Up and Running
JULY 7, 2014
'If your dream is to open a hair salon, now might be one of the best times to do it. According to a report from the Professional Beauty Association, the salon industry is growing. Since the recession, the industry has rebounded and analysts expect continued growth for at least the next five years. While the timing might be right, you’ll still face a lot of competition.
deal architect
JULY 7, 2014
'Filing quarterly corporate taxes I came across Deal Architect’s incorporation papers. Happy (belated) birthday!
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 7, 2014
'The Hype Cycle was a concept put forward by Gartner, Inc. back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 7, 2014
'by Mark Paraji , color manager at Widen Enterprises. Did you know that color is all in your head? It’s hard for people to grasp that color exists in our minds, a consequence of how we physically process light energy with our eyes. But just because color is ephemeral doesn’t mean it’s inconsequential – ideas are intangible too, and they change the world every day.
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
The Next Web
JULY 7, 2014
'Len Kendall is the founder of CentUp. Prior to starting a company, he worked in PR where he helped put out fires and manage digital communications. “Software may be eating the world,” but there’s still something extremely rewarding about making a physical product. Like most of the people reading this blog post, I’ve spent most of my career on digital endeavors, from websites to words and PowerPoint decks.
Mike Michalowicz
JULY 7, 2014
'As an entrepreneur, your first response to that question will likely be a resounding, “No, I can’t be replaced!” After all, we have been programmed to believe that being replaceable is a bad thing, like maybe what you do isn’t sufficiently important or involved. But I’m here to tell you that not being replaceable is a problem. A big problem! Hear me out on this, because I know it is probably unsettling, at first, to think that you should want to be replaceable.
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Start Up Blog
JULY 7, 2014
'At Tomcar we seriously love our customers. It’s a highly personal interaction at this early stage in the business, so we both take it personally, and make it personal. We care about how our cars perform for them, and how they make their working lives better. We’ve recently been documenting the delivery of our vehicles and making some short films about it.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JULY 7, 2014
'Nicola Lees started a blog, TVMole.com, about a very unique subject – she helps people who have an idea for a TV program learn how to pitch their concept to the people who can make it happen. Nicola makes a living from her blog thanks to all the opportunities that. The post Nicola Lees: Founder Of TVMole A “How To Pitch Your TV Program Idea” Blog Explains How She Makes A Full Time Income In Such A Unique Topic appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
Start Up Blog
JULY 7, 2014
'In a very short period of time, opinions of anything can change. It wasn’t so long ago that these statements were made about the internet as a commercial platform: It’s for nerds. “Fine, you nerds can do what you want but normal people are never going to use this thing.” It’s completely decentralized, which means you can’t trust it.
SiliconHills
JULY 7, 2014
'Thank you to Laura Kilcrease, former Entrepreneur in Residence at the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin, for interviewing me, Laura Lorek, founder of Silicon Hills News at South by Southwest Interactive last March. The post Silicon Hills News Reports on the Tech Innovation Happening in Central Texas appeared first on SiliconHills.
Hunter Walker
JULY 7, 2014
'“I’m one of those people who thought Airbnb would never work.” That’s the provocative opening line in David Brooks’ recent op-ed about trust and the emerging peer economy. Brooks finishes by theorizing “we’re probably entering a world in which some sectors, like energy, retain top-down regulatory regimes. Other sectors, like bake sales, are unregulated.
SiliconHills
JULY 7, 2014
'By LESLIE ANNE JONES Reporter with Silicon Hills News Thousands formed a line that snaked through the convention center foyer Friday morning, awaiting the beginning of the three-day RTX conference that included game designers, purveyors of Internet-culture miscellany, and most importantly appearances by the well-loved Rooster Teeth crew. RTX started in 2011 as a fan […] The post RTX 2014 30,000 Fans Descend on Austin Convention Center appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
JULY 7, 2014
'See you at The Dogwood on Thursday, July 10th from 6pm - 8pm. Sponsored by The Bowie and Betts Recruiting.
Up and Running
JULY 7, 2014
'Let’s be honest, there’s no ‘one size fits all’ answer to this question. What someone going into an aircraft business needs to know is entirely different to what someone starting a restaurant needs to know. That said, we’re talking about more than industry-specific knowledge. We’re talking about lessons that hundreds of entrepreneurs had to learn before achieving success.
Rob Go
JULY 7, 2014
'Today, we’re excited to officially launch our new blog, The View From Seed , providing insights and inspiration for seed-stage startups, founders, and entrepreneurs, from idea phase through raising Series A. You can visit the blog or subscribe in two seconds with your email address. And be sure to follow us on Twitter to keep up to date. You can also check out the startup resources page on the blog, which we’ll continue to add to over time.
Venture Chronicles
JULY 7, 2014
'Wow, I think this is the longest stretch of non-writing that I have done in my history of blogging. Nothing in particular drove my absence, just been busy with work and family. A lot of my time the last few months has been spent on a website redesign project, which I took over last December. This was a pretty complex undertaking, combining new messaging, visuals, information map, and a new content management system (Adobe CQ).
YoungUpstarts
JULY 7, 2014
'By Genecia Luo, founder of Queenz*8 Business Group. You know the quote that goes, “Whether you can do it or you can’t, you are right”? The same can be said about entrepreneurship. It is as complicated as you think it is or, it can be as easy as ABC. I’ve learnt through my years in business that getting into the right frame of mind is the first step you have to take.
VC Cafe
JULY 7, 2014
'Israelis Value Online Media 1.5x More Than Offline Media- Highest in Global Survey. Digital media is a recent phenomenon in Israel. The first television broadcast, a military parade, did not occur until 1968. In the mobile era, the iPhone arrived in 2009 (two years after the US), followed by the iPad in 2011 and the iTunes store in 2012. Today, 60 percent of Israeli adults carry a Smartphone, spurring 2x growth in mobile media consumption just in the last two years, to 93 minutes per day (Shilu
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 7, 2014
'Growth Hacking is Just Effective Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The term “growth hacking” is all the rage these days, and in my mind it’s a bit of a silly concept. (There are even several books dedicated to the topic ). photo credit: fabola via photopin cc. It’s not that I think focus on growth is silly and I certainly don’t think using creativity and ingenuity to gain attention and build a user base is silly either –
The Equity Kicker
JULY 7, 2014
'I’ve been writing a lot recently about how fast new markets are created and old ones are dying. Here’s some more. I just finished reading Kids don’t care about cars which is an ode to how fast things are changing. It opens by making the point that baby-boomers choose cars for how they make other people think about us rather than their functionality: You mean I need a bigger engine and a swoopy style to get laid?
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