Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. The problem is that crowd funding means something different to everyone, and even I have been confused by the different ways the term gets used.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Last week, in the midst of Denver Startup Week, we had a full day Foundry Group Exec conference. Ben Deda from FullContact convened about 100 execs from our 60 or so portfolio companies for the day. We had seven topics of one hour each, led by a different set of execs. The result was an incredible range of discussions across an amazing group of people.
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deal architect
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'During his OOW keynote last night, Larry Ellison invoked the iPhone to make fun of his own product naming prowess. In doing so he announced to the audience what I was thinking throughout his speech. Game Changer. The in-memory switch.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'by Amanda Smith. Managing a growing business could mean dealing with more and more task each day. Poor time management and prioritization of work can often lead to unintentional negligence of other more important tasks. Thankfully, you can always turn to technology to get the assistance that you need. If you feel like you are juggling tons of work and ending up compromising quality, you may want to think about getting a virtual assistant.
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
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'We’ve been thinking recently about how to combine design thinking with the lean startup methodology. The diagram above was drawn by Tim Brown , CEO of IDEO to describe the three tenets of design thinking (for those that don’t know Tim is perhaps the world’s leading proponent of design thinking). Lean startup has a lot to say about viability (will customers pay?
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Singapore is considered to be one of the easiest and best places in the world to start a business – in fact, Singapore ranks just behind the United States, in having the highest level of total entrepreneurial activity among 25 selected economies globally, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 Singapore Report. If you’re looking to start your own company here, probably the best resource to start from is the government-run Enterprise One site, where there are guides to
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Last Thursday marked the one year anniversary of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures being a real fund with money in it and everything--so it was fitting that I had my first annual investor meeting. We don''t do anything too fancy. I borrowed a conference room from a friend''s company and we huddled around some great sandwiches and pasta from Catercow. I brought three founders in for the first time and they rocked it.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Rackspace announced Tuesday that it has landed Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts as a new customer for its hybrid cloud hosting services. Schlitterbahn, based in New Braunfels, has water parks in Texas and Kansas City. The company needed a computing infrastructure that allowed it to scale its operations during times of peak demand. Rackspace already counted […] The post Rackspace Adds Schlitterbahn and Other Hybrid Cloud Customers appeared first on SiliconHills.
Growthink Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'The word from the Fed last week that it would continue with its quantitative easing - purchasing approximately $85 billion per month in U.S treasury bond and de facto continuing to expand the country’s money supply - signaled that that the era of extremely low interest rates will continue. Predictably, stock markets worldwide cheered along with it being seen as a very positive signal for the well-recovering US housing market.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'As of September 23, 2013, American businesses can advertise that they are raising money, and it won’t be considered a crime. The Securities and Exchange Commission is lifting an 80-year-ban on the practice , freeing up privately-owned businesses across the country to openly seek investment funding. Previously, businesses seeking to raise capital were required to either pitch their plans exclusively to so-called accredited investors—individuals with at least $1 million in net worth (exclud
Start Up Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Whenever we hear this turn of phrase, it tends to be regarding a negative situation or outcome of the proclaimer. Why was I born into a poor family? Why did I get the cranky boss? Why aren’t I good at mathematics? Why am I so short? Why don’t I have clear skin? Why me…? The interesting thing is that we never hear these people asking why they were born healthy, with working limbs, in a country without war or famine, and with a family that loves them.
Jeff Hilimire
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'I suppose one could argue that “being an entrepreneur” is a state of mind and once you are one, you always are one. But after I sold Spunlogic to Engauge in 2008, I felt like I “worked” at Engauge for the next five years until a month ago when we sold Engauge to Publicis. Sure, I was in a position of leadership and for the last 2.5 years I was President of the company, but it was no longer something I had founded and it certainly wasn’t a startup at 250 people.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'How to Develop With Instead of For Your Customers written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Some of the biggest flops in my career began and ended in the laboratory of my mind. It starts with a spark of brilliance, then a rush of enthusiasm, followed by product creation and finally ends with “I don’t get it, that should have been a game changer, why didn’t it sell?”.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Veros Systems announced Monday that it has received $8 million in Series A venture financing. Chevron Technology Ventures led the deal with additional investment from Austin Ventures and LiveOak Venture Partners. Veros, which makes control center software called Veros ForeSight that monitors industrial operations, has been testing its software system for several years at multiple […] The post Austin-based Veros Systems raises $8 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.
Scott Edward Walker
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past two weeks. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets “I think we underestimated how hard it would be…the amount of energy required & perseverance…” - @nestmatt [link] (at 24:19) “The most important thing to understand about valuation is that it’s not that important.
Bryce Dot VC
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'The General Solicitation Games Have Begun : Much will be said and written about the changes in General Solicitation regulations today, via the JOBS act. But, t his is the first real-world thoughtful, formatted and direct general solicitation I’ve seen. And my mind is kind of blown.
Jeff Hilimire
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'If I’m going to shamelessly promote a company or product, they need to meet these criteria: I use (and love) the service or product. They’re worthy of your time. That’s about it. So when my good friend over at Case-Mate asked if I wanted to do a giveaway on my blog for some of their cases, I was happy to do it. Here’s the deal: Case-Mate has a new lineup of iPhone 5s cases and iPhone 5c cases that we at Dragon Army will be reviewing next week.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'What will the future of business be like? More importantly, what will your life be like? Armed with a (digital?) crystal ball, renowned marketing blogger Mitch Joel’s latest book “ Ctrl Alt Delete “ attempts to address these questions. With the catchy subtitle “Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends On It.” , Mitch’s volume focuses on how shifts in mobile and social technologies, data, content, marketing and jobs makes it necessary for
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Bloomberg’s World Healthcare Efficiency Index, released last month, makes for very interesting reading. Among 48 countries worldwide, the US ranked 46th. The top four (Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Israel), emphasize the role of Government in the efficiency of healthcare. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'Many entrepreneurs delay launching their startup because they believe they don’t have enough money to move forward. Startups can be expensive, but they don’t have to be. The Founder Institute , an early-stage startup accelerator created an infographic (below) showing, in 10 steps, how you can launch a business for under $1,500. Incidentally, I’ve mentored at Founder Institute for the past three years.
Start Up Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'I happened upon this video on a simple youtube recommendation. Digital serendipity. And given the title was The Greatest Speech Ever Made I decided to click in and watch. Yes, I had heard the speech before, but what resonated with me was the newness of much of the imagery. And that it’s relevance is only more poignant today. Yes, it was a little sad, but it did remind me that the digital revolution we are living through is probably our final chance to take back control for everything BIG
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