Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'If your first startup fails, you are about average. Most entrepreneurs fail on at least one attempt. Investors agree that an entrepreneur who has never failed probably hasn’t pushed the limits. What investors look for is not that you never fail, but that you learn from the failure, maintain a positive attitude, and work with integrity on the next one.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'Peterborough, New Hampshire-based PeoplesVC is on a mission to create jobs in America, and the equity-based crowdfunding site is in the process of launching an integrated multimedia platform to do exactly that. Called PeoplesVC-TV , the network will play host to specially developed live, theme-based TV shows expected to help the site to achieve its aim of job creation through hyperlocal crowdfunding, revolutionizing capital formation for startups and existing small businesses. “Our prim
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The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'This post was originally published on the 15Five blog. . It’s very likely that if you’ve worked in an office at all, you’ve worked in an open-plan office. As a reaction against hierarchical workplace structures and a means to move employees away from working in boxes, they’ve become commonplace. They’re a double-edged sword, however. On the one hand, open-plan offices can inspire a more collaborative, innovative and social environment where ideas transfer easily between members of different
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'Doc Searls wrote a great, very detailed post this weekend titled Thoughts on privacy where he argues we have passed the point of “Peak Surveillance.” He says, about halfway through the post: “I can’t prove it, but I do believe we have passed Peak Surveillance. When Edward Snowden’s s**t hit the fan in May, lots of people said the controversy would blow over.
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
Mike Michalowicz
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'A confluence of events put me in front of two business partners who hated each other. To make matters worse, they were sisters. 50/50 owners who planned to do everything they could to make a go of their business, now loathed each other. My job was to fix the business, by fixing them. This is what I did: I sat them down together and asked them a hypothetical question.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'Stop looking at your paycheck as a measure of success. Stop counting followers as a measure of how loved you are. Stop using likes as a measure of the love you give. Stop using investor dollars as the metric of success for your business. Stop using square footage to feel good about where you live. Stop using pounds to measure your health. Stop using sexual partners as the measure for interpersonal relations.
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crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'“It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last year to mark the Labor Day holiday, I wrote a post celebrating the crowdSPRING team and their personal and professional accomplishments.
Start Up Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'There is currently no shortage of people talking about the change of the business environment from a linear model to an omni directional one. What we need to understand is that this isn’t limited to business, it’s a wider eco system change. Last week I was helping a colleague with his transition into his next revenue phase. He was discussing the need to get his credentials and digital footprint in order before he met up with VC’s / recruiters and the like.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'My old colleague from Ebay, Michael Dearing , was a fantastic executive, and is now a terrific investor and teacher at Stanford. He’s starting to release some of his content into the wild, and it’s definitely worth the time to check out (or even to attend a class ). He recently put together a 3-part video tutorial on the basics of pricing.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'by Whitney Keyes , author of “ Propel: Five Ways to Amp Up Your Marketing and Accelerate Business “ In the United States, one thing the city of Seattle, WA, is best known for is its coffee, but there’s an innovative partnership happening around another source of caffeine and that’s the cocoa bean. In addition to offering everything from sipping chocolates to vegan sweets, the owners of The Chocolate Box near Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market teamed up with some of the city’s most
Life Beyond Code
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'Any meaningful AND significant pursuit will involve a huge learning curve. Some pursuits are “safer” than others as your long struggle can be private before you ultimately expose yourself in public. Examples of such pursuits are some kinds of music or some kind of sports where a large part of the training can happen in private. Entrepreneurship, however, is a largely public sport.
Start Up Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'Regular readers of this blog will be aware of the Super Awesome Micro Project. And if you’re not aware I’m about to disclose some of the secret sauce. Mainly because between now and when we launch, it is physically impossible to be copied by anyone. For two reasons – the first is that no one else has Raul , and secondly it took us way more time and money than we would ever have imagined.
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