Genuine VC
JANUARY 15, 2015
'As an entrepreneur, if you’re running a venture capital fundraise effectively, you’re treating the process like a sale process: identifying a set of prospects to fill the top of the funnel, cultivating those relationships over a series of meetings, then narrowing down to a handful of contender firms who will ultimately make an offer to invest with a term sheet.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2015
'by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization “. Dell. 3M. Motorola. General Electric. They are just a few of the organizations that have embraced Lean and Six Sigma over the past couple of decades. And no wonder. There’s something so appealing, so elegant , about the concept that drives these systems: Take what we already know, replicate it, improve it, and repeat.
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Scalable Startup
JANUARY 15, 2015
'This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. web development projects. Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 15, 2015
'Why do startups fail? They run out of money, of course. That''s an oversimplification and actually it''s more the result than the root cause. A lot of times, it comes down to failing to produce results, and enough of them. What I''ve realized recently, though, is that smaller, faster results are key--and it doesn''t always matter whether those results are good or bad.
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
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 15, 2015
'We’re walking personality machines but computers beat us at our own game. Michal Kosinski, Computer Science Professor at Stanford. Kosinski wrote these words in a paper which describes a study which found that computers processing Facebook likes are better at predicting personality than subjects’ colleagues, family, and sometimes even than the subjects themselves.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 15, 2015
'The Geekdom Fund has successfully raised $2.96 million to invest in tech startups. “We raised money locally to put into tech startups here and around the country,” said Michael Girdley, who is one of the partners heading up the new Geekdom Fund. The other Geekdom Fund partners are Don Douglas, Cole Wollak and Mike Troy. […] The post The New $3 Million Geekdom Fund Invests in Tech Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.
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SiliconHills
JANUARY 15, 2015
'A team of students from the University of Texas at Austin took first place in the inaugural IBM Watson University Competition in New York last week. The winning team of 12 received $100,000 in seed financing from IBM Watson Group and the Entrepreneur’s Fund to launch its application, CallScout. The University of Toronto took second […] The post UT Austin Team Wins IBM Watson University Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 15, 2015
'New hires can shore up the weak areas of a business in ways existing employees cannot, if hiring is done to fill true needs. Some employees lose their drive, or remain behind as the company grows, failing to gain the experience or knowledge needed to manage expanded processes or numbers of subordinates. Sometimes, there is just too much work for one person, and a second is needed to continue growth.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 15, 2015
'Seed Sumo, a startup accelerator in College Station, is now accepting applications for its 2015 program. The program provides $50,000 in funding, up from $30,000 during its first program last year. Seed Sumo will take up to ten startups. Last year, 750 teams applied for eight spots. Those startups have received more than $4 million […] The post Time to Apply to the Seed Sumo Accelerator appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 15, 2015
'5 Ways to Get The Most Out of Your Social Media Marketing This Year 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 our newest team member – Alex Boyer – Enjoy! photo credit: shutterstock. You have always been told your business needs a presence on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, but you have yet to see tangible results.
ithacaVC
JANUARY 15, 2015
'Every once in a while “we” come across a piece that is worth passing along. Even less than every once in while we come across a piece that we MUST pass along. The latter happened to me today. I just read Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s , a blog post by Jerry Neumann (long time VC). It is fantastic and traces VC investing mentality from 1970s to today.
Early Growth Financial Services
JANUARY 15, 2015
'How do you put on a professional face, presenting yourself and your business in the best possible light while you’re busy building critical startup infrastructure? In case you missed our webinar, How to Look Professional When You’re Just Starting Up: which featured Jesse Freese, HR and Business Consultant at TriNet, Blair Golson, Launch Director at Cross CampusLA, and EGFS’ Chief Financial Officer Sirk Roh, here’s a hit list of what to do now to win business, attract clients a
Jeff Hilimire
JANUARY 15, 2015
'Alright, I have to weigh in on Serial (the greatest podcast ever). If you haven’t listened to Serial yet, put down your Palm Pilot and download it immediately! Plus, the rest of this won’t make any sense ;). I’ve had discussions with a lot of my friends about who they think killed Hae Min Lee, and I thought it would be interesting to have that same conversation with my social friends.
View from Seed
JANUARY 15, 2015
'Seed-stage startups lack a history of proof but offer plenty of promise. And part of the attempt to fulfill that promise means generating new and innovative ideas, or perhaps scrappy ones that help push the ball forward bit by bit. Regardless of the need at your particular startup, brainstorm meetings seem to be widely accepted as the best way to generate those new and/or scrappy approaches to execution.
entrepreMusings
JANUARY 15, 2015
'Happy New Year! I thought I’d get a new post out before the 15th of January, but here we are half way through the first month of 2015! My boss shared this link: The 7 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs (Tenacity, Passion, Tolerance of Ambiguity, Vision, Self-belief, Flexibility, and Rule-breaking) with our team a while back. I was surprised that they said most entrepreneurs weren’t neurotic.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2015
'By Martin Limbeck, “ NO is Short for Next Opportunity: How Top Sales Professionals Think “. If you’re a small business owner, chances are your job entails some degree of selling. Selling itself might not be your main focus, but in order to continually grow your business you must sell your products or services and always strive to bring in new clients.
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