TechEmpower
MAY 2, 2013
'We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. As with previous rounds, the developer community has contributed several additional frameworks for Round 4, bringing the total to 57! This round adds Bottle (Python), Dancer (Perl), Kelp (Perl), MicroMVC (PHP), Mojolicious (Perl), Phalcon (PHP), RingoJS (JavaScript), Spark (Java), and Wai (Haskell).
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 2, 2013
'One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “terror barrier,” as popularized by Bob Proctor , a 75-year-old millionaire and world renowned entrepreneur. This is the imaginary barrier that always seems to appear at the critical point where we would step out ahead of peers or competitors, but fear causes us to stop short. Everyone has a comfort zone, or level of risk, where they feel in control.
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deal architect
MAY 2, 2013
'I saw a tweet this morning about Salesforce sending its B team to an event in London. While rude to the presenters it made me wonder how many Salesforce events this person and others actually go to? You could make.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 2, 2013
'By Robert D. Smith, author of “ 20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course For Mastering Your Life Right Now ”. Prince, what you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am through my own efforts. There have been thousands of princes and will be thousands more; there is only one Beethoven! According to tradition, from a letter, which Beethoven wrote to Prince Lichnowsky when the prince attempted to persuade him to play for some French officers on his estate in Silesia.
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
The Equity Kicker
MAY 2, 2013
'In 2009 AirBnB’s revenues were stuck at $200 per week. This quote from a blog on the First Round Capital site explains how they got back to growth: At the time, Airbnb was in Y Combinator. One afternoon, the team was pouring over their search results for New York City listings with Paul Graham, trying to figure out what wasn’t working, why they weren’t growing.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 2, 2013
'by Kevin Kaiser of Startup Biz Blog. Have you ever had a boss that you just didn’t like? I am assuming that the answer to that question is yes. It happens, sometimes we just have to suck it up in the name of professionalism. It is extremely difficult to work in a hostile environment, and often the reason for hostility is simply personality clashes.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 2, 2013
'by Karen Burke , president and founder of Kare Products. Great news for laptop users: The latest mobile workstations are in and they are everything you have ever dreamed of. The newest super-powerful notebook computers feature quad-core processing power, terabytes of storage, more memory, 17″ screens, professional-grade graphics, comprehensive configuration possibilities, extended warranties, and more.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 2, 2013
'I was at the annual meeting for one of our LPs yesterday. Promptly at 10am the took away the breakfast buffet. I was getting a new cup of tea at the time and watched them haul off trenchers of food that would easily feed 50 people. I had the same experience the previous two days at the SERGE event as several of the meals were buffet style and at the end of the meal there was still food for a group that was equal to or larger than us left.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 2, 2013
'I just interviewed my thousandth entrepreneur. Mind you, this is not a conclusion from formal tracking. I myself have been an entrepreneur almost twenty years now. From day one, I have tried to learn from every entrepreneur and business owner that I met. This past week was likely my thousandth interview and I asked this particular fellow the question I always ask: “How do you handle all the different challenges you face?
The Next Web
MAY 2, 2013
'At last week’s The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Liam Boogar from TNW media partner Rude Baguette moderated a panel discussion on ‘Hyper Growth from Europe’ with a pair of Swedish entrepreneurs, SoundCloud co-founder Alex Ljung and Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth. You can find the video recording of the discussion below. Ljung traveled back to the early days of SoundCloud, during which he and his co-founder Eric Wahlforss decided that they wouldn’t start building
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 2, 2013
'What your customers and potential customers say publicly about your company’s products and services matters a great deal. In a few minutes, we’ll give you three good tips on how you can improve your customers’ experience when they deal with your customer service team. But first, let’s take a quick look at why you should invest in customer service.
The Next Web
MAY 2, 2013
'Got a question for Jim? Use the chat feature below to get it answered live. Jim Belosic is the co-founder and CEO of Pancake Labs, a software company based in Reno, Nev. The company is best known for its flagship product, ShortStack , software that’s designed to help small business owners and designers create custom apps that harness the power of social media.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 2, 2013
'Yesterday, I got profiled in Crain''s about my investment philosophies. They do this cool lunch series where they try a new place and profile both a person and a place. We went to Brick , which is a sorely needed lunch spot by City Hall. I made the following comment: "I''ve looked at 2,000 companies, and I''m funding eight. It''s not about picking the eight.
Berkonomics
MAY 2, 2013
'As a manager, you have a number of critical tasks that are general to your position as opposed to specific to your industry. These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.
Up and Running
MAY 2, 2013
'Roughly 95 percent of slideshow presentations are still given in PowerPoint, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t evaluate other tools. We’ll run through the top alternatives and weigh the pros and cons. Google Docs Presentations. A free feature in Google Docs (Trust us, it’s there; you just never use it.) If you consider yourself a PowerPoint guru you’ll be disappointed by the lack of functionality, but it’s free, it gets the job done and the real-time cloud collaboration is great.
Start Up Blog
MAY 2, 2013
'We probably haven’t been as obsessed with gadgets the way we are now at any point in history. Every other day there is a new contraption or Kickstarter project spruiking some microchip enabled object of desire. What’s interesting is the shift that gadgets have made in the past decade. Rewind back to gadget innovation of last century – the good old 1900′s and we’ll see a different story from what we see today: Gadgets from the industrial era invented time: The washi
SiliconHills
MAY 2, 2013
'The Austin Technology Incubator, known as ATI, in the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, reported its companies raised $35 million during the first three months of 2013. During the last five years, ATI companies have raised more than $250 million of investor capital. The ATI companies reporting funding in the first [.] The post ATI Companies Raise More Than $35 Million in First Quarter appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 2, 2013
'photo credit: guilhembertholet via photopin cc. Lots of people talk about business models these days, but what does it really mean? When it comes to starting or planning for business success your model is essentially your decision about how you intend to add value – which is another way of saying – how you intend to make money. Business is a pretty simple thing really, but I think people planning to start one or even those engaged in running one can over think it.
SiliconHills
MAY 2, 2013
'Bob Metcalfe, professor of innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, is known to say “the world’s problems will not be solved by another website.” The co-inventor of Ethernet, which celebrates its 40th anniversary on May 22, and founder of 3Com, should know. Metcalfe falls into the category of entrepreneur known as an innovator. [.
Rob Go
MAY 2, 2013
'Last night I attended a really fun event called the NEVY’s put on by the New England Venture Capital Association. It was a wonderful showcase of all the great companies, people, and investors that have helped the Boston technology market come roaring back in recent months and years. It was fun to attend, and I was really pleased that a bunch of our portfolio company founders (and many other friends) were nominated for awards that night.
SiliconHills
MAY 2, 2013
'MDI Group, an information technology staffing company based in Atlanta, has opened a new Austin office. MDI recently opened an office Fort Worth and has another Texas office in Dallas and seven other locations nationwide. The company decided to locate in Austin because Austin’s technology industry is booming and “Staffing Industry Analysts places Austin in [.
ithacaVC
MAY 2, 2013
'Here is an article contributed by Lori Campbell, a member of PressTheWord, a tutorial channel in Youtube. Fascinated with web design, Lori and her team aim to teach every beginner how easy it is to build websites. If you have web design/Wordpress related inquiries, feel free to interact with them through their channel, PressTheWord. *. Just a few short years ago, most businesses did not see the need to go the route of creating a mobile friendly version of their site.
SiliconHills
MAY 2, 2013
'Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp. has bought GreenStar Products, which makes energy-efficient, long-lasting LED lights for roads and other outdoor areas. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Since February of 2012, Toshiba International Corp. has contracted with San Antonio-based GreenStar to make LED Lights. GreenStar’s LED lights last longer and require less maintenance [.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 2, 2013
'I know of a company, a very successful company, that has an extremely selective hiring process. Potential candidates go through many interview rounds with many employees to make sure that they have the right skills and that they are a good cultural fit for the organization. Curiously, their hiring process for operations roles—specifically within their accounting department—is not nearly as rigorous.
SiliconHills
MAY 2, 2013
'Providing further validation that Texas has a red hot tech market, Xconomy has launched its eighth bureau in the Lone Star State. Xconomy, based in Cambridge, MA., covers innovation hubs in Boston, Boulder/Denver, Detroit, New York, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. “Texans pride themselves on being independent, adventurous, and hard-charging: the same characteristics that [.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
MAY 2, 2013
'The LA Times and Chicago Tribune are for sale. BarryDiller recently announced that buying Newsweek was a mistake. They are not alone in their distress. Newspapers and print magazine across the country are under increasing pressure as they trade analog dollars for digital pennies. . Everyone is going online. Readers were willing to pay for content when it is printed on paper but they want it for free online.
SiliconHills
MAY 2, 2013
'InCube Labs, a research incubator in San Antonio, Thursday announced it has launched two new life sciences companies. Those companies are Theracle, which has developed a treatment for brain cancer, and iBridge Medical, which is developing a technology platform to manage patient’s implanted medical devices. That brings to five the total number of companies at [.
Austin Startup
MAY 2, 2013
'Gluu, an open source access management company, announced today that it has open-sourced the code needed to support Toopher, a location aware two-factor authentication mechanism, in its enterprise SSO and access management platform. With Toopher, Gluu’s enterprise customers can offer their employees, partners, and customers an excellent user experience for strong authentication with single sign-on to cloud, mobile, and social applications using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect, the soon-to-be standa
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