Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2014
'These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 18, 2014
'by Eran Weinberg, founder and CEO of the personalized health and wellness platform Liv360. Let’s face it – your first product will most likely fail. Creating a successful product or service is about constantly prototyping, tweaking, refining, making mistakes, learning, and repeating. That might sound like a chaotic mess, but there’s a process behind it – one that can be applied not only to your first product, but to your first startup, website, or small business.
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The Next Web
JUNE 18, 2014
'Adam Benzion founded Entirely, a network for hardware startups. A Microsoft alumni and a hardware entrepreneur, Adam also moderates The Hardware Startup group on LinkedIn. In 2010, I started an exploration project based on a common hardware problem: short battery life in mobile devices. Together with my co-founder, we kicked off a 20 months adventure with two major aspirations: develop smarter charging technology that increases energy efficiency by 30 percent ahead of existing products, as well
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 18, 2014
'by Ronn Cordova, VP of Franchise Development at The Maids. There’s no such thing as overnight success, but what does it take to be an effective entrepreneur? The Maids®, the residential cleaning company that stands out from competitors, remains a model for the franchising industry, in part, because of the extensive training it provides franchisees.
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
Rembrandt Communications
JUNE 18, 2014
'Get the content and publicity results you really want! Recently, I talked to several entrepreneurs who were “ripped off” by large agencies. They were promised big results and ended up wasting time and money. Has this happened to you? If so, here are a few tips to help you find good, PR people who will […].
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 18, 2014
'Every business aspires to move into new markets and conquer them, eventually expanding their reach to many corners of the globe. A business with a stagnant market is a business with a waning future. But expansion isn’t simply a matter of getting shelf space in local retailers or identifying franchisees. It involves deep research into the distinctive characteristics of the new target market and understanding their implications for colonization by new brands.
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Gust
JUNE 18, 2014
'It depends on how you define “tech savvy”: The appropriate analogy would be to ask if you need to be “auto savvy” If the question is “do I need to know how to drive a car, be comfortable fueling my vehicle at a gas station, and understand the difference between a sports car, an SUV, a panel van and a semi-trailer?”, the answer is an absolute yes.
SiliconHills
JUNE 18, 2014
'Last week, Access the Night, a new social discovery app for travelling which the founders call “Yelp with pictures,” launched in Austin. Andrew Tuffin, co-founder, answered the following questions, by email, about the new startup and its product, which they have been developing for the past two years. Q. What is Access the Night? Access […] The post Access the Night Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
Eric Friedman
JUNE 18, 2014
'( cross posted to Medium to see what happens). Yesterday Facebook put out their latest app about temporal photos and video with the launch of Slingshot. At it’s core, it’s a photo and video messaging tool that lets you very easily create content to share with friends. However there are a few interesting things that are notable about a new app from Facebook.
The Equity Kicker
JUNE 18, 2014
'These three conditions for creating virality were listed on Founders Notebook a month or two back: The most powerfully growing products do three things at once: 1.They make you look smart to the people you invite. 2. They give real value to you when the people you invite join. 3. They give real value to the people you’ve invited once they sign up.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 18, 2014
'I hope my toddler never touches a hot stove, but if she does, she’ll know not to touch one again. At an extreme she may even get cautious around stoves since she remembers the pain from her first encounter. Turns out, companies aren’t too different from kids. They have institutional awareness and learn “lessons” about which stoves are hot to the touch.
SiliconHills
JUNE 18, 2014
'Besomebody wants to create the next economic revolution to allow people to pursue their passions. “We’re building a mobile platform that connects people based on shared passions,” Kash Shaikh said in a Youtube video at a company event. Besomebody will enable people around the world to explore, enable and unleash whatever they are passionate about […] The post Besomebody Gets $1 Million to Launch its Passion Platform in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
David Cohen
JUNE 18, 2014
'The following is a guest post by Allyson Downey , founder of Weespring which is a Techstars company based in NYC that provides trusted reviews for baby products. – Here’s some good news about being both a parent and an entrepreneur: whichever hat you put on first is going to help prepare you for the other. The bad news: it’s because they’re both unpredictable, utterly exhausting, and (usually) thankless jobs, wherein you’re making things up as you go along, constan
Mike Michalowicz
JUNE 18, 2014
'I took the courtesy bus over to get a rental car. When the bus started going a recording came on sharing the “value” in upgrading and pre-paying for my gas. A large message on a panel came up saying “We make it easy for you!” So listening and seeing the display, I felt kinda good and considered the ideas. BUT then I saw this little sign on the drivers panel. “UP-SELLS” Yuck!
Growthink Blog
JUNE 18, 2014
'Last week, I talked about Getting Robbed at the Bank - how today''s Low Interest Rates ( 0.1%! ) combined with High Inflation Risk make this one of the worst times ever to build wealth via savings. Thankfully, this may also be one of the best times to invest, as never before have there been so many well-performing alternatives. Start with Housing: 95 of the 100 largest US Metropolitan areas have seen housing prices rise since last year, with CoreLogic’s much-watched Home Price Index showing an
SiliconHills
JUNE 18, 2014
'I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing. — Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) June 10, 2012 To focus the globe on entrepreneurship, what better way than to put someone in charge who has been there, done that. Last week, the United Nations Foundation […] The post Michael Dell Named the UN Foundation’s Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship appeared first on SiliconHills.
OnlyOnce
JUNE 18, 2014
'I went to our local high school gym last night to vote for a smallish ($12mm) school bond issue as well as another proposition I didn’t quite understand about paying for fire alarms in the schools. As is always the case in New York, I was somewhere between amused and appalled that the voting machines are pre-war vintage (possibly Civil, definitely WWI).
Austin Startup
JUNE 18, 2014
'If you love gadgets, and specifically the Engadget blog then you''ll be excited to know that they are bringing a live event to Austin this Friday!
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 18, 2014
Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. Despite earning Oprah money and minting more than 150 millionaires with six successful exits, including Splunk, currently valued at more than $5 billion, Baum has yet to retire.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 18, 2014
'Excited to have announced our participation in Nuzzel’s late st financing. More detail available at Homebrew’s blog. “Nuzzel identifies the content most shared by your friends so you can easily read, listen, purchase, and so on. Sounds simple, right? Don’t confuse an intuitive interface with easy to build.
SiliconHills
JUNE 18, 2014
'Metacloud, an OpenStack-based web hosting company for large companies, hires two key Openstack executives from Rackspace and opens a new office in Austin. The company plans to hire 20 to 30 employees during the next 24 months in engineering, operations, marketing and sales. Metacloud announced the hiring of Scott Sanchez and Niki Acosta, “two of […] The post Metacloud Opens Austin Office and Plans to Hire up to 30 New Employees appeared first on SiliconHills.
Jeff Hilimire
JUNE 18, 2014
'I’m not sure when this aired, but I love this Adobe commercial.
Up and Running
JUNE 18, 2014
'“I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.” – James Levine. Four-leaf clovers, wishbones, horseshoes, a rabbit’s foot – all symbols of luck, something we’ve been taught to believe some have while others don’t. The truth is, ‘luck’ has a whole lot more to do with being open to the opportunities that come your way.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 18, 2014
'Startup culture is becoming a big thing in the wider community. It’s seemingly graduated from a high tech nerdy subculture into a mainstream pop culture giant overnight. But is it really anything new? Or is it just a rebranding of small business as we knew it with some terrific superlatives and rockstar billionaire game winners to give us that Bruce Springsteen stadium rock ethic?
Up and Running
JUNE 18, 2014
'Forget about a “case of the Mondays.” Most weeks, it’s Wednesday when you start to wonder why you’re doing what you do. To get you through hump day with a little more pep in your step, we’ve gathered ten quotes shared by today’s entrepreneurs, influencers, authors, and speakers. Maybe they’ll inspire you to stick with what you committed to, or finally take the leap and follow your passion.
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