Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Much has changed in the past four months of the technology startup world and how outsiders value the business. Of course it’s too early to predict whether this is a trend or an aberration but the smartest people I know in the industry are predicting the former. The startup industry may be “resetting,” which doesn’t mean a “crash” but rather just a resetting of valuations, timescales, winners/losers, capital sources and the relative emphasis of growth rates vs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between a good business relationship with more people and having more friends. In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. It’s now common to have hundreds or thousands of friends online -- but no relationships.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

By Danielle Tate, CEO of MissNowMrs.com. It seems that America has hit the tipping point of curiosity about entrepreneurs. Television shows like ABC’s “Shark Tank” and CNBC’s “The Profit” are raking in huge viewer numbers and fueling the nation’s infatuation with entrepreneurs and startups. This naturally leads most Americans to wonder, “Do I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?”.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The decisions you make on day one of your business have a ripple effect that can impact your business for years to come. How you structure your business in the beginning has a permanent impact on how efficiently your business will grow in the future. It is highly likely that in years four, five, and six, you’ll face issues that have their root causes in the decisions you made on day one.

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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

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The principle of DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) in software engineering is about brevity, efficiency, and reducing repetition. However paradoxically, the management side of any business suffers from the opposite problem of needing to continuously share information about the mission, vision, values, and areas of focus for colleagues. I hear the advice time and again that founders should repeat the goals of a Company and what they and the team are working on – but not a great way of rem

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Gust

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Hudson Valley Startup Fund brings together a network of the region’s successful business and community leaders to give back, supporting the launch of the next Hudson Valley visionaries. We sat down with fund managers Chad Gomes, Johnny LeHane and Paul Hakim as they shared insights into their investment process, what they look for in both group members and startups, and.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. Hustle and scrappiness are attributes that every great entrepreneur has. How they apply those characteristics to customer discovery – the phase where the entrepreneurs hunt down customer prospects to validate their hypothesis – is as much art as sci

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Fear and greed are two of the three great forces in the world, according to Einstein (the third is stupidity). They’re also two triggers that direct marketers and copywriters have been well aware of for years. That’s because they are powerful emotions that, when used properly, drive people to take action. The purpose of conversion optimization is to drive action – to influence prospects to click “buy.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Starting a retail business of your own can be really exciting, but it also requires a lot of hard work and can present a lot of unexpected challenges. One of the most important areas you need to cover while preparing to launch your company is your IT department. What are some of the main IT points you need to consider whenever you start a new retail business?

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Vast, a data platform to sell cars and houses, announced Monday it has received $14 million from Capital One Growth Ventures. The Austin-based company, founded in 2005 in Silicon Valley, had not raised any money previously. It has created two main brands: CarStory for automotive and HomeStory for real estate. The company plans to use […] The post Austin-based Vast Lands $14 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

When I was in LA last week, I had breakfast with Nick Grouf. We’ve been friends for 20 years and, while we don’t see each other often, it’s the kind of friendship that immediately lets you talk about deep, interesting things with almost zero foreplay. At a small Coffee Bean coffee shop in Hollywood, with a music track from our childhood playing over and over again (I’ll spare you the track so it doesn’t get stuck in your head also), we ended up in a discussion about

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I’ve been experimenting with Snapchat recently. I think the channel has come a long way. The Brand Stories are very good indeed. Fast paced way to engage people with a news feed which lasts 24 hours. I’ve also found that it has a lot of similarities to Twitter – and I feel like it might be my new go to feed: Short stories, follow people and things you care about, topic specific, idea bursts, irreverent, live, visceral and disposable, geo centric, good for business or personal u

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I’m a total fanboy when it comes to great, tough reporters. Some of it stems from harboring fantasies of journalism as my “path not taken” but I also got to see the difference in skill levels from all the media covering Google/YouTube. The good ones are really good. The average ones are frustrating. Outside of the professional respect I hold for the good ones, they also have compelling personalities and backgrounds beyond the byline.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Also Available On. Show Summary. In Episode 66 of the Profit First Podcast, Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran, and Kristina Bolduc welcome guest Erica Wernick, founder of LA Bound: a business that helps aspiring TV and Movie Actors/Actresses/Experts achieve their goals in Los Angeles. In this episode we learn what a new membership organization is like.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Early on, I was surprised people didn’t realize that the way Snapchat works is much closer to how we communicate face to face than any other social
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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Change is good. It’s a phrase oft said but never quite one anyone enjoys hearing. For entrepreneurs and business owners it is a phrase they deal with on a daily basis. Change is everywhere in their world. One day you find a fantastic supplier, the next day they stop carrying what you need. One minute you’re getting a real handle on an SEO practice, the next week Google changes it all up again.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Remember change can be scary, but with the proper planning and preparation you can make a smooth and healthy transition into entrepreneurship.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

A brand is the sum total of the experiences your customers and potential customers have with your company. Your brand lives in everyday interactions with customers and prospective customers, the images you share, your company website, the content of your marketing materials, and in your posts on social networks. Today, no company can control all the conversations that take place about the company’s products and services.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I recently watched the movie “ The Intern ” starring Anne Hathaway as CEO of an eCommerce startup and Robert DeNiro as her “senior intern” It was a fun movie, and I thought it might also be fun to look at what the movie got right and what it got wrong about startup life. Let’s start with what it got right, which is a lot: The CEO’s life is totally consumed by the startup, leaving little time for family or friends.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The 2016 State of Small Business Report, a survey of more than 1,100 small businesses, reveals insights on small business owners; their growth, the economy, government, marketing, hiring, and technology use.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

NOTE: I was invited to write the foreword for Christina Wodke’s new book on OKR’s, Radical Focus , and I am sharing the foreword here. I was extremely fortunate to have started my career at Hewlett-Packard as an engineer during their heyday, when they were known as the industry’s most successful and enduring example of consistent innovation and execution.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The partners at Benchmark are delighted to announce that Scott Belsky has joined the firm as our newest general partner. It is rare for us to encounter a partner candidate who has so much experience as an operator, investor, and advisor at such a young age. We have confidence that Scott can be one of the best investors of his generation, and we are excited by the opportunity to have him as a member of our team.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to practice the law of attraction. Multiply your value to the marketplace. When you change, everything will change for you. You don’t have to change [INSERT], all you have to do is look within and change yourself for the better.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Finding a Niche in Live Entertainment appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Beyond.Com: How Alternative Domains Boost Branding written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Shutterstock. Now that we don’t have to wait for a dial-up modem to kickstart our Internet connections, and most sites open without having to type in [link] , there is still one final frontier to overcome: the “.com.”. Dot-com is a popular web address extension in the U.S., while other countries often favor domains with location-based significance: Germany has.de, the U.K. use

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