Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). Much less has been said about when the technical CEO is the best person to run the company.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Guest Post By William Hertling – williamhertling.com (Author). William Hertling is a web strategist, programmer, father, short-order cook and the author of two award-winning and best-selling techothrillers: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than It Appears and A.I. Apocalypse. You can follow him at @hertling or on his blog, williamhertling.com.
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View from Seed
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. Included in that deck was something that caught some folks by surprise. While there was indeed a PowerPoint template to use, we also built out a proposed Google Doc to use as a direct substitute for actual slides.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. So some entrepreneurs stick with incremental solutions, avoiding more transformational or adaptive solutions implying disruptive change.
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
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'By Diane Gottsman , modern manners and etiquette expert, and author of “ Pearls of Polish, An Etiquette Guide for Today’s Busy Woman “ Delivering a speech to an auditorium full of attendees, conducting an important meeting with a client, or hosting a business meal with potential clients – these are some of the scenarios where you want to be sure to present your most polished and professional persona.
Rembrandt Communications
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Is Your Copy Scaring Customers Away Right Now? While frightening decorations, costumes and haunted houses are popular this month, scary, BtoB content is not. If you use the wrong words online and in your marketing materials, you can instantly lose sales. With this in mind, here are… 3 Scary Words to Avoid in Your BtoB […]. The post Are You Guilty of These 3 Frightening Words in Your BtoB Content?
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Gust
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'First, it’s important to understand that the four platforms you list fall into two very distinct groups. Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are project -based crowdfunding platforms through which anyone can contribute money, either as a donation or with the promise that they will receive a tangible ‘reward’ of some kind if the project is successful.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Barry Feldman is a content marketing consultant, copywriter, social media advisor and more. This post has been adapted from an original version on his blog, Feldman Creative. I had a hard time with this sentence. It’s called the lead—the first sentence or first paragraph—and it drives writers batty. You too, right? Well, help has arrived. I learned how to write leads (and most of what I know about writing) from doing what the pros do—following the leaders.
Mike Michalowicz
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Think quick: what brand of chips, soda, or pain reliever do you reach for? Chances are that you’re like the vast majority of people when it comes to walking through the grocery store aisles to pick these products and others. You purchase the same brand of product, over and over each week. That’s the result of the frequency technique! For the most part, we tend to buy the brands because of three reasons: we know them, we like them, and we trust them.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Google plans to launch its 1 Gigabit Fiber Internet service in South and Southeast Austin in December. “I want to emphasis off the top, that is where we will start,” said Mark Strama, city manager for Google Fiber. “This is not where we will finish. We will […] The post South and Southeast Austin to Get Google 1 Gigabit Internet in December appeared first on SiliconHills.
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for anci. Check out more great work on anci’s profile page. Nicely done, anci, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: LuW. Fresh from the SPRING: Ender.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'9 Ways to Connect With Your Community written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Roger Connors and Tom Smith – Enjoy! photo credit: 123rf. Feeling out of touch with your business community? No connection, wrangling tough relationships, regularly brokering messy disagreements?
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Things continue to be exciting at Dragon Army. Our second game is live – Paper Trail – and getting great reviews so far. It’s a brutally hard game, so high scores are hard to come by. Let me know your high score in the comments! We also have a music video for our next game, Defend the Dam , which should be out in November/December of this year.
Street Smart Product Manager
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Here’s a scenario: Top Exec at your company comes to you and says, “Yesterday, I was talking to Big Customer and they mentioned how they’d love it if we could deliver Great Idea. I think Great Idea is a great idea, and we should do it!” Sound familiar? At last weekend’s ProductCamp DC event, my […]. The post Validate Your Product Idea In 5 Steps appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'By Jenny Q. Ta , entrepreneur, author and CEO of Sqeeqee.com. Often times, the people will have you believe that accomplished entrepreneurs had their success purely by dint of the invincibility of their irresistible ideas. The media creates a narrative that posits a sole human as the harbinger of change while completely obscuring the so-called boring details.
Street Smart Product Manager
OCTOBER 15, 2014
Here’s a scenario: Top Exec at your company comes to you and says, “Yesterday, I was talking to Big Industry Player and they mentioned how they have Shiny Object. I think we should have Shiny Object too. How fast can we get it done?” Sound familiar? At last weekend’s ProductCamp DC event, my co-founder and … Continue reading A 5-Step Roadmap To Validate Your Product Idea.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'We’re nearing the end of 2014, and it’s an unfortunate reality that gender discrimination is still an issue in our society. After all the progress women have made in the professional world, there are still plenty of reasons why we still need to fight for workplaces that support women and men equally. In fact, we’re hosting a webinar next week to discuss this very issue, and you’re invited to join us. 11 reasons why we still need to talk about gender equality in 2014: Joi
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 15, 2014
'Venturebeat published an interesting survey this morning which found that 42% of the tech CEOs they interviewed see evidence of a bubble. The infographic above shows the companies they are most worried about. The market is definitely hot right now, but in the UK at least it doesn’t feel like it did in 1999, nothing like. That said, entrepreneurs and early stage investors should keep in mind that current conditions are unlikely to persist indefinitely.
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