Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In fact, they often claim to be part of the survey group that fears public speaking more than death, but I’m not sure how anyone could validate that survey.
deal architect
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'Last entry this year in a series on innovation from places you do not typically expect much innovation from Startup City – Boulder, CO Monument Men – structures across US Desert West Diplomacy and Digital Signatures – Finland, Estonia Technology.
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Gust
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'Image via HealthyBodyLife.com. I’ve been advising and mentoring startups and growth companies for years, and find myself always pushing them to try something new, for the sake of growth and survival. When you try new things, you make mistakes, and I’ve seen many. Smart companies learn from their own mistakes, but some don’t pay enough attention to other people’s mistakes.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'Martina King is the CEO of Featurespace where she is responsible for the strategic direction and corporate vision at the company. A popular internet meme goes something like this: ‘It’s 2013: where’s my flying car?’ The question, asked on t-shirts and coffee mugs around the world, debated on technology forums, or bantered around with friends at a café, is essentially one that asks: Where exactly are the benefits of this ‘better future’ we all signed up for?
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
Life Beyond Code
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'I have followed Pamela ’s work over the years and earlier this year, I had a chance to meet with her briefly. It was in Boston and Pamela had just heading back to the hotel after dinner with some super smart clients of hers. She must have been super tired with everything in the day. However, the moment we started a conversation, Pamela came fully alive and engaged with me as if we have personally known each other for more than a decade.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'Thank you Geraldine. Amy and I love and adore you. And you recommended what I think was my favorite fiction book of 2013. I read Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel yesterday on the couch during digital sabbath. It was just wonderful. I wasn’t really sure what to make of it for the first fifteen minutes other than knowing that Geraldine and Amy said that I would love it.
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Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'Today I thought it would be helpful if I detailed what I do at the end of December each year. This works very well for me, and I hope it will for you too. 1. Look back at the past year The first thing I do is look back at the past year. I start with the annual goals that I set at the beginning of last year. Which goals did I accomplish? Which didn''t I?
SVPG
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'Much has been written about waste at startups. I started writing about this as far back as 2005 (see Startup Product Management ), and this concept is at the core of the Lean Startup movement. Lately there’s been much talk and ink about waste in government technology projects, with the very disappointing effort to create the national health care marketplace.
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'So you have an employee or two and they are disgruntled. That is a problem for lots of reasons but especially the function of your business. So how do you un-gruntle them? There are many things you can do to help control the situation before it gets out of control. The problem with disgruntled employees is that they can pose a risk to your company.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'If you’ve been following my Twitter feed recent days you probably noticed I’m catching up on New York Times Magazines from the fall. One blurbed a French social scientist who has built an interesting, if not slightly controversial/un-PC, set of studies including: Female waitresses who wear red receive up to 25% more in tips (but only from male diners).
Scott Edward Walker
DECEMBER 29, 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 three weeks, the first four of which relate to questions on Quora. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Quora: “What is the [likelihood] that a tech startup would sell for $10m+ within its first five years?
The Next Web
DECEMBER 29, 2013
'2013 has been quite a year for the startup community and social and technology-related businesses in particular. In just a few months, Twitter went public , Google Glass showed up on our train route to work, and YouTube hosted ‘live’ music video awards. Clearly, social media (and all the content creation that comes with it) is a hot place to be. If anyone was asking a few years ago what “social media” was, now they’re building whole departments around it.
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