Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

'There has been a lot of recent noise in Boulder about growth, challenges, and the impact of the tech community on the city. I stirred the pot a little more with my post The Endless Struggle That Boulder Has With Itself. It generated some private emails, including non-constructive troll-like ones such as “Get the f**k out of town, you and people like you are ruining everything” at one end of the extreme to “It’s so frustrating that the all growth is bad crowd is framing

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2015

'By Joe Pergola, President, AccuPOS Point of Sale. If you’re like most retailers, you don’t really consider yourself a technology expert. You may know a lot about this season’s most popular video games, the latest in trendy footwear options, or even last decade’s wines, but when it comes to choosing a point of sale (POS) system, you’d rather wait until tomorrow.

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 22, 2015

'It’s still the ruling king when it comes to business success! Make sure your site is optimized for the search engines with the right keywords! Add appropriate SEO words to your social-media campaign! Create current blogs, newsletters and videos! You see these messages through various mediums all day at work. And while you may be […]. The post Copy, Shmopy… Why do you need all this content?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2015

'By JR Reichl, Senior Director, Marketing Communications at Hostway Services, Inc. E-commerce companies need to be at the top of their game when it comes to attracting customers and encouraging purchases. Several different approaches are leveraged to achieve this. Organizational leaders often look to the recent trends in the industry to give their company a certain edge.

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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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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

'Over a year ago, I first heard the rumor that a cat cafe had opened in London. To me, it seemed a whimsical, storybook sort of place, where one could get a cup of tea and pet a cat at the same time. Charming, I thought, but a bit unbelievable—did such an establishment really exist? After a bit more research, I learned that these cafes were quite real, and first gained popularity in Japan, where tiny apartment dwelling often makes it impossible to keep pets.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

'Lucy Sanders, the founder/CEO of the National Center for Women & Information Technology is a remarkable person. I’ve worked with Lucy since 2005 and she’s done more advancing the cause of engaging women in IT, computer science, and entrepreneurship than anyone I know. As a bonus, she – and NCWIT – are based in Boulder. I like to refer to them as a gem of CU Boulder that is hidden in plain site.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2015

'I''m incredibly excited to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures'' investment in Plum Print. Plum Print turns your kid''s artwork into buyable merchandise like coffee table books, and soon note cards, framed prints, and calendars. While other apps store art for future printing, Plum Print is different because it doesn''t require large amounts of time for you to do it yourself.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 22, 2015

'This is a trick headline. There can be three “whys” or twenty, depending upon the issue and the responses. To make the point, the word “why” has to be one of the more powerful words in a manager’s vocabulary. Asking the question forces the other person to think beyond the usual “what” that generated a response to “why.”. It sure is a way to get to the bottom of an issue.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 22, 2015

'I’ve been an entrepreneur for a lot of years. At one point, I’d started, grown, and sold a couple of businesses, and I thought I knew everything there was to know about making business decisions. After all, I was a success! After I sold my companies, I became an angel investor – finding ventures that I thought were promising and plunking down my hard earned cash to give other entrepreneurs a chance at making their dreams a reality.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 22, 2015

'Hack Reactor, a computer programming bootcamp, announced this week it has bought MakerSquare, a two-year old coding school with campuses in Austin and San Francisco. Hack Reactor, based in San Francisco, did not release the terms of the deal. It’s the two-year-old company’s first acquisition. Hack Reactor plans to continue to operate MakerSquare independently and […] The post Hack Reactor Buys MakerSquare in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JANUARY 22, 2015

'I get questions from startup founders about executive summaries all the time. They range from “what should I include?” to “how long should it be?” to “where can I get help writing one?” I answered some of those questions in a previous post, Crafting Your Executive Summary, so I won’t rehash them here. But I do want to highlight 5 things that are guaranteed to make you stand out — and not in a good way.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 22, 2015

'SpareFoot, one of the most successful startups to spin out of Capital Factory, is hiring 30 employees for its “Amazing Customer Experience” call center team. The Austin-based startup plans to host a “speed dating” event at its corporate headquarters to find the new employees to answer calls from prospective customers looking for self-storage.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2015

'Last night I spoke at a Founders Institute meetup located at FortyFour , a digital agency that a few friends of mine run. Somewhere around 40 people showed up, some of which had already started a business and some that were hoping to one day. After briefly telling them my story (in a nutshell: this + this + this ), I opened it up for questions and for about 45 minutes I answered all sorts of great questions about starting companies.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 22, 2015

'XOR Data Exchange, a permission-based data exchange in Austin, announced this week it has closed on $1.8 million in funding. Chicago Ventures and KBC Capital led the round. In addition, Norm Willox, who previously founded and built the risk management and fraud analytic business for Lexis Nexis and now serves as founder and CEO of […] The post XOR Data Exchange Lands $1.8 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 22, 2015

'One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in the 10 months since joining NextView is just how many exceptions there are to almost every “rule” in early-stage entrepreneurship. There’s no one right way to do most things at this stage of growth. There’s no single Path of Truth and Justice, no matter how much the bloggers and experts want to describe best practices as exactly that (this blog included).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2015

'AB testing is supposed to be straightforward and extremely transparent. It should be so easy to see the ROI – especially when compared to opaque stuff like SEO. But is it really so transparent as we’d like to think? There are some uncomfortable questions about transparency, but we can answer them. In this post I’ll address five “uncomfortable questions” along with comments from fellow optimizers. 1.

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