YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'by Morgan Sims. Nearly a quarter of the U.S. workforce reported working from home at least part of the time in 2012, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Thanks to technology, it’s easier than ever to let your home double as your office. It’s an especially appealing option for employees of start-ups that may not have the initial capital to buy, build, or rent a physical location.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
'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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The Next Web
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
'Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. This post was originally published on OnStartups. There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'This post co-written by Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference —which starts in just over two weeks—is to help entrepreneurs learn absolutely useful things from each other. For our participants to stay open to the unique ideas we’re presenting and to share the advice they each have, we need an environment that’s dynamic, professional and respectful.
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
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'Ari Newman is an entrepreneur, mentor, investor, and a friend. He works at Techstars where his responsibility is to ensure that the connections between alumni, mentors, and staff are as robust as they can be – helping entrepreneurs “ do more faster ” day in and day out. His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE).
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'by Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners. Often consumed by the day to day, it is difficult for small business owners to find time to focus on the big picture and be truly forward thinking. But if you want to stay competitive, there are four questions entrepreneurs can constantly be asking themselves to set their organizations up for significant growth. 1.
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crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 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! Can you believe this is Roundup number 200!?!? Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'In a seed or friends and family round, tough questions, in the eyes of many founders, signal an investor that will either a) never get to the writing a check part or b) be such a pain in the ass afterwards that it might not be worth taking their money. Especially if you already have the round circled, without anyone giving you a hard time, why bother stopping for that one investor who wants more detail on how you''re going to scale?
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'by Annie Tsai, author of “ The Small Business Online Marketing Handbook: Converting Online Conversations to Offline Sales “ The technology takeover is here. As a small business owner, you know you can’t fight it anymore. Whether you’re excited, apprehensive, or both, you’ve decided that the best thing for your business is to get tapped into the opportunities available to you online.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'Jeremy Rappaport is a writer at Fueled , the leading iPhone application developers and masters of mobile design in New York City. This post was originally published on the Fueled blog. What exactly is the “Internet of Things”? It’s a popular phrase used to describe a category of physical devices like home -monitoring devices, lamps, watches and cars that now connect to PCs, tablets, and smartphones.
SVPG
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'Much has been written about how to do product discovery in startups, by me and many other people. There are many challenges for startups, most importantly, survival. But one of the real advantages from a product point of view is that there’s no legacy to drag along, there’s no revenue to preserve, and there’s no reputation to safeguard.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'4 years ago, in The New Polymath, I quoted Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE “I believe that a popular, thirty - year notion that the U.S. can evolve from being a technology and manufacturing leader to a service leader is.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'One of the great innovations of the 21 st century are products that are cloud-connected and update and improve automatically. For software, gone are the days of having to buy a new version of physical media (disks or CD’s.) For hardware it’s the magical ability to have a product get better over time as new features are automatically added. The downside is when companies unilaterally remove features from their products without asking their customers permission and/or remove consumers̵
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Venture capitalists look for a variety of intangibles when evaluating the entrepreneurs who they consider backing — vision, passion, integrity, confidence — but how many look for a background in software development? Whether they’re computer science grads or self-taught coding wunderkinds, business leaders with 0s and 1s in their blood have a leg up on their B-school co
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'Many people seem to have the sense that ethics are spiraling downward in business, yet most business professionals and entrepreneurs I know don’t believe they can make a difference. They don’t realize that if they don’t take an active role in the solution, they really become part of the problem. I do believe that most business people want to do the right thing, but many just don’t have the skills to develop an unemotional ethical position, or confidence to act on their ethical beliefs, or simpl
deal architect
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'15 years ago, I made a trek to Fargo, ND to the Great Plains (now part of Microsoft) Stampede user conference. Doug Burgum, the CEO used his entire keynote to tell the story of an English clockmaker, John Harrison who.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'by Dan Adams , president of Advanced Industrial Marketing and author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Right now our economy and our nation feel anything but business-friendly. Just a glance at recent headlines shows you the challenges we face: the (latest) debt ceiling crisis, the recent federal government shutdown, the Obamacare hurdles we must jump, plummeting consumer confidence.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'In June this year, N.R. Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. The reason? An SOS sent out by shareholders and those in the top tier of the IT major after it reported the weakest of annual earnings for 2013.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 22, 2013
'In working with entrepreneurs and other business people over the years, I often hear stories of entrepreneurs who were so close to success, but somehow let it slip through their fingers. They could always give a rational excuse, like the market changed, but somehow it seemed that they were actually afraid of success, so they subtly undermined their own efforts.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
'I got a very nice voice mail and email below – on a Saturday no less – from Lan Nguyen, a customer service rep at Southwest Airlines “We are in receipt of your most recent e-mail and apologize that we.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. The class has talked to 2,056 customers to date. Part 1 : issues in the therapeutics drug discovery pipeline. Part 2: medical devices and digital health. Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. You can follow George on Twitter at @georgedeeb and @RedRocketVC. There are a lot of variables to go into calculating a fair equity split a startup team. These key factors must consider each employee’s role(s) within the company, the compensation they receive for their work, the people investing in the company, and the people behind the idea of the compa
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally design
deal architect
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'Dennis Howlett in his own inimitable way captured this exchange between Marc Benioff and a journalist during a Dreamforce Q&A session Marc, with a mix of sincerity and sarcasm at the way the question had been worded, emphasized that Salesforce.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'By Melissa Thompson, CEO of TalkSession. Nurture your network; maintain your relationships. It is the innate power of a good founder’s network that will turn napkins into products and products into successful businesses. Recently, I was honored to attend StartUp Health ’s Healthcare Transformer Summit, co-located with Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
'Alex M. Chong and Jacky Li are product designers at Pivotal Labs. This post was originally published on Xtreme Labs’ blog , which was acquired by Pivotal Labs in October 2013. For an adult with no prior exposure or experience, learning how to use a desktop computer can be a confusing challenge. The desktop computing experience is neither intuitive nor innate to human beings – it requires significant training, time, and ideally early-age immersion in order to understand the paradigms of com
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'I still get business plans, looking for an investor, that say all too clearly that the primary “use of funds” will be to do research and development (R&D) on some promising new technology, like superconductivity or cancer cures. Entrepreneurs forget that investors are looking for commercial products to make money, rather than R&D sunk costs, so investment hopes are sunk as well.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
'Booz and Co does an annual survey of R&D spend and its analysis always shows interesting patterns. It cautions, though, that R&D does not always equate innovation and that makes sense.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'by Ashley Ward. Coworking spaces are popping up all over suburban cities like Los Angeles, New York and San Diego. A place for like-minded entrepreneurs, coworking spaces allow individuals to partake in an office-like environment, without the corporate office feel. Entrepreneur and female inspiration Felena Hanson has taken this need and created a space for women to develop their business dreams in the comfort of a spa-like environment, Hera Hub.
Gust
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
'Image via IntellectualVentures.com. If you expect to succeed in the thrill-a-minute, roller coaster ride of a startup, let me assure you it takes more than a good idea, a rich uncle, and luck. In fact, the idea is often the least important part of the equation. Most investors tell me that they look at the people first, the business plan second, and only then at the idea.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 16, 2013
'Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. All the skills and instincts you needed to get to this level can actually start working against you, and you can fail to scale. Investors often say that successfully navigating the early stages of a startup requires lots of street smarts, guts, and luck.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'Chris Murphy at Information Week The 1.0 version was: “See you, IT chumps. I got my iPhone, Dropbox, and Google Docs, and I’m out of here.” Consumerization 2.0 sets a higher standard: “Hey, IT, can we build a zippy app.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
'by Neal Schaffer, author of “ Maximize Your Social: A One-Stop Guide to Building a Social Media Strategy for Marketing and Business Success “ If you’ve been in today’s job market for more than five minutes, you know that it’s a complex, competitive, even cutthroat environment that’s difficult to navigate. Not only is the market overflowing with highly qualified individuals, but to complicate matters, the job search and application functions of yesteryear are no longer valid.
Rembrandt Communications
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'Well, the year is winding down, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Many people in the U.S. love this holiday because they get time off from work to spend with friends and family, eat lots of good food and get a jumpstart on their holiday shopping. I love Thanksgiving because of all these reasons, […].
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
'“Intrapreneurs” are entrepreneurs inside big companies, who do corporate spin-offs. A spin-off is merely a startup spawned by a mature parent (company), and conventional logic would dictate that it has a survival advantage over the lowly startup. Yet spin-offs seem to most often fail to launch in the real world. I was part of one myself a few years ago, and felt the pain.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
'I do not think I have ever seen Marc Benioff blush. He is usually busy talking in hyperbole, and slapping backs to be slowed down by much. But Sheryl Sandberg teased him and had him agape during their Lean In.
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