YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2014

'by Jean Dobey, founder and CEO of Hibe. In the social media age, candidates are being judged on much more than just their resume and references. With recruiters increasingly scrutinizing applicants’ online personas, those on the job hunt must learn to evolve their personal social media presence. We behind Hibe , a new personal publishing social platform, have compiled the following list of seven tips to help someone make their social networking appearance more attractive to potential employers

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

'Vivek Ravisankar is the co-founder of Y Combinator alumnus, HackerRank , a platform for coding contests used by programmers to hone their skills and a tool for companies to streamline their own recruiting process. The hiring process for technical talent is broken. Across the board, the number one problem for any company is hiring programmers. Whether it’s a series A-funded startup or a large multinational corporation, hiring technical talent takes up a lot of time, energy, and money – and does

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

'A few years ago I started calling the local tech ecosystem down here #LATech. I had an agenda. We graduate more engineers in our greater region than anywhere else in the US. We have top 25 engineering schools than anywhere else, too. I never wanted to be a derivative of Silicon Valley. I have the utmost respect for the tech produced by our northern colleagues and acknowledge it is the tech capital of the world and that won’t change.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

'Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt and EIR at Tradecraft. Visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. Twitter is confusing. Early on, skeptics questioned, “What problem does it solve?” Even its founders couldn’t quite describe it, let alone foresee what it would become. It wasn’t clear what [Twitter] was. They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn’t replace anything.

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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

Startup

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

'Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. In this episode, Jason talks to Edwin from MeetingKing. Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2014

'Juan Diego Calle is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of.CO. Take off your branded sunnies and pack up all your swag – SXSW Interactive has wrapped for another year. This was my fourth year at SXSW with my company.CO, and while some are doubting whether this geek spring break can sustain the Austin takeover for many years to come, 2014 bubbled with smart people, big ideas and tons of energy.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2014

'by George Elfond, CEO of Rallyware. For small and large brands with strong social media programs, it’s easy to gather likes and shares, bu it’s often a challenge to get your audiences, fans or followers to do specific, tangible actions in the real world. It’s a common problem but can be solved with just a few simple steps. Engaging with a brand or organization online can naturally lead to offline engagement – but only if the right microtasks, reporting systems, and incentives

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

'By Tomasz Tunguz , Partner at Redpoint Ventures. Has it become harder to raise money? is a question I hear all the time. On one hand, the total dollars invested by VCs is relatively flat at just under $30B per year, according to the NVCA. On the other hand, the stories of difficulty raising series As and Bs have become a steady drumbeat. To get some sense of the patterns, I analyzed 917 companies from seed through Series B over the past 14 years, using Crunchbase data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2014

'Guest post by Sarah Milstein , CEO of Lean Startup Productions The 2013 Lean Startup Conference was a hit on several levels, with many people telling us it was the most valuable business conference they’d ever attended. To extend what we learned and help more people build and scale successful companies, we’re testing out two brand new events this spring: * Office Optional , a one-day conference on April 22 in San Francisco.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2014

'My partner Ryan McIntyre says that any company doing business on the web should be practicing some form of DevOps. One of the biggest trends in tech today is DevOps, which is closely tied into Agile, Cloud, PaaS, and SDN. If you remember Gene Kim’s guest post on the importance of DevOp post , or recognize some of the investments we’ve made in our Glue and Protocol themes that are focused on DevOps, such as JumpCloud and VictorOps , this will be a familiar topic.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 11, 2014

'I’m a big believer in the power of meditation and mindfulness to bring about a big improvement in people’s lives. It’s made a big difference to mine over the last twelve months and I’m meeting an increasing number of people who have experienced something similar. I think there’s a very good chance that much as fifty years ago nobody much exercised and now most people do in fifty years time most people will be meditating.

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David Cohen

MARCH 11, 2014

'I received this question today by email and I thought I would share my answer. Here is my question. We are building a startup and are having to make a technology stack shift for reasons I can explain later. The startup is currently funded but we have a short time to put this together to receive more funding. Based on the skill set of the developers we have, we have chosen to go with.Net MVC 5 for a service layer, Mongo for a db, and knockout on the client side for an MVVM.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 11, 2014

'Korea brought its first group of startups to SXSW in 2014, the Geeks from Gangnam, sponsored by the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs and the Korea Creative Content Agency. Offering products as creative as a Korean travel news app and an origami app called “Let’s Fold,” that lets people do origami virtually and competitively, the […] The post Startups Gangnam Style appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 11, 2014

'It’s that pivotal moment. The client is just a few perfect words away from the sale. What do you say? What will make sure they write out that check? How about saying, “You are free to proceed anyway you like.”. Sounds absurd, doesn’t it. It doesn’t sound like the ultimate sales close. It sounds more like the ultimate sales un-close. But that is why it works so well.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2014

'In today’s review, Tommy is assessing the visual complexity of a cabinet hardware eCommerce site to determine if the visual elements may be getting in the way of conversions. When I judge “visual complexity”, I’m primarily looking at the following factors: The amount of visual elements presented on the page at any given time.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2014

'When you’re working to get your business off the ground, it can feel like a waste of time and energy to continue clocking in at your day job. Believe me, I know. It took me two and a half years to grow my freelance writing and editing business to the point where I could do it full-time, and until that point, I continued to report for work at the paralegal job I was less than thrilled with.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 11, 2014

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News It was a lot like that old Sesame Street song “One of these things is not like the others,” when Kevin Johns, director of economic development for the City of Austin joined Londoners Marcus Fairs, editor-in-chief of Dezeen, Charles Armstrong, founder of co-working space The Tampery and […] The post Can a City Like Austin or Hackney Stay Cool Forever?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2014

'When you’re working to get your business off the ground, it can feel like a waste of time and energy to continue clocking in at your day job. Believe me, I know. It took me two and a half years to grow my freelance writing and editing business to the point where I could do it full-time, and until that point, I continued to report for work at the paralegal job I was less than thrilled with.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 11, 2014

'This is a fun one. I saw the title for this article, 10 questions to ask your potential employer , and had to write a blindpost on it. What an interesting exercise to go through. I’d love to hear examples of how people flipped the script in their interview and started interviewing the company. I can’t say anyone has ever really done that to me. 10 questions to ask your potential employer. 1.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MARCH 11, 2014

'read more > Equity / Debt / Venture Funding'

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Small Business Force

MARCH 11, 2014

Most entrepreneurs talk a great game regarding customer service. Few put that talk into practice. Virtually every small company owner speaks of how customer-centric they are. Yet, many of these same companies create products without ever once getting customer input or feedback. Others talk about how responsive they are to customer needs and how much their customers love them.

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