Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
This one is attributed to Rod Adair, the famous oil and gas fire suppressing expert. And boy, does it apply to most of us and our offerings. “Quality” products and services should not be positioned as “cheap,” or your potential customers will question your message from the start, and will be more critical of the delivered product than if offered as one or the other, but not both.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Guess what is often the worst slide in an investor pitch deck ? For me, it’s the competition slide. At best, it’s a list of competitors plotted in some 2×2 or Harvey-ball chart that isn’t terribly helpful. At worst, it’s hurtful. You’d be surprised how often a competitor slide has tons of players but not the one that I end up thinking the most about after a bit of research.
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deal architect
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
I moderated a panel at Oracle OpenWorld. Chris Leone of Oracle introduced me to the audience as an author. My OOW registration badge said “independent analyst”. Most of my clients call me an adviser. I travel in many circles and.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
By Evan Singer, General Manager for SmartBiz. Bye bye Black Friday. The big day for small business owners is November 28th this year. Launched in 2010, American Express Small Business Saturday has become an annual tradition celebrating independent retailers. It’s a great way for small local businesses to compete with larger companies for holiday dollars.
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
deal architect
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Hard to believe but Amazon tells me some of you have still not read my books. Shocking The good news is with Thanksgiving and the December holidays coming up Amazon is discounting the Kindle copies of SAP Nation and SAP.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
by Sebastien Boyer, Director of Products at Nutcache. With businesses expanding and going global, working virtually with teams operating from different geographies is becoming more and more common. But it is easy for ideas and work to get scattered in the virtual world. One question that immediately comes to mind is how a manager is going to keep track of such teams and their activities?
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Up and Running
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
What’s your thing? You know—that thing that helps you be at your best. It helps you be more productive. It makes completing your workload feel easier. It’s that little trick up your sleeve for managing tasks and getting things done. Mine is making lists. I can’t start a task without a good, solid, pen-and-paper to-do list (no apps for me, thanks—this is one thing I go old-school for).
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Consultation with counsel and with any existing advisors, directors or key stockholders is often the best course when determining whether a strategic value-add person should be evaluated for an advisor or director role.
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Benedict Evans of A16Z used this chart to illustrate his point that each new compute platform brings a step change in scale when compared with its predecessor. Smartphones will soon be 10x PCs, PCs were a step in scale up from mini-computers and mini-computers were a step in scale up from mainframes. In the title to this post I used 10x to describe all the changes because I think that’s approximately right and implied by Benedict’s post, but I don’t have data.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Big and small data, alike, can be the best tool in many small business marketing arsenals. But when used poorly, it can end up harming you rather than helping your bottom line.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
The University of Texas at Austin received a $6 million recruitment grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas which has allowed it to hire Thomas Yankeelov, a distinguished cancer researcher. Yankeelov will join UT Austin on Jan. 1, 2016 and he will assume a dual appointment in the Cockrell School of Engineering […] The post UT Austin Hires Top Cancer Researcher appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
How to Clean Up Your Data Wasteland written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. We live in a data-driven world. Even our most basic activities—like exercising and sleeping —have become subjects for tracking and analysis. With constant access to apps and technology that gather detailed information about our lives, it’s easy to become inundated with information that we don’t know how to allocate.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Together, Austin and San Antonio can develop into a powerhouse technology region, similar to Dallas-Fort Worth, according to a new report. Austin and San Antonio have the chance to build something incredibly special in Central Texas. And the folks at Lawnstarter report in 2030, this region will have a 34 percent increase in population to […] The post A Glimpse Into the Future of the Booming Austin-San Antonio Corridor appeared first on SiliconHills.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
One of my favorite things about the tech industry is that reputations and relationships matter. Unlike Wall Street, or Hollywood, people in the tech industry pay it forward and treat each other well. This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Square Thursday launched its Square Payroll service in the Texas market. It’s the second market, outside of California, that Square has made the product available. It launched in California last summer. It picked Texas for its robust market of small businesses totaling more than 390,000 with 6.4 million hourly employees in Texas, according to the […] The post Square’s Payroll Service Now Available in Texas appeared first on SiliconHills.
Reid Hoffman
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Crisis Text Line: An inspiring example of entrepreneurs using scalable technology to create significant change. My full post: linkedin.com.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
RealMassive, creator of an open data marketplace for the commercial real estate industry, announced Thursday it has appointed two new board members. Lynn Atchison, chief financial officer of HomeAway and David Mather, managing partners of Ensys Capital, join Craig Hancock and Hank Seale, founder and chairman of Q2 Holdings. “Lynn and David have so much […] The post RealMassive Adds Two Prominent Board Members and Eyes Expansion appeared first on SiliconHills.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
One of my favorite things about the tech industry is that reputations and relationships matter. Unlike Wall Street, or Hollywood, people in the tech industry pay it forward and treat each other well. This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
There’s one thing that influences user engagement on your website more than anything else. It’s not animated video backgrounds or design that “pops” So what is it? Relevancy. Scent. Message match. The concept is not new – Bryan Eisenberg discussed this already in 2005 when he wrote about website scent trails. As Eisenberg put it, “Creating and preserving intentional scent trails on your site translates to improved ROI for your paid and organic search terms.”.
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
The Ludlow Ventures guys interviewed me for their Carpool.VC series. It was super fun and full of unexpected questions, so I had a transcript made. The video: https://youtu.be/QXo1XAbWzpI?t=5m11s. Jonathan : Thanks for joining us buddy. How’ve you been? Hunter : Good. Happy, busy, everything’s going well. We were in Montana for a wedding this weekend, that was kind of cool.
Version One Ventures
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
At Version One, we love marketplaces. Just look at our portfolio, and you’ll understand how important we think marketplaces are to the future of commerce. Over the past year, we have focused much of our blog content on helping marketplace founders build their companies. That’s because we realized that while there is a lot of great information for tech startups, not much of it deals specifically with marketplaces.
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