Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and

San Francisco 372

San Francisco Jordan Angel Investor Partner 372

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up. Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software.

Entrepreneur 275

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Retention 275

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is Ricardo’s “post mortem” account of the life and death of a corporate entrepreneurship program.

Programming 291

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 291

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m so sick of how – as a country – our authorities treat people as though they are criminals. A month ago a successful Boston entrepreneur who has been incredibly engaged in the Boston startup community was thrown in jail for three days after a CPB agent decided she didn’t have a valid visa (she did have a valid visa, and she was from that extremely dangerous country of Canada.).

Entrepreneur 183

Entrepreneur Boston DC Canada 183

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

Startup

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Around this time of year I get sentimental and think about my life for once. It’s been slightly over two years since I attended Startup Weekend in September 2010, which literally changed my world for the better. At the time, I was an insecure lad who just came out of university. I was working for a large Dutch bank, and was not liking it very much. I was not very happy with my life, but didn’t really know why.

Netherlands 159

Netherlands Technical Review Software Review Cofounder 159

Up and Running

JANUARY 2, 2013

I know what it’s like to pitch to investors – both angels and venture capitalists. I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology start-ups. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Below is a format I’ve successfully used, as well as helped many other first-time start-up CEOs raise investment capital.

Hockey Stick 164

Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Technical Review Due Diligence 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. They dream of appearing at the door, with their idea on the back of a napkin, and popping out a few months later with investor money to burn. The reality is far different.

Incubator 289

Incubator Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 289

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is Ricardo’s “post mortem” account of the life and death of a corporate entrepreneurship program.

Programming 283

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 283

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 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!

Social Media 108

Social Media Small Business Design Media 108

The Next Web

JANUARY 21, 2013

Reports are coming in that the social coding site GitHub has been blocked in China. While the service has seen blocks in the country before, this appears to be a much broader denial of service, affecting most, if not all users in the world’s most populous country online and offline. We first heard about the new censorship from Chinese web monitoring site GreatFire (and our own Josh Ong confirmed he couldn’t access the site as well): GitHub completely blocked in China now, including H

Government 155

Government China Software Developers Software Development 155

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

In the coming year, based on current announcements , Google Analytics is set to go through an almost unprecedented amount of evolution. My postulation is that by this time next year the tool will be almost unrecognizable. [My favorite is Visitor Analytics, and visitor level segmentation that will be pervasive throughout the product. This is insanely cool.].

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

- select -. Books. eBooks. Job Board. Shop. Books. eBooks. Job Board. Shop. RSS. Facebook. Twitter. Newsletter. Search Go! - select -. Books. eBooks. Job Board. Shop. Coding. Design. Mobile. Graphics. UX Design. WordPress. Coding. CSS. HTML. JavaScript. Techniques. Design. Web Design. Typography. Inspiration. Business. Mobile. Responsive. iPhone & iPad.

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

We all know that every startup is risky. No risk means no reward. Yet every investor has his own “rules of thumb” on what makes a specific startup too high a risk for his investment taste. You need to know these guidelines to set your expectations on funding. Of course, if you intend to fund the business yourself, or have a rich uncle, external investment funding concerns are not a problem.

Startup 272

Startup Russia Software Review Government 272

Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is part 2 of Ricardo’s “post mortem” of the life and death of Qualcomm’s corporate entrepreneurship program.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 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!

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Crowdfunding is the process of raising capital by offering rewards to ‘backers’ by pre-selling your product or offering equity in exchange. While the latter is not yet legal in the United States, the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012, mandates that the SEC makes it legal by January 1st of 2013. There will inevitably be delays as the SEC works to implement a new framework to support this legislation, but it would be wise for entrepreneurs to start comparing equity crowdfunding wi

SEC 146

SEC Equity United States Technical Review 146

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2013

Ok, it's still resolution time, right? Time to get cracking on some new initiatives in 2013. and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company. Forget the fact that you can't write or it takes a long time. These are things that go away over time. First off, many of the widely read tech bloggers aren't the best writers either.

Entrepreneur 140

Entrepreneur Technical Review PR Hiring 140

css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

CSS -Tricks. treehouse : what would you like to learn today? Web Design. Web Development. iOS Development. Show search box. Search. Search in: All. Articles. Forums. Snippets. Videos. ?. Home. Forums. Snippets. Gallery. Videos. Almanac. Demos. Deals. Navigation n Search. So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project. Published. December 18, 2012. by Chris Coyier.

Web 96

Web Software Review Technical Review Caching 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

Mid-level or even top executives who “grew up” in large companies often look with envy at startups, and dream of how easy it must be running a small organization, where you can see the whole picture and it appears you have total control. In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations survive in the early-stage startup environment.

Early Stage 264

Early Stage Entrepreneur Technical Review Demand 264

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. Post WWII the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on weapons development and space exploration (being completely customer-driven) and other agencies charted to fund basic and applied research in science and medicine (being driven

Silicon Valley 243

Silicon Valley Government Germany Japan 243

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 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!

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

Tweet. Many years ago I coined the phrase “ Pillar Article ” or sometimes called, “ Pillar Content “, to describe how to create great blog content. To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is. If you have never heard of this concept before, you can read the original article here – How To Write Great Blog Content – The Pillar Article.

Media 110

Media Audio Video Social Media 110

ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

According to a report by Nielsen on social media Americans spend three times more time on social media than reading their e-mail. 7.6% of online time is spent reading e-mail and 23% on social. The juicy bit of the study is that more than 70% of social networks users shop online. That’s ~12% more than the average person. These stats make a good case that if you and your brand is active on social networks, you can get rewarded – if you do it right.

Social Media 134

Social Media Sales Media Social Network 134

Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I can only share with you what worked for me. Everyone learns differently. The only thing without a doubt that holds true for everyone learning to program is that you must deeply want to learn. Need to learn. If you go about passively learning then you'll get frustrated and give up as soon as it starts get tough. A few hours a week isn't going to cut it.

Programming 78

Programming Ruby Cofounder Algorithm 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2013

Everyone can recognize a great manager a mile away, so why is it so hard to find one? We all remember a few that are “legends in their own mind”, but that doesn’t do it. In fact, the clue here is that the view in your mind is the only one that matters, rather than the other way around. Almost every one of us in business can remember that one special manager in their career who exemplifies the norm, who commanded our respect, and treated us like a friend, even in the toughest of personal or busin

Management 259

Management Technical Review Leadership Employee 259

Andrew Payne

JANUARY 30, 2013

Stepping off my usual entrepreneurship topics, here’s a letter I sent to Carmen Ortiz, Stephen Heymann, and Scott Garland (the prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case) earlier this week. I’m expecting precisely zero effect on anything here, but it captures my analysis of what happened. Apart from the sadness and tragedy, I think we all need to be very mindful of the growing gaps between technology and our laws.

United States 106

United States Massachusetts Warrant Technical Review 106

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 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!

Social Media 101

Social Media Small Business Design Media 101

OnlyOnce

JANUARY 23, 2013

How to Wow Your Manager. Last week, I talked about how to Wow your employees. Now I am going to discuss the converse of that – How to Wow your Manager. Why Wow your manager? Even if you are senior leader in an organization, the Wow factor is still important. What impact does a Wow have? It sends the signal that you are on top of things. Symbolism is important.

Management 97

Management Email Video Conversion 97

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2013

Does beauty sell? Most people would intuitively say ‘yes’, but what evidence is there that supports the claim? In today’s article we’ll take a look at the world of beautiful people, products and design. How being beautiful has it’s upsides and sometimes, things to look out for. Welcome to the world of beautiful design, beautiful people, beautiful products, beautiful everything.

PHP 120

PHP Design Tennessee Web 120

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 24, 2013

Tweet Last year I did a lot of online shopping, more shopping than I have ever done before. I suspect if you’re a net addict as I am, you spent more online last year than ever before too. According to Comscore, over $43.2 Billion was spent online in 2012. That’s up 15% from 2011. It’s a cliché to say now that online shopping is the real deal, and not just a fad.

Software Review 99

Software Review Product Australia Global 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the

Venture Capital 252

Venture Capital IPO Elevator Pitch Initial Public Offering 252

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive. It was based on an excellent book I had just read by Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor (his wife). I had images in my brain of all of the stresses I had placed on my wife in the heyday of my startups. We once took a “vacation” in Spain with Tania’s parents but we were in the midst of an M&A transaction so this photo is how my wife & her family remember me on that

Partner 418

Partner Startup Spain Email 418

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

We write often about ways small business can reduce expense, increase productivity, and operate more efficiently through a lean approach to marketing, technology, and operations. Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. When we hear that word, we typically envision massive call centers or bucket shops filled with developers writing code half-way across the world.

Lean 99

Lean Hiring United States Small Business 99

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

); //. Marketing News & Expert Advice. ClickZ Awards. ClickZ.asia. ClickZ Academy. Search Engine Watch. SES Events. Topics Stats & Tools Training & Education Jobs White Papers. Subscribe to Newsletters. Touch Edition. Marketing. Strategies Data-Driven Marketing Marketing Automation Marketing to Latinos Conference Call Local Retail Sports & Entertainment Politics & Advocacy Automotive CPG Financial Services Healthcare & Pharma Agency Spotlight.

Social Media 86

Social Media Media B2C New York 86

deal architect

JANUARY 1, 2013

Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years. While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY Times article.

Distribution 370

Distribution Developer 370

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2013

Tweet. Download the Text Transcript in PDF (coming soon). Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. Clay Collins is the founder of Leadbrite , the company behind LeadPages and LeadPlayer , two tools that are fast becoming the go-to-standards when it comes to collecting leads online with video and landing pages. This interview is epic in terms of how many things Clay talks about.

Founder 96

Founder Software Review Social Media RSS 96