SoCal CTO
MAY 13, 2014
'Bob Dorf just published a post Where are the Hackers? Solving the Founder-Tech Gap that came out of some fun conversations that Bob and I have been having. A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. The conversation with Bob was about what the composition of advisors should look like.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2014
'by Joshua Conran , senior partner at Deksia . Niche businesses almost always originate from an identifiable need in the marketplace. They recognize an underserved segment of the population — whether that’s expectant mothers, pet owners, or cheese lovers — then develop a product or service to meet the specific needs of that customer base. Marc Lore and Vinit Bharara did just that with Diapers.com.
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Feld Thoughts
MAY 13, 2014
'Jane Miller’s launch party for her first book (and FG Press ‘s second title) Sleep Your Way To The Top And Other Myths About Business Success is happening in Boulder this coming Tuesday, 5/20 at eTown Hall. Profits benefit the CU Leeds Professional Mentoring Program. Around the Foundry Group offices we’ve been referring to Sleep Your Way To The Top as “Sheryl Sandberg meets Chelsea Handler.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2014
'by Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession. The “World’s Toughest Job” online job advertisement (above) led to a viral video compilation of the 24 applicants interviews. The candidates vied for a position described to offer 135-hour workweeks, no vacations, no breaks no pay, and required degrees in medicine, the culinary arts and finance.
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
deal architect
MAY 13, 2014
'I have heard Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite present for years now. He is nothing if not persistent. He has often talked about CRM without integration to transaction processing systems is clearly inadequate. As omnichannel becomes a burning topic in.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2014
'by Julian Pencilliah, author of “ The Jetstream of Success ”. No matter how well our lives may be going, many of us seem to be at our wit’s end when it comes to attaining that next level of success, but there is a solution to this challenge. Whether we want to improve our relationships, spiritual development, emotional well-being, health or monetary ambitions, we so often find that we’re our own greatest enemies.
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VC Cafe
MAY 13, 2014
'Just back from a week of beer, black wardrobes and David Hoselhoff ads- yes, it was Web Week in Berlin. Again and again (after a few drinks, of course) my European friends confided the same perception about Israeli startups: wonderful technologies, horrendous marketing. Danish entrepreneur and Skype funder Morten Lund said it best “any cabdriver in LA is better at marketing (than Israeli founders).
The Next Web
MAY 13, 2014
'Danny Wong does marketing at Shareaholic, is the co-founder of Blank Label and likes to write every once in a while. Feel free to find him lurking on Google+ or Twitter. Building a venerable brand through content has become an exercise in pointless posting, unsubstantiated claims and newsjacking. Admittedly, readers and search engines are smarter than that.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 13, 2014
'It’s YES. The most dangerous, damaging word in business is YES. I know what you are thinking. “What the hell, Mike? Business is all about getting the customer to say yes, dummy. And an entrepreneur’s job is to always say yes to them. The customer is always right, after all. Yes?”. Wrong! Deadly wrong. In fact your business’s life is dependent upon how often you say NO.
The Next Web
MAY 13, 2014
'Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures. “Why should I build a financial forecast for my fundraising presentation? There is no way I can predict what kind of numbers I can hit in the next four years.” This is one of the most common reactions we get during a pitch when we ask about a financial forecast. And let’s not forget about “I built a conservative model showing USD 1MM in revenues in four years so I won’t look foolish” and “I wanted to show USD 500MM in revenue in four years because
The Equity Kicker
MAY 13, 2014
'New forecasts out from Forrester predict that online retail sales in the US will be $294bn this year, rising to $414bn by 2018. The growth rate from 2013-2018 is forecast to be 9.5%. Better still, even after this growth online retail in the US will only be 11% of total retail sales, up from 9% this year. Only 11%. That leaves miles to go. I love this market.
Up and Running
MAY 13, 2014
'Have you been kicking around a business startup idea for a while now? You’re not alone. A lot of entrepreneurs sit on their ideas for months or years before taking action. Some people can’t find the time to start a business because they work 40 hours a week and have a family. Some are scared to take the plunge, while others don’t know how to set their business idea in motion.
SiliconHills
MAY 13, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Mei Butler, a junior at Trinity University, needed to store some household goods while she studied in China for seven months. “I didn’t want to rent out a storage unit since I didn’t have enough belongings to take up the whole space,” Butler said. Instead, she signed […] The post Remote Garage Stores Clutter by the Box appeared first on SiliconHills.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2014
'By Ben Carpenter, author of “ The Bigs: The Secrets Nobody Tells Students and Young Professionals About How to Find a Great Job, Do a Great Job, Be a Leader, Start a Business, Stay Out of Trouble, and Live A Happy Life “. You’ve fretted about your child’s future from kindergarten on. You’ve zoom-focused on homework and grades, worried that he wouldn’t have the study skills and discipline to make it once he got out from under your thumb, and (of course!
SiliconHills
MAY 13, 2014
'A graduate of the Longhorn Startup class for undergraduates at the University of Texas, LanternCRM just landed $250,000 in angel funding. The Austin-based startup received funds from angel investors Jason Cohen of WP Engine, Rob Taylor or Black Locus, Mikey Trafton of BlueFish, Bill Boebel of Pingboard, Pat Matthews, formerly of Rackspace, and Joshua Baer […] The post LanternCRM Raises $250,000 from Local Angels appeared first on SiliconHills.
Hunter Walker
MAY 13, 2014
'Excited to announce over on the Homebrew blog our investment in Layer. “Sometimes VC math is easy. Take an enormous, complex and lucrative problem. Add an experienced entrepreneur, top technical minds and a talented go-to-market team. Shake well. And DEFINITELY fund!
SiliconHills
MAY 13, 2014
'Phunware, a mobile advertising platform, announced it has bought Digby, marketing software for retailers to reach customers on their mobile phones. The two Austin companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. The deal adds Digby’s customers including Cabela’s, Kohls, Catalina Marketing and Hasbro to Phunware and lets the company offer consumers ads on […] The post Phunware Buys Digby appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 13, 2014
'5 Key Ingredients In an Integrated Selling World written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The term “integrated marketing” has been with us for many years. I’ve written about it in the classic sense and about how it’s evolved in the digital age as I believe integration is the key to consistency, momentum and systems thinking – all good things. photo credit: fdecomite via photopin cc.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 13, 2014
'A little while back, my friend Michael Tavani let loose on the Atlanta Tech Village in a Creative Loafing piece. He was fired up. Then I responded , equally fired up, essentially calling his opinions on the Village absurd and ignorant. Hey, I said I was fired up. Then to Michael’s credit, he decided to come to the Atlanta Tech Village and host his next On Doers video with myself, Jon Birdsong and TJ Muehleman and talk it all out.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 13, 2014
'This guest post by Jennifer Youn was originally published on Justworks. We’re excited to be joined by Jos White, an entrepreneur turned investor who has spoken at numerous industry events and appeared on both TV and radio including BBC, CNN, and CNBC. Jos is currently a partner at Notion Capital and CEO of Daring Journey Ventures. Prior to Notion, Jos co-founded three businesses (RBR Networks, Star and MessageLabs) turning them all into market leaders each with revenues in excess of $100m.
ConversionXL
MAY 13, 2014
'For all of the talk about how awesome (and big, don’t forget big) Big data is, one of the favorite tools in the conversion optimization toolkit, A/B Testing , is decidedly small data. Optimization, winners and losers, Lean this that or the other thing, at the end of the day, A/B Testing is really just an application of sampling. You take couple of alternative options (eg. ‘50% off’ v ‘Buy One Get One Free’ ) and try them out with a portion of your users.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2014
'Lululemon burst onto the fashion scene seemingly out of nowhere a couple of years ago and now it is a billion dollar industry. It is not, though, a brand new company that “ hit it big ” overnight. On the contrary. Lululemon has been in business for fourteen years and unlike other small companies that work hard to strike it rich and build a global audience as quickly as possible, Lululemon has actually worked to stay relatively small, which is just part of its allure.
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