The Next Web
MARCH 16, 2014
'Herbert Lui does marketing for clients such as Pivotal Labs, Busy Building Things, and Renegades. This post originally appeared on the Busy Building Things blog and was edited by Robleh Jama. What do software development hosting service GitHub, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and entrepreneur Karen Cheng have in common? They all practise every day.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 16, 2014
'by Scott Hirsch, f ounder and CEO of Appsbar. Apps are increasingly becoming a vital part of how businesses deliver services and goods to consumers, in fact Gartner predicts that by 2017 apps will generate more than $77 billion in revenue and be downloaded more than 268 billion times. For anyone that wants to capitalize on this massive growth market, where do you begin, what resources do you need?
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ConversionXL
MARCH 16, 2014
'“Typography is the detail and the presentation of a story. It represents the voice of an atmosphere, or historical setting of some kind. It can do a lot of things.” Cyrus Highsmith. We only have a handful of tools to communicating online, really. Words, images, colors & composition are the usual suspects – but they’re stealing most of the credit for what goes into making effective websites & landing pages.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2014
'It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product.
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
Gust
MARCH 16, 2014
'Image via Flickr by BullionVault. In reality, so-called “Founder’s” shares are simply common stock, issued at the time of startup incorporation, for a very low price, and normally allocated to the multiple initial players commensurate with their investment or role. But that’s only the beginning of the story. These shares are allocated and committed, but not really issued and owned (vested) until later.
The Next Web
MARCH 16, 2014
'George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. This really is not a simple question to answer. There are so many nuances that go into assessing the right answer: What is going on with the economy? How liquid is the fundraising climate? Are you B2B or B2C? Are you the first mover?
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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MARCH 16, 2014
'I grabbed my iphone and recorded a quick video for you in my house in Melbourne. No professional microphone, no professional lighting, just a little bit of post production editing to keep things interesting. In this less than 5-minute video I talk about the subject I have spent the last twelve months thoroughly studying. I’ll explain more after you watch … Read the rest of this entry » The post The Common Email Newsletter Mistake I Made And You Probably Do Too appeared first on
Hunter Walker
MARCH 16, 2014
'A few months ago I was really grooving on QuizUp. Now I rarely open it. There was a cool app that turned my photos into comic-style art. Was all over my Instagram feed for a few weeks. Now don’t even remember the name. Wired’s Mat Honan suggested SXSW might not have a breakout app this year because, well, nothing really breaks out for very long any more.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 16, 2014
'Beginning next month businesses in New York City that have 20 or more employees will be required to provide a minimum of 5 paid sick days for those workers every year. This could represent a meaningful expense for many of those businesses, but also represents a meaningful opportunity to increase productivity, improve employee morale, and develop a stronger company culture of caring and confidence.
Andrew Payne
MARCH 16, 2014
'I’m continually surprised by hardware startups that meet with potential investors, advisors, or partners and don’t bring hardware to show! If you’re making something physical and it’s transportable, bring it to your meetings. If you don’t have something to show, consider spending some time on a prototype that you can demonstrate.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 16, 2014
'This is a blindpost suggested to me by my friend, @cubanx. It’s based on the Inc. article, 9 Things Great Leaders Say Every Day. As is customary with blindposts, I read the title of the article and wrote my version of it without reading the original article first. Writing this particular list made me realize that I need to be better at saying these things on a daily basis. 9 Things Great Leaders Say Every Day. “How can I help?
Andrew Payne
MARCH 16, 2014
'I’m continually surprised by hardware startups that meet with potential investors, advisors, or partners and don’t bring hardware to show! If you’re making something physical and it’s transportable, bring it to your meetings. If you don’t have something to show, consider spending some time on a prototype that you can demonstrate.
Rob Go
MARCH 16, 2014
'I’ve been thinking a lot about the outcome distributions in different circumstances. The dimensions that I think about are: 1. What’s the cost of attempting something? 2. What’s the probability that an individual attempt is successful? 3. Whats the probability that the aggregate outcome of various attempts is successful overall? In venture capital, the cost of attempting something is meaningful, but not that high.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 16, 2014
'Knowledge and content used to be locked in physical depositories – and within great minds – not easily accessible by everyone, but the web is changing that paradigm. The Internet, and particularly online video, is helping change the face of education, with sites such as Khan Academy providing democratic access to the world a tremendous amount of educational resources that can be accessed by anyone with a decent broadband service.
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