YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2015

'Mobile apps are a big deal these days, and with more and more traffic to companies’ web presences coming from smartphones and tablet devices, it is clear that the businesses who take their mobile websites and services seriously are the ones primed to gain the most success. Whatever the size of your business and whatever your industry, making it possible for your customers and marketing prospects to interact with you easily from their mobile devices is going to pay dividends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

'Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Yet if you are on the other side of the table, there are some other key questions that you need to ask, which will tell you more about the real success prospects for this business.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2015

'By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. As children, growing up we heard “no” a lot: no you can’t have ice cream for dinner, no you can’t go out and play until your chores/homework/etc. are done, and so on and so forth. As we grew older, the no’s we heard became more important, like no, you can’t use the car, as the roads are too dangerous.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

'Do you have an early-stage startup? Your business might need a safe place to come out of its shell. A business in its early stages can often use a leg up, whether in the form of wise words from a mentor or an introduction to a strategic partner. When you’re first starting out, you may not know who to connect with, or indeed how to do it. This is where incubators come in.

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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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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 8, 2015

'It has been a pretty wild ride since our little landing page for indie.vc hit the Internet on January 1st. The response has been rewarding, the encouragement has been appreciated and the caliber of companies who’ve expressed interest in being a part of our little experiment has been exceptional. That said, up until now we’ve been riding solo.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 8, 2015

'How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dorie Clark. I think there’s plenty of information out there about personal branding and self-promotion. The thing that’s often lacking or not said is that in order to really stand out you’ve got to have an idea or point of view that people want to be a part or at least spread.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2015

'By Jacqueline Whitmore, author of “ Poised for Success: Mastering the Four Qualities That Distinguish Outstanding Professionals ”. You may have all the awards and accolades and even know your product better than anyone in your industry. In today’s fast-paced and impersonal world, that’s not enough. Those who provide extraordinary service are the ones who are going to attract more customers, close more deals and get ahead of their competitors.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

'I’ve been very open about my struggles with depression over the years. A few weeks ago, I participated in a Q&A with Greg Avery at the Denver Business Journal titled Brad Feld Q&A: Bringing depression out of the shadows in startups. It was part of a more extensive series on Depression, entrepreneurs and startups. Since I’m still getting emails about it, I thought I’d republish the Q&A here.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2015

'by Brian Fielkow, author of “ Driving to Perfection: Achieving Business Excellence by Creating a Vibrant Culture “ “Keep your work life and business life separate.” “Don’t get involved in your employees’ personal matters.” “There is no place for friendships in the office.” This is all age-old advice, but it is out of sync with what really happens in our workplaces.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 8, 2015

'I just saw the above chart in a post about exponential organisations from Salim Ismail of the Singularity University. It seems to me there are two obvious explanations for the dramatic reduction in the time it takes for companies to achive $1bn valuations: The pace of change is increasing allowing new companies to develop and mature faster. We are in a bubble – at least for late stage companies.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

'Your pitch deck is probably the most important piece of sales collateral that you’ll make for your business. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling pizza slices or the blueprints to a nuclear reactor—you’re always going to need to explain your big idea to investors or clients. And what is your primary tool to elucidate that idea? Your pitch deck. Fortunately, you’re not out there alone.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 8, 2015

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Mobile StemCare won the Emerging Medical Technology Symposium’s fast pitch competition. The two-year-old startup, founded by Ramon Coronado, a University of Texas at San Antonio PhD student, provides stem cell care to pets. The company, based at Geekdom, uses adult stem cells, taken from the animal, to […] The post Mobile StemCare Wins Pitch Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2015

'Your pitch deck is probably the most important piece of sales collateral that you’ll make for your business. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling pizza slices or the blueprints to a nuclear reactor—you’re always going to need to explain your big idea to investors or clients. And what is your primary tool to elucidate that idea? Your pitch deck. Fortunately, you’re not out there alone.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 8, 2015

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Mark Cuban invested in a Canadian Internet company Mamma.com in 2004 that eventually got in trouble with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mamma.com’s founders then used emails from Cuban to try to convince the SEC he was a “bad guy.” Cuban got falsely accused of insider […] The post Mark Cuban’s New Passion is Open and Honest Communication Through Cyber Dust appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

'I regularly engage with entrepreneurs and executives to help them determine the right long-term strategic plans and goals to pursue, toward the end of maximizing their businesses’ valuations and their likelihoods of selling their companies down the road. This, as I have discussed before , is the highest ROI work that a business manager can do, yet most of us invest way too little time in it, and even more vexingly the results we get from the time we do spend are middling at best.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this package graphics project. Let us start the slow clap for deip. Check out more great work on deip ’s profile page. Nicely done, deip, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: DavidStHubbins. Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 8, 2015

'InnoTech, the largest annual technology conference in San Antonio, returns to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center on Thursday. The day-long conference begins with an 8 a.m. keynote address by Leah Lewis, managing director of Cisco Consulting Services, Americas Public Sector and former Chief Information Officer for Colorado. She will talk about the “Internet of […] The post InnoTech Returns to San Antonio and Techstars Cloud Hosts its Demo Day appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 8, 2015

'Have you ever seen the “Apollo 13” movie? If you have, you know what I’m talking about when I say that it really hit the fan in that movie! After they set out on a mission to the moon, an explosion changed everything, leaving the crew with no oxygen. But given the tools, power, and time frame, they were able to fix it fast, and the rest, as we know, is history!

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Rob Go

APRIL 8, 2015

'I’m excited to announce that we have promoted Jay Acunzo to Vice President of Platform at NextView. When we hired Jay to be Boston’s first VC head of platform, we were super excited about what we thought he could do for the NextView portfolio and broader tech community. That said, it was an amorphous role for everyone, and an exploration as a team about what Platform ought to mean for a high-conviction hands-on seed investor like ourselves.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 8, 2015

'Earlier this week I wrote about having (or not having) a co-founder / business partner. Once you’ve figured that piece out, the next step would be making sure you have solid advice from people not working in your company. Mentor(s). My belief is, no matter who you are, you can always use a few good mentors in your life. I’ve always benefited from such people and still do today.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 8, 2015

'Before you get out your pitchforks , I want to stress that this article does not represent Peep’s views. The easiest lies to believe are the ones we want to be true, and nothing speaks to us more than validation of the work we are doing or what we already believe. Due to this we become naturally defensive when someone challenges that world view. The “truth” is that there is no single state of truth and that all actions, disciplines, and behaviors can and should be evaluated for growth opportun

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