Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Part of the fun of having a blog for a long time is that it captures some of the history – in the moment – of what’s going on. For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2015
The Internet has become an enormous platform for businesses to advertise and communicate to existing and potential customers. It is also where consumers first turn when looking for any kind of product or service, and this means that businesses in every industry need a strong online presence as well as a flawlessly-conceived internet marketing campaign.
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Up and Running
MAY 28, 2015
Let’s say you have zero traction, an unknown product, and no budget to speak of. Perhaps not the most desirable position to be in, but at least you have some resources to tap into: time and creativity. One of the most rewarding aspects of marketing is the challenge, so realize that you’re up for it. You can grind your way to gaining traction. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution; what might work for one company might completely flop for another.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 28, 2015
How Customer Photos Improve Mobile Shopping written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Mobile commerce is expected to grow nearly 50% in the next four years. But even with the rapid rate of tablet and smartphone technology, there are still many advantages of web over mobile for creating a seamless online shopping experience.
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
Up and Running
MAY 28, 2015
We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. He is the known guru in business planning, particularly for small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs, although he’s worked with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies as well. Lean business planning offers a simple, powerful, and effective way to organize your business based on what matters most, set the right priorities, track
TechEmpower
MAY 28, 2015
By Jeffrey Papen, CEO and Founder, Peak Hosting. At Peak Hosting , we're big fans of TechEmpower's Framework Benchmarks, an open source project the company has been coordinating since early 2013. Covering a wide variety of web application frameworks, this project gives developers useful data that can help them find the framework that will provide the performance and features they need for their application.
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deal architect
MAY 28, 2015
This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. This time it is Jason Prater who leads product and platform development teams, from design to deployment at Plex Systems, the manufacturing cloud.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2015
by Scott L. Girard, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of ExpertBusinessAdvice.com and co-author of “ International Business Basics: Learn What You Need in 2 Hours “ Doing business on an international scale is very exciting; it can also be overwhelming. Not only should you bring your “A-game” from a professional standpoint if you want to close the deal, you also have to bring it culturally as well.
Rembrandt Communications
MAY 28, 2015
Your tactics depend on your target market You are busy running your business and know that you should be posting blogs on a regular basis, but who has time? Ugh! It’s just another thing on your giant, “To Do” list that is stressing you out. But in reality, you may be worrying for nothing. Remember, […]. The post Are Blogs Part of Your BtoB Content Marketing Strategy?
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2015
by Jim Lindsey and Paul Friederichsen. Since the 1980’s, the anticipated shrinkage in numbers of the small- to mid-tier ad agencies (less than 100 people or so) has not happened. If anything, there are more of them! While worldwide mega-agency groups (starting with Saatchi & Saatchi back then) have continued to grow, merge, morph, and control more media dollars, the small, independent shops stubbornly remain.
Up and Running
MAY 28, 2015
The break-even analysis lets you determine what you need to sell, monthly or annually, to cover your costs of doing business—your break-even point. See Also Break-Even Calculator. Illustration 1 shows the break-even analysis table: Illustration 1: Break-even analysis. The break-even analysis table calculates a break-even point based on fixed costs, variable costs per unit of sales, and revenue per unit of sales.
K9 Ventures
MAY 28, 2015
At K9 we invest in companies which have a clear/direct revenue model and typically don’t invest in companies that follow the Ubiquity first Revenue Later (URL) revenue model made famous by Eric Schmidt in 2007. In my discussions with K9 portfolio founders about scaling revenue, I very often end up drawing the same picture: $0/month. When a startup is just getting started it first needs to build its product/service.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 28, 2015
I’ve had my Apple watch for two weeks now and I am starting to like it. For a good week I was saying to people that it’s just ok, but over the last couple of days I’ve been getting more value from it. That said, I’m not at the point where I would recommend it to others. As a watch it works well. Nine times out of ten the screen comes on when I tilt my wrist, and that’s enough not to be annoying.
Hunter Walker
MAY 28, 2015
A few years back one of YouTube’s product leads was giving Lady Gaga a private look at some of our proposed UX revisions (this was when Gaga visited Google to be interviewed by Marissa). The team has mocked up design explorations in different directions including a few that were “premium” style looks. The minute Gaga saw that one she stopped our product managers and said, “No, keep YouTube looking shitty.” Gaga elaborated.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 28, 2015
What do you stand for? What is your purpose? How is your company a platform for your purpose? So, tell me. What do you stand for? Got it? Good. Now go tell the world about it.
SiliconHills
MAY 28, 2015
Longtime Austin PR Pro Laura Beck launched stripedshirt.com five years ago. The business sells striped shirts for women, kids and babies in a variety of colors, fashioned after school colors or the colors of professional sports teams. She found some initial success. FedEx selected stripedshirt for its FedEx + Me program for small businesses. And […] The post Stripedshirt.com Shuts Down with a KickStopper appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 28, 2015
Stay On Top Of Modern Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health Content Refresh 19727 via photopin (license). “Youth Is the Engine of the World” – Matisyahu. Since I started writing my new book, YouthNation, last summer, the changes I have been studying have evolved in some instances more quickly than I could type.
SiliconHills
MAY 28, 2015
The Global Innovators Pitch Challenge is looking for Central Texas startups with a foreign-born founder to present their ventures at its event on June 12th at Cafe Commerce in downtown San Antonio. The deadline to apply for the event is midnight on Friday, May 29th. “The challenge is hosted by FreeFlow Research and Fwd.US. and […] The post Apply to Pitch at the SATX Global Innovators Challenge appeared first on SiliconHills.
Rob Go
MAY 28, 2015
We recently launched our new Podcast “Traction” Check it out here. One of my recent interviews was with Ken Chen, the co-founder and CMO at Naturebox. The company is doing great and Ken is a very strong performance marketer. There were a couple interesting tidbits that I learned from our conversation that is particularly relevant to early stage companies, and I thought I’d try to crystallize a few learnings on my blog as a companion to the podcast.
SiliconHills
MAY 28, 2015
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour, has a whiteboard in his office on which many things are written in black about the growing company vision. Under Armour recently opened a connected digital fitness headquarters in Austin and announced its new Grip wrist band. And since it purchased […] The post Under Armour’s CEO Talks About Growing a Company on the Offense appeared first on SiliconHills.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 28, 2015
Did you know startups have several other funding options besides equity? Really, they do!! In this session Molly Otter of Lighter Capital and David Ehrenberg, Founder and CEO of Early Growth Financial Services, discussed a range of debt funding options available to entrepreneurs and the cost benefits of each. Access the presentation deck for Debt Funding Options.
Rob Go
MAY 28, 2015
We recently launched our new Podcast “Traction” Check it out here. One of my recent interviews was with Ken Chen, the co-founder and CMO at Naturebox. The company is doing great and Ken is a very strong performance marketer. There were a couple interesting tidbits that I learned from our conversation that is particularly relevant to early stage companies, and I thought I’d try to crystallize a few learnings on my blog as a companion to the podcast.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 28, 2015
Planning a threaded Tweetstorm? Here’s the rules: 1/Tweet 2/Reply to 1st Tweet but remove your @name 3/Reply to 2nd Tweet not 1st 4/Repeat. — Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. I learned the hard way by doing a Tweetstorm below but linked every subsequent Tweet back to the original Tweet to create the thread. I faced the wrath of the community.
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