Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 9, 2014
'If you think you are the perfect fit for the entrepreneur lifestyle, but you’re not yet sure if you’re ready to start your own, then I recommend that you take a job with an existing startup first to validate the culture realities against your dream. Without risking all your life savings, you may find that corporate desk you have as an alternative is a lot more satisfying.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 9, 2014
'Starting a business can be difficult enough without having to keep a watchful eye on everyone within your company. When your company strays from the typical small office environment, this can be even more difficult, particularly if your staff telecommutes. Instead of stressing over who is doing what and when, get a grasp on some of the great software that is available for constant communication: Asana.
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The Next Web
JULY 9, 2014
'Gregory Ciotti is the marketing director at Help Scout.This post originally appeared on the Help Scout blog. Read to lead, right? There are few better “hacks” in life than reading—distilled knowledge that often took years to assemble can be consumed in just a few hours. The problem is that many business books are just plain awful; bloated to meet book length quotas, overly self-promotional, or a regurgitation of common sense, most serve little purpose.
Rembrandt Communications
JULY 9, 2014
'Woo Hoo! Summer is here, and it’s time for fun in the sun… unless you are bombarded with work and are stuck behind your desk! If this is the case, it’s time to review your workload and start outsourcing. Here are a few questions to answer and help you get started: What are you spending […]. The post Tips to Stop Wasting Time at Work This Summer appeared first on SEO Content Strategy and BtoB Public Relations.
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
The Next Web
JULY 9, 2014
'Evan Charles is the co-founder of Launch Academy. Our technology and innovation economy isn’t doing a great job of recruiting, hiring or promoting women. And by ‘not doing a great a job,’ I mean it’s failing. By most estimates, fewer than 30 percent of all tech and computer jobs are held by women as of 2014. The further up the management and leadership ladder you look, the more it resembles an old boys’ club.
Gust
JULY 9, 2014
'“would a great idea be promoted without any marketing?” By whom? According to that theory, Apple should cut out its entire multi-billion dollar sales and marketing and retail store divisions, because all of its great products will sell themselves. It’s wonderful that you can (now and forever) program, maintain, market and support your product yourself.
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Hunter Walker
JULY 9, 2014
'People overvalue knowing. The Internet turns knowledge into a commodity. Most - market size, a Stack Overflow question, detailed Wikipedia page – are readily available via a Google search or two. At Homebrew we have the chance to meet a good number of teams each month. In the 1000+ we’ve discussed since 2013, I can’t really think of many that I wouldn’t consider to be knowledgable.
Mike Michalowicz
JULY 9, 2014
'So you are one of those hard-core, hard-driving, workaholic entrepreneurs, right? You’re a winner! I get it. And I applaud you, or at least I would have applauded you years ago. In fact, I would have done the “I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy” hand wave dance for you back then. I might even have tried to kiss your feet. But today? None of that. Today, in fact, I feel sorry for you.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 9, 2014
'Andrew Chen has a great post up detailing the ways to scale user growth. He lists the four (paid, viral, SEO, sales – for B2B) and then ‘other’ in which he says: There’s the odd partnership, like Yahoo/Google, that can help make or break a startup – but these are rare and situational. But sometimes it happens! Partnerships are seductive because they promise big returns based on little work, once the deal is closed.
Up and Running
JULY 9, 2014
'Three months ago I posted Securing Angel Investors in this space. I was responding then to a request that I explain the process step-by-step. But I’m afraid I skipped the first and, for some the most important, step. Before you begin, it’s vital to determine whether you actually have a solid investment opportunity, regardless of how good your plan sounds to you.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 9, 2014
The best technologies and companies don’t commoditize existing markets. They create entirely new markets. Take Uber. Ostensibly competitive with taxis or sedan services, the reality is that Uber competes with non-use. Or, as Uber CEO technology Travis Kalanick phrases it , “It’s not about the market that exists, it’s about the market we’re creating.” Uber’s New Market: People Like Me.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
JULY 9, 2014
'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Phil Gibbs. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Founder of eSpaces Talks about Next Projects appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
ithacaVC
JULY 9, 2014
'I am delighted to let you know that the website and registration for the Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit NYC is live. The Summit is November 7, 2014 at the NYTimes Center in midtown. We have a fabulous line up of speakers. Would love to see you there in November! Summit features TED-style presentations with short moderated Q&A. We will have 10 speakers in all (9 confirmed to date).
YoungUpstarts
JULY 9, 2014
'by Nikole Haiar, Director Marketing, Retail & Partner Services at Hostway Corporation. You’ve done all of the heavy lifting, and you’re nearly ready to launch (or relaunch) your website. But before you pass “Go,” it’s important to make sure you haven’t overlooked anything that will embarrass your company, damage your SEO or cost you money to fix.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 9, 2014
'Last night we had the Techstars Boulder Mentor Kickoff dinner. It’s an annual tradition at Techstars – we have a dinner for all mentors before we start the program. It’s a meet and greet for all mentors in the upcoming program, a great way to reconnect with friends, an intro to the companies in the upcoming program, and a reminder (and celebration) of the role of a mentor in Techstars.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 9, 2014
'Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim, may be consistently ranked among the richest men in the world – he’s listed by Forbes as the world’s wealthiest individual from 2010 to 2013 – but unlike his similarly wealthy peers not much is known about him. Slim, taught by his business father Julián, began building his business empire from the tender age of 12 when he first bought shares in a Mexican bank, and since that first investment managed to amass a massive fortune to the tune
Growthink Blog
JULY 9, 2014
'Last week, I shared three themes percolating in the dynamic Internet of Things (IoT) movement: 1) Wearable Devices driving health and wellness breakthroughs 2) Embedded Sensors “incrementally” improving industrial productivity, and 3) The converging trends of miniaturization, affordability, and “de-wireization” driving energy efficiencies and cost reductions the world over.
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