deal architect
MAY 5, 2015
I watched the stream of the CEO keynote this morning, and can summarize it in two words – Missed Opportunity Bill McDermott is an excellent presenter and the props, as usual, were superb. The content was underwhelming, though. After announcing.
View from Seed
MAY 5, 2015
There’s a saying among VCs that the first board meeting after a new round of funding is when the skeletons come out of the closet. During the preceding pitch process, even founders who are highly transparent, honest folks try to put their startup in the best possible light for a new investor, so it’s only natural that a more complete picture of a company’s situation (warts and all) sometimes comes into focus after the round is closed and board meeting scheduled.
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deal architect
MAY 5, 2015
After watching the underwhelming keynote this morning at SapphireNow, I had modest expectations of NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson’s keynote at SuiteWorld But I was pleased on several fronts: a) Lots of customers Zach wove in “large customers who are thinking.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2015
By Matt McCue. “Moments of crisis are opportunities”. “From call center to successful CEO”. Based in Dallas, Staci Tubbs serves as a chair for the CEO Organization, Vistage and is the CEO of her own business. At school she was a young scientist – studying biology and chemistry at Cornell. Tubbs then began her career in a call center! The attention to detai l and curiosity learnt from science were applied to human and analytical challenges found in most call centers.
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
Genuine VC
MAY 5, 2015
Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details. One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2015
by Rochelle Ceira. Employee turnover is a serious cost most companies are usually worried about. The reason why this is so is simple: there are significant costs to replacing employee. The amount of time, effort, and money spent on recruiting, selecting, and training an employee and repeating the whole process again for a new one is dreadfully cumbersome.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2015
Anyone who wants to find a winning concept and launch a new business this year will need to take precautions when it comes to protecting their interests. There is no getting away from the fact that other individuals and companies will try to capitalize on your advancements and make money from your ideas. With that in mind, we’ve compiled some expert advice that should help you to limit the chances of anything going wrong.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 5, 2015
2007 was only 8 years ago. Back then, you could see VCs everywhere tapping away on the Blackberry keyboards. If you don’t believe me, I have video evidence of it from Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet, Roger Ehrenberg, and Howard Lindzon. If you, like me, have been grinding along on email and phone calls all day and need a back to the future type of laugh, I think this will do it for you.
Up and Running
MAY 5, 2015
When MeCam set up manufacturing operations in Taiwan, CEO Drew Martin had never been there and had never met the people in charge of the operation face-to-face. Martin would communicate with his manufacturers over email, Skype, and Google Hangouts. Martin explained that his initial feelings about this arrangement were optimistic: “When people asked how many times I’d been to Taiwan, I was proud to say, ‘Oh, I didn’t have to go over there.'” However, issues quickly arose a
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 5, 2015
It is the achilles heel of every struggling entrepreneur. We answer the next knock at the door. The next prospect that seeks service (and has some money in their hand) gets serviced. Even if what they want isn’t truly what we are good at. It’s money after all. The next customer who needs a product we don’t make (but can if we stop making what we are good at making, for a while) gets the product they want.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 5, 2015
This is a #blindpost on the Techcrunch article, “10 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow.” Per the #blindpost rules, I took the headline and wrote my interpretation of it, without reading the article itself. And I added one more for good measure ;). 11 Rules Successful Startups Should Follow. 1. Know your customer. And learn your customer market fit. 2.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 5, 2015
In the very early-stages, your startup finance strategy may be pretty straightforward. You need to establish your accounting platform and systems, including accounts receivable and accounts payable. You are going to want to identify the best payroll and banking solution for your company. And you definitely want to give some thought to tax considerations.
Rob Go
MAY 5, 2015
I had a meal with a friend of mine a few weeks ago who had been in a bit of a funk for the last year or so. He has two young kids that take up a lot of time and he does great but emotionally exhausting work (he’s an oncologist). I noticed that he was in a much lighter mood, and I asked him why that was the case. He said that a few months ago (in the dead of winter) he decided to take stock of many areas of his life, big and small, and just make changes.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2015
While globalisation has meant that businesses now operate and compete on a level playing field, this single marketplace has also brought different and distinctive cultures together too. Previously, you may not have been aware how a country on the other side of the world treated its employees, carried out daily operations or communicated with close contacts, but all these aspects of business can now be understood.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 5, 2015
Last week I was on a run of hopeful posts inspired by folks from the Singularity University and this is another, although today’s topic is food rather than energy. As you can tell, I’m very optimistic about the future. We have big challenges ahead sustaining the world’s growing population (on an exponential curve and forecast to grow from today’s 7bn to nearly 10bn by 2050) but technologies under development give us a strong chance of solving them.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2015
by Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD, author of “ Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life “ It’s a great time to be a woman. Over the past few decades, the leadership torch has passed from one gender to the other. Not that men are irrelevant in business. (Far from it.) It’s just that women’s “feminine skills”—those inherent qualities that make the fairer sex such great nurturers, connectors, and collaborators — are
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 5, 2015
10 Ways to Use One Piece of Content written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The only way to wring more value out of your content is to understand the intricate connection between your content and your strategy. Now, don’t hit the back button just yet – I purposely left the word strategy out of the title of this post because I know that what you want is a magic bullet, but here’s the deal – content put in the context of
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