View from Seed
JANUARY 13, 2015
'“As a seed-stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction?” I posed this question on Twitter in December and got a bunch of different opinions. It’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently. Prices in the startup world are relatively high. And as a firm, we generally believe that there isn’t a “sub-prime” market for VC.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 13, 2015
'The Art of the Minimal Viable Product. 2 Minutes to Find Out Why. If you can’t see the video click here Filed under: 2 Minute Lessons , Customer Development.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 13, 2015
'Early in a company’s life, you don’t know anything. Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% and 5%” or “cost to acquire a customer between $50 and $500″ or “average monthly revenue per customer between $20 and $200.” Estimating with these extremely wide ranges can be surprisingly useful.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 13, 2015
'As business networks become more sophisticated and require high bandwidth connectivity, many companies are choosing dark fibre to help them meet their dynamic needs. Dark fibre refers to fibre optic cables that have already been laid out but they are not in use. If your company is considering this solution there are 5 things you need to know about dark fibre: Dark Fibre is Most Suitable for Growing Companies.
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
deal architect
JANUARY 13, 2015
'Nearly half the book is customer case studies. They profile 12 strategies across four groupings of customers A) Un-adopters B) Diversifiers C) Pragmatists and D) Committed. They include perspectives from C-Level executives of leading enterprises including: ABS-CBN AstraZeneca Big Hearts.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 13, 2015
'by Alicia Lawrence, WebpageFX . The days of searching for serious investors willing to contribute large amounts of money to your start-up may be drawing to an end. Lately, especially in 2014, startups have seen great success with turning to the masses — to individuals willing to donate small amounts of money on a massive scale. Known as crowdfunding, the phenomenon is likely to grow in the coming years.
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YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 13, 2015
'The world’s leading tech companies don’t only seem to be spearheading technological innovation, but also tend to be the ones who are leading when it comes to providing staff welfare. After all, haven’t we all heard about how well Google feeds their employees, or that employees in Facebook don’t exactly need to call in sickies?
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 13, 2015
'If you are in Boulder and you haven’t heard of Linda Rottenberg, you are in for a treat. She’s the founder / CEO of Endeavor and recently joined the board of Zayo. Dan Caruso, the CEO / co-founder of Zayo is hosting an event tonight at eTown Hall interviewing Linda about her new book Crazy is a Compliment. I read the book last night. After a long Monday, I realized I had three physical copies on my desk at home (that had come from different friends) and I still hadn’t read it
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 13, 2015
'I just watched a great Ted talk by Julian Treasure on how to speak so people will listen. It’s embedded below so you can watch the whole thing (highly recommended) but the takeaways so you can remember easily after watching are seven ‘deadly sins’ to avoid: gossip. judging. negativity. complaining. excuses. lying. dogmatism. and for things to do more of: be honest (clear and straight). be authentic. have integrity (be your word). have love for the listener (genuinely wish them
SiliconHills
JANUARY 13, 2015
'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News The Techstars Cloud program for 2015 kicked off Monday at Geekdom in San Antonio with a pizza and beer reception in the evening. The program features ten companies including one from San Antonio, Nebulab, a cloud-based storage, organization and collaboration web app for researchers and one from […] The post The New Techstars Cloud Class Kicked Off in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 13, 2015
'Every day we meet amazing founders sharing their ideas for how the future will evolve. In fact, we see about 150 new companies each month. Where do these teams originate from? Roughly 65% are referred to us by other founders or people we know. 25% are introductions via investors – either angels or VCs. The remaining 10% are a combination of cold inbound/outbound sourcing, often based upon a specific area we’re investigating.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 13, 2015
'5 Reasons to Hire a Marketing Consultant Even Though You Don’t Want To written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: inneedofhelp08 via photopin cc. I’m a marketing consultant, so the title of this post may not appear too shocking, but let me start off with why not to hire a consultant. Consultants aren’t magicians.
Mike Michalowicz
JANUARY 13, 2015
'A 2014 The Hartford Study finds that 77 percent of small business owners are feeling successful. Entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz explains what the secrets to that success are and the key lessons learned from the last recession. Watch The 2 Minute Video Here. The post The HartfordVoice: Post Recession: What Small Business Owners Learned appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.
Early Growth Financial Services
JANUARY 13, 2015
'This guest post by David Cheng was originally published on ZenPayroll. One of the biggest challenges business owners face in a growing economy is retaining their top employees. Numerous studies show that hiring a new employee to replace an existing worker costs about 20% of an employee’s annual salary. This is why so many companies, in particular those in Silicon Valley, highlight the value of incentives as a way to hang on to their best employees.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 13, 2015
'One of the great truths that people ignore when it comes to optimization is that you can fail with any tool. It’s only when you are trying to succeed that differences in tools really matter. Once you’ve established the right mindset for a successful program you are still going to need a number of tools to enable you to test and to get value from your actions.
David Teten
JANUARY 13, 2015
'How do you raise capital for your company when you’re not in the traditional social circles of the money people? In particular, the VC industry is 76% white male and overwhelmingly straight; what if you do not fit into that bucket? I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 13, 2015
'One of my favorite business books of all time is Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore. It is a classic. My boss and mentor from Open Market, Gary Eichhorn , made the entire management team read it in the 1990s to hammer home its important lessons as we stumbled through the chasm on our way to scaling from zero to nearly $100 million in revenue in a few years.
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