YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2014
'by Vlad Zhamoidzik, Manager of Web Report Team at Hypersoft Information Systems. It recently occurred to me that I could make one simply change in my daily routine that would have a significant impact on the productivity of both me and my team. I noticed this after checking my Omnicontext TM Personal Analytics account to see where I had been spending my time at work.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 20, 2014
'In his 1929 essay “Economic possibilities for our grandchildren” Keynes wrote that technology would create an age of abundance and that by 2028 we would be working three hour days. Reading that just now in a New Yorker essay I was struck by the fact that I feel the same about our grandchildren. Keynes, however was wrong. We’ve had the technology progress in spades, but we haven’t got any more leisure time.
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Up and Running
MAY 20, 2014
'There is a tendency in the start-up community to be skeptical towards MBAs. In an industry that lauds performance metrics to constantly track progress, there’s something fluffy about a professional degree that is not a prerequisite for anything. Unlike medical school or law school, you don’t need an MBA to go into business. Since much of the start-up playbook is about learning as much as you can as quickly and cheaply as possible in order to reach some important milestone, many founders,
deal architect
MAY 20, 2014
'Over the last few weeks I have had plenty of opportunity to talk to CIOs and other tech executives. I have polled several for a project, I presented to several at an event last week in Irvine, CA, I have.
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
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2014
'by Sean Blanks, marketing director of www.cartridgesave.co.uk. If your customers aren’t happy, they won’t come back to you. Which means you need to prioritise customer satisfaction above all else. As a result, providing excellent customer service is central to our entire strategy and manifests itself in three key areas: our price point, an easy ordering process and being on the end of a phone, email or tweet. 1.
SiliconHills
MAY 20, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In the first CodeHS program at Highlands High School this year, Ernest Rodriguez learned to program a computer and to do animation. “I saw the opportunity and I took advantage of it,” said Rodriguez, a freshman. Now he wants to be a computer programmer and work at […] The post CodeHS Turns Kids Into Coders appeared first on SiliconHills.
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Growthink Blog
MAY 20, 2014
'Years ago I served on a funding panel with Tom Clancy. At the time, Tom was a partner at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital in San Diego. At the time (around 2003), many venture capital firms were licking their wounds. They had funded a ton of companies during the tech bubble phase, and most of them had failed. This led Clancy to make an important decision.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MAY 20, 2014
'Joel Brown from Perth, Western Australia, started a blog Addicted2Success.com to share quotes and articles about his interest in personal development and success. [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ]. Joel worked hard, starting primarily with Twitter as a marketing tool, then branching into other social media platforms.
ithacaVC
MAY 20, 2014
'I have encountered a few situations lately where I found myself asking a lot of questions. This is mostly because I sit on many portfolio company boards for which I simply do not understand at a fundamental level the technologies. But sometimes it results from lousy answers. You give me confusing, vague or partial answers and, guess what, you will get more questions.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 20, 2014
'7 Guiding Questions for Business Success written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. If I were starting a business today there are just seven questions I would want answers to. Funny thing is, even after twenty-five years in business, I still need the answers to these questions. photo credit: ajsmith227 via photopin cc Now, it’s not that I can’t find these all-important answers, it’s that they change constantly and to some degree that’s how I kno
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 20, 2014
'Startups focus a lot of time on the things that will make them successful. Their market fit. Their go-to-market strategy. Their differentiator. Their customer acquisition strategy. But perhaps the most important thing a startup can do is identify the reason they might fail and then work hard to make sure that never happens. Startups need to be able to finish this sentence: If we’re not successful it will be because… As I answer this for Dragon Army , the answer seems obvious.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 20, 2014
'Guest post contributed by Nik Milanovic, Funding CircleUSA. It’s estimated that large bank lending to small businesses fell by more than 50% during the recent recession. 1 And post recession, lending by banks and other traditional lenders has been slow to recover. With lending still tight, it’s no easy feat for small business owners to access the credit they need to build their credit profile and keep growing their businesses.
ConversionXL
MAY 20, 2014
'Last Friday, Oli from Unbounce & Peep teamed up for the second episode of Page Fights where they tore apart contestants landing pages & give them actionable advice & best practices on how to make their landing pages better. The winner of Page Fights gets 1 free year of Unbounce’s Pro 99 account, a half hour private consultation with Peep & free early membership into the ConversionXL self study course.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2014
'By Topher Morrison, author of “ Collaboration Economy: Eliminate the Competition by Creating Partnership Opportunities ” You can’t log on to the internet right now without seeing some news about the confirmed, but still not really confirmed collaboration between Apple Inc. and Dr. Dre ‘s Beats Electronics. It’s a partnership that would make Dr.
Rob Go
MAY 20, 2014
'The dynamics of a series A round have changed in recent years. As seed rounds have become much more common, it’s been said that the “seed is the new series A” This is sort of true – it used to be that Series A’s would often happen pre-product, and certainly before product-market fit. With capital efficiency, companies in certain sectors have been able to do more with less and show some market traction even after a pretty modest seed round.
Seeing Both Sides
MAY 20, 2014
'It is graduation season at colleges and universities around the world. This time of year brings stirring commencement speeches from famous (and sometimes controversial) leaders and thoughtful reflections from students on the considerable time and money they spent in academia. Two of our students at Harvard Business School wrote a beautiful blog post, with some great visual data, about what they did NOT learn at Harvard that I thought was worth sharing.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 20, 2014
'Do you give much thought to the typography you use on your website or marketing materials? You should! Typography plays an important role in influencing people’s decisions. For example, Tahoma is the most legible font at size 10, Courier is the most legible at size 12 and Arial is the most legible at size 14. Since people spend so little time looking at web pages , you should optimize your content to be as legible as possible, at all times.
Reid Hoffman
MAY 20, 2014
'By Julie Hanna and Reid Hoffman. In San Francisco, Teresa Goines is breaking down deeply entrenched cycles of poverty and crime, one bowl of peanut butter stew at a time. Old Skool Café, the 1940’s supper club she started, gives jobs to at-risk and former gang youth. When banks turned her down, 41 people she’d never met crowdfunded a $5000 loan, putting their faith and money in Teresa, a former corrections officer with no restaurant experience in a city where most new restaurants fail.
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