SoCal CTO
AUGUST 4, 2011
Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 29, 2011
What makes startups succeed or fail? More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition. For the less than 10% of startups that do succeed, most encounter several near death experiences along the way. Simply put, while we now have some good theory , we just are not very good at creating startups yet. After 50 years of technology entrepreneurship it’s still an art.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 29, 2011
Tame bugs like a boss! The visual bug tracker for web developers & designers. (Powered by LaunchBit ). Tweet. --> At this moment I’m in the worst seat on the plane. In 32B , jet engines thunder mere feet from my eardrums, a fact confirmed by a window whose proximity to the engine affords a vista only of three sheets of metal and 37 rivets.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 14, 2011
I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management&# at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate&# story. I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular. What are the teachable moments? The short article in Fast Company is here if you’d like to read it.
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
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 11, 2011
by Oliver Wilkinson , founder of SSL247 and co-founder of jobiso.fr. As a big believer in young business talent, I’d like to share some tips – learned through experience – about honing your skills as an entrepreneur. In my companies we thrive on the entrepreneurial spirit in our young employees, and consider mentoring them is key to their personal and professional growth, as well as that of our companies – so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to write this guest post.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 9, 2011
A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. After exchanging a couple of notes, I concluded that she was more likely a victim of item #1 on my reject list below, rather than a drought on seed funding.
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Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 7, 2011
I’ve been railing against software patents for a number of years. I believe software patents are an invalid construct – software shouldn’t be able to patented. For a while, I felt like I was shouting alone in the wilderness. While a bunch of software engineers I know thought software patents were bogus, I had trouble getting anyone else to speak out against software patents.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 29, 2011
In a recent Capital Factory all-hands discussion, one of the founders started a question with a well-worn preamble: “I talked to a bunch of the mentors and they all told me the same thing about pricing, but I’m telling you, they’re wrong. I know our industry , I know how our customers think, and in our industry …&#. What followed was well-reasoned and sensible.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 31, 2011
What makes startups succeed or fail? More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition. For the less than 10% of startups that do succeed, most encounter several near-death experiences along the way. Simply put, while we now have some good theory , we just are not very good at creating startups yet. After 50 years of technology entrepreneurship it's still an art.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 1, 2011
You might have more in common with your great-grandparents than that receding hairline or cleft chin; some of your favorite brands might have been used by your predecessors, even as early as the Civil War. And while your elders may not be transitioning into the digital age with ease (or at all), several of America’s oldest brands have thrived through multiple technology changes.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2011
Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Recent reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 25, 2011
Tweet. When I was running Path 101, I'd laugh when people asked me if I was taking vacation. First off, I couldn't actually afford to go anywhere on a startup salary. Second, there was way too much to do. Third, I'm not sure I could have successfully unplugged anyway. The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 3, 2011
Yesterday there was solid progress on the Startup Visa Movement – specifically making it easier for foreign entrepreneurs to start their companies in the US. The WSJ had a good summary article titled U.S. to Assist Immigrant Job Creators that discusses two formal communications from the Obama administration. Press release from the Department of Homeland Security titled Secretary Napolitano Announces Initiatives to Promote Startup Enterprises and Spur Job Creation.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 22, 2011
Tweet. -->. Whatever your standpoint on meat dresses , no one today is more vocal about being true to yourself than Lady Gaga. God makes no mistakes. I’m on the right track. I was born this way. As she’s said in interviews, she’s not speaking only to the LGBT community, she’s encouraging anyone who is seeking their identity, and looking for permission to be that person in public.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 26, 2011
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!
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2011
Silicon Valley technology startup accelerator Blackbox earlier this year launched the Startup Genome Project , which seeks to type startups, identify their developmental stage and the metrics that matter, and build a system to integrate the methodologies of many of the Valley’s leading thinkers such as Steve Blank , Eric Ries , Sean Ellis and Dave McClure.
Growthink Blog
AUGUST 18, 2011
I recently read the following quote from Apple CEO Steve Jobs: "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new." Job's statement reminds me of a similar statement made by Henry Ford many decades before, which was: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 15, 2011
There was a wonderful conversation two weeks ago on the NY Times' Room for Debate around " Can New York Rival Silicon Valley." As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 31, 2011
At a board meeting yesterday, a management team was talking about their hiring needs and some of the challenges they're having hiring great people. This conversation seems to take place at nearly every growing company in just about every board meeting. over and over again. It's clearly one of the most important things a company can do--yet companies don't ever get as organized around it, with dedicated resources, until much later in their lives.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 8, 2011
I finally started Smart Bear Live. It’s “ Loveline for startups ,&# where entrepreneurs get to ask any question about their startup and have me and a rotating co-host tackle the problem and devise constructive next-actions. Like most ventures, it didn’t work the way I’d imagined. For the last year I envisioned it as a weekly call-in radio show, and in this incarnation it wasn’t call-in, it wasn’t on the radio, and it’s not weekly.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 11, 2011
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!
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 8, 2011
Trover ( www.trover.com ) is a mobile discovery app that is created for explorers who love to share their discoveries with each other in a visual way. Its defining feature is its location-based discovery mosaic, which essentially triangulates your location and lets you visually browse through an eye-catching collection of thumbnail images featuring places to see and things to do nearby that others have discovered and shared.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
AUGUST 5, 2011
In this post I will share with you some of my favorite resources on the web that I keep in my bookmark. They range from inspiration to graphics, content to money. As an online entrepreneur, I am constantly working on web projects. I am not just delegating but working in the trenches, honing the design, optimizing conversion, testing usability and adding functionality.
OnlyOnce
AUGUST 18, 2011
People First. I do not think it’s telling that my fourth post in this series of posts on Return Path’s core values ( kickoff post , tag cloud ) is something called People First. Ok, it probably should have been the first post in the series. To be fair, it is the first value on our list, but for whatever reason, the value about Ownership was top of mind when I decided to create this series.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 8, 2011
The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. It was a good interview, save for that little vein that I had no idea was so prominently featured on the side of my head--but what's a bald guy to do? At least it's not a weird fold in the back or a dent at the top. Anyway, I was pretty happy about it, but then I got a note from a friend that said, "Don't sweat the haters.
Software By Rob
AUGUST 24, 2011
This is a guest article by Karl Falconer. Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next? What should I do next to keep my edge?”.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 16, 2011
50 coffee meetings. It should stick in your head as a metaphor for networking. For getting outside of your comfort zone. For starting relationships today that won’t pay off for a year. It’s the entrepreneur’s equivalent of “ 10,000 hours.&#. Anybody who has spent any time with me in person will be tired of this advice because I give it so frequently.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 2, 2011
The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) earlier this evening announced the winners of this year’s SiTF Awards , which recognizes technology innovations developed in Singapore. This year, some of the thirteen teams out of a total of 177 entrants that emerged winners in their respective categories to clinch the top awards were a number of Singapore technology startups, perhaps a sign that the local technology startup scene is in its ascendancy.
Babbling VC
AUGUST 9, 2011
You've heard the clichéd statement made a million times: "A players hire A players. B players hire C players!" I couldn't agree with this more but want to make a point that actually addresses a problem before hiring even starts. At times, simply avoiding a hire could be strategically more beneficial to your business than hiring someone not up to the task. .
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
AUGUST 9, 2011
In the past few posts , I have spent time discussing how to make money using the Internet as a resource. Most of the strategies that I have discussed for making money require that you have your own online website. That is because a good website or blog can serve as a central hub for all of your marketing efforts. The site is a way of generating consistent revenue for your online money making efforts.
Guy Nirpaz
AUGUST 24, 2011
B2B SaaS companies increasingly rely on inside sales teams to drive growth. The model is often referred to as “Low Touch Sales” and follows this formula: Use Inbound marketing to drive Internet traffic to the site and create new leads. Use an inside sales team to support leads through their evaluation process and convert them to paying customers. Inside sales representatives (ISR) and sales management teams juggle with large volum. es of leads of various qualities.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 8, 2011
If you a scared motherf%^*&r, go to church. —Ice Cube, Go to Church. I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No difference. Only what you do. They both feel the same. They both fear dying and getting hurt. The man who is yellow refuses to face up to what he’s got to face.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 21, 2011
“People still want calls …&#. When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 31, 2011
Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia is happening right now and the event space in Suntec City is buzzing with the chatter of the gathered social media glitterati, brand managers and communications professionals from Singapore and the region. But what is really interesting this year is the accompanying Apps World Asia 2011 , where there are specific tracks applicable to developers and programmers working in the web and mobile application spaces.
Babbling VC
AUGUST 10, 2011
OK, hands up, who's truly surprised by the drop in the stock markets or the postponed tech IPO's or even the upcoming slowdown in venture financing? No really, who is surprised? If you said yes, stick your head back in the sand. It's all warm and cuddly there and if that's your thing, enjoy. . For the rest of you, let's get back to business. What is the reality now?
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
AUGUST 1, 2011
In my previous posts I introduced the concept of publicity stunts , and because this is a concept that has worked extraordinarily well for some companies and individuals, I thought I would discuss the concept further in depth. Make sure you check out my previous posts first to get an understanding of publicity and publicity stunts: Is All Publicity Good Publicity?
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