SoCal CTO
APRIL 18, 2012
Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners - a go to resource here in LA for recruiting C-level positions at startups - was nice enough to compile some data again this year (see last year's Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data ). Even better, my good friend and data visualization guru Steve Wexler of Data Revelations was able to create visualizations of the data.
deal architect
APRIL 15, 2012
It was early in 2010. I was finishing up research for The New Polymath. I had a generous page in the manuscript on Hasso Plattner’s in-memory vision. An SAP employee reviewed an early draft and encouraged me to reach out.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 19, 2012
by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses “ All growth is good. Bigger is better. All businesses must either “grow or die.”. If you’re a small business owner, you might have been nodding along as you read those business mantras, agreeing wholeheartedly with each one. After all, it’s what you’ve always been taught.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 16, 2012
I spent this weekend at LindzonPalooza. Once a year Howard Lindzon gets together a bunch of his friends at the intersection of financing, tech, media, and entrepreneurship, we descend on The Del in Coronada, and have an awesome 48 hours together. Many interesting and stimulating things were said, but one I remember was from Peter Pham over dinner. It was a simple line, “why do we teach languages in junior high and high school but not a computer language?
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
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 18, 2012
I’m in Leuven, Belgium for most of this week visiting 3D printing leader Materialise and attending their 3D printing conference. For most of you Materialise is a lead contender for the ‘most successful and innovative European company you’ve never heard of’ The business is 20 years old, has 1,000 employees in 15-20 countries, and most importantly works on a lot of amazing projects.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
APRIL 15, 2012
Here is my review of what I call the six layers of quality content writing , relevant for the web, books, news or even a technical white paper. I gave these tips to my team and thought it would be worth sharing them here on EJ as well. 1. Topic Selection. You already know your niche.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
APRIL 19, 2012
'The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. The mobile applications are fast becoming the primary vehicle to access what I call “connected services” to discover people, information and entertainment.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 14, 2012
Instagram. It’s understandably on everybody’s mind these days. Clichés abound about, “You know what would be cool? …” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter.
Campus Entrepreneurship
APRIL 19, 2012
Had a great conversation today with an entrepreneur at a local startup and we discussed technical education for founders. He pointed me to Hungry Academy here in DC. The initiative is a partnership between venture backed giant LivingSocial and JumpStart Lab (both DC based). They offer a 5 month intensive programming program followed by an offer of employment for 18 months.
Jeff Hilimire
APRIL 19, 2012
I don’t know about you, but I’m always trying to figure out the optimal way to use all the digital services/platforms available to me. And I’ve really struggled over time with how to use email effectively, how to keep track of my to-do list, where and how I should take and store notes, and how to effectively use the cloud in the middle of all of that.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 20, 2012
Being a risk taker in business is not the same as being reckless. Nevertheless, the word “risk” has a negative connotation to most of us, implying danger and possible loss. For true entrepreneurs, risk is viewed as a positive, with its implied challenge to overcome the unknown and hitting the big return. In fact, risk is an integral part of life, as well as every business, yet so few people learn to manage it properly, or even want to think about it.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. I always enjoy spending time with Brad as the antidote to the eco chamber. He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. And I’ve always remembered a quote from high school, “Non Conformity is the Highest Form of Social Attainment.” That always stuck with me.
deal architect
APRIL 20, 2012
Ian “Fresh” Burns of the Oracle Racing Design team did an exhilarating talk over dinner at the Oracle analyst event this week. It was about the long, storied history of America’s Cup going back to Queen Victoria (with slides on.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 15, 2012
The frustrating part for online marketers when it comes to that space is that things change all the time. Which means that you have to keep on your toes and catch these fluctuating trends as they unfold. For 2012, there are some trends that you need to be aware of. For example: - Mobile searches increased by a massive 400-percent in 2011. - 70-percent of people on social networks are also online shoppers. - Over 50-percent of e-commerce store visits occur when consumers are logged onto Facebook.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 14, 2012
In today’s business startup environment, if you don’t move fast, you get run over. Without a sense of urgency, people and businesses just can’t move fast enough. Speed is the driver because customers have a zero tolerance for waiting, and there are always competitors gaining on you. John P. Kotter in his book, " A Sense of Urgency ," delves into the how-to required of entrepreneurs on that first step, avoiding pitfalls along the way.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 16, 2012
Can the difference between "it's" and "its" actually affect the fortunes of a technology startup? You might be surprised. If you're working with a startup, odds are you're wearing a half-dozen hats and doing too much with too little. Often, this means that founders are writing their own website copy, press releases and blog posts. Too often, that results in grammatical errors that reflect poorly on the startup.
deal architect
APRIL 14, 2012
on the innovation blog Consumer Reports Top Auto Picks 2012 What would you do with the 1 GBPS web? CNN Audio Tech The Richat structure from the ISS Over a century of tech according to GE annual reports.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 19, 2012
Managers ignore employees’ motivation at their own peril. Gallup estimates that disengaged workers cost businesses $300 billion in profit each year. With the recession discouraging them from quitting for fear they won’t be able to find another job, it’s very likely that either you or one of your coworkers is drudging through the day, uninspired and doing the bare minimum.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 19, 2012
Successful startups are all about turning ideas into action quickly and efficiently. These actions must be the hard part, since entrepreneurs always seem to come to me with ideas, and ask me for help on the actions. That has always seemed strange to me, since the magic is supposed to be in the ideas, and the actions are the same for every business. In fact, the actions required to start and run a business are well documented, the subject of many books, and taught in college courses across the la
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 19, 2012
If you're looking for a warm, heart-rending story for today, look no further than how Caine Monroy became the latest YouTube viral sensation, with more than 2.4 million views and counting since it was posted last week. Thanks to a loyal customer, Nirvan Mullick (pictured with Monroy), the schoolboy now has a $150,000 scholarship fund and fans all over the world.
deal architect
APRIL 15, 2012
Thanks to Charles Dickens, one of the enduring images of the French Revolution is that of the ladies who sat around knitting between the public executions at the Guillotine. Over the last few years, I have been struck by how.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 16, 2012
Over the weekend, inventive students across Singapore came together for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Championship 2012 , an annual competition that showcases the inventiveness, maturity and thinking amongst students across the world. Conceptualized and organized by software giant Microsoft , the event is now considered somewhat as the Olympics version of student technology competitions.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 18, 2012
The universal challenge of every startup founder is to get everything done that needs to get done, and still have a life. Even outside of business, everyone wants to accomplish more, while working less. I’ve been a student of these techniques for some time, but recently I saw a great summary that seems to pull all the key principles together. Stever Robbins, known on the Internet as the Get-It-Done Guy, outlines his strategies in his book “ 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 17, 2012
It's the plight of every startup: mucho trabajo, poco dinero. What to do? Steve Davis packed his laptop and his Spanish phrasebook and moved to Chile. On arrival, a government program called Start-Up Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. He also got a visa, office space, mentoring, help with networking and fundraising, and connections to potential clients.
deal architect
APRIL 18, 2012
On the innovation blog Google I/O: The New Benchmarks Really Big Data at the NSA Crowdsourced Maps Longest flights Unilever and other sustainability leaders.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 19, 2012
Mobile marketing is big, and is set to grow bigger – but more so in emerging markets. “ The next billion ” will come from the emerging markets such as Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. The size of the global middle class is projected to increase from 1.8 billion people to 3.2 billion by 2020, and accompanying this increase in size is a rise in middle class spending from $21 trillion today to $51 trillion in 2030.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 20, 2012
Boulder Startup Week , a five day celebration of the tech scene here in Boulder, is offering several free plane tickets to people who would consider relocating. Since I moved to Boulder in 1995, I’ve watched and participated in the evolution of an amazing startup community which I believe currently has the highest entrepreneurial density in the United States.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 19, 2012
There's a school of thought that says entrepreneurs learn best from their own mistakes. That they must fail - and fail and fail - before they succeed. Noam Wasserman comes from a different school of thought ( Harvard Business School ), and he suggests that entrepreneurs instead learn from the mistakes of other entrepreneurs. Problem is, they haven't had a handy database of common errors to refer to.
David Teten
APRIL 17, 2012
After work on April 18, thirty-five curious developers will visit the ff Venture Capital offices to learn about our fund and listen to technical talks by the founders and technical experts of Parsely and Movable Ink. If you’d like to join them, contact Skillfer ASAP; there may still be some openings. The NYC Startup Tour selects promising startups each month and brings developers into their offices for technical presentations and demos and a chance to mingle with the startup teams.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2012
It’s probably safe to say that we all want to age gracefully. For many of us, that may include the liberal use of anti-aging products to help fight against the natural process of aging – which is why the anti-aging industry was US$80 billion in size in 2011, and is projected to top US$114 billion by 2015. Here’s an infographic that takes a close look at anti-aging products and the industry surrounding it – it’s startling clear that while anti-aging products and tech
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 14, 2012
I was in LA for the past three days hanging out at Oblong , meeting with a bunch of entrepreneurs I know, then spending time at MuckerLabs , giving a talk at SCVStartup , and finishing up my trip with a half day at LaunchPad LA followed by a dinner that LaunchPad LA and Mark Suster put on. Even though I still felt fried from my 50 mile run, I had a great time and I’m sure I fed off of the energy of all the people I spent time with.
Rembrandt Communications
APRIL 18, 2012
As a small business owner, you’ve heard all about the benefits of having a blog for search engine optimization (SEO) and getting noticed online. But just because everyone else has a blog doesn’t necessarily mean you should write one too. Here are… The Top 5 Reasons You Should Not Write a Blog. 1. You are [.].
David Teten
APRIL 16, 2012
- Do you have a great team but your product just isn’t working? - Are you thinking of applying to Y Combinator without an idea? - Does your team want to quit your day jobs and really kick-off a company? - Would you like to have a salary from day one of your startup? If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading. ff Venture Capital is creating a new, spin-off business from an existing company, and we need a team to take the reins.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2012
Starting a business is hard work, but making it successful is a whole other challenge. Some entrepreneurs want to do something that’s never been done before, while others want to build upon existing business niches or ideas and become a strong competitor. Whatever the goal may be, entrepreneurship is a tough undertaking and these risk takers have helped change the world for the better.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 17, 2012
There is this magical moment that happens when a startup finally puts the key components together to build a successful business. After months or years of iterating and pivoting, they finally have the right product for the right market at the right price. At this point, the company has to shift gears and change their mindset a little. They need to stop looking for gold and start mining as fast as possible.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 16, 2012
Incubators are hot. There are more than a thousand in the U.S., and the proliferation is causing some tech-industry watchers to fret. The flock of incubators is spawning a glut of wanna-be entrepreneurs ready to quit their jobs, commit their lives to a 10-week incubator program and end up with nothing but broken dreams and a souvenir hoodie. But that's their problem.
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