Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'When scientists and engineers who’ve been working in the lab for years try to commercialize their technology they often get trapped by their own beliefs - including who the customers are, what features are important, pricing etc. ——– One the key tenets of the Lean LaunchPad class is that every week each team gets out of the building and talks to 10+ customers/partners to validate a new part of their business model.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'I got an email yesterday from GEICO. They were encouraging my kids who are currently on the family auto insurance policy to consider getting their own policies. I am probably being a little naive, but hoping when they call they.
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YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “ These days we hear plenty about employee engagement. We know disengaged employees are bad for business. We know an office full of innovative, collaborative employees who feel like “owners” is the key to surviving a brutal marketplace.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Bill Kutik ribbed me recently about a decade + old prediction that the HR function would evolve into a Knowledge Management function. He is right, of course. Microsoft and IBM and others sold plenty of Sharepoint and Notes and other.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the definiti
deal architect
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Fortune on Ginni Rometty of IBM Speaking October 16 at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., Rometty outlined five areas on which she depends to help her prepare IBM for future markets. First, there''s research, an area.
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The Next Web
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Brett Kopf is the CEO and co-founder of Remind 101 , a communications solution for teachers, students, and parents. Virgin, Apple, Ikea, Tommy Hilfiger, HP are all companies founded by people with the learning disability dyslexia. Hindrance or gift is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to a learning disability. Like anything else in life, it is what you do with it.
Gust
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Equity-based crowdfunding (that is, providing regular people with the opportunity to purchase stock in private companies) will not be legal in the US until the first quarter of 2013 at the earliest. At that time, any company planning to operate as a “funding portal” will have to comply with an extensive set of rules and regulations established by the U.S.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Huge volumes of data are common in this time and age as people increasingly live out their lives on the Internet — but analyzing the data is a herculean task that companies find hard to tackle. According to IDC’s Digital Universe Study , less than one percent of the world’s data is being analyzed. In Asia, a region which is seeing a rapid pickup in Internet access and in turn an explosion of data, three former Google alumni are out to capture this data and put it to good use by launching Spark
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'As a part of Startup Phenomenon , I’m going to spend a half hour with Jason Illian , the CEO of BookShout! , on Thursday, November 14th at 4:30pm. It’ll be at the Boulder Public Library, which is right across Boulder Creek from the St. Julien and downtown Boulder. We’ll be talking about the Startup Revolution book series (which include Startup Communities and Startup Life ), as well as the wonderful platform that Jason and his team have built.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a creative marketplace connecting mobile and Web projects with vetted, handpicked developers and designers from around the world. This post was originally published on the ooomf blog. I started writing regularly a few months ago and I’m constantly trying to improve. I find inspiration in the work of my favorite writers and I love learning about the creative process of great storytellers.
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'I just read that over 33% of viewing time on YouTube can now be attributed to videos that are 20 minutes or longer – i.e. long form content. There are now 1bn people viewing YouTube each month watching over 6bn hours of videos, so there’s a lot of TV style content being watched on the platform. Moreover, YouTube is growing fast and Google, Machinima , Maker Studios , and many others are investing heavily to bring more professional content to the platform in the hope of extending and
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Richard Baxter is the CEO and founder of SEOgadget , a creative agency specialising in Technical SEO, Conversion Rate Optimisation, Content Creation and Link Building in competitive industries. SEO is such an exciting, fast moving discipline to keep track of. Frequent algorithm changes in Google’s Organic search results (and indeed, the actual layout of the search results pages themselves) enforce a world where useful, engaging and purposeful content is quite welcome, and search engine spam is
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Shir Even-Zohar’s parents are diabetic patients. She knows firsthand that the main way to treat the incurable disease is to balance the body’s blood glucose levels, which requires strict glucose level monitoring. That’s not always easy to do. That’s why Zohar sees the need for a new […] The post Diabetes Management Platform: Dario to Debut at Geekdom appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Singapore-based mobile marketplace Carousell wants more users in Southeast Asia to start buying and selling items through their mobile phones on its platform — and it has linked up with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to do so. Carousell announced today that Rakuten has led a $1 million round of funding for its mobile-only platform, which is currently available only in Singapore but has already hit a million listings.
Business Plan Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Raising Seed Capital. Most startup founders do not have enough capital to launch their companies and need to raise money at some point. The first milestone in a new startup’s financing is called ‘Seed Capital’ which refers to the initial investment raised by the founders from their friends and family, or commonly referred to as FFF (Friends, Family and Founders), who mostly use their personal assets.
Mike Michalowicz
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'If you are your authentic-self and people criticize you, it is likely that they are inauthentic inside. It is likely that they are being something they are not. When an inauthentic person experiences an authentic person, it is threatening. It is scary. And the defense is criticism. Authentic people are famous for their constant encouragement. Authentic people revel in authenticity.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Do Entrepreneurs Need College? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing interview with Alexis Ohanian. Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman founded the social bookmarking site reddit shortly after graduating from the University of Virginia. They sold it a year later to media giant Condé Nast.
Spencer Fry
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'One of the things I''ve been trying to figure out recently is how I can find more time to do the things I love doing. This was partly inspired by Brooklyn Beta a couple weeks ago. I realized with more clarity that I love working on Uncover and our soon-to-be-released update. I also love writing, and I''ve been doing a lot of it lately — on Treehouse''s Blog , working on my book and through my newsletter.
Rob Go
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'Nearly all VC investors have an ownership percentage they are shooting for. For most large funds, it’s 20%. I’ve blogged about the mysterious 20% ownership threshold before. If it seems arbitrary, that’s because it is. Usually, this ownership number is justified based on what would be considered an ownership that is “meaningful” for a fund. But that logic kind of falls apart when you consider that “meaningful” should be totally relative to fund size.
Jeff Hilimire
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'I’m always curious what apps or folders are on people’s homescreens and every so often I like to share mine to get feedback on what I’m missing. Now that I’m in the mobile game business , homescreen real estate is even more important to me. What’s on my Samsung S4 homescreen today? “To Do” – This is a Tasker function that pulls up an email window addressed to me with the subject: To Do.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
'“ It’s Already Inside: Nurturing Your Innate Leadership for Business and Life Success ” is not your typical book on business leadership. The tome does not purport to solve all your leadership problems, nor does it contain complex, impractical airy-fairy theories about managing people that is hard to understand and even more difficult to apply in real life.
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