Sun.Apr 20, 2014

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Gust

'Image via Wikimedia Commons. It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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Does Doing Good In Business Imply Doing Less Well?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories.

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Tech is exploding all across the UK, not just in London

The Next Web

'James Parton is the European Director at Twilio. The Internet economy currently accounts for around 8.3 percent of British GDP according to Boston Consulting Group’s latest study, The Connected World. Not only is this a larger percentage than any other G20 nation, but this figure is expected to hit 12.4 percent by 2016. We certainly can’t underestimate the significant role that London – and Tech City – is playing in these developments, but we have to recognise it’s the UK as a whole that will b

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Meditation and the Narrative

Feld Thoughts

'My meditation experience continues. I’m currently meditating almost every morning immediately after I wake up and sitting for 20 minutes with GetSomeHeadspace.com. I’ve internalized the idea of “practice”mode – I’m not trying to get a good grade, do it well, or excel at it. I’m just practicing. I slept late yesterday and when I woke up I didn’t feel like meditating.

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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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The one question budding entrepreneurs should always ask themselves

The Next Web

'Anthony Del Monte is the CEO and founder of Squeaky Wheel Media, a Web design and development agency based in NYC. Most entrepreneurs can pinpoint the exact moment when they decided to stop working on their potential business plan and to start working on their actual business. Chances are, many of those moments came after the ever-present (but often-ignored) question: “What next”?

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The Belief Funnel: Your Term Sheet Waits at the Bottom

Hunter Walker

'As the number of Homebrew companies grow, some are preparing for a Series A in 2014 (we’ve backed more teams than are currently public on our website). While very few people start companies simply because they like to meet with VCs, I don’t approach fundraising as simply a ‘necessary evil.’ It’s a chance for our talented founders to celebrate what they’ve accomplished thus far, passionately tell their story and identify the next group of investors to bring on

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Retooling Marketing in a B2B Company

Venture Chronicles

'Ping Identity has gone through a top to bottom transformation in marketing over the last year. A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates. My interest for the last decade has been in inbound marketing models that rely on content to drive business opportunity.

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5 Key Ways to Grab Investors' Attention.and Not Put Them to Sleep!

Small Business Force

Years ago, Marshall McLuhan, a renowned philosopher of communication, coined the phrase "the medium is the message." Nowhere is that more relevant than in an investor presentation. Over time, I've probably been a part of thousands of pitches on both sides of the table from the various perspectives of investor, investment banker, advisor, prospective customer and entrepreneur.

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10 guidelines to help you innovate and get stuff done

The Next Web

'West Stringfellow is the CPO of Bigcommerce. Innovation is simple. You don’t have to be a genius, or boast an MBA from Harvard, or carry some McKinsey strategy in your back pocket. You don’t even have to have an original idea. You simply have to be able to get s**t done. Gates, Ellison, Jobs and Zuckerberg are our modern-day geniuses of technology and business.

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How To Use Color In Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

'Looks matter. So much so that research by the secretariat of the Seoul International Color Expo documented 93 percent of test subjects put the highest importance on visual factors when purchasing products. Yet only 6 percent said that the physical feel (sense of touch) was most important. Hearing and smelling each drew a meager 1 percent. So let’s take some action here and make you (and your business) look better.

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The Disrupted Fight Back With Lobbyists

Andrew Payne

'Is it just me, or does it seem like an increasing number of successful technology startups are running into growing legal and regulatory issues? Specifically, the incumbents getting disrupted aren’t always fighting back in the market; they’re fighting back with lobbyists. Consider these current examples: Aereo. This company receives free over-the-air signals (using mini antennas, one per subscriber) and streams them on-line.

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Six Personalities You Need For Your Startup

entrepreMusings

'The following is a guest post from Bernd Schoner. Schoner was the founder of ThingMagic, LLC, a garage-grown RFID technology company led by a small group of MIT Media Lab graduates. Young and fresh-face, Schoner guided his company through the ups and downs of a start up that ultimately sold to Trimble Navigation, a multi-billion dollar, multinational tech company, where he currently works as the VP of Business Development.