Tue.Feb 24, 2015

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Scaling by “delegation” isn’t good enough

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

'Founding a company is a selfish act. It will consume every waking moment for the next 1-10 years. It’s an act of defiance and irreverence towards competitors and the status quo. That matches well with the life of a 20-something — fueled by the energy of youth, too young to be jaded, with no financial or social dependents. Not all selfish acts are bad ones!

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Market Type and Revenue. 2 Minutes to Find Out Why

Steve Blank

'Understanding “Market Type” can save you a ton of money and time. This 2-minute video explained “ why not all startups are the same ” and introduced the notion of “market type” and described the difference between new markets, existing markets and resegmented markets. The next video described what happens to startups who don’t understand they are in a new market.

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Big Data Misses: Auto Insurance

deal architect

'On New Florence, I have been cataloging impressive use of advanced analytics for a few years now. Nowadays, it is jarring when you see scenarios which do not leverage the deluge of data available at reasonable cost to most enterprises.

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Building Your Brand: The Basics

YoungUpstarts

'by Claire Prendergast, Director of Marketing Communications at agencyEA. Building a brand for your small business is an essential element of success, especially when you’re just starting out. Branding is how you define your business — both internally to your employees and investors, and externally to customers, the media and the world of social media.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Introducing our latest investment: Perceptiv Labs – The future of smart drone technology

Version One Ventures

'In conjunction with their exciting public launch today, we’re happy to announce our newest investment in Perceptiv Labs , a startup that’s using computer vision to make drones more intelligent and fully autonomous. Imaging, delivery and manufacturing are increasingly becoming automated with the use of robots and drones. The current global non-military drone market is already at $2.5B, and is expected to hit $10B by 2024 (according to Forbes) with applications in agriculture, film production, p

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The 4 Most Popular Jobs In Social Media

YoungUpstarts

'A few years ago social networks boomed, causing changes in the way people socialize, but also how companies approached marketing. We have seen major social networks like MySpace, Friendster or Orkut closed and others like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIN transform our habits on the internet. Companies have adapted these new media to their marketing and communication plans, creating new channels of communication with both clients and internally.

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Selling benefits not features – explained

The Equity Kicker

'The graphic above is from an awesome post from Buffer titled People don’t buy products, they buy better versions of themselves which sums up how businesses should sell. It’s a cliche, but customers don’t care about features, they care about what what products can do for them and/or why they matter. Marketing messages, therefore, should focus on benefits rather than features.

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14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded [Webinar]

Up and Running

'You made the leap. You’ve taken the steps to start your own business, and it’s more than just an idea. There’s only one problem: you don’t have the capital you need to get it off the ground or take it to the next level. You need investors. When it comes to pitching your business, you need to communicate your idea clearly, confidently, and in a short amount of time.

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Grow Your Business Faster By Paying Yourself

Mike Michalowicz

'When I’m consulting with clients looking to invigorate and grow their businesses, one question I often ask is: “Who’s your most valuable employee?” They inevitably give me the wrong answer. They might wax poetic about their rockstar sales person or their dedicated assistant, but they’re missing an obvious point. Entrepreneurs don’t realize that they, themselves, are their most valuable employee, and that is a short-sighted position.

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21 Blogs I Turn To When I Need to Learn How To Do Stuff

Duct Tape Marketing

'21 Blogs I Turn To When I Need to Learn How To Do Stuff written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. No shock in this statement – I’m a big fan of blogs and blogging as a core marketing, content and SEO practice. photo credit: via photopin (license). I subscribe to many blogs, read blogs daily and generally find that when I search for things blog posts offer the most useful solutions.

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HomeAway Reports Increase in Revenue and Slight Profit for Latest Quarter

SiliconHills

'HomeAway, the world’s largest online marketplace for vacation rentals, Tuesday reported revenue for the fourth quarter increased nearly 22 percent to $109.7 million compared to the same quarter a year ago. The Austin-based company reported a profit of $162,000 or less than a cent a share for the fourth quarter compared to a loss of […] The post HomeAway Reports Increase in Revenue and Slight Profit for Latest Quarter appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Securing Startup Financing for Tech Companies

Early Growth Financial Services

'This guest post was contributed by BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital. Recently Lighter Capital and VentureBeat teamed up to host a Fundraising Roundtable webinar examining fundraising options for tech companies. The webinar featured Lighter Capital’s CEO, BJ Lackland, Silicon Valley Bank’s Head of Early Stage Banking, Claire Lee, and Voyager Capital’s Managing Partner Erik Benson.

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Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO

abovethecrowd.com

'[An edited version of the following blog post originally appeared in a modified form in the pages of the weekend edition of the Financial Times last Saturday. ]. Every successful technology company raises money throughout its lifecycle, perhaps starting with a seed investment and progressing through Series A, B, C, late-stage investments, and, for the most successful companies, an IPO.

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