The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. You can follow George on Twitter at @georgedeeb and @RedRocketVC. There are a lot of variables to go into calculating a fair equity split a startup team. These key factors must consider each employee’s role(s) within the company, the compensation they receive for their work, the people investing in the company, and the people behind the idea of the compa

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'15 years ago, I made a trek to Fargo, ND to the Great Plains (now part of Microsoft) Stampede user conference. Doug Burgum, the CEO used his entire keynote to tell the story of an English clockmaker, John Harrison who.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'by Dan Adams , president of Advanced Industrial Marketing and author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Right now our economy and our nation feel anything but business-friendly. Just a glance at recent headlines shows you the challenges we face: the (latest) debt ceiling crisis, the recent federal government shutdown, the Obamacare hurdles we must jump, plummeting consumer confidence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'“Intrapreneurs” are entrepreneurs inside big companies, who do corporate spin-offs. A spin-off is merely a startup spawned by a mature parent (company), and conventional logic would dictate that it has a survival advantage over the lowly startup. Yet spin-offs seem to most often fail to launch in the real world. I was part of one myself a few years ago, and felt the pain.

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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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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'The most successful online marketplaces today facilitate relatively simple transactions. There’s eBay and Etsy for buying/selling goods, AirBnB for short-term accommodations, and Uber for local transportation. While reputation mechanisms (i.e. user reviews) play an important role on these platforms, the price tags involved are typically low enough that customers are ready to deal with strangers over the web.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Thomas Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. . Entrepreneurs with businesses in Asia know that fundraising here can be a daunting task. The ways of doing business across the Pacific are very different than in Silicon Valley, and the quality and breadth of VCs out here vary widely across different countries.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Debunking the Myth of Hiring for Domain Expertise vs. Functional Expertise. As a CEO scaling your business, you’ll invariably want to hire in new senior people from the outside. Even if you promote aggressively from within, if you’re growing quickly enough, you’ll just need more bodies. And if you’re growing really fast, you will be missing experience from your employee base that you’ll need to augment.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'For the last month I have been in focus mode, preparing a new product for release – my How To Buy And Sell Blogs And Websites E-Guide. The goal was to release my latest e-guide before November ends. I am pleased to say everything is on track – it launches officially next week – although you can sneak in … Read the rest of this entry » The post The Quickest Path To Your Own Money Making Blog appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Companies rarely grow in a straight line (or the fabled exponential one). Building a business isn’t about getting from point A to point D by passing through points B and C. There are fits and starts. Amazing discoveries and heart wrenching realizations. Huge highs and low lows. Trada – which has built a large crowdsourced marketplace for search optimization – has been through its version of this crazy growth curve over the past 5 years.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Capital has lined up behind social proof – angels with notable reach or track record. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Hunter. Shepherd. Farmer. Craftsman. Employee. Projecteer. While the flow of jobs through history here clearly simplifies the reality, but there is no disputing the type and structure of work we do is in a constant state of flux. Soon employers will realise they don’t actually need employees. They will work out the thing they actually need is tasks completed, projects managed and leadership provided.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'If you’re struggling with your content marketing strategy, read How To Grow Your Business With Content Marketing. But more importantly, watch the video below. More than anything else, great storytelling differentiates successful content marketing from noise. I’ve previously shared some outstanding examples of storytelling in content marketing.

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'It ain’t what you know, it’s what you feel. Don’t worry about being right, just be for real. —Parliament, “Ride On” Today we are announcing Shana Fisher as a new board partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Although she keeps a low profile, people in high tech investing know all about Shana. They know about her because she is so good at what she does.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'HomeAway announced Wednesday that it has expanded its partnership with Interhome AG, a leading managed vacation rental company in Europe, to add more listings to its network. Austin-based HomeAway expects the partnership to add tens of thousands of online bookable vacation rentals to HomeAway on its European sites, FeWo-direkt and HomeAway.co.uk and later on Arbitel.fr […] The post HomeAway’s Partnership Expands its European Reach appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'After Penn State’s massive Sandusky scandal broke, the football program went into turmoil. Fines, penalties loss of scholarships and a need to realign the entire program. During this turmoil other universities jumped on the opportunity to take some of Penn States best athletes. When your competitor is acquired, they too will experience turmoil.

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Early Growth Financial Services

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'It is hard to imagine life before the web. If I have to do anything — make soup, download a Mod in Minecraft for my son or get someone to haul away trash from my garage, the first place I go is Google. After scanning past the sponsored links (why don’t I trust those?) I scan to see what information is available. If I am hiring a fix-it person, I love a link to Yelp, where I can check out their track record with other customers.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Raising Funding From Family and Friends: Division of Equity. When it comes to the division of equity in startup, there is a similar process every entrepreneur must follow beginning with raising the first round of startup funding and, if you’re lucky, finishing at the point of IPO. Today we are going to describe and analyze the stages up through friends and family funding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Our Success Is Determined Largely by Our Habits written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Tony Stubblebine. The subject of habits is something I’ve written about often. In past shows with Charles Duhrigg , author of The Power of Habit and Tom Asacker , author of The Business of Belief we hit this topic pretty hard.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Companies rarely grow in a straight line (or the fabled exponential one). Building a business isn’t about getting from point A to point D by passing through points B and C. There are fits and starts. Amazing discoveries and heart wrenching realizations. Huge highs and low lows. Trada – which has built a large crowdsourced marketplace for search optimization – has been through its version of this crazy growth curve over the past 5 years.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Embrace LogoToday''s Q&A Wednesday is with Bart Bohn, CEO of Embrace.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'There seems to be a lot of talk about “wantrepreneurs” lately. For example, in this article passed to me by @gumboshowjoe , the author ( also a friend ) gives several ways to identify yourself as a wantrepreneur. He also starts off with this quote by Mark Cuban: “We romanticize entrepreneurship so much that people don’t do the work… it’s not just a dream, not just a goal, it’s a lot of hard work.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Francois Hollande, President of France, led a delegation this week of 260 senior French executives and government officials to Israel for the 2 nd annual France-Israel Innovation Day. The objective was to connect French companies with innovative Israeli startups. The group included luminaries such as Patrick Kron Chairman of Alstom, Loic Armand, Chairman of L’Oreal, Stephane Richard Chairman of Orange, Olivier Roussat , Chairman & CEO of Bougyes Telecom, SNCF (the French national railway)

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

'Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Venture capitalists look for a variety of intangibles when evaluating the entrepreneurs who they consider backing — vision, passion, integrity, confidence — but how many look for a background in software development? Whether they’re computer science grads or self-taught coding wunderkinds, business leaders with 0s and 1s in their blood have a leg up on their B-school co

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