Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 6, 2013
'If you are a young startup founder, how do you find that CEO or other executive for your “dream team” to close on funding or complement your skills to kick start your company? It makes logical sense to scour the job boards, engage an executive recruiter, or scan the networking sites like LinkedIn for a good array of candidates, and then interview the ones with the best resumes.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 7, 2013
'by Carlo Pandian. When you start a new business or have been trading for some time and are looking for new sources for sales, it can be hard to work out where you can move your attentions to next. If you have a strategy in place that isn’t working then perhaps you should consider our five sources that many businesses miss out on. They could be a key part of the roadmap to future success for your business. 1.
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The Next Web
JUNE 7, 2013
'Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 4, 2013
'In a recent post , Ev Williams (co-founder of Twitter, Blogger and Medium), suggested that all startup advice is wrong (presumably, including his own post on this subject). Ev pointed out that what works for one entrepreneur/company doesn’t necessarily work for others: Companies are not built in a lab. We are unable to run Monte Carlo simulations.
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 Professionals Musings
JUNE 2, 2013
'People with money to invest have choices. How do you as an entrepreneur with a new idea get to be one of those choices? Initially, you may be able to rely on friends and family to put you on the top of their list, but eventually you will probably need real professional investors (Angels and VCs). You won’t win with them without understanding their alternatives, as well as their mindset.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 6, 2013
'by JP James, Managing Director of Libreum Capital Management. I have been asked by more than one venture the question, what are the points that I need to consider whenever I put together a deal? This is obviously a very broad question as it can pertain to anything, but I’m assuming that some of the characteristics are that it is some exchange of financial value between two parties where the goal is to create a win-win situation.
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crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 6, 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!
Up and Running
JUNE 5, 2013
'With 70 percent of households using the Internet to gather information about local businesses and services, what are you doing about your online presence? I often search for local stores or service providers online and am routinely amazed at the lack of information and presence some prominent businesses in my community have online. But I get it, if you’re a small business owner and maybe a little bit of technophobe, the last thing on your mind is going to be spending the time and money on a web
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 5, 2013
'New York City is a fantastic place to live--I''ve been here all my life. I wouldn''t want to live anywhere else. That being said, it isn''t necessarily the easiest place to live, but it''s worth it. That''s why I get excited when companies in my industry create businesses that improve the living experience of being here. The mobile phone has the potential to be incredibly transformative for the lives of NYC residents.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 3, 2013
AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players in the tech startup universe – from glamorous poster-child to hopeless wanna-be. But AngelList is huge. For every top-notch team on the site, you’re guaranteed to find dozens of others that will eventually give up and move on.
Business Plan Blog
JUNE 5, 2013
'Finding the right contract developer can be a big undertaking, especially if this is your first time doing. This blog will provide you with some critical advice on how to develop an effective and efficient relationship with a contract developer. 1. Define the goals of your project. Before you approach any contract developers, you will need to understand and have clearly defined your project goals.
deal architect
JUNE 6, 2013
'The WSJ picks up on a Forrester analysis from a few weeks ago. It suggests Oracle apps customers are staying put on EBS, PeopleSoft etc because they are not impressed with Fusion Apps. Here''s the reality. Several hundred Oracle customers.
Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2013
'In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. —-. Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 1, 2013
'If you can’t solve problems and enjoy it, you won’t make it as an entrepreneur. By definition, an entrepreneur is the first to undertake a given business, and firsts never happen without problems and people frustrations. The toughest problems are people problems, like personnel issues, but there are tough operational problems as well, such as vendor delays.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 4, 2013
'Isn’t entrepreneurship about having an amazing idea and building a living around it? …yes, except every advisor and blogger admonishes ” your idea sucks ,” you prima donna pompous a **e , so your job is to use an “idea” as a foil to find out what is actually an amazing idea and then go follow that path, whatever that might be.
deal architect
JUNE 5, 2013
'I have been on a no-beer diet for a while now, and so my visit to Germany and Czech last week provided an even more pleasant reacquaintance with Bitburger, Pilsener Urquell and other golden nectars. And it hit me how.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 4, 2013
'I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. Since Arrested Development is back I thought I’d resurrect Gob Bluth’s answer when he was told he needed a “business model” – he quickly figured out that he was missing one so he asked Starla, the Bluth company secretary, if she would be his business model.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 4, 2013
'As we recover from some tough economic times, more and more people seem to be turning to entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional employment. I applaud this trend, but caution all of you thinking this direction to approach entrepreneurship with your eyes wide open. It is not for everyone, as the entrepreneur’s path is fraught with challenges.
Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2013
'In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. —-. Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company.
deal architect
JUNE 2, 2013
'on the New Florence blog The Massive AWS implementation at Netflix Smart Driving Assistant Mobile Apps can be treasure troves High-tech hippies Processing massive amounts of crime video Mars Fly By in 2018? Deepak Chopra’s Dreamweaver Not your grandpa’s batteries.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 3, 2013
'by Cassie Crudo, operations manager of HubRunner. A simple way to think about your business’s website content is to break it into two categories: core content and fresh content. Core content is the main, critical information about your business, including details about your products and services, your team and your values. Fresh content serves a few different purposes — but, in short, think about fresh content as bits of valuable knowledge you’re sharing with website visitors.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2013
'It’s a jungle out there. In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. That’s the good news and the bad news. The opportunity for change is huge, with everyone taking a new look at the world after the recession, but the competition is also huge, since the cost of entry is at an all-time low.
Rembrandt Communications
JUNE 6, 2013
'SEO content, business procedures and PR stories are protected! Earlier this week, I attended a seminar by an FBI Search and Recovery Diver. He showed us all of his high tech equipment and talked about how he searches for missing people, evidence, and other items underwater. And while it was cool to try on his [.].
deal architect
JUNE 5, 2013
'I had a chance to interview Steven Wood, co founder of Eloqua for The New Polymath 4 years ago. He had a comprehensive vision of how companies could mine the many online clues us consumers provide via web searches, social.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 4, 2013
'by Christine Comaford, author of “ SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together “ You want to grow your business and you’re pretty clear on what you need from your employees. Hard work. Efficiency. Innovation. Motivation. Results. But what do your employees need from you? If you’re thinking in practical terms — a steady paycheck, a quiet workspace, more training — you’re wrong.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 7, 2013
'Entrepreneurs have to know when and how to say ‘no,’ and be good at delivering the message. All startup leaders are besieged with requests for their time, attention, talent, money, or influence, and sometimes even good requests won’t fit into the time and energy you have available. Startups require focus, so you need to say ‘no’ to some things, in order to do the important things well.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 6, 2013
'The Boulder TechStars program is in week three and the intensity level is high. The TechStars office is across the hall from ours at Foundry Group and it’s wild to see the level of activity ramp up during the three months that TechStars Boulder is in session. I’m trying a new thing this program and doing a weekly CEO-only meeting. I’ve been trying to figure out a new way to engage with each program other than mentoring a team or two, and have been looking for a high leverage a
deal architect
JUNE 3, 2013
'We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that it is refreshing to hear about innovations in other parts of the world. Mali: The Vocal Web The Rudiben mobile app Czech Technology Prowess The impressive German infrastructure.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 6, 2013
'The age of machines have arrived, and the future of the workplace will continue to change as various factors – increased automation, changing social demographics, heightened connectivity amongst others – all combine and see technology steadily displace labor. But while that may sound like doom and gloom, futurist Ross Dawson (above) says that the new emerging landscape is also littered with opportunity.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 3, 2013
'In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to make it succeed. Investors know this, hence the saying “Bet on the jockey (founder), not the horse (idea).” A great jockey is a great role model. Like it or not, everyone looks to the entrepreneur as the jockey role model in a new business.
Mike Michalowicz
JUNE 3, 2013
'There is no question that technology has given us the ability to get work done. You can work anywhere, any time. You can live in a tent in a cornfield in Kansas and do business. Or, you can kick back on some beach in Tahiti and sip drinks with those little umbrellas in them, while doing a face to face (ahem, Skype) business deal with a guy in Russia.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 5, 2013
'Over and over again people talk about transparency. Many people assert they are transparent, or are being transparent. Few actually are. I was thinking about this last night while watching the last few episodes of Revenge: Season 2 with Amy. Suddenly the word “transparent” started being thrown around by the Grasons, referring to their new found desire to be transparent.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 2, 2013
'By Emily Miller. Every company has a branding message to communicate. Whether that message has to do with a physical product, a cause or a big-picture idea, it must be communicated in a clear and cohesive way. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of branding, it may help to clear things up a little bit before we talk about how to use design in a way the furthers your branding message.
VC Cafe
JUNE 3, 2013
'At Cannes Lions, no one will discuss the most significant disruption to hit the advertising industry since the internet- the transition to programmatic, real time bidding (RTB), except for maybe a few data geeks. Carl Fremont, Chief Digital Officer at MEC (WPP Group’s media buying subsidiary) is one of those Geeks and shared his perspective about RTB, “easily, the most important trend in the. [[ This is a content summary only.
Version One Ventures
JUNE 3, 2013
'It has been almost a year since the initial launch of Version One Ventures and the first 12 months have been very busy with about a dozen Seed and Series A investments. So it is time to get some help to manage the fund and I am excited to announce that Version One is hiring an analyst. The analyst position is a two- to three-year role where you will learn about what the venture capital business is all about and get the chance to work with some interesting startups.
The Next Web
JUNE 1, 2013
'One of the most talked about parts of The Next Web Conference Europe 2013 was when two 13-year-olds took to the stage. Jordan Casey and Puck Meerburg show that age doesn’t have to be a factor when it comes to being a tech entrepreneur. Jordan is the CEO of Casey Games , a mobile games company founded in January 2012. In this video he talks us through the business he’s created from his home in Ireland.
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