Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

'In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.

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deal architect

JANUARY 3, 2015

'Vishal Sikka, the new CEO of Infosys, has some candid commentary on the state of the IT services market "It''s like a treadmill of increasingly lower cost, hiring people faster and faster, from more and more mediocre places, training people.

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Offshore Hiring Cost Marketing 210

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2015

'In the midst of the hustle and bustle of starting a new business , few would begrudge these entrepreneurs for failing to consider what type of window treatments are going to line their offices. With business plans, forecasts and everything else on the table – it’s something that often falls to the bottom of the pile. However, if you can take a moment to consider this issue, the benefits that they can promote are fantastic.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 3, 2015

'Samuel Hulick is a long time UX consultant with an intense focus on user onboarding. This post originally appeared on the Help Scout blog. Unless your product is eyebrow-raisingly basic, there’s a very, very good chance that a new user won’t get to experience all the value you have to offer in their very first sitting. And since user onboarding isn’t merely the process of introducing your new signups to your product’s features, but instead the process of driving people to success, getting there

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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

JANUARY 3, 2015

'Starting a business takes a lot of work, usually more work than people tend to realize. If you are in the process of starting a business, then you understand. You’ve spent countless hours preparing your business, securing loans and business financing, finding the right team of people to help you, and doing countless other tasks. Hopefully, all the hard work you’ve endured will pay off.

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Government Employee Software Finance 147

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2015

'My friends at the Kauffman Foundation have released the Kauffman Thoughtbook 2015. . It’s a beautifully done, well-organized, and super rich with content web document about entrepreneurship. There is extensive content and examples around Startup Communities, included in the Paths to Entrepreneurship section. I made a few guest appearance, including in the long article about the Kansas City Startup Village.

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