YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Crowdfunding platforms have been used by cash-strapped startups as a way to not only raise fund for ideas, but also to test if there’s a market for such ideas. The makers of the Klick Stylus , Morrison Innovations , earlier in June this year successfully used Kickstarter to raise enough funds to go-to-market with the capacitative and analog pen combination.
The Next Web
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber. So far I have shared with you 6 simple steps to start your own tech business (don’t miss part 1 and part 2 ).
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Here’s a truth that every leader needs to hear – you’re not perfect. You’re going to be making the occasional mistake, you’re going to suck, and things will go wrong. But that’s part and parcel of leadership, even for the most successful among us. In fact, no matter how many initiatives you spearhead or how hard you think about decisions, you will make the occasional management misstep, says clinical and business psychologist Nicole Lipkin, as well as author
Up and Running
AUGUST 12, 2013
'As an entrepreneur, you wear all the hats of a business, even when it’s not necessarily your strong suit. If you’re not sure where to start with bookkeeping and financial management, here are some recommendations for best practices, tools and resources for financial management of large or small companies in any industry. Keep It Separate. Separate your personal expenses from your business expenses.
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
Steve Blank
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Asking, “Can I have coffee with you to pick your brain?” is probably the worst possible way to get a meeting with someone with a busy schedule. Here’s a better approach. —— Jason, an entrepreneur I’ve known for over a decade, came out to the ranch today. He was celebrating selling his company and just beginning to think through his next moves.
deal architect
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Final post in a series by Ben Pring who co-leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. In laying out how “Code Halos” – aka our digital fingerprints –are changing the competitive rules in fast digitizing markets worldwide, we have.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Growth without retention leads to the dreaded sharksfin curve. If you’re not retaining your users, then it doesn’t matter how quickly you add new users to your product. You have a leaky bucket. Sooner or later, when you saturate your market of users and your new user growth slows, the rate of your existing user loss will outpace your new user growth and you will see overall usage fall.
David Cohen
AUGUST 12, 2013
'The Boulder and Denver tech startup communities were featured in a recent USA Today Talking Tech video. Several entrepreneurs from the area were interviewed for the segment, including yours truly: I think the report does a great job of highlighting some of the unique aspects of our community here, in particular the collaborative and inclusive ecosystem that helps it thrive.
David Teten
AUGUST 12, 2013
'I now primarily do calisthenics and body weight exercises for my workout , but I have the great advantage of having four working limbs. This video shows a wheelchair user, Joshua Rucker , doing calisthenics most able-bodied people couldn’t do. Really, really impressive, and inspirational. .
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 12, 2013
'I believe that within my lifetime processors will get powerful enough and software good enough that we will see computers that emulate human brains and pass the Turing Test (for more detail see my earlier posts Kurzweil predicts we will reverse engineer the human brain using software , Kurzweil predicts computers with the power of the human brain by 2025 , Scientists create artificial brain with 2.3m simulated neurons ).
Occam's Razor
AUGUST 12, 2013
'There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) than multi-channel attribution modeling. We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a " gosh darn it where is my return on investment from all this?
SiliconHills
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Five teams pitched Sunday night at Geekdom at the culmination of the latest 3-Day Startup San Antonio. The teams included Menu, a software program to allow customers to easily order takeout from restaurants, MicroStoreIt.com, a matchmaking service for empty commercial warehouses and consumers, Ripcord, an iPhone app that sounds an alarm and gets help, ScriptFit, […] The post Five Teams Pitch at 3 Day Startup San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Filing your new business as an LLC or a corporation is a smart decision for a number of reasons; it enables you to save on taxes and protect your personal assets, and it gives your business a sense of professionalism, to name a few. However, once you’ve made the jump, the work doesn’t stop with the end of the initial filing paperwork. It’s now your responsibility as a business owner to make sure that your LLC or corporation stays compliant with state rules and regulations.
OnlyOnce
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Book Short: Is CX the new UX? Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business , by Harley Manning and Kelly Bodine from Forrester Research, was a good read that kept crossing back and forth between good on the subject at hand, and good business advice in general. The Customer Experience (CX) movement is gaining more and more steam these days, especially in B2B companies like Return Path.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 12, 2013
'One of the great things about being a startup entrepreneur in the Austin and San Antonio region is there are tons of resources to help with the venture. One of those is Lean Startup Machine, based on the ideas from Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup book. The lean doesn’t mean eating ramen noodles and sleeping […] The post Lean Startup Machine Coming to Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'If I knew what I knew in the past I would have been blacked out on your a** —Kanye West, Black Skinhead. Because I am a prominent advocate for founders running their own companies, whenever a founder fails to scale or gets replaced by a professional CEO, people send me lots of emails. What happened, Ben? I thought founders were supposed to better? Are you going to update your “ Why We Prefer Founding CEOs ” post?
Growthink Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Last week , I talked about the communication breakdowns that occur when investors and entrepreneurs talk about risk. Well, in most forms of angel and early-stage private equity investing, these breakdowns flow from a misunderstanding of the power and nature of outliers. The concept of outliers and how they apply to early stage private equity investment was best described by the Lebanese thinker and writer Nicolas Taleb, in his best-selling books "Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 12, 2013
'If I knew what I knew in the past. I would have been blacked out on your a**. —Kanye West, Black Skinhead. Because I am a prominent advocate for founders running their own companies, whenever a founder fails to scale or gets replaced by a professional CEO, people send me lots of emails. What happened, Ben? I thought founders were supposed to better?
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 12, 2013
'In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz explains why drawing an infinity sign (a figure 8 on its side) in the air, instantly breaks stress. It forces you to switch back and forth from left brain to right brain and so on.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 12, 2013
'How to Make Your Time on Google+ Pay written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing So far Google+ has taken a back seat to other networks, such as Facebook, with all but the most Internet enthused and those in tech related fields. But, I believe Google+ holds some hidden opportunities precisely for this reason. photo credit: Thomas Hawk via photopin cc.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Turnstone, a Steelcase brand that helps small and emerging companies create great workspaces, has launched a project to find the “Best Young Companies to Work For.” The campaign kicked off last week “and is designed to recognize young businesses that demonstrate excellence in areas like talent retention, positive work culture, forward-thinking leadership, business innovation, community […] The post Turnstone is Looking for Best Young Companies to Work For appeared first
Rob Go
AUGUST 12, 2013
'A popular meme in startup investing right now is on the increasingly data-driven nature of the industry. More and more firms are employing developers and data-scientists internally to mine the trove of publicly available data to provide signals for companies that are exhibiting attractive momentum. Here are a couple recent articles , and we are also seeing companies like Mattermark popping up specifically to assist both VCs and angels in this endeavor.
Scott Edward Walker
AUGUST 12, 2013
'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my six most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.
Jason Ball
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Earlier this summer, I posted on why I led our investment in Wrapp. I promised as part of that post to circle back around with a post on a seed investment, to compare the two since they’re clearly at different stages. Here then, are my thoughts on Rockpack , and how they relate to my previous posts Three P’s of Venture Capital and Terminal Velocity.
Jeff Hilimire
AUGUST 12, 2013
'Ever wonder how the Fantastic Four got their names? Norm Macdonald figured it out. #hilarious.
The Startup Toolkit
AUGUST 12, 2013
'false Katamari Damacy took the gaming world of 2004 by storm. It was peaceful, invented a completely new category of gameplay (3D reverse Tetris?), won every award, and was a wonderful commercial success — all in spite of a minuscule budget. In short: precisely the sort of breakthrough innovation which we all dream of one day making. ?? Katamari Damacy ?
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 12, 2013
'If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, does it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up? In reality, hitting large numbers of Angels in multiple locations with a generic pitch is one of the least productive approaches. Here are five key things you need to know to quickly find the right Angel for your startup: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 12, 2013
'I was shocked for a few minutes last week after I heard that Lavabit committed corporate suicide. I pondered it for a while and then forgot, but two things this weekend caused me to remember it. The first was the suicide of Cylon Number One (John) near the end of Battlestar Galactica. I didn’t expect it at all (there were a bunch of things in the last three episodes that I didn’t expect.
aweissman.com
AUGUST 12, 2013
'A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys Last winter someone gave me a Nexus Android device they got at a Google event. It didn''t have phone service so I gave it to my son to play with. He took to it immediately, especially having a mobile camera. He started snapping pictures of everything.
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