Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 19, 2015
'The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 19, 2015
'At the time of writing, there are approximately 700 million active websites in the world today. These sites are all owned and run by both individuals and businesses. As with most things in life, there are some phenomenal sites out there. And there are also some pretty dire ones too! If you run a business, you will always want your site to fall into the former category rather than the latter!
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crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 19, 2015
'From Day One we viewed crowdSPRING as the ultimate light-touch, self-serve, highly scalable internet business. We determined that we would build the product and out website such that even the least sophisticated visitor could learn for themselves how the system worked and could then take self-led actions to source the creative services they came looking for.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 19, 2015
'Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year.
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
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 19, 2015
'by Tommy Bjorn, founder of Secondonlineincome.com. Starting up and running your own business from home can be difficult – but it can also be rewarding, exciting and most of all, successful! There are pitfalls, traps and common mistakes that every startup should avoid in order to have the best chance at success. If you’re looking for tips on how to start a successful online business, whether it will be a full-time or part time online business, you’ll need to beware of some of the common mistakes
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 19, 2015
'As an almost daily writer, I occasionally feel that something I’ve written or said has long term impact and meaning. Today is not one of those days. Instead, I give you Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech on August 28, 1963 which we now refer to as his “I Have A Dream” speech. For the original speech, take a look in that US Archives copy or at the text of the speech on the BBC website.
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Up and Running
JANUARY 19, 2015
'A happy team leads to a good product, so keeping your employees positive should make the top of your to-do list. Below, 15 founders from Young Entrepreneur Council share the surprising perks your employees might really care about. 1. Lunch. I never realized how much our employees loved and appreciated lunch until we skipped it for a week. It was a disaster!
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JANUARY 19, 2015
'How to Do Mash-Ups for Innovation. This is an article length, comprehensive post on Mash-Ups for Innovation. To say the least Mash-Ups hold great promise in helping people and organizations find useful and sometimes breakthrough innovations. This article will likely be part of a book on the front end of innovation that’s in development, stay tuned.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 19, 2015
'LawnStarter has created a great infographic to explain why people are moving to Austin. This infographic is brought to you by Lawnstarter Austin Lawn Care The post Why Are People Moving to Austin? appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
JANUARY 19, 2015
'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Ken Raetz- Think Data Insights. The transition from programmer to entrepreneur. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Transition from Programmer to Entrepreneur appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 19, 2015
'Fashion Metric, a company that acts as a virtual tailor online, closed on its $1 million seed round. Tahoma Ventures in Boulder led the round with participation from Corsa Ventures in Austin, Elementum Ventures in Menlo Park, Geekdom Fund in San Antonio and multiple angel investors. So far, the company has raised a total of […] The post Fashion Metric Lands $1 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
Scalable Startup
JANUARY 19, 2015
'This post has been one of my most popular on Quora. I originally wrote it in late 2012 when asked the question – What does it feel like to be a start-up mentor? (link to original post). In it I discuss the 3 full time jobs a real startup CEO has. If you read carefully I didn’t even actually answer the question properly, but I did touch on a few truths. .
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