Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

Everyone recognizes a great leader when they work with one, but most leaders don’t know what to look for in themselves that will drive that perception by others. In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you wants to follow your example. This leading by example is easy to say, but not so easy to put into action.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

When I joined Gartner in 1995, I thought it was quaint some of the older analysts would talk about BUNCH – Burroughs, Univac, NCR, CDC and Honeywell. So 70s and 80s. In 1995, HP, IBM, Sun, Dell, Compaq and other.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 6, 2016

I’m thrilled to share that Brandanew will be hosting its first digital marketing and brand storytelling trends 2016 workshop on January 15 in Delhi. This will be a good way to start 2016 on a creative and fun note! So, I welcome you to join us for the event. The un-conference and a very hands-on implementation oriented workshop will be hosted at the Indian International Centre, Lodhi Estate in Delhi.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2016

by Gerry Hays, DinnerCall Founder and CEO. Customers today want speed and innovation. While grocery retailers used to maintain a secure front through their physical location, that’s not all it comes down to anymore. Needs must now be met outside of the store, as well. Hidden competitors are everywhere. And grocery retailers can’t hold the mindset that their only competition is other retailers in their trade.

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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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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 6, 2016

No…You Just Have to Avoid Costly Shortcuts! It’s 2016, and marketing has changed. Today, your sales, public relations, social-media, SEO, and all other, activities work together to find and keep new customers through specific messaging. And at the heart of all of this is content. According to The Content Marketing Institute article on Key Roles […].

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 6, 2016

There has been an explosion in machine learning activity, and Shivon Zilis recently mapped out the current machine intelligence ecosystem as we enter 2016. This is one of the key areas that we’ll be following this year. While the opportunities here are tremendous, the exuberance surrounding machine learning distracts startups from a key hurdle: it’s data, not algorithms, that will dictate who wins in this space.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2016

Let’s start with my bias. I love Twitter, use it all the time (a lot more than Facebook), and will continue to love and root for Twitter. I’ve been a Twitter for Mac user for a long time. I know it’s out of favor with all the cool kids, but it works for me. It sits quietly on the left side of my giant screen and whenever a little dot shows up next to the second icon (I think it’s a tilted bell) I know I have something that has @bfeld in it that I should look at or respond

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 6, 2016

I read these stats in the Financial Times this morning and thought I’d record them for posterity. As you can see the UK and especially London had good years for VC investment last year. We’re still a long way behind the US though where $47bn was invested in 2014 (no 2015 stats yet, all data from CB Insights). If you adjust for a 5x difference in population the picture is better, but we are still only 45% of the US on a per capita basis.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 6, 2016

September’s Harvard Business Review had a really thought-provoking article for me called How Certainty Transforms Persuasion. Seth Godin wrote a blog post around the same time called The Illusion of Control. The two together make for an interesting think about using information to shape behavior as leaders. I’ve often been accused of delivering too many mixed messages to the company at all-hands meetings, so I enjoyed the think, though not in the way I expected to.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 6, 2016

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Ten years ago, four technology workers in Austin got an idea to start a social network for IT professionals. Today, that network, Spiceworks, is one of the largest IT social networks in the world with millions of monthly users, thousands of customers and hundreds of employees. This […] The post Spiceworks Turns 10 and Plans to Add 100 Employees This Year appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2016

Content marketing is often made out to be this complicated thing. We've all heard the old adage that content is king. I don't think content is king, I think strategy is king.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 6, 2016

This first week of 2016 is the best time to set big growth and success goals for the New Year. There are two main approaches to doing so: 1. Set Attainable Goals. This is the incremental “get a little better” approach, letting past results guide and drive our goal-setting. 2. Set Stretch Goals. Stretch Goals are goals that are beyond, often well beyond, what we have accomplished in the past.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 6, 2016

Homebrew is fortunate enough to be supported by a small number of wonderful investors who have entrusted us to earn above market returns on their dollars. We love working on behalf of these partners because they represent charitable foundations, pension funds, university endowments and other groups who rely upon our returns to grow. It’s a responsibility that Satya and I take quite seriously, which is one reason why we also spend a good amount of time in ensuring we’re working with t

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 6, 2016

I embarked on a journey in 2015 to read a lot more than I ever have before. For whatever reason, I feel like if I’m reading books, I’m getting smarter…or at least hopefully not getting any dumber. Maybe I’m just staving off the dumb for a few more years. Regardless of whether I’m getting smarter or dumber, I made a goal to read 12 books in 2015 and ended up reading over 30.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2016

The Hardest Part of Growing a Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Frank Pegram and Kevin Jordan. Business ownership is certainly not for the weak. Nor is it for those who panic, those who get impatient or those who cannot embrace change. I’ve interviewed hundreds of small business owners over the years and I can tell you that while most admit that marketing is a great challenge and that learning to manage people as they grow can be very

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JANUARY 6, 2016

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post From Basement to High Rise in Six Months appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. When it comes to online commerce, the point at which money changes hands has often been the moment a sale falls apart. What was a carefully crafted brand experience becomes off-putting and complicated. There are confusing redirects, forms that clash with the rest of the design, and a lot of sensitive data that needs to be entered.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2016

In the digital age, the power and ubiquity of business tools has helped level the playing field and reduce the discrepancy between small businesses and large corporations. Continuous innovation around cloud-based software solutions and increased competition for market share have made sophisticated technological tools available and affordable to smaller businesses.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 6, 2016

You’ve probably been to an Apple store. They’re a very different proposition to what computer retail stores looked like in the first 30 years of the PC revolution. They are super busy, it’s no surprise it’s the most profitable retail outlet in the world per square meter. But the thing that impressed me the most isn’t the slick architectural design and visual brilliance, it wasn’t even the knowledge of the genius, it was this one thing: I went in to get my macb

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

Paul Graham sparked a furious debate over the last few days about inequality with his blog post, Economic Inequality. He points out that the focus of the dialog should shift from inequality to combating poverty and providing more economic opportunity. The power of entrepreneurship, mixed with technological disruption, is creating an "acceleration of productivity" that is leading to rapid, massive wealth creation.

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