YoungUpstarts
MAY 27, 2012
by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses “ Any entrepreneur knows that when it comes to running a business your work is never done. From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to sleep at night, you’re worrying, planning for the future, and more often than not, putting out fires.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 29, 2012
With the recent passage of the JOBS Act, crowdfunding is about to get even hotter. Serial tech entrepreneur, speaker and consultant Scott Steinberg , author of The Crowdfunding Bible , explains how to make crowdfunding work for your startup. Steinberg, CEO of TechSavvy Global , answered ReadWriteWeb’s most pressing questions with these 10 insights into successful crowdsourcing: ReadWriteWeb: Are particular types of tech startups better suited for crowdfunding than others, and why is that so?
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crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 1, 2012
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!
Lightspeed Venture Partners
MAY 31, 2012
'The emergence of companies like Getaround, Airbnb and even Yelp are examples of ways that we as consumers are using technology to get more comfortable doing everything from sharing recommendations to letting someone rent our car for a few hours. While the technology is the enabler for these movements, social reputation plays a key role in their adoption.
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
MAY 29, 2012
By Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese, authors of “ The Collaboration Imperative: Executive Strategies for Unlocking Your Organization’s True Potential “ New technology and the reality of working in global organizations means we are replacing traditional in-person meetings with travel-free, technology-enabled, face-to-face collaboration that can occur at anytime, with anyone, anywhere in the world.
Up and Running
MAY 28, 2012
Every blog owner finds himself or herself wondering how they can improve their site to engage visitors, build relationships, and of course grow revenues. The good news is that you are your best source of information! With print advertising, such as flyer printing or postcards, you have a limited number of options for gathering information, such as with demographics records or surveys.
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searchengineland.com
MAY 30, 2012
Home. PRO Area. What Is SEL PRO? PRO Library. PRO How To. PRO Video. PRO Guides. Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. News & Features. News. Features. SearchCap Daily Newsletter. Columns. All Columns. All Things SEO. B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. Enterprise SEO. In House Search Marketing. Keywords & Content. Link Week. Local Search.
deal architect
MAY 30, 2012
Larry Dignan at ZDNet summarizes a nugget from a Forrester analysis of Business/IT perspectives Sure there’s collaboration between the business and IT on back office (46 percent said there was cooperation), but sales and marketing, R&D and product engineering lagged.
Campus Entrepreneurship
MAY 26, 2012
Earlier this month I was fortunate to participate in a panel on the Democratization of Innovation. Participants included, Mark Walsh CEO of Genius Rocket, Mike Lincoln of Cooley LP, Ashish Jaiman of Microsoft, and Edmund Pendleton from MTECH at the University of Maryland. Jonathan Aberman of Amplifier Ventures and co-chair of Startup VA was the moderator of our panel.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 1, 2012
New entrepreneurs often seem to confuse viability with fundability. Certainly a non-viable business should be not fundable, but many viable businesses are also not fundable. Thus when an investor declines your funding request, you need to curb your anger and understand the real reason for this outcome. In my experience, here are the most common issues that cause funding requests for potentially viable businesses to be rejected, in priority order: Inadequate business plan.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2012
If you’re tired of your Moleskine and think that Microsoft Word is for laughable tech dinosaurs, consider going mobile with your writing. With non-verbal communication becoming the norm in today’s fast-paced, tech-forward world, there are many new tools designed to help you get the most out of your writing time, and, indeed, your words. If you’re struck with inspiration when you’re on the go, at least one of these eight essential apps should be available at your fingertips.
deal architect
JUNE 1, 2012
Gery Menegaz’s bio says he is an “Executive IT Architect” for IBM. The small print says his columns for ZDNet including the recent one on clouds don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions. Except that they do. His first.
Seeing Both Sides
JUNE 1, 2012
Mary Meeker's periodic review of the Internet industry is always a must-read presentation. This year was no exception - chock full of data, insights and thought-provoking charts. There is a theme that Mary espoused that I have become a big fan of ever since I read Marc Andresseen's article in the Wall Street Journal " Why software is eating the world ".
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 31, 2012
The space for startups is more crowded than ever. First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2012
Asia, you’re fired. No no, this is not some sick joke about failing Asian economies and massive corporate retrenchments – instead, Asia will see soon its own edition of hit reality TV series, “The Apprentice”, in which contestants competed for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald Trump. The Apprentice Asia will see various contestants from around Asia vie for a position with Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes of AirAsia fame.
deal architect
MAY 27, 2012
on the innovation blog Nokia in the Valley The Internet Minute Foods your grandma would not recognize Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm VPNs and Repressive Regimes.
Scalable Startup
MAY 29, 2012
A few things have happened recently to cause me to look a little closer at NY for the next amazing companies in Internet technology. First, a friend announced that they were moving their startup geo-lo based company from L.A. to New York; Second, I caught the recent live stream of the Disrupt NYC Hackathon; Third, A New York Times article about how NYC’s “allure” is increasing.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 28, 2012
Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of your management team, or your sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. While these may be necessary for funding, they may not be sufficient to make your startup the great success embodied in your vision. I have always struggled to communicate the multiple other relevant priorities, and the other intangibles required for a great execution.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 27, 2012
By now, most people know that LinkedIn is an excellent resource for improving a job search by allowing job hunters to make new contacts with recruiters and companies that might not have found them otherwise. But there are varying degrees of success among those on LinkedIn , and the simple fact is that some job seekers are doing a much better job than others when it comes to getting exposure on the site.
deal architect
MAY 28, 2012
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer in the US, and for many of us that is beer, bbq, baseball and books. The last two in particular made me think of metrics last week. Sam Fuld, an injured.
Gust
MAY 28, 2012
Business success begins in the mind of the startup founder and his team. A winning startup is a team of entrepreneurs who build and run the business as an extension of who they are, rather than some extrapolation of the Google or Facebook model. It’s not so easy to fake the important attributes when the going gets rough. So before you risk it all by jumping into a startup, do a reality check on your own mind to see if you can find a majority of the following attributes, summarized from the book
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 26, 2012
Startups and entrepreneurs are drowning in the information overload, where the volume of data created is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. That creates a huge gap between data and meaning, and makes quick decisions and action ever more difficult. We all need to take a little more time to think. On the other end of the spectrum, some people “over-think” things to the point of inaction.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 29, 2012
Sharing sensitive information, offering unlimited vacation, and staying closed on the busiest day of the week might sound like a recipe for disaster, but for a few companies, they’re some of the best ideas they’ve ever had. Although counter-intuitive policies certainly look crazy at first glance, with an understanding of their reasoning and how they really work, we discover that can be incredibly useful for those who have implemented them.
deal architect
MAY 29, 2012
The WSJ says the term "innovation" has begun to lose meaning. On many weekends, I would agree and cite my post Double Talk accounting - lots of talk and not enough results showing innovation at at some companies. But this.
Gust
MAY 29, 2012
It’s the end of May as I write this so I’ve just finished my annual April-May business plan marathon reading more than 100 business plans for my angel investment group and four different business plan contests. This seems like a good point to summarize here what I look for in a business plan. . Don’t push adjectives. Let me assign my own.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 29, 2012
For survival, the objective of every business should be to bring in revenues which exceed their costs. Even non-profits have to do this to cover overhead costs, unless they rely totally on donations. Yet I continue to see business plans, or even talk to founders, and can’t find the specifics of the business model anywhere. As Guy Kawasaki says in his book “ The Art of the Start ,” if you can’t describe your business model in ten words or less, you don’t have a business model.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2012
by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ The slowly recovering economy has taken a toll on all Americans. But for many recent college graduates, it has made that first step into the “real” world a real doozy. In fact, the Associated Press’s analysis of recent government data shows that 53 percent of recent college grads (those under 25) are either jobless or underemployed.
deal architect
MAY 30, 2012
I like to go to a couple of new events (to me) each year. Next week’s Discover is one this year for several reasons: a) HP is as close to a industry composite company (ok, a term I like –.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 1, 2012
It’s June 1st. And that means it’s Life Dinner. On the first day of every month, Amy and I go out to dinner. It’s not “date night” (we have plenty of those). Instead, it’s a special celebration of being alive. It’s a chance to reflect on the last month and talk about what’s coming up in the next month.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 27, 2012
Helpers do what you say, while good help does what you need, without you saying anything. People who can help you the most are actually smarter than you, at least in their domain. Top entrepreneurs spend more time putting the right team in place to accomplish their objectives than they spend on any other components of their job. Some entrepreneurs are so in love with themselves (narcissistic) that they insist on answering every question, and making every decision.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 28, 2012
The modern gentleman seems to be an endangered species – gentlemanly virtue, men of character and sacrifice today are few and far between. But vodka brand Ketel One and men’s magazine GQ are on the hunt for just that elusive gentleman with its nationwide competition ‘ A Gentleman’s Call: In Pursuit of an Idea that Matters ‘ ‘ A Gentleman’s Call ‘ is a competition that is on the lookout for genuine and honorable gentlemen to come up with an original
deal architect
MAY 30, 2012
Yesterday at AllThingsD, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple said I want to build great products, I want to build great products. If we do that, the other things follow. Companies are confused and think their goal is revenue, or certain.
Genuine VC
MAY 29, 2012
As a VC, I end up meeting some amazing people of many different backgrounds and profiles. But there are two categories of people which are tightly correlated, but distinctly different. The difference between what I’d call an “Inventor,” someone who has many ideas for businesses to start, and a “Founder,” an entrepreneur who starts a company, is subtle.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 30, 2012
If you are an entrepreneur starting a business for the first time, I recommend that you find a product concept that is already accepted and improve on it, rather than tackling that ultimate disruptive technology. Notice that I’m not suggesting that you steal someone else’s idea, but simply limit your risk by adding innovation to a proven entity. Evidence of success using this approach is all around us.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2012
by Billy Moller. When it comes to work and money, there are two prevailing schools of thought: either you find a job that will pay the wage you need for the lifestyle you want, or you live a lifestyle that can be supported by the kind of job you love to do. In an ideal world, everyone would make lots of money doing rewarding, fun jobs, but this rarely happens right away.
deal architect
MAY 30, 2012
on the innovation blog Technology of the Avengers Coinstar’s vending machines of the future The New Yorker Innovators Issue Cleaning up the Tantalum supply chain Solar Cells on Clothes and Paper A week of “Green”.
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