Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Pro

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Brandanew

JULY 13, 2015

Altimeter group in 2012 came up with an interesting study and a framework for accessing Content Marketing performance and success. The framework can help analyze your current positioning , what you can do better and help understand who does content marketing well. Here are some details on the framework, that you can use as a ready-hand reference for your own brands.

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Rembrandt Communications

JULY 13, 2015

Are you guilty of these 5 copywriting sins? Over the last twenty-plus years as an SEO copywriter and BtoB content strategist, I’ve seen good writing and terrible writing. I’ve seen excellent job-applications and pathetic attempts at getting hired. I’ve seen new copywriters miss opportunities and experienced writers ruin working relationships. And after spending hours […].

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Version One Ventures

JULY 13, 2015

A few months ago, I wrote about the questions that we typically ask when evaluating a marketplace opportunity. Now, inspired by our friend Christoph Janz at Point Nine Capital who created a KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS , we have put together a KPI template for marketplaces. We recognize that every marketplace is different, but each one is also similar at its core: each marketplace has a seller (supply) and buyer (demand) side, and acts as an intermediary to bring them together.

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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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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2015

No one talks about it, but one of the worst, most damaging uses of your time as an entrepreneur is dedicating yourself to a good startup idea. Wait, what? A good startup idea is a waste of time? A good startup idea will show you just enough promise and progress to keep you working on it, potentially for years. But in that time, you’ll see your cohort of entrepreneurs blow past you, because they’re working on a great startup idea.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2015

A certain amount of inequality is essential to the functioning of the capitalist system under which we all toil, and which is, for now at least, the best system available for organising the world’s resources. However, when there’s too much inequality a strong sense of unfairness kicks in and markets stop functioning well, as those who feel a strong sense of injustice vote for politicians with radical policies or turn to violence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2015

Startups and small businesses face a steep learning curve when it comes to online marketing. The options are rich, the ROI can be cruel, the capacity investment can be significant, and the results can often be questionable. At crowdSPRING we have experimented with virtually every online marketing strategy and tactic available, often with negative results.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 13, 2015

Here’s our weekly link roundup of small business buzz, musings and muchness. A curation of the best small business talk around the web.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2015

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. You can measure the size of a man by the size of his problems. Take your foot off the parking break. .

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YFS Magazine

JULY 13, 2015

If you find these fatal flaws in your financial statements before you launch, don’t launch! Instead, fix your plan.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2015

Sometimes starting a business isn’t something the owner ever dreams of doing. It’s a happy accident so to speak. Perhaps it’s out of necessity or a willingness to share a lesson with people all over the country. Other times starting a business is in your blood. Family members had businesses before you and once you got the taste of it, you just couldn’t do anything else in life.

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SiliconHills

JULY 13, 2015

Google announced Monday it is now taking sign ups for its high-speed Fiber Internet service throughout Southeast Austin. Now residents and businesses in East Riverside, East Oltorf, Montopolis and Dove Springs neighborhoods can sign up for Google Fiber. Google Fiber offers Gigabit Internet service that is up to 100 times faster than today’s average connection […] The post Google Fiber Expands Signups to East Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

JULY 13, 2015

Being a 30-something, middle-class American citizen, it almost goes without saying that I’ve worked in numerous capacities. Examples of jobs I held down include a casual dine-in restaurant, a convenience store, and more recently, a collaborative office space. Every single one of these locations had their own unique layout and culture, some I preferred over others for various reasons.

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SiliconHills

JULY 13, 2015

CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity software as a service platform, Monday announced it has raised $100 million in Series C financing. Google Capital led the financing which also included participation from Rackspace, a CrowdStrike customer, and existing investors Accel and Warburg Pincus. To date, the Irvine, Calif.-based company has raised a total of $156 million.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 13, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. Christine Gray and Jared Hecht join us for Episode 36 of the Profit First Podcast. Christine shares her structure for running a successful business. Jared shares with us how Fundera works! SPOILER ALERT! We talk about the Jurassic World movie. Our Guests. Christine Gray (left). When Christine started Balance Your Books in 1997, her vision was to create an accounting advisory firm that focused on the growth of entrepreneurs, their business, and their financial he

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 13, 2015

On the wrong side of history yet again, Hillary Clinton has decided that her road to the White House is tearing down one of the great economic movements of the last decade, the sharing economy. . In an economic speech she is planned to give, Clinton will highlight the stagnating wages of the middle class and points to causes that include Uber and Airbnb.

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Start Up Blog

JULY 13, 2015

If there is one simple example of how what was a good decision yesterday can kill a business today, then it is this. The retirement age and the old age pension: “When the Government instituted an old age pension for retirement back in 1908 , the pension kicked in at age 65. However, the life expectancy was under the age of 60.” At the time, it was a great decision for the Government.

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