Sat.Sep 27, 2014

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Entrepreneurs Need To Reality Check Their Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

'In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? After all, most great breakthroughs, like a computer in every home, seemed like a crazy idea before Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it happen.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

'To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. As such, the competition from an entrepreneur’s standpoint is very, very tough.

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Top 6 characteristics of rock star Chief Product Officers

The Next Web

'What exactly should your chief product officer (CPO) do? And more importantly, how do you identify the right person for the job? To find out, we asked six entrepreneurs from YEC to share which characteristics they believe are most critical to a CPO’s success in a startup setting. Their best answers are below: 1. An Insatiable Drive to Make Things Better A great Chief Product Officer needs to be have both a micro and macro focus on making things better.

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Between the Yes and the Close

David Cohen

'When an investor says “Yes,” that doesn’t mean you can stop communicating with them. Unfortunately, that’s often exactly what happens. Entrepreneurs will take a Yes from an investor and then proceed to shut down all communication until it’s time to close the round. This is where many deals are lost–between the Yes and the close.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Good Marketing Undone

Up and Running

'Don’t let your good marketing be erased. AUTHOR’S NOTE: I wrote this article a few years ago, before I took over the customer service team for Palo Alto Software. My perspective at the time was as a consumer. Looking back on it now, as the manager of my team, the glaring miss in this company’s story was the lack of training for their staff.

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YupiCall Wants to Connect People Internationally for Less Money

SiliconHills

'By Jonathan Gutierrez Special contributor for Silicon Hills News Much like social media sites Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, YupiCall aims to connect consumers with one another no matter where they are in the world. YupiCall’s international calling services work with or without a smartphone and it doesn’t require the Internet to function. Julian Flores, a […] The post YupiCall Wants to Connect People Internationally for Less Money appeared first on SiliconHills.

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