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5 Keys To Crossing The Chasm To Mainstream Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it’s easy to get mislead on the real requirements of mainstream customers. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias.

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Protect Your Business – Disaster Preparedness, Recovery And Business Continuity Planning

YoungUpstarts

by Tom Hughes, Vice President – Small Business Product Management, AT&T. Four years ago, a storm developed in the Caribbean. What started as a tropical depression quickly turned in to a super storm. Two days later, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Caribbean and then the East Coast of the United States. Devastating events happen every day — hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires and otherwise.

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Hangar Technology Lands $6.5 Million for Drone Software Development

SiliconHills

When a drone can deliver a burrito to a hungry college student, it’s no longer just a novel technology but a major innovation for businesses. Still, the commercial drone business in the United States is in its infancy with rules and regulations just being worked out. This summer, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration […] The post Hangar Technology Lands $6.5 Million for Drone Software Development appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Why Women Make The Best Product Managers

SVPG

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. Most people noticed that all six of my examples were female. I didn’t call that out explicitly during my talk because my view is their performance speaks for itself.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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

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Live Video is King: How To Use It Without Going Broke

Duct Tape Marketing

Live Video is King: How To Use It Without Going Broke written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As you may have heard from industry events like NABShow and Social Media Marketing World , marketing dollars are switching from broadcast TV to live video streaming for more creative and targeted visual advertising. What makes a live video so effective and attractive to brands?

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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. When businesses begin booming, that’s typically a good thing. The irons in the fire have taken on a life of their own, blazing along the path we’ve set. We see balance sheets go from being in the red to finally creeping into the black and, if we’re fortunate enough, beyond our wildest dreams.

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Transformify Partners with Genashtim to Help Bridge the Skills Gap

Transformify

London, UK - 20th October 2016. Transformify, a global corporate social responsibility (CSR) platform, has entered into a partnership with Genashtim, a provider of online learning solutions, in an initiative to bridge the skills gap by providing e-learning opportunities. Skills and knowledge are essential for social development. The shortage of skilled workers across a number of industries is a complex and significant challenge faced by many businesses worldwide.

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7 Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs Who Stay In School

Startup Professionals Musings

A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. I agree with Robert E. Litan, former VP of research at the Kauffman Foundation, that these are exceptions to the rule, rather than a model to emulate.

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What if there isn’t another 10x?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What if Dropbox is just an awesome file-sharing and backup service but not a universal key/value storage API? What if OpenTable is the perfect reservation system but nothing else? What if Yelp has ratings but can’t solve the logistics of food delivery? What if Facebook can make $20b/yr in advertising, but since the teens and social media elite have left, it will never make $200b/yr?

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IFS World Conference: Sneak Preview

deal architect

IFS invited me to their conference in Gothenburg, Sweden next week. In this, what I have called the year of the vertical in cloud ERP offerings, I am looking forward to learning more of their focus on asset intensive industries.

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NYC Tech Podcast: Shai Goldman of SVB on Local Growth & Who Makes His All-Startup Basketball Team

View from Seed

NextView’s NYC podcast rolls on. Today, I talk to Shai Goldman, one of the most active community builders in NYC Tech, on his background, the evolution of the local startup scene … and who he’d draft to an all-startup pickup basketball game. Follow me and Shai at twitter.com/tdevane and twitter.com/shaig. Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts: The post NYC Tech Podcast: Shai Goldman of SVB on Local Growth & Who Makes His All-Startup Basketball Team appeared first

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How An Entrepreneur Can Win In This Age Of Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction.

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4 Ways Small Businesses Can Use Video Marketing

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. YouTube, the world’s most popular video sharing website , states that they have over a billion users. YouTube is active in almost 90 countries in almost 80 languages and reaches more mobile users than any cable network channel in the U.S. Mobile and web-based video platforms and solutions are dominating the media world. Video marketing is an excellent way for companies to generate revenue and increase brand awareness.

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Digital Rookies

deal architect

I was fortunate to be invited by Karl-Heinz Streibich to interview 40 of the most sophisticated companies in the world for his book The Digital Enterprise. That was in 2013 and I by now these companies are miles ahead in.

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Keep Your Content Simple and Watch Sales Soar!

Rembrandt Communications

Beware of exhausting marketing messages that don’t work! As an entrepreneur, it’s easy to get excited about your marketing message and want to shout it from the mountain tops. After all, you’ve put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into launching your new business. But, this is where you need to be careful. While […]. The post Keep Your Content Simple and Watch Sales Soar!

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Accelerate Your Startup With Help From An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley.

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. For several different versions of the on-demand economy in other parts of the world, the term itself may be alien, its implications unknown. The on-demand economy may have been spurred by the big names that have frequent mentions in social media or otherwise: Uber, Airbnb and the whole shebang.

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DefCon 2: Cloud and Digital Service Providers

deal architect

Wipro is acquiring Appirio. Congratulations to my friends at Appirio which I have profiled in many of my blog posts and books as a cloud pioneer. But the move needs to come with a warning. The Appirio deal is the.

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2016 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey – Part 1

For Entrepreneurs

For the fifth year in a row, we’re proud to work with Pacific Crest Securities, a SaaS-focused investment banking firm, to share results from a survey of 336 SaaS companies. The survey represents deep benchmarking data and insights on growth and operation of SaaS companies. Many thanks to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in the.

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You Can’t Build A Business Without Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it’s just me, but I sometimes feel that accountability is a rare talent in business today. In big businesses, people are quick to defer with “that’s not my department,” and even startup founders too often blame failures on the economy or the lack of investors. As an investor and advisor to entrepreneurs, I see accountability, or lack of it, as an override to even the best idea.

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Startup Success: HR Basics For Building A Happy Team Of Employees

YoungUpstarts

You might pride yourself on your winning ability to sweet-talk sceptical investors and difficult customers, but even the most finely tuned people skills will only take you so far when it comes to running a successful business. According to data collected by CB Insights, a divided and conflicted team is one of the top 20 reasons most startups fail. Putting infrastructure in place to look after the needs of your employees and keep them happy is a task you can’t afford to exclude from the to-do lis

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Exemplary Workers + Smart Machines = Magic

deal architect

Silicon Collar tackles many policy issues around automation and impact on jobs, but the best part is the first half where I profile over 50 settings where man and machine are working as peers. Here are some I have been.

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VC post 2015: the new normal

The Equity Kicker

The charts above are both from the new KPMP/CB Insights Venture Pulse Report. There’s a lot more data contained within, but my read from these is that VC investment is down significantly since the highs we saw in 2015, but is now holding steady at it’s new level, both globally and in the UK. (The last bar in top chart on global investment might suggest a different interpretation, but Q3 is often quiet for venture investment.).

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Do Androids Get Songs Stuck in Their Heads? My investment in Amper Music.

This is going to be BIG.

This weekend, Heathens by Twenty One Pilots has been stuck in my head. It has such a great sound--and I wanted to figure out what else I could listen to that sounded like it. I don't mean bands that are liked by other people who like Twenty One Pilots. I literally mean songs that sound like it. or maybe just remixed versions of it. I wanted to engage with music, but I can't, because I don't have the ability to manipulate the "source code" of the song.

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How To Save On Business Print Costs

YoungUpstarts

For large businesses, it’s understandable to dismiss how the cost of printing affects your company, however for small or start-up businesses, these outgoings can be of great annoyance when money is tight. Controlling outgoing costs is crucial to helping you reach your financial objectives, so with this being said, take a look at these nine handy tips to help your business save on printing costs: 1.

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Universal Basic Income: An Utopian Reaction to A Dystopian Scenario

deal architect

Harper Lee published her Pulitzer Prize winning book, To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. A couple of years later, Gregory Peck won an Academy for Best Actor in his role as Atticus in the movie adaptation. Quite a remarkable book.

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Betabrand’s Enlightened View Around Depression

Feld Thoughts

I’m proud of my friends at Betabrand about a bunch of things, including a fundraiser they recently did called YogAID that generated over $85,000 for the Techstars Foundation. Last week an email hit the Foundry Group EXEC list from Betabrand’s CMO Aaron. I asked him if I could share it because it was full of some enlightening stuff around depression that was prompted by the suicide of a friend of Aaron’s.

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One of the few girls in the room: How do we accelerate equality in tech?

Version One Ventures

I’ve been wanting to write on the topic of gender for a long time now, but haven’t been able to find the words. And admittedly, I’m still trying to find my position in all this. It’s a tricky subject for me to navigate: on one hand, sharing challenges might paint me as weak, a victim, or a radical feminist (even the word “feminist” seems to have a negative connotation).

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4 Risks Of Growing Too Quickly That Could Derail You

YoungUpstarts

by Andy Roe, General Manager of SurePayroll, Inc. Most business owners look forward to the day when they can expand. In their mind, this means things are going well and the company is on track to do bigger things in the future. But have you considered the risks associated with growing your business too quickly? Here’s the primary concern: fast growth could hinder your company’s ability to stay on course.

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Five Signs That It’s Time to Scale up Your Business

Up and Running

“You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen—this is all experimental,” says Richard Branson with a bright smile, as one of the world’s most recognizable and successful entrepreneurs. The “things” he refers to are the numbered and dynamic variables associated with starting or building a business. Similarly, many of his quotes involve working hard, making mistakes, never quitting, and following your passions, especially in regard to startups and small b

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Boulder Meeting on 10/26: Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Entrepreneurs

Feld Thoughts

Sally Spencer-Thomas, CEO of the Carson J Spencer Foundation (which Amy and I support) is having a meetup on 10/26 about Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Entrepreneurs. If this topic is important to you, I encourage you to attend. The post Boulder Meeting on 10/26: Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, and Entrepreneurs appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Excited to be an Investor in The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

It means a lot to me to find financial opportunities investing in companies that I can be really proud of--education companies like Tinybop and Tinkergarten , or companies at the forefront of fair labor practices like Homer Logistics. There are others that haven't launched that I'm equally as proud and excited about--and now one more has launched. I'm thrilled to be an investor in The Wing --a Home Base for Women on Their Way.

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What Ten Promising Startups Taught Us About Marketing New Products

YoungUpstarts

by Stephen Wunker, David Farber, and Jessica Wattman, authors of “ Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation “ This past August, Mass Innovation Nights launched its 11 th MIN FOODIE event in Somerville, Massachusetts. Bringing together ten food and food tech startups, the night was an opportunity for these new business to showcase their ideas and get the word out about their companies.

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For Entrepreneurs, Who You Date Will Affect Your Business Success

YFS Magazine

Let’s admit it, an entrepreneurial life is a unique one. You’ll need to find a partner that will understand you, support you, and help you succeed.

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Looking for New Science Fiction?

Feld Thoughts

If you – like me – love science fiction, I encourage you to support the new sci-fi magazine Compelling Science Fiction. The editor, Joe Stech, lives in the Boulder area and has been actively involved in the Boulder/Denver startup community. He’s using Patreon as a funding model, which I’m a big fan of for new and indie writers.

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Top 5 Brands Using Virtual Reality to Usher in New Age Marketing

Brandanew

Deploying Virtual Reality with a mobile first approach. Areas where VR Marketing can be used and How (Examples). Learn how to use content marketing like a pro. Enroll in our online learning program HERE. Top 5 Brands Using Virtual Reality to Usher in New Age Marketing. If the Internet-driven marketing has given wings to the digital and social media marketing, then the new age of virtual reality devices are bound to push the marketing boundaries.

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