Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'The biggest aspiration of most entrepreneurs and business owners today is to grow and then sell their businesses. And why shouldn''t it be? Selling your business creates more multi-millionaires than any other endeavor. The key issue however is this: are you growing your business the right way, and are you focusing on the right things? You see, when it comes time for buyers to appraise the value of your business, they might find different things to be important than you do.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'There’s a saying that a great developer is 10x more productive than a mediocre one. That’s not true. You can’t put 100 average designers on a committee and get a fabulous design, right? A great developer, or a great designer, is better than 10x an average one — they’re better than an infinite number. Because they’ll come up with ideas and implementations that 100 others wouldn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Yet the image of leadership in business is at an all-time low, according to national leadership experts, considering the political debacles, record business bankruptcies, and executive fraud cases.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Timely article in InformationWeek as cloud provider Nirvanix goes out of business about the scrutiny IaaS architectures will increasingly get “The size of the pipes providers use to move data into and out of their cloud is an architectural decision, Cloud Computing, SaaS'

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Several years ago on a Saturday I found myself at Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte. I was attending the second National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Awards for Aspirations in Computing event. I had gone for a three hour run early in the morning on a beautiful spring day in Charlotte and my mind was wandering all over the place.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'by Julie May, CEO of bytes of knowledge (b:ok). Without effective communication between you and your IT firm, your next technology project is in danger of running over budget and past deadline, wasting your valuable time and money on an undesired outcome. Communication must be two-way, regular and transparent throughout all phases of discovery, design, implementation and deployment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Several months after starting our Homebrew seed fund I’m often asked “what are some things that surprise you?” My answer doesn’t have to do with dealflow or investment strategy. What really surprises me is how many similarities there are between being a parent and being an investor. And it’s about control. As a product manager one of my fallbacks was the notion I could always do the task myself if necessary.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'You’re an entrepreneur. You’re a relentless fountain of ideas. Ideas are good. But it is the great ideas that you need. Instead of yet another good idea, take an existing one. Then turn it all around. Twist it as much as you can. Squeeze every ounce of idea juice out of it. Twist and turn your idea until you get to the essence of it. That is how great ideas are born.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Shelfbucks, Pictrition and PristineIO launched last week at TechCrunch’s Fall DEMO last week. Shelfbucks and Pristine received trophies as “Demo Gods” along with Skully Helmets, Hello Doctor and Sigma Guardian, recognized as outstanding. Altogether 40 companies pitched at DEMO. All of the Austin startups reside at Capital Factory. 3 Austin companies launched at @DEMO today!

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'5 Travel Tools I Rely On written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing When I checked in at Pearson Airport in Toronto this week Foursquare informed me that I had set a new record by checking in to airports eight weeks in a row. Yikes, I have been on a bit of a travel binge I’ll admit. When you travel with any frequency it’s amazing how the right tools can make things go a little smoother.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Texas had 11 percent of all angel group deals in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest Halo Report. The deals, with a median investment round of $590,000, had pre-money valuations of $2.5 million. And 74 percent of the deals were syndicated. “When angels co-invest with other types of investors the media […] The post CTAN is the Most Active Angel Group Nationwide appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past two weeks. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets “I went to four networking events a week, every week, for 10 years.” - @jaybaer bit.ly/1a1WD0O (at 18:10) “I promise you, a lot of it is luck.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Today at noon central time, Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, is expected to introduce the company’s latest line of iPads. Last year, Apple announced plans to more than double the size of its Texas workforce and build a $304 million new campus in Austin. That project is expected to create more than 3,600 new jobs. Today, […] The post Live Blog of Apple’s New iPad Line appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Originally published in Bplans. The following answers are provided by The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. 1. Use Google Trends Google Trends ([link] is a tool that lets you see how the number of searches for a given term has changed over time. It’s an invaluable tool for getting a clear sense of the evolution of a trend or market.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'Boxer, an inbox management app, has landed $3 million seed stage funding led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Boxer, formerly known as TaskBox, has integrated its platform with Box, Dropbox, LinkedIn and Facebook. It expects to announce more strategic partnerships later on this year. “As mobile devices have become our primary means of receiving and reading […] The post Boxer Snags $3 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'The online space has burgeoned so much that every single minute, around 639,800 gigabytes worth of data is transferred around the Internet; in fact, about 47,000 apps are downloaded and more than two million searches are handled by Google in the same time. So much so that online privacy has become a huge issue in recent times, as well as cyber security.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'When I talk about our strategy of backing companies that build products people love, and say that some of those will be physical products people often remark that 3D printing must be an exciting enabling technology for us. That will be true one day in the not too distant future, but it isn’t true today. 3D printing is improving fast in terms of materials that can be printed and the price is dropping fast, most obviously in consumer printers, some of which are now retailing for sub $500 ,

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