Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 21, 2014
'When entrepreneurs come to me with that “million dollar idea,” I have to tell them that an idea alone is really worth nothing. It’s all about the execution, and investors invest in the people who can execute, or even better, have a history of successful execution. Execution is making things happen, and for startups it usually means making change happen, which is even more difficult.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 21, 2014
'How do you define success? Can it be measured by wealth or power alone? Apparently no. Not least according to Arianna Huffington , founder and editor of Huffington Post Media Group – one of the world’s most influential news and information brands. In her latest book “ Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder “, Huffington proposes that there is a “third metric” which quantifies success by one’s well-being, wisdom, sense of
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The Next Web
DECEMBER 21, 2014
'Meghan Cast is the VP of Marketing at Threadflip. The phrase, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” was coined in 1977 by Bert Lance; however a little shy of 30 years later, we are in a digital age where technology and innovation make change a necessity for continued success and relevance. Today, harnessing creativity that changes consumer behavior can cut a deep path to success.
Scott Edward Walker
DECEMBER 21, 2014
'Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.
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
Start Up Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2014
'General Thesis: Cheap technology is changing everything. There’s a deluge of data being created by all economic participants. But, this time buyers, sellers and employers all participate and have access. It’s no longer just top down business infrastructure, but quickly becoming horizontal. Access is now greater than ownership. This means that in a data driven economy, areas that previously did not affect insurance and finance industries are starting to.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 21, 2014
'“Write your principles in pen but your strategy in pencil.” Now that we’re 18 months in to our first Homebrew fund, and 2014 is coming to an end, thought it could be interesting to share three places we used the pencil eraser thus far. 17 core investments have been made, I’d say our investment model was, and continues to be, consistent with the type of firm we want to build but if you’re not constantly evaluating how to get better and serve entrepreneurs, you won&#
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