SoCal CTO
APRIL 2, 2013
I'm presenting Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP next week at Coloft ( Details/Registration ). I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 4, 2013
'Most entrepreneurs, and members of any small team, naively assume that the key to their success is hard work, dedication, and long hours at the business. In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. First they need to decipher correctly every relationship as a workship, friendship, or foe.
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The Next Web
MARCH 30, 2013
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jason Cartwright , the founder of Potato , a 65-person Web development agency headquartered in London. He’s previously worked for a variety of startups, as well as larger organisations such as Volvo, the BBC, and Google. . Hiring developers for your tech company undoubtedly involves making some of the most important decisions you’ll reach for your organisation.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 5, 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!
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
David Cohen
APRIL 3, 2013
Recently, I took my 11 year old (Andrew) to Beijing, China for 10 days. Inspired by Mark Solon , and organized through Globe Aware , we worked in a school for the children of migrant workers who have no government services. The goal was for my son to experience more of the world and to learn how many others are not as fortunate as we are. Mission accomplished.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 5, 2013
'Sarah Lacy has an interesting article up on PandoDaily this morning about the data on the venture industry. The difficulty we face is that because the bulk of returns reside in a small number of companies and investment firms the averages aren’t a useful way of understanding anything. There is nothing new about this insight, but what I haven’t seen before is anyone taking the next step of working out what this means for people who want to play in this game.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
deal architect
APRIL 1, 2013
As SAP chases the Big Data market it is running into competition from IBM, Oracle, HP, SAS, Cloudera and a host of other analytical players. But a more existential threat to the product may be coming from an unexpected source.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 30, 2013
The days when you locked and loaded your career in school, and then blasted away down that same narrow path the rest of your life, are gone, never to return. Career survival today requires thinking and acting like an entrepreneur starting a business, staying nimble and resilient, willing to pivot, and supersensitive to the market realities of supply and demand.
TechEmpower
APRIL 5, 2013
'Last week, we posted the results of benchmarking several web application development and frameworks. The response was tremendous. We received comments, recommendations, advice, criticism, questions, and most importantly pull requests from dozens of readers and developers. On Tuesday of this week, we kicked off a pair of EC2 instances and a pair of our i7 workstations to produce updated data.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 4, 2013
By Darlene Price, author of “ Well Said!: Presentations and Conversations That Get Results “. Do the top leaders and successful managers use specific non-verbal communications skills and tactics to maximize on-the-job performance & professional success? You bet they do! Studies show that nonverbal communication carries between 65-93% more impact than the actual words spoken, especially when the message involves emotional meaning and attitudes.
deal architect
APRIL 3, 2013
Ashlee Vance at BusinessWeek is the latest in a growing chorus of voices that say Apple has hit an innovation wall – no moonshots in sight. “Google (GOOG), with its self-driving cars and virtual reality glasses, is really starting to.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 3, 2013
Your startup is gone, it’s never coming back, and you are in mourning. An entrepreneur whose business fails grieves similarly to anyone who has lost a loved one. The pain of losing a business is not only about a significant loss of income, but can send your entire identity into turmoil. Most entrepreneurs define themselves by their business projects.
Genuine VC
APRIL 4, 2013
'After we sold our startup Sombasa Media just over a dozen years ago, I embarked on two distinct “journeys.” The first was a month-long 1500+ mile cycling trip from the southern tip of England to the northern tip of Scotland (“ Land’s End to John O’Groats ”). The second was a trip where we hiked the “ Inca Trail ” in Peru to Machu Picchu. Both trips “rhymed” with each other in that the point intentionally was about the experience of the voyage rather than merely the destination itself.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 3, 2013
by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ The release of “ Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead “, the new book by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured), has sparked a firestorm of attention from the media and folks around conference room tables throughout the country. Sandberg’s assertion that women in business should “lean in” and make more of an effort to lead is one that has garnered both nods of agreement and adamant disapproval fr
deal architect
APRIL 4, 2013
'I have noticed a pattern where PR firms send me press releases, unsolicited, and when I ask to be taken off their list (which I never asked to be on in first place), they go – sorry you were not.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 31, 2013
Most of the entrepreneurs I have met are smart, but many are not always wise. That means they may show great insights into a new technology that has marginal business value, their passion may motivate team members more than customers, or they may allow themselves to be pulled over the ethical line in their success drive. Wise leaders are authentic, timeless, and enduring.
Rembrandt Communications
APRIL 4, 2013
'Spring is here, and it’s time for new beginnings. With this in mind, how old is the content on your Website? Now, is the perfect time to give your Website a fresh, new look and do some spring-cleaning. But don’t worry! It doesn’t need to take a lot of time or money, Here are… 3 [.].
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 4, 2013
'We’d be the first to encourage entrepreneurs in their startup journeys, but we also feel that founders need to be cognizant of failure. Part of the process in understanding the chances of failure is to take a look at the survival track records of startups in different industries. Do you know that independent restaurants and retail stores are two of the businesses most likely to fail, with 60% of them failing within the first five years?
deal architect
APRIL 4, 2013
'It’s been interesting watching our daughter’s college talk evolve. As a freshman, there was plenty of “My Big” – as in her big sorority sister. As a sophomore it was more about her “My Little”. Now, Big and Little seem.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 5, 2013
'The most successful entrepreneurs and executives I have seen are savvy business people first, and experts in their field second. This may seem counter-intuitive to technologists, especially in an era when technology seems to be driving the world. Yet the sad truth is that a technology not focused on a real problem is not a business, and will probably fail in the marketplace.
Scalable Startup
APRIL 1, 2013
After a recent speech I gave for startups, I was interviewed by Jennifer DesRosiers (love that name!) about tech startups. Here are my answers… When did you first discover your love of technology? >> When I was a 11 my brother built a homemade crystal radio. It was fascinating to see him assemble these inert parts and then hear sound come out.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 4, 2013
'If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur looking to start a business but have no idea how or where to start, you may want to consider attending this upcoming sharing session on May 3, 2013 called “ How I Started A Business And Grew It To A Public Listed Company ” by Boyd Au. You may not find the name familiar, but Boyd co-founded electronics firm Enzer Corporation and was its CEO from 1984 to 2007.
deal architect
APRIL 3, 2013
Been thinking recently about speed - and lack thereof. I am reading a Popular Science article on a NASA scientist working on a warp drive. I am watching how Amazon, Google, eBay and a bunch of startups like Zipments are.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 1, 2013
Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. There is a tough balance here to achieve, since a large portion of starting and running a business requires analytical, logical thinking.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 4, 2013
'I got an interesting email from a friend who has historically been a huge Apple fanboy. I asked him if I could repost it verbatim and he said yes. It follows – I’m curious what your response is to this. While I’m still very involved with the art world here in Colorado and still working on conservation issues we’ve actually just returned from almost a year away, the last 6 months in India.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 4, 2013
'I’ve just finished reading Founders Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman the central point of which is that for entrepreneurs there is a trade off between wealth and control. In my experience, few founders see it this way. “But wait!” I hear you say, “I can have both wealth and control, like Larry Ellison or Mark Zuckerberg” Theoretically it’s possible, but Wasserman conducted a study of 10,000 startups over ten years and concluded that: Although the desires for wealth and control seem complementar
deal architect
MARCH 31, 2013
I did a morning run to Lowes this morning. The employees were cheerful and helpful as I looked for Birds of Paradise for Margaret's gardening hobby. The morale was impressive considering they had been there since 8 am on Easter.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 31, 2013
First unveiled during JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day , TribeHired.com – a social recruitment website that leverages on community-driven referrals and recommendations by key individuals (such as company employees) to introduce candidates to potential job vacancies within their industries – looked like an interesting way to disrupt traditional job recruitment methods.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 3, 2013
TechStars Seattle applications for year four of the program are now open ! The startup community in Seattle is expanding rapidly and TechStars Seattle is right in the middle of it all, located in South Lake Union surrounded by Amazon, Microsoft and tons of other amazing startups. We’ve been investing a lot in Seattle lately beyond TechStars, including BigDoor , SEOmoz , Cheezburger , and most recently Rover.
Life Beyond Code
APRIL 5, 2013
'I have been thinking about this question for a while and written bits and pieces on the topic before. Like many other mini-research projects, I embarked on a journey to find out the answer. Here is what I found – some reasons may be obvious but may be not all of them. You be the judge. Here are the reasons (in no particular order). [ Note: "You" is used in the article for simplicity and not to imply that you face these issues ]. 1.
deal architect
APRIL 3, 2013
On the New Florence blog MIT Tech Review’s Disruptive 50 The Science of Picking Pockets The New Energy Realities Broadcast Technology at Daytona 500 The Center of the Universe – You Your Car as a Mobile Device Elevator Innovations Chris-Craft’s.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 5, 2013
'By Preciouse Gross , community manager at BlueSnap. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model relies heavily upon long term customers. There are 3 major metrics that will determine the overall success of a SaaS vendor: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Lifetime Value of a Customer (LTV). Churn Rate. The CAC and LTV are both very popular and have been discussed quite a bit.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 1, 2013
My close friend Jerry Colonna is giving an extraordinary seminar in Boulder on 4/19 with Parker Palmer called Surviving the Startup Life: The Toll of Merging Identity and Work. Jerry is the best CEO coach I know, a dear friend, and one of the best investors I ever have gotten to work with (we did a lot together in the 1990s when Jerry was partners with Fred Wilson at Flatiron Partners.).
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 5, 2013
'At age 13 I bugged my Dad about getting a guitar. He supported it. He actually insisted on taking me to the store to get one. When we got there, he immediately marched us over to the used section, and asked the salesman which guitar was in the worst condition. Which one was the most beat up, basic guitar? That’s the one I got. As we drove back home from the store he told me why: I always need to start with the most basic beat up instruments; it makes me appreciate the instrument.
deal architect
APRIL 4, 2013
'Personally, I would be impressed if indeed SAP is as Peter Goldmacher of Cowen suggests "offering draconian discounts on other products sold along with HANA in order to make it appear as if HANA is growing at such a rapid.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 5, 2013
'Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore facing critical challenges in doing business in-country – with its manpower crunch, high rental costs and small domestic market – may want to consider exploring participating in the global e-commerce market, says PayPal. With analysts expecting total trade volumes from traditional export channels in 2013 to remain flat, local SMEs are likely to be forced to find new sources of business growth elsewhere especially when faced with risin
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