Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 11, 2014
'There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to read it. I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 11, 2014
'Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness.
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Gust
JANUARY 11, 2014
'The page rank algorithm for Gust is a deeply held secret so that people won’t game the system (they even won’t tell ME how it works! , but I do know that it is intended to surface both “investable” companies and companies that are willing make available to serious investors all the information they need to make at least a first-pass decision.
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 11, 2014
'My firm has decided to start accepting payment via bitcoin. We had our first bitcoin transaction yesterday from a client that just so happens to be in the bitcoin space. The firm decided to go with Coinbase as our “international digital wallet” The firm made the decision to accept bitcoin since we represent tech savvy […].
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
JANUARY 11, 2014
'The page rank algorithm for Gust is a deeply held secret so that people won’t game the system (they even won’t tell ME how it works! , but I do know that it is intended to surface both “investable” companies and companies that are willing make available to serious investors all the information they need to make at least a first-pass decision.
Start Up Blog
JANUARY 11, 2014
'While success is a relative term, there is a simple way to know if we’ve built something we can regard as a huge macro success. And that is when others are claiming derivative success within the platform we have created. Examples could include: A top downloaded iPhone app. X million views for a Youtube video. A featured post about your project on Boing Boing.
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Small Business Force
JANUARY 11, 2014
The Holy Grail for entrepreneurs is no longer just to be "first mover," but to be first mover with a "disruptive technology!" It's hard enough to achieve the former; achieving the latter is like hitting the lottery. Yet you hear it every day in social media, in articles, in comments from the investment community. I don't care how smart you think Mark Zuckerberg is, do you really think he knew what Facebook would become.
Jeff Hilimire
JANUARY 11, 2014
'This is a blindpost suggested to me by Joe * from Fast Company entitled, 10 ways to lose your best employees. “Your best employees”, that’s an interesting concept by itself. But let’s assume for arguments sake that you have a pool of employees that are your “best” The high performers, self-starters, over-achievers, do-it-all-and-bake-you-a-cake-afterwards kinda people.
Mike Michalowicz
JANUARY 11, 2014
'Extreme is good. Extreme is awesome. Extreme is profitable. But when your extreme behavior is inauthentic , rooted in a desire to get attention by whatever means possible, extreme is bad – very, very, bad. As an entrepreneur, the last thing you want to be is ordinary. The best success stories feature innovators who played up their exceptional qualities, their quirky traits, their unique approach to business.
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