Steve Blank
MARCH 11, 2016
“Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.”. We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. This year we made a small but substantive addition to way we teach the class, adding a week for reflection. The results have made the class massively better. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 11, 2016
Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. According to the Angel Capital Association , at least 300,000 people have made angel investments in the last two years, totaling $24 billion in the U.S. alone. These are all accredited investors who risk their own money.
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YoungUpstarts
MARCH 11, 2016
It’s not enough to launch a startup that offers a new product or service that shakes up the market. If you make common mistakes , like not hiring the right people, you’re heading for trouble. If, as Peter Drucker, the father of Management Science, pointed out, the purpose of a business is to acquire and keep a customer, your first order of business should be to hire the right people.
deal architect
MARCH 11, 2016
MVNOs - mobile virtual network operators - are doing pretty well. They lease network capacity from the Big Four U.S. carriers and resell it under their own brands with their own value added services. Google Fi has only been doing.
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
MARCH 11, 2016
by Gyawu Mahama, Social Media and Marketing Manager at Hiscox Small Business Insurance. The clock is ticking and while daylight savings will give us a little more daylight to burn, time is running out before the March 15 th business tax due date. Tax season is a stressful time for anyone handling their own personal taxes, but especially for small business owners whose time might be their most valuable (and at times, scarce) commodity.
Brandanew
MARCH 11, 2016
This week, I attended an AADL (Ann Arbor District Library) event hosted by Steve Feinman, the Director of SCORE – a mentoring leader for small businesses. In particular, we had a crowd of artists from the region. While the event really was focused on how to sell art and build a remarkable brand, for me the things that spoke particularly were about branding.
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Brandanew
MARCH 11, 2016
Use of social media in political campaigns is no longer new. Everybody has more or less understood its importance and we are seeing their widespread use in many elections across the globe. But the reason Obama’s campaign is discussed here is because he was the first major leader to use it effectively. His team realized it before anyone else did, way back in 2008 when Twitter was just starting and even Facebook was just beginning to morph into the behemoth it is now.
For Entrepreneurs
MARCH 11, 2016
At Matrix Partners, we’ve collectively hired many people by starting our own companies and as investors, and written lots of advice for startup founders. We’ve put together the following articles into a comprehensive resource guide for you to reference as you navigate through the stages of your hiring process. The advice will help you hire the best talent and scale.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 11, 2016
Yesterday Stuart McKnight/Ascendant Corporate Finance published their regular report on activity in the UK venture market. As you can see from the chart above, 534 investments were made in the UK (above £0.5m) beating the previous high of 463, which was set back in 2000 at the height of the dotcom bubble madness. As you can see, our ecosystem has been growing fast since 2011, giving more credence to the notion that we we are finally reaching critical mass.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 11, 2016
Dan Caruso (Zayo CEO) is one of Boulder’s remarkable entrepreneurs. Phil Weiser and I will be interviewing him as part of the Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged series on 3/15. Sign up to join us for what I expect will be a very interesting evening. The post 3/15: Entrepreneurs Unplugged With Dan Caruso appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 11, 2016
If you stroll through your local bookstore and make your way to the business literature section, you’ll likely notice a blond, remarkable man smiling at you from the cover.
ithacaVC
MARCH 11, 2016
I first wrote about Rule 409A back in September 2011. Here is the post, which focused mostly on how 409A valuations are used for stock option purposes. BTW, I continue to think that as applied to private companies 409A is a terrible rule. And I think that early stage companies should take the risk and not use 409A valuations. As companies move to later stages and have meaningful revenues and profits then 409A valuations begin to make more sense.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 11, 2016
Creating customer journey maps is one of the hottest trends in user-focused marketing today. Understanding how to use them allows businesses to maximize product potential by informing intelligent web design that interprets, predicts, and aligns web properties with the needs and desires of their user base.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 11, 2016
What motivates us to do or not to do something? Here’s a terrific talk by Tony Robbins on the “invisible force” that motivate everyone’s actions. Now, we hope you enjoy another great set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (and on my Twitter account ). We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing,
Austin Startup
MARCH 11, 2016
Here are some of our experiences with Remote Garage on how to get into #1 accelerator in Texas. Continue reading on Medium ».
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 11, 2016
I was talking to this guy and this guy at this place recently, and the conversation moved into talking about the impulse to work your email inbox in an effort to feel like you accomplished something, when in reality often times you’re just move tasks around and not really accomplishing anything. Man am I guilty of this. It feels so good to work the email inbox and get it down to inbox zero.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2016
As the human ear ages it loses its ability to hear high-pitched sound frequencies (above 15-16 kHz) through a condition known as presbycusis that starts at 18 years old. There’s an old parlor trick where a sound is played at a higher frequency than adults can hear while kids are left smiling and laughing at us because for once it’s US who are out of the loop.
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