SoCal CTO
MAY 21, 2013
'I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. I thought it would be worth capturing some basic notes about what signals founders commonly are seeing that cause them to call me, what those signals might be indicating, and what might make sense to do as a founder if you are seeing some of these signals.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 21, 2013
'Samsung’s continued dominance amongst mobile phone manufacturers employing Google’s Android mobile operating system has been startling, and the South Korean vendor even managed to build an Apple-level of hype for the recent launch of its flagship Galaxy S4. With the company expected to ship a total of 320 million smartphones in 2013 with a quarter of them being Galaxy S4 units, that’s almost 80 million of just that one smartphone model in the hands of consumers.
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ReadWriteStart
MAY 21, 2013
Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com , which backs up emails in the cloud and Dropmysite.com , a cloud-based backup company. At any startup, the first hurdle is the lack of resources – lack of funds, lack of manpower, lack of time. Outsourcing – or relocating – the work can be a great to overcome those obstacles while controlling costs, increasing efficiency and even making workers happier.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 21, 2013
'People seem fascinated with routines – how other people get things done and the like. While you do need to develop your own way of getting it all done, it can be inspiring and reassuring to hear how others are doing it. (Yesterday I wrote – 7 Things I Did Not Know About Writing Before I Started ). How I decide what to write about. photo credit: Sven Van Echelpoel via photopin cc.
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
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 21, 2013
'This is a guest post by Nathan Barry, in response to two other posts that previously appeared on this blog. Nathan is the author of Designing Web Applications , The App Design Handbook , and Authority: A Step-By-Step Guide to Self-Publishing. His most recent company, ConvertKit , makes email marketing suck less. How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it.
deal architect
MAY 21, 2013
'On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. Look at the graph below and let the enormity of that sink in. Now consider this. Netflix uses Amazon Web Services as.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 21, 2013
'by Owen Burek, Editor-in-Chief at Save the Student. Starting a business while you’re at university can be one of the best ways to earn some extra cash. After all, what could be better than working for yourself on your own terms? If you want to make a success of it though, you need to start out with a solid and viable idea. The possibilities are almost endless, but I’ve had a good think and put together this list of ten great small business ideas that most entrepreneurial students should be able
Version One Ventures
MAY 21, 2013
'The Black Swan. “Hard work plus luck is what gets you a jet instead of just a BMW.” ( Nassim Taleb , The Black Swan ). Start-up success typically boils down to three elements: hard work, talent, and luck. Yet when we dissect the successes and failures of other start-ups, we tend to focus on the hard work and talent of the team, completely disregarding the important role that luck (or the lack thereof) may have played.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 21, 2013
'I’m sure many of us have heard this before – it’s better to buy a Mac, because Apple products are not susceptible to viruses and other online attacks. Or how about this – your computer is unlikely to fall prey to malicious software because you don’t visit risky websites? Well, it turns out that both beliefs are myths. That’s right, we’re all a lot more vulnerable to online attacks than we believe.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 21, 2013
'First things first – we are fine. Amy had an emergency appendectomy last night. She’s recovering extremely well and feeling great, albeit a little sore, this morning. We’ll be going home in a little bit once the doctor gets here. Yesterday was a typical Monday. Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. I went for a run. My partners and I had sushi for lunch.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 21, 2013
'In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz, explains how to make better decisions using the 10-10-10 method. If you make a certain decision, what will the consequence be in ten minutes, ten months, and ten years. We have a tendency to put too much weight on the next ten minutes, and too little value on the ten months and ten years.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 21, 2013
'Following Yahoo’s $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr Pandodaily published an article asking why Tumblr and Foursquare, New York’s top consumer web startups, haven’t had the same success as Twitter and Facebook. First the numbers, as measured by 2012 revenues Foursquare and Tumblr are a long way behind: Pando points out that one would expect Tumblr and Foursquare’s proximity to New York’s strong advertising industry to give them an advantage over their Valley competitors when it comes to building an a
Growthink Blog
MAY 21, 2013
'If I say to you, "Hey, you can grow your business into a 10 million dollar company and be very wealthy" would you believe me? Would you think it''s possible? Likely? Easy? Hard? A pipe dream? You don''t have to tell anyone your answer, so be really honest with yourself. Can you envision becoming a multi-millionaire by growing your business? If you can''t see it, first congratulate yourself for that bit of honesty.
SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
'The March for Innovation kicks off today. The event is designed to raise awareness about immigration reform, said Peter French with Free Flow Research. He’s organizing the San Antonio event for the March for Innovation virtual town hall meeting in the Silver Fox Studios. He’s been working with Jeremy Robbins, the director of the Partnership [.] The post March for Innovation Kicks Off Today appeared first on SiliconHills.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MAY 21, 2013
'Tweet When I first started Entrepreneurs-Journey I wrote something that I believe was one of the most powerful rapport building pieces of content I have ever created. I called it my “ Business Timeline ” and it was exactly what it sounds like, a chronicle of my life as an entrepreneur.
SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
'Austin-based SpareFoot, the self-storage marketplace, will donate a month of storage space to people in Oklahoma affected by the devastating tornadoes in the Oklahoma City area. A massive tornado tore through Moore, Okla., just to the South of Oklahoma City, on Tuesday. It wreaked havoc leveling entire neighborhoods, businesses and schools and left two dozen [.
Up and Running
MAY 21, 2013
'If your in the bar business, you’ve probably seen an episode of “ Bar Rescue.” Nothing better than Spike TV at 2 a.m. and seeing John Taffer confront a guilty bar staff. It makes for good TV, but lets be honest: if you have to yell at your bar staff every week to get them to perform, you probably need a new staff. So how do you create long-term accountability behind the bar?
SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
'Founder.org received more than 500 submissions for its Big Ideas competition. It’s mission is “to inspire students to chase big ideas and become founders of impactful companies that drive innovation and economic growth.” Founders.org has narrowed the field down to 50 Big Ideas as the semifinalists and five of them are from the Austin Technology [.
Mucker Lab
MAY 21, 2013
'1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. (Internet). 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. (eBay). 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”.
SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
'Design BIG is a free weekend design workshop for entrepreneurs that our team at Pushstart, an Austin-based industrial and interactive design firm, is organizing. The three-day event is designed to help entrepreneurs design their product with customers in mind. During the weekend, design consultants will help the entrepreneurs. The weekend features a series of lectures, [.
Business Plan Blog
MAY 21, 2013
'Generating a business idea takes creativity. Fortunately, we can exercise our creativity like a muscle. And it can even be fun. Try these three games to inspire new ideas. Who knows, it might lead to the next million-dollar startup! 1. Mix and Match. What two products could be brought together for the first time to create a new one? For example, take license plates and dry erase boards.
SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
'One of the latest companies to graduate from the TechStars Cloud program, Postmater announced it has raised $600,000 in seed stage funding. The Austin-based startup has created an online portal for shipping, tracking and saving money on small parcel shipping. Capital Factory, Cloud Power and Zelkova Ventures led the round along with angel investors.
Hunter Walker
MAY 21, 2013
'A patent lawsuit can be a deathblow to a startup – whether a patent troll or legitimate issue to be adjudicated, the cost is not only crippling but the uncertainty of outcome makes their business nearly unfundable to outside investors. Ditto finds themselves subject to two lawsuits – one is clearly a patent troll, the other more complex – but whether they’re in the right or not, it puts them in a very tough position.
SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
'Akimbo Financial wants to change the way people pay for things. The three year old company, which recently moved from Austin to San Antonio, has created a prepaid card that connects to a digital wallet and allows people to easily share money with others. Akimbo recently closed on $850,000 of a $3 million Series A [.] The post Akimbo Financial Raises $850,000 of a $3 Million Round appeared first on SiliconHills.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 21, 2013
'Love this passage from the Max Barry book, Company. A great way of describing my feelings on personal offices and why I’ll never have one again. Like every other department in Zephyr, Training Sales has an open floor plan, which means everyone works in a sprawling cubicle farm except the manager, who has an office with a glass internal wall, across which blinds are permanently drawn.
SiliconHills
MAY 21, 2013
'Spot on Sciences‘ Founder Jeanette Hill credits the RampCorp program at Texas State University with helping her launch her venture. RampCorp is designed primarily for women entrepreneurs who want to build a scalable business. Spot on Sciences won the RISE Austin Fast Pitch Competition last week. Hill received the $3,000 cash prize, a Dell Ultrabook [.
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 21, 2013
'“ “There are fifty or so billionaires and tens of thousands of millionaires in Silicon Valley.” Think about that for a second: tens of thousands of millionaires, almost all them created by companies that didn’t exist two decades ago. The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 21, 2013
'Kingdom Rush remains the best iOS game I’ve ever played. And I still play it, well over a year after I first picked it up. It’s tower defense at its best. And now, there’s a new one coming out this Summer (the video says Spring but sources are saying Summer). And I can’t friggin’ wait.
Bryce Dot VC
MAY 21, 2013
'Last week a friend high 5’d me and congratulated me on finally writing a non-portfolio related post. I shrugged and shared that it’s been hard for me to get into a groove writing over the last year. My friend leaned forward and said, “It’s because you’re lying to us” . I knew exactly what he meant before he continued. “You moved back to Utah almost a year ago and have never written about it” And he was correct.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 21, 2013
'Originally published in Fox Small Business Center. As a CEO, do you mentor others—within or outside your own business? Why and how? This question was posed to the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC). Here’s what 9 YEC members had to say: 1: Become a Campus Resource From Justin Beck of PerBlue Mentoring other entrepreneurs has become a passion of mine over the last two years.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 21, 2013
'If you have invested considerable time and resources on social media marketing over the past year and feel frustrated, you are not alone. About 61% of small businesses don’t see any return on investment on their social-media activities … Yet, almost 50% say they’ve increased their time spent on social media, and only 7% have decreased their time.
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