YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2013
'What are entrepreneurs and business builders made of? Who should you bring to your team at different stages of growth, and why? The answers, according to venture capitalists and business leaders Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington and Tsun-Yan Hsieh , are contained their book “ Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business “, or HSGL for short.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2013
'I’m sure you’ve all heard saying derived from Voltaire, “don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good” which in a way is encapsulated in the lean startup movement and the ideology of shipping a “minimum viable product” (MVP) and then learning from your customer base. Or to borrow a simple life lesson from Gretchen Rubin , “The 20-minute walk I take is better than the 3-mile run I never start.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2013
'In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. Other entrepreneurs never start their adventure, because they can’t face the prospect of even approaching friends and family for an investment kick-start.
deal architect
APRIL 17, 2013
'Interesting article in Dark Reading on the relatively powerful defense that comes from users who are trained to be smarter about security. The article goes into the growing sophistication of "spearphishing" through harvesting of social networks to present personalized data.
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
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2013
'by Bruce Piasecki, author of “ Doing More with Teams: The New Way to Winning ”. Today’s workplace demands high-functioning teams. In the global economy, collaboration and innovation are how work gets done, and the complexity of that work necessitates a dizzying array of skill sets. In this kind of environment, it’s not surprising that what I call “fierce individualists” are becoming all but obsolete.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 17, 2013
'The winners of the Feld KC FiberHouse competition , that I’ve done in conjunction with the Kauffman Foundation , is a company called Handprint ! Handprint is working on some amazing 3D printing and editing technology. We had plenty of applications for the competition – many of them very interesting – but Handprint really captured our imagination.
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The Next Web
APRIL 17, 2013
'Streaming live on The Next Web , Spartz Inc. CEO Emerson Spartz will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, April 18th. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Emerson will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. Emerson Spartz is one of the world’s leading experts on Internet virality and has been featured in major media including the Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 17, 2013
'So Shopkick is apparently profitable , driving hundreds of millions of new sales to merchants--remember them? The in-store retail check-in app? And Belly? T hey just had their millionth Point of Sale loyalty check-in. What do they have in common? They''re making real business progress towards bringing retailers together with customers. In the face of " software eating the mall " they''re helping make the retail shopping experience better for the hundreds of millions of humans who still walk aro
SiliconHills
APRIL 17, 2013
'Soloshot took home first place at the Innotech San Antonio Beta Summit on Wednesday afternoon. “The first motion picture camera was invented over 125 years ago,” said Scott Taylor, co-founder of Soloshot. “And since then there have been tremendous improvements in camera technology from color film to video cameras, to digital cameras, to cameras that [.
Up and Running
APRIL 17, 2013
'Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google. Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 17, 2013
'I love it when I come across data like this. The chart shows how far people will drive to get to a business in a bunch of different places in the US. It’s no great shock to find that in major cities people are less willing to travel – they have more options close by – but I bet there aren’t many mobile ad campaigns that factor this insight into account.
SiliconHills
APRIL 17, 2013
'The TechStars Cloud company, Good.co, wants people to be happy in their jobs. The San Francisco-based company has spent the past three months at Geekdom in the TechStars Cloud accelerator program. Its founders will officially pitch their company during TechStars Cloud Demo Day on Thursday at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre in downtown San Antonio. [.
VC Adventure
APRIL 17, 2013
'There was a great thread this week on the Foundry CEO email list about Net Promoter Score and how companies are using it to measure the satisfaction of their customers (specifically in the case of NPS, their propensity to recommend the product or service to others). NPS can be a useful tool when used properly (which was much of the discussion on the email thread – who to measure, how often, etc.).
SiliconHills
APRIL 17, 2013
'Instead of a one-size fits all Cloud, the Internet will have millions of specialized clouds. That’s the assertion of Graham Weston, chairman and co-founder of Rackspace, the world’s largest hybrid cloud provider. He gave the keynote speech Wednesday morning at Innotech San Antonio at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. “This is a cloud that [.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2013
'By Bruce Hodes, author of “ Front Line Heroes “. Climb Mount Rainier. Organize an expedition to the North Pole. Build a house for Haitian refugees living in New Orleans. Have a big adventure. It is not an option or a good idea. It is a must. Your physical, mental and spiritual well-being is critical to growing your business. The message here is that getting away — physically and mentally — is good for you and good for your business.
SiliconHills
APRIL 17, 2013
'Ziptask seeks to make managing outsourced projects simpler. The Anaheim, Calif.-based company launched its fully managed outsourcing platform on Wednesday. The company provides a layer on top of services like Freelancer.com, Elance, 99Designs and others that makes managing outsourced projects easier. Ziptask is a member of the TechStars Cloud Class of 2013.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 17, 2013
'I get asked lots of questions about tools, tactics and networks these days. People want to know what to join, what path to take, what new thing is going be hot. photo credit: fabiogis50. The answer I find myself giving is almost always the same. The way you make decisions about such things is to ask yourself this question - Is it good for my customer?
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 17, 2013
'In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.
Hunter Walker
APRIL 17, 2013
'Just got back from spending a day IN THE FUTURE! Ok, Kansas City where we met with local startups, big companies, Kauffman Foundation leaders and other folks thinking deeply about Google Fiber. As you can see from our speed test screenshot it’s for real. Since Google Fiber is just rolling out, it’s not like there’s a whole bunch of specialized web products built around having 1GB speed.
Jeff Hilimire
APRIL 17, 2013
'I haven’t wanted to blog since Boston happened. Felt trivial to post something about my move from iOS to Android or how the new Chromebook experience is going. I’ll get to those, but they hardly seem relevant right now. People react differently to tragedies like this. Where someone lives, how old they are, where they come from, their relationship to the tragedy…all of these factors slant how we react.
VC Adventure
APRIL 17, 2013
There was a great thread this week on the Foundry CEO email list about Net Promoter Score and how companies are using it to measure the satisfaction of their customers (specifically in the case of NPS, their propensity to recommend the product or service to others). NPS can be a useful tool when used properly (which was much of the discussion on the email thread – who to measure, how often, etc.).
Start Up Blog
APRIL 17, 2013
'Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. I like to think of it as the Yahoo answers for people who are interested in the interesting. Their weekly digest is something I’d recommend anyone to sign up for, it’s actually an email I like getting – rare indeed. There is some info about it here.
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