Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

Let’s face reality -- no one can satisfy all the people all the time. In business, this means an entrepreneur who never says no to any customer is doomed to a hard life and some expensive mistakes. Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I’m a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

Amy and I watched The Big Short on Tuesday with my partner Jason and his wife Jenn. We were electrified as we walked out of the theater – all four of us loved it. Jason commented that it was a particularly impressive movie given the subject matter. I couldn’t stop saying “that’s the best explanation of what created the financial crisis that I’ve ever seen.” I remember reading The Big Short in 2010 when it came out.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2016

I recommend printing off these questions, and giving your website a thorough checkup. Run each page through these questions, make necessary
 changes, and then watch your conversion rate begin to slowly climb.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 2, 2016

People often ask me what the difference is between a startup and a new small business. At Pollenizer and in their terrific book Focus , the difference is defined as follows: A new small business – has a proven business model and method of success – e.g. a cafe. A startup – tries to prove a new business model through solving problems in a new way.

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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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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2016

What books should entrepreneurs read? Forget shuffling through the book store or your NOOK or Kindle app — we've removed the guess work.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 2, 2016

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being a founder; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

What drives economic inequality in the US? Should we be concerned about the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many? I am not writing about this out of the blue – this seems to be the topic of the day in my social stream based on blogs written, retweets rendered and attaboys handed out. I found the conversation a bit disconcerting.

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