion at the Boston Marathon on twitter. I did a quick scan of Twitter, clicked through to a few links, and realized a bomb had gone off near the finish line.
The Next Web
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Social security, drivers license, PIN and… domain names? Who would have thought, say 20 years ago, that a defining name, marked with at least two periods and three W’s would be defining characteristic of our digital profiles? A good domain name can clearly describe who and what something is in a few characters; be it a business, organization, government, or personal blog, an owned domain name is an essential DNA building block to branding, SEO and digital presence.
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
JANUARY 20, 2014
'My partner Jason and our dear friend Professor Brad Bernthal are attempting to teach everything there is to know about the venture ecosystem in 90 minutes on January 28th. The link to the event is here. Now realistically, you won’t learn everything, but they have been teaching a class on the subject for the past five years and it is not only excellent, but was one of the reason Jason and I wrote our book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist.
The Next Web
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO & co-founder of Twoodo , the ultimate online collaboration tool. We all need to get our hands dirty from time to time. When obstacles come up, let nothing stop you from getting what you need! It’s times like these that made us come up with growth hacking ideas around our problems, or gave us the incentive to go out a research more.
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The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 20, 2014
'YC partner Sam Altman, who someone recently described to me as ‘more intelligent than Paul Graham, but without the personality quirks’ has published a list of what he describes as characteristics of successful companies. It’s a great list, but for my money it’s more about the entrepreneur than the business – e.g. it doesn’t talk about market size at all.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 20, 2014
'In this post I’m reviewing 5 websites, analyzing their home pages – and mostly their above the fold area. I’m also testing a new format for the reviews. Instead of a purely live video, I put together a small slideshow for it. So I will walk you through these sites using the slides. You can also view the slides separately via Slideshare.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 20, 2014
'With the multi-billion dollar acquisition of Nest, people are talking a lot these days about the connected home. It came up at the Canary board meeting the other day. Canary is the world''s most easy to install home security device , connecting to its homeowners via the cloud. As the lead investor in the company''s seed round, you''d think I''d be really bullish about the connected home, especially after their record Indiegogo pre-sale netted them almost $2 million in purchases.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JANUARY 20, 2014
'I had the pleasure of participating in the debut performance evening of the Indigan Storytellers group last Friday night. As Rocky Balboa once said “you shoulda been there.” It was an intimate evening of exquisitely told stories coupled with fine hand-crafted whiskey. The location was Journeyman Distillery in Three Oaks, Michigan. The room was packed and a good time was had by all.
Up and Running
JANUARY 20, 2014
'The old adage is that your business is your baby, but it’s time for it to start growing up (and growing your revenue along with it). There’s no better time than the New Year to commit to small changes in your life or in your business, so here are my three tips for re-focusing your energy and growing your business in 2014. 1. Give your sales team a customer service pep talk.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Rapportive is still the best GMail enhancement despite evolving very little since its acquisition by LinkedIn nearly two years ago. The browser install provides rich contact information within GMail and I refuse to adopt any other GMail plugin that doesn’t play nicely with its right side display. My understanding is that the small team has been focused on other contact-based projects within LinkedIn but I’m hoping it gets revived at some point because there’s still nothing lik
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 20, 2014
'[ Download MP3 | Subscribe In iTunes | Subscribe In Soundcloud ]. Two episodes ago we had a reader question from John Paul who asked about link building techniques. We spent the first half of this podcast episode, Everything Entrepreneurship #15, talking about where link building is at today, a topic I am very interested in because I spent … Read the rest of this entry » The post Which Link Building Techniques For SEO Work Today And Questions To Answer During Your Funding
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 20, 2014
'3 Tips for Creating a Strong Connection between Audience and Content written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Steve Giangola – Enjoy! Photo credit theproducersperspective.com. Great content isn’t only well written but also makes a vital connection with current or potential clients.
Early Growth Financial Services
JANUARY 20, 2014
'By Marlon Nichols. Originally published on MarlonNichols.com. As an early-stage venture capital investor with a keen emphasis on the seed stage, I spend a lot of time at startup accelerators working with first-time entrepreneurs. Increasingly, and without fail, at some point during these interactions founders ask variations of the ”how do VCs evaluate pitch meetings” question.
Scott Edward Walker
JANUARY 20, 2014
'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Quora: “Is it ok to make a startup pitch funny?” Solid response via @msuster : [link] +1 RT @rakeshlobster : One of the best decks on customer acquisition for startups that I’ve seen.
Venture Chronicles
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Jeff Jordan has an interesting post that looks at long terms trends in retail and more recent news, suggesting an acceleration that is itself a tipping point to the benefit of online. It’s hard to argue with the trends he is pointing out, however that is not the entire story, or at least the interesting one to me. To look at physical retail and suggest that online will overtake it is not where the story ends.
Jeff Hilimire
JANUARY 20, 2014
'“The great simplifier” That’s what my good friend, Donovan ( Sandbox Digital ), refers to me as when I’m giving him advice. And he’s right. I prefer to hear enough of the problem to get me to a viable solution and then make a decision. To say I’ve never been subject to the classic analysis paralysis would be an understatement.
Up and Running
JANUARY 20, 2014
'As I walked into our building last Thursday morning at 7, I noticed some unusual work going on in the restaurant on the first floor. Locksmiths were busy changing the locks and securing the doors. It was an odd time have maintenance done, but I didn’t think too much of it. Later that day, as I walked out to lunch, I saw the vegetable delivery sitting outside the locked doors of the dark restaurant.
Early Growth Financial Services
JANUARY 20, 2014
'A slide-by-slide approach to creating an effective startup pitch deck, presented by Marc Phillips, Managing Partner at Arafura Ventures and author of “Inside Silicon Valley: how the deals get done,” and co-sponsored by David Ehrenberg, Founder and CEO of Early Growth Financial Services, and Greg Heibel, Partner of Emerging Companies at Orrick.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 20, 2014
'by Paul M. Moore, Marketing Specialist at CWTadvertising.com . An advertising campaign through leaflet distribution is not just about getting your company’s message or services through doors, it’s about opening those doors to gain new customers. There are several ways that advertising through a leaflet distribution campaign can maximize your advertising efforts: 1.
deal architect
JANUARY 20, 2014
'CES this year was unusual this year because no single device or tablet dominated attention. Instead there was a showcase of wearables, smart kitchens, smart cars etc. It reflected the growing ubiquity of technology in our lives. It was my.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 20, 2014
'Last year, the VC industry partied like its 1999. New data from research firm Pitchbook makes it official: valuations are at an all-time high. Some of the frenzy is driven by Wall Street. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. 222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 20, 2014
'2014 will be a BIG year for Digital Marketing. AdAge’s annual survey of top B2B marketers found that 80% have boosted their digital marketing budgets, the highest proportion ever. A new wave of Israeli marketing technology startups, including Insightera (acquired by Marketo), Kenshoo , Tracx , Oktopost and others are helping CMOs get more bang for their digital buck.
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