TechEmpower
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados! What better way to celebrate the holidays than by cheering on your favorites as they race through a variety of application fundamentals in the biggest web platform grudge match of the season? We certainly can''t think of anything more festive. Now at 90 frameworks and 230 permutations (variations on configuration), Round 8 has something for everyone.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'One of the questions I’m most often asked by CEOs is how to hire sales people. I’ve written a lot about recruiting and hiring at startups including my controversial post on whom not to hire and my rapid response to the flame war. I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Many, however, don’t know how to take their small business to the next level. What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. Naming your startup can be one of the most difficult challenges for an entrepreneur. Not only do you need to come up with something relevant, but you have the added stress of worrying about the verb effect, if it’s easy-to-spell, globally understandable, catchy, memorable and gives off the right impression.
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
deal architect
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Workday broadcast the Predict and Prepare 2014 event last week from the PBS Tampa station, WEDU. The replay video is embedded below. The feedback was excellent, and as we debriefed after the event, I had to marvel at the huge.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'A team of 110 researchers and clinicians, in therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health in 25 teams at UCSF , has just shown us the future of translational medicine. It’s Lean, it’s fast, it works and it’s unlike anything else ever done. It’s going to get research from the lab to the bedside cheaper and faster. Welcome to the Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences and Healthcare (part of the National Science Foundation I-Corps ).
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YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'While it used to be that where recruiters used to advertise in the mass media for openings in order to look for talent, more and more are to today are turning to social media to find suitable employees. Increasingly, tech-savvy recruiters are eschewing those obsolete methods and employing tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to hunt and trawl for potential candidates instead.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'If you think Amazon Prime Air is neat, you’ll love the new Amazon Prime Ground. Spheros and Quadcopters are available with shipping still in time for Christmas. The post Amazon Prime Ground appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Techcrunch has an article up today about the increasing number of tech acquisitions by non-tech companies. Recent examples include: Monsanto’s acquisition of Climate Corporation for $1.1bn. United Health Group’s acquisition of Humedica for ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ Under Armour’s acquisition of MapMyFitness for $150m.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Your website is a critical component of your marketing strategy. If set up properly, your website can be the source of tons of new customer leads. And even if they hear of you elsewhere, in many cases, customers will still visit your website to learn more about you. So here are 5 quick and easy ways to make your website more effective. #1: Establish a blog Setting up a blog is the easiest way for you to continually add new content to your website.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'What are we, less than two week’s into Jessica Lessin’s launch of The Information ? As a subscriber I’ve read every article and enjoyed the majority. I applaud Jessica for staking out a high pricepoint – it holds her accountable to deliver the value she seeks to command and changes the economics of her true north (plus always easier to discount than raise prices).
Start Up Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'As readers of my blog will know, I worked on a little side project with Raul Oaida (the tech mind who made it possible) and crowd funded it on twitter with 40 patrons from Melbourne. A full size Lego car, with an engine made of Lego powered by air. We just released it on youtube. We think it is pretty cool. I hope you do as well. - – -. You can find out more about it the entire project by clicking here.
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'When I was in college I would take a break from my studies to play a popular video game called Scorched Earth. In the game, your tank would shoot a projectile along a certain trajectory based on the angle of your tank’s cannon. You could point it straight up and the missile would shoot high up in the air, only to reach its peak and come slamming back down on you.
Jeff Hilimire
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Raghu (a great friend and one of my partners at Spunlogic ) recently found this print out of the credit cards that laid out their balances and APR as of 6/8/06. As I’ve mentioned before, we self-funded Spunlogic through personal credit cards until we were able to get a line of credit with Suntrust (you can see we had $273k used at that point in time) and until Raghu came in and invested in the business.
Bryce Dot VC
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'“These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power.
Early Growth Financial Services
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'This is Orrick TOTAL ACCESS’ first event for the spring fundraising series program. Presentations were given by Arif Janmohamed from Lightspeed Venture Partners, David Ehrenberg from Early Growth Financial Services, Steph Palmeri at SoftTech VC, and Sean Jacobsohn from Emergence Capital Partners. Topics discussed included value proposition, financial roadmaps, competitive landscape and marketing sizing, as well as go-to-market strategies.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Jeff Anaya is part of the marketing team with Viralheat , the social media marketing suite for business. Big Data is one of the latest phenomenon to hit tech news. This is no surprise as experts in the industry are constantly abuzz about the benefits of Big Data on marketers and any business trying to get deeper insights about their consumers. Yet, for many this new idea of data collection remains a mystery.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 17, 2013
'Spotify ‘s recent move to give free access across all mobile devices (with a little catch – to be explained later) is likely to spark off another frantic phase in the music streaming app wars. Previously you had to pay for Spotify’s premium service to be able to get the music streaming app on your mobile device, but with the new announcement that’s made available for tablet users for free.
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