Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. After all, the caliber of talent makes or breaks a company, no matter its size. But recruiting is hard, particularly in these bubbly times when top tech talent can pretty much go wherever they choose. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Marketing is essential to business success, making your marketing plan an integral part of the planning process. Congratulations! You are among a select number of small business owners and executives who recognize the need for a marketing plan. As a marketing strategist, I recommend a marketing plan to all of my clients. More often than not, business owners feel they can just “wing it.” That, my friend, is a recipe for disaster.
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Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. After all, the caliber of talent makes or breaks a company, no matter its size. But recruiting is hard, particularly in these bubbly times when top tech talent can pretty much go wherever they choose. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting.
deal architect
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Steve Miranda led an excellent session this morning on Oracle’s growing hortizontal apps empire. Set on a stage with a sweeping view of downtown San Francisco and the Bay it reflected the expansive portfolio it has built and acquired. The.
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 Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Most of the entrepreneurs I have met are smart, but many are not always wise. That means they may show great insights into a new technology that has marginal business value, their passion may motivate team members more than customers, or they may allow themselves to be pulled over the ethical line in their success drive. Wise leaders are authentic, timeless, and enduring.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'by Peter LaMotte, Senior Vice President at LEVICK. Social media has become an inextricable part of everyone’s life — both personally and professionally. The good news is, for most small businesses, sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp can dramatically increase the size of their target audience almost overnight. These sites also serve as an invaluable venue for collecting customer feedback – both good and bad – and present a great opportunity to build brand awareness and brand loyalt
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Gust
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'No, but there are several sets of courses on angel investing that can provide a good base from which to start. The most comprehensive and best known is the Power of Angel Investing seminar series developed by the Angel Resource Institute (formerly known as the Angel Capital Education Foundation, and prior to that part of the Angel Capital Association).
The Next Web
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Corey Eastman is a Director at Climax Media, a digital technology agency who specialize in building customized platforms for enterprise clients. This post originally appeared on the Climax Media blog. Every large company is investing in innovation. JP Morgan Chase is starting up an innovation lab. Enterprises such as AT&T, Staples, Nordstrom, Verizon, Vodafone, Kraft, Ford and McLaren all have their own labs divisions to contribute to innovation.
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Let''s get one thing straight. The world and every individual in it is a biased place. We all have our inherent biases and what I am not arguing here is that the venture capital world is a fair playing field for anyone. I repeat: I AM NOT ARGUING THAT VENTURE CAPITAL IS FAIR TO ANYONE. HOWEVER. It weakens your argument, whatever it is, when you use faulty logic.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Late one night, Nick Rellas and Justin Robinson, two Boston College graduates, pondered how to disrupt regulated industries. The only problem, they had an empty frig. And they were thirsty. So they asked “Why can’t we get alcohol delivered?” And they spent the next year working with […] The post Drizly Launches in Austin to Deliver Liquor to Your Doorstep appeared first on SiliconHills.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Lindsay Nelson, CEO of Theme Dragon, Inc. It’s a story that many of us know all too well: a promising young college graduate sets out into the world- and finds that things are not as they once were. Debt looms, job prospects are lack luster at best, and before you can say “millenial”, you’re back in your parent’s house, waiting tables, wondering what’s next. “My class graduated into the worst recession since the great depression after spending our lives
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'We have been interviewing lots of solo founders recently as we look to deepen our understanding of one of our key customer segments. ‘What do they want?’ and ‘Where do they hang out?’ are our two main questions. I will report on what comes out of this customer development work in due course, but today I want to share an observation about one of the things that separates solo-founders we’ve backed from those that we haven’t, and that’s curiosity.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Brewbot, a Techstars Austin startup, just landed $1.5 million in seed stage funding. The company raised the money from Brad Feld, Bebo Founder and CEO Michael Birch and Federico Pirzio-Biroli, an angel investor in London, Boulder VC Bullet Time Ventures, Hallett Capital and a new fund in Northern Ireland, TechStart NI and SparkLabs Global. The […] The post Brewbot Raises $1.5 Million in a Seed Round of Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'In the spirit of the upcoming "Austin Startup Week" I will attempt to reveal a method to start to understand the "Jedi in Business Administration (JBA)." My goal will be to get you to take a small amount of entrepreneur and startup-flavored e-x-e-c-u-t-i-o-n.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'By Larry Chiang Guest Post for Silicon Hills News I’m fascinated at the first baby startup steps. Lets you and I explore some specific tactile steps. Our goal and intention should be to practice entrepreneurship. Not treat it like a perfection. Documenting our practice via journaling. Lets boil down our favorite books and blog posts. […] The post The Practice of Entrepreneurship appeared first on SiliconHills.
Mike Michalowicz
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Entrepreneurship requires courage. It requires courage to start, it requires courage to continue. But perhaps most importantly, it requires courage finish. As each phase of the entrepreneur’s journey comes to a close, the next phase looms bigger, harder and scarier. It is easy to stay stuck in the realm of comfort, and never finish. It takes courage to finish.
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this clothing project. Let us start the slow clap for StudioZ. Check out more great work on StudioZ’s profile page. Nicely done, StudioZ, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: LuW. Fresh from the SPRING: lamosca04. 12 Questions: Meet Emanuel H?
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'StackEngine, a platform for Docker apps, announced it has raised $1 million in seed funding from Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners. The Austin-based startup is still testing its products privately and plans to make it publicly available later this year. “Developers are rapidly adopting Docker’s new approach and, in turn, organizations are desperately seeking […] The post StackEngine Launches in Austin and Raises $1 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
Growthink Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Last week , I wrote about the strong ambition across the globe to have a "Silicon Valley of One''s Own," and to replicate the otherworldly innovation of a region that has produced more than 75% of the World’s Unicorns - technology companies started since 2003 that now have valuations of more than $1 billion. Then, on Monday I went deeper into the drivers of this remarkable concentration along with the macroeconomic drivers of today’s very hot IPO and M&A Markets: long-term low interest rate
The Entrepreneurial Mind
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Alex Bertelli of Havenlock. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Military Experiences Applied to Startup appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
ithacaVC
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'As I mentioned in my last post, Entrepreneurship at Cornell and Tompkins County Area Development recently hired Development Counsellors International (DCI) to promote Ithaca as an entrepreneurial hub. The engagement is working out well. As part of the work, DCI developed a cool Ithaca infographic that is worth sharing. You can view it Ithaca Infographic.
Rob Go
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Today, we’re excited to unveil the official Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech — a comprehensive overview of what tech entrepreneurs and professionals need to navigate and succeed in our local community. Special thanks goes to Jay Acunzo (director of platform here at NextView), Ariel Simon (senior designer, SapientNitro), and Keith Frankel (Chief Digital Officer, Tablelist) for creating this bigger, more comprehensive, and more beautiful edition of my long-running blog series.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “. Once you get a taste of how effective the One Week Marketing Plan can be, you’ll want to continue boosting your marketing efforts. I recommend a number of “strategic boosts” that are low cost and can also be deployed quickly — usually within four to eight hours.
Rob Go
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'It’s the eve of Wayfair’s Initial Public Offering, and I’m so excited for the company. Big congrats to the entire team there, especially NextView Venture Advisors Niraj and Steve (who were among the first people to get behind NextView in the early days). Congrats also to my wife Nancy, who is VP of Brand Marketing at Wayfair, and was the first person to believe in me in the early days too And congrats to my friend Alex Finkelstein who led Spark’s investment in the com
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'When you designed your logo, website, business cards, marketing materials and your products, you probably spent some time picking colors. But did you know that color has a big impact on what people buy? Studies show that up to 90% of judgments about products can be based on color alone. Consumers place color above other factors such as sound, smell and texture.
SiliconHills
OCTOBER 1, 2014
'Tasty Placement, an Austin-based SEO consulting company has created this Infographic on the Austin Startup Scene. Infographic authored by TastyPlacement, an Austin SEO consulting company. To view the original post, click here. The post The Austin Startup Scene appeared first on SiliconHills.
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