Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'You’re going to need a bigger bank. Saving money as a small business can be tricky- if you’re a startup especially, money might be tight already. You probably don’t have a big portion of your income that you can tuck away as savings, and you welcome opportunities to make your operations more cost-effective. We’ve compiled a list of money saving tips: ways for you to trim overhead here, and increase efficiency there, until you’re on your way to better financial heal

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Marc Andreessen kicked off another great debate on Twitter last night , one that I’ve been talking about incessantly in private circles for the past 2-3 years – what actually IS the definition of a seed vs. A-round. This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. My view: “Spending any time or energy trying to game the ‘definition’ of your round of fund raising is a total waste.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Ghostwriters are a strong force in the writing world. They are responsible for a majority of the content on websites. These writers are not given credit for their work. Ghostwriting is when writers provide content for pay, but the website owner owns the content and can do with it what they please. When an article is submitted to a client and payment is made, the content no longer belongs to the writer.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'John Collins is the managing editor of InsideIntercom, the blog from Intercom focused on design, customer experience, start-ups, and the business of software. He was previously an editor and reporter for the Irish Times. This article was originally published on InsideIntercom. One of my goals since joining Intercom has been to encourage more of the talented engineers, designers, product managers and business execs that work here to write for this blog.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'by Ezra Gottheil, principal analyst at Technology Business Research. HP announced today its plans to break its company in half over the course of the next year. The two halves — Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. — will be separate business with separate financials and stock, but both overseen by Meg Whitman as CEO and Chairman, respectively. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise comprises the Enterprise Group, Enterprise Services, Software and Financial Services.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Mathilde Collin is the CEO and co-founder of Frontapp. This post originally appeared on the Frontapp blog. Four months ago now, we got accepted to the Y-Combinator for our shared inbox solution. We wrote about our first month inside the famous Californian structure. But recently, we’ve been asked to write what happened after that. And let’s face it, a lot of things happened!

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'When you have a site called Hacker News that’s a destination for developers, startups and anyone interested in the startup world, it only only makes sense to have an API. Today the Y Combinator run Hacker News site announced its own API so developers will no longer have to scrape the site for information. The API is read-only for now, but the YC-backed site could enable to private per-user info using OAuth in the future.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Rick Perreault of my portfolio company Unbounce recently called my attention to an interesting comparison between two SaaS models: Hubspot & Moz – A Tale of Two (Very Different) SaaS Business Models. At first glance, Hubspot and Moz are very similar companies: both are popular marketing platforms, use web-based subscription models, and primarily target the SMB market (although larger brands use both).

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Eric Friedman

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Every quarter or so I help co-organize an event called Building the Sales Machine focussed on getting together the people in NYC who are building great sales organizations. Whether its a small startup or a scaling sales enterprise, we cover a wide variety of topics. I had the pleasure this time around of hosting Steli Efti who is the CEO of Close.IO.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Chris Moody, the former CEO of Gnip (now VP Data Strategy at Twitter) is doing a fun fundraising drive for the National Center for Women & Information Technology. For at least $20, you can take a picture with him. 100% of the money goes to NCWIT. He’ll then blog it. Yeah – I know it’s a little silly, but that’s Chris. Delightfully silly and huggable Chris.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'CityAM reported yesterday that fundraising in London’s tech sector is currently up over 30 per cent on last year’s $719.3m total, and there’s still three months still left in 2014. The figures are from London and Partners, the Mayor’s promotions agency. Mayor Boris Johnson said: These figures show, without any question, that this is an incredible period for technology firms in our city.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'For lenders, it’s not this simple. Despite the recent turmoil in the bitcoin market, this cryptocurrency remains, at the moment, a viable medium of exchange that may be on the rise again. For example, the satellite TV company Dish Network announced in late May that by September, it will become the largest company yet to accept payment in bitcoin through the payment processor Coinbase.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'My mother turns 80 this year. Throughout the years, I have learned many lessons from her. Here are some of my favorites that she shared: A gentlemen covers his mouth when he yawns, even in the dark. Teachers point at the door, you open it. If you don’t want anyone to know, don’t do it. Early is on time and on time is late. You’re a handsome young man.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Rick Perreault of my portfolio company Unbounce recently called my attention to an interesting comparison between two SaaS models: Hubspot & Moz – A Tale of Two (Very Different) SaaS Business Models. At first glance, Hubspot and Moz are very similar companies: both are popular marketing platforms, use web-based subscription models, and primarily target the SMB market (although larger brands use both).

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'SXSW Eco announced five winners of its third Startup Showcase during a ceremony at the Austin Convention Center Tuesday night. Open Water Foundation of Fort Collins, CO., won for Social Impact for a non-profit and Drinkwell of Boston won for Social Impact for profit. PAX Pure of San Rafeal, Calif. and Picasolar of Fayetteville, AR, […] The post Winners of the SXSW Eco Startup Showcase Announced appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'This guest post by John Petersen, originally appeared on Firehawk Creative. I often tell people before we begin working with them that we do the easy part. Sure, writing code and building a functioning app is a skill that most people don’t possess, but it’s what comes after development that almost everyone underestimates. The ability to attract your core group of power users is going to define your early success.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Rockets launching are a symbol of Texas’ rich history in the space industry. Although innovation has become a buzzword in many circles it still rings true in Texas and the neighboring states of Louisiana and Mississippi, which all have NASA facilities. Space exploration is at that heart […] The post Silicon Hills News’ Latest Magazine on Tech Startups Taking Off appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Today we are excited to announce that we are co-leading the first venture round in Blockchain , the leading Bitcoin wallet; a $30M Series A. We have been studying and investing in the Bitcoin space for a couple of years now and have posted actively about our thoughts on Bitcoin since then. We first met the Blockchain team at the inaugural Bitcoin Foundation conference in San Jose in early 2013 where we were one of very few VCs in attendance.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2014

'Payments are tricky. Square, PayPal and others are still working on getting you to pay with your phone. Google Wallet and Apple Pay have and will try to get NFC to finally take off. Meanwhile, Chip and PIN cards are coming to the United States. Yeah, payments are more than tricky, it’s a mess. The new Plastc payment card would potentially takes all these payment systems and shove them into a single credit card-sized entity that supports magnetic card readers, Chip and PIN, NFC, RFID and QR code

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