YoungUpstarts
MARCH 14, 2014
'Here’s a dirty little secret in the wine world – did you know that the sales and marketing of a wine actually increases its price drastically, oftentimes more than tripling the initial cost of making that wine? For example, an example of an excellent Cabernet from Napa Valley with a retail price tag of around $40-50 may actually cost just $7 to make.
Version One Ventures
MARCH 14, 2014
'Virtually every start-up dreams of becoming a platform at some stage. After all, it is the most powerful position in the ecosystem. What has been the one rule to becoming a platform? Develop a killer app that gets you to scale: and then open up the platform once your reach is attractive enough for other developers to develop specific apps for your platform.
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Feld Thoughts
MARCH 14, 2014
'As we roll into the weekend, and I start another digital sabbath, I’ve got the question “what really matters about being human” rolling through my mind. I spent the afternoon at the Silicon Flatirons conference SciFi and Entrepreneurship – Is Resistance Futile? I thought it was phenomenal and remarkably thought provoking. I came back to my office to find Dane and Eugene playing TitanFall on my 75″ screen.
K9 Ventures
MARCH 14, 2014
'Shortly after wrapping up our PhDs from Stanford CS, my peer group had a running inside joke. Whenever we would meet at an event, we would greet each other with “Doctor, Doctor, Doctor.” It’s hard to describe in words, but you have to imagine a bunch of geeky guys standing in a circle and shaking each others hand and saying “Doctor,” as they nod their head.
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
SiliconHills
MARCH 14, 2014
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News In many ways, Written’s Josh Kerr was the poster child for how one gets funding in Austin at the Funded in Austin panel at SXSW Tuesday afternoon. Kerr spoke glowingly of the help, support and advice he got from Capital Factory. He talked about building relationships with […] The post Funded in Austin…or Not at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 14, 2014
'This is a list of what Dan Pink, author of Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us , calls the ‘seven deadly flaws of carrot and stick based motivation: They can extinguish intrinsic motivation. They can diminish performance. They can crush creativity. They can crowd out good behavior. They can encourage cheating, shortcuts, and unethical behavior.
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Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 14, 2014
'I was talking with a budding entrepreneur last month about a car accident she was in. She experienced whiplash and injured her neck. Ever since the accident she has had difficulty sleeping because her old trusty pillow is not nearly as comfortable for her anymore. So she invented her own pillow design. Now she can sleep like a log, but doesn’t.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
MARCH 14, 2014
'Like a good guitar player — innovation has rhythm. There is no achievement without hard work. There is no breakthrough innovation without hard work. Innovation happens when you practice with discipline, with rhythm. We sometimes get lucky with things and shortcuts present themselves. Even then, one has to be ready to recognise luck when it’s sitting in front of you — on its hind legs begging for a ham bone.
ConversionXL
MARCH 14, 2014
'Immediate. Intentional. Intimate. It may surprise you to know that Joel Harvey of Conversion Sciences has found the value of a phone call to be anywhere between 500-1000% higher than a lead form field. In today’s interview with smart people , Joel Harvey explains why, as we also discuss: How and why to measure calls Testing site elements for distractability.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 14, 2014
'5 Ways Buying Facebook Fans Can Hurt Your Business 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 Chris Norton – Enjoy! photo credit: pixabay.com. Amazingly, many brands still measure social media success based on ‘counting metrics’, not on more meaningful indicators such as engagement, referrals or share of voice.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
MARCH 14, 2014
'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Dr. Stanley Snyder. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Business Side of Vein Clinics appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
ithacaVC
MARCH 14, 2014
'The other day I was guest lecturing in a class and described running a startup to be like swimming in a Shawshank River. There is a constant flow of problems building a company, but at the end might be salvation! A friend of mine just sent me this cartoon, which has a different take on startup life. Nothing revolutionary here, but I loved it so thought I would share.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 14, 2014
'by Glenn Orloff, CEO of Metropolitan Shuttle. Professions, like anything else, go through periods of popularity, but some have more staying power than others. Sure, you can go to school to be a doctor or a lawyer, but taking an entrepreneurial itch and applying it to a long-term profession can be tricky. “Event planner” wasn’t a career, let alone a business, when your parents were entering the workforce.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 14, 2014
'This is the sixth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing; and the fifth was with Rob Kischuk , CEO of PerfectPost. . One of the benefits of starting Dragon Army in the Atlanta Tech Village last September has been the opportunity to spend more time with some of the best ent
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