TechEmpower
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks! After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! Round 7 includes many new framework test implementations contributed by the community. They are Falcore, Grizzly, HttpListener, PHPixie, Plain, Racket-WS, Start, Stream, and Treefrog.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 19, 2013
'“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The instigators are all well-intentioned – executives talk to potential customers who “must have” a few more things; or the technical team edicts some “technicall
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'It’s stunning to me how quickly we take for granted certain conveniences in our lives that go from Eureka to minimum expectation. Take OpenTable. In the old days we used to call a restaurant to book. The hostess worked from 4-10pm so you had to call during these hours. Between 7-10 she was busy seating guests so had to put your on hold. After hours there was the answering machine.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 9, 2013
'Planning to start your own technology startup? That’s great, but do you know how much it will cost to hire the talent that would make take your idea from concept all the way to a market-ready product? And even if you do, did you know that where you’re based also matters when it comes to doing up the numbers? It’s true – it’s cheaper to start a company in some countries compared to others.
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
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 7, 2013
'My day started out great. After getting up at 5, having a delightful run at 6, walking Brooks, and then hanging with Amy for four minutes, I got in my car and drove over to Rally Software for their Big 1% Give Back event. The picture to the left is of Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder and CTO, giving Josie Health, the CEO of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County , a check for $676,000.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 26, 2013
'In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. Founded in 2005, the company has since delivered more than $1 billion from employers to freelancers. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5 million registered freelancers who have worked 35 million hours in total, as well as 900,000 clients who have posted 1.5 million jobs. oDesk claims that it dominates the m
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. Building an ethical business is more than just compliance and meeting legal requirements, and it has big paybacks.
Occam's Razor
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. Logged-in users were switched to using httpS from http. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 31, 2013
' A startup may spark from a simple idea and quickly grow in momentum due to the ease of launching a product or service. Web technologies and software expedite the process of development. The startup also gains the benefit of not subscribing to traditional business structures. They are flexible due to their small size and unrestricted as to where they may operate.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'At dinner last week, my long time friend Dave Jilk (we just celebrated our 30th friendship anniversary) tossed a hypothesis at me that as people age, they resist adopting new technologies. This was intended as a personal observation, not an ageist statement, and we devolved into a conversation about brain plasticity. Eventually we popped back up the stack to dealing with changing tech and at some point I challenged Dave to write an essay on this. .
The Next Web
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Jim Belosic is the CEO of ShortStack , a self-service custom app design tool used to create apps for Facebook Pages, websites and mobile Web browsing. ShortStack provides the tools for small businesses, graphic designers, agencies and corporations to create apps with contests and forms, fan gates, product lines and more. In a world where customers’ criticisms can reach thousands of their “friends” in an instant, companies are (rightfully) worried that one disgruntled customer can wreak havoc on
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Between webcasts and interviews, we’ve been gradually introducing some of the speakers who are appearing at this year’s Lean Startup Conference. Now we’re ready to announce the full lineup , along with a special deal, explained below. There are some speakers on this year’s roster whom you''ve heard of before and who who deliver great talks every time out—people like Marc Andreessen , Steve Blank , Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon and Ke
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2013
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 15, 2013
'The declining cost of solar power is one of the biggest reasons that the folks at Singularity University are optimistic about the future. You can see from the chart above that the cost of generating 1W has fallen below a dollar for the first time and is now or will soon be at grid parity (grid parity is the average cost of all inputs to the grid). Having reached grid parity the use of solar should soar and cost should fall further as more money is invested in the technology.
mobile.smashingmagazine.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
'Smashing Magazine. Menu Search. × Search. × Smashing Pages: Smashing Books. Smashing Library. Smashing Events. Job Board. Categories: Coding. Design. Mobile. Graphics. UX Design. WordPress. Books. Library. Workshops. Job Board. RSS. Facebook. Twitter. Newsletter. Search. Coding. CSS. HTML. JavaScript. Techniques. Design. Web Design. Typography.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 8, 2013
'I am so very tired of MBO-based bonuses in startups. I knew the concept of MBOs pre-dated my time in business school, but I couldn’t remember where they came from. Wikipedia reminded me – it’s another Peter Drucker creation from The Practice of Management. I’ve only worked in what could be considered a “big” company for 18 months (1993 – 1995) and that was the company (AmeriData) that bought my first company (Feld Technologies).
The Next Web
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'When you’re running a business, the last thing you want to deal with is another dropped call or bad connection. Especially in this day and age, when chances are the key members of your staff, partners, and even investors may not be in the same country, let alone the same room. Shouldn’t simple communication be the last thing on your mind? To learn which software is actually helping startup teams stay organized, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs: Name one piece of software that helps you run your
OnlyOnce
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Selecting Your Investors. Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. We’ve been through a lot of wars together. In a couple of weeks, he and I are team-teaching a class in Entrepreneurship at Princeton, and the professor gave us the assignment of writing two pairs of blog posts to tee up discussion with the class.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'Managing shopper experience for medium-sized eCommerce businesses presents a lot of opportunities for conversion testing, and the ability to see real and immediate revenue results when tests are successful. My favorite conversion tests are those that can be abstracted from the specific website audience and applied to larger populations of online shoppers.
Growthink Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2013
'The biggest aspiration of most entrepreneurs and business owners today is to grow and then sell their businesses. And why shouldn''t it be? Selling your business creates more multi-millionaires than any other endeavor. The key issue however is this: are you growing your business the right way, and are you focusing on the right things? You see, when it comes time for buyers to appraise the value of your business, they might find different things to be important than you do.
mashable.com
OCTOBER 1, 2013
'Mashable. Mashable. Sign in. Like. Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Social Media. Tech. Business. Entertainment. US & World. Lifestyle. Watercooler. Jobs. More. Channels. Social Media. Tech. Business. Entertainment. US & World. Lifestyle. Watercooler. Jobs. Company About Us Licensing & Reprints Archive. Contact Contact Us Submit News Submit a Bug.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 15, 2013
'5 SEO Action Steps You Can Take Today written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing In a recent blog post I wrote about the new realities of SEO. For the most part that post revealed how the shifting form of search into a less content and more context driven world requires site owners and SEO professionals to think differently about how they approach search engine optimization.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Ramy Khuffash is the co-founder and Chief Lifelogger at Narrato. It’s hard not to notice the shift from paid-up-front apps to free ones. Even Apple has made its OS X Mavericks software free. There are clear benefits for consumers, especially in a marketplace that doesn’t offer trials. Instead of having to take a leap of faith based on nothing more than screenshots and a few reviews, you can try freemium apps, then pay for extras if you want them.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
OCTOBER 21, 2013
'Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. In this week’s podcast episode on the Walter and Yaro show (still yet to be named!) we review Walter’s hectic weekend putting in long hours at a startup event. He was part of a team that came third in a competition to create a new product, pitch it and even find customers for it, … Read the rest of this entry » The post Creating And Pitching A Product At Startup Weekend, Investing In Startups Via Angel List, And How To Gain Exposure Fo
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 20, 2013
'Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. 1. Show some energy!
deal architect
OCTOBER 18, 2013
'As an innovation author, I generally like to look ahead. But the mysterious time machine that is LinkedIn will often bring back colleagues and friends I have long lost touch with. A recent re-acquaintance reminded me I first encountered SAP.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 11, 2013
'We’re deep into week 2 of teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Part 1 of this post described the issues in the drug discovery. Part 2 covered medical devices and digital health. Part 3 described what we’re going to do about it.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 14, 2013
'5 New Realities of SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Back in the day, SEO was more technical and less, well, semantic. Now I realize that for most a term like semantic query relevancy might as well be the name of computer programming language, but the fact is Google’s customers, the searcher and the advertiser, are no longer content with results based on related page keyword content.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 23, 2013
'Investors are people too. They evaluate you like you should assess a possible co-founder or first employee. What are your credentials? What have you done that would convince me that my money is safe in your hands? Only after they see you as fundable, do they want to assess your plan for fundability, not the other way around. Even with great credentials, it is all too possible for an entrepreneur to come across as a high risk investment.
Jeff Hilimire
OCTOBER 3, 2013
'Embarking on my new startup, Dragon Army , has made me feel like a brand new entrepreneur again. Mainly because building mobile apps for consumers is not something I’ve been directly involved with before. So we’re going to be learning as we go, ala Ender Wiggin from Ender’s Game (you know, where we got the name Dragon Army from). And so this article, 7 things going against you as a first time entrepreneur , really resonates with me today (thanks Joe for the recommendation).
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 22, 2013
'There’s a saying that a great developer is 10x more productive than a mediocre one. That’s not true. You can’t put 100 average designers on a committee and get a fabulous design, right? A great developer, or a great designer, is better than 10x an average one — they’re better than an infinite number. Because they’ll come up with ideas and implementations that 100 others wouldn’t.
deal architect
OCTOBER 18, 2013
'Phil Fersht, Founder and CEO of HfS has invited me to a fireside chat at his firm’s event Blueprint in New York. Broadly, we will cover 5 major disruptions shaking IT and in particular, the outsourcing world: Explosion in technology.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 26, 2013
'This is the start of the third year teaching teams of scientists (professors and their graduate students) in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps). This month we’ve crossed ~ 300 teams in the first two years through the program. I-Corps is the accelerator that helps scientists bridge the commercialization gap between their research in their labs and wide-scale commercial adoption and use.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 20, 2013
'Singapore’s taxi industry has been the subject of many recently introduced services looking to disrupt that sector. We’ve seen the recent introduction of premium limousine provider Uber , which hails a luxurious if pricey ride with simply a few touches on their mobile, to various different mobile applications on Android and iOS all offering an easier in obtaining a cab in this city.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2013
'Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out th
Rembrandt Communications
OCTOBER 2, 2013
'Why are customers leaving your Website? If you are watching your Google Analytics, you can tell how long your customers are staying on your Web pages and reading the information. If your “Bounce Rate” is high, your customers are not sticking around long enough to purchase your products and services. This is not good. So […].
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