deal architect
MAY 17, 2011
At a Sapphire panel yesterday Dr. Michio Kaku, the renowned futurist and physicist commented “the H1-B visa is the genius visa”. In an academic setting that translates to foreign students doing advanced degrees in advanced sciences, but this was an.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 17, 2011
By Uri Foox, founder of Pixafy. If you are a business owner who is not an expert in web development, finding someone (or an agency) you can trust to build your website is critical. To help with your vetting process, here are eleven questions to ask your would-be developers before making a decision: 1. What do you do? Developers should be able to explain what they do in terms you can understand.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 19, 2011
This article is a guest post by Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders in New York City. Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Jeff keeps a blog here ( www.jeffgothelf.com/blog ) with tweets available at @jboogie ( www.twitter.com/jboogie ).
Feld Thoughts
MAY 14, 2011
Fred Wilson had an excellent post up this morning titled Social Media’s Secret Weapon – Email. I completely agree that email is the key communications channel for social media and have written about this before in posts like 100% Click Through Rate , Email – The Original Social Graph and Email Is Still The Best Login. I’ve been investing in email related stuff for over 15 years going back to Email Publishing, my very first Boulder-based investment which I believe was the
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
ReadWriteStart
MAY 19, 2011
During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. As a business blogger myself, I have given an inordinate amount of thought to the subject, and it has led me to create the 1M/1M Affiliate Program to support the work of media professionals who advocate entrepreneurship and innovation.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 18, 2011
Swiftsharing ( www.swiftsharing.net ) is a new and growing social network site that has seen over 8,000 members signed up and has more than 20,000 posts since launching in January this year. If that doesn’t sound impressive to you – compared to Facebook ‘s 500 million users – consider the fact that none on the Swiftsharing team are over the age of 19.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 15, 2011
In the past I’ve given some tips for handling meetings effectively, covering topics like: - How not to let your meeting go down a rat hole ; - Dealing with the elephant in the room ; - Dealing with skeletons in your closet ; - How to make meetings discussions, not “pitches&#. - A tale of two pitches (I eventually invested in the first company that pitched).
Steve Blank
MAY 17, 2011
I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation from Philadelphia University. While I teach at Stanford and Berkeley, to be honest… this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. I realize that my 15 minutes up here is all that’s between you and the rest or your life, so if I can keep you awake, I’m going to share 4 short stories from my life.
deal architect
MAY 18, 2011
Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP framed his summary of the Sapphire Now event ahead in a session with the Enterprise Irregulars on Sunday when he said they would emphasize mobile, in-memory and on-demand trends. Sure enough, there was plenty.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 16, 2011
The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend” and even changed it from a noun to a verb. On Twitter and MySpace, many young people follow hundreds of friends before age twenty, all without ever having said or heard a word from most of them. Top Facebook users proudly proclaim their “whale” status, with 5,000 friends or more.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 17, 2011
I went to undergrad at UCSD, which is not a place known for its Greek institutions and my father grew up in South America and had know idea what a fraternity was. So I went to college with no expectation that I would ever join a fraternity let alone aspire to become president one day. Yet being in a fraternity was one of the most transformative experiences I had in college and prepared me better for becoming an entrepreneur than any class that I took.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 16, 2011
SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John J
deal architect
MAY 14, 2011
I devoted a couple of chapters to the powerful trend of “consumerization of enterprise tech” in my last book. Of course, these days you cannot go to any enterprise tech event without the mandatory iPad or Android device or Facebook.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 14, 2011
I know some entrepreneurs with successful businesses, and others who seem to have a great relationship with their family, but I can’t think of many who have both. Some people would argue that these two successes are mutually exclusive, but I’m not convinced. Individually, they both take focus, commitment, and a variety of skills, all the strengths of a good entrepreneur.
SoCal CTO
MAY 17, 2011
I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. I told them that I had recently seen several posts/articles talking about how vibrant the community has become. As is usual, I couldn't remember where I had seen those posts. So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 18, 2011
SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John J
deal architect
MAY 20, 2011
I first met Dr. Hasso Plattner of SAP 15 Sapphires ago. He walked into a meeting with Gartner analysts and in mock anger asked “which of you XXX called my products too complex to implement?” I wanted to hide under.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 15, 2011
It seems to be an accepted fact these days that big companies normally innovate by buying a startup with innovative products, rather than focusing on in-house innovations. This is a good thing for entrepreneurs and investors, who can win big, but it’s not a given. I see many startups who seem satisfied with a “me too” approach, building yet another social network or e-commerce site, rather than being truly innovative.
SoCal CTO
MAY 17, 2011
I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. I told them that I had recently seen several posts/articles talking about how vibrant the community has become. As is usual, I couldn't remember where I had seen those posts. So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 17, 2011
SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John J
deal architect
MAY 20, 2011
The lady in video below had to be taken off the Amtrak train because she refused to quit on her phone in a designated “quiet car” As wi-fly expands on planes, I am sure we will see more attempts to.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 18, 2011
Even though the world is getting smaller, due to easy global connectivity, people still feel alone if not well-connected locally. There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” The term first appeared five years ago, but the model is now very common.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 16, 2011
by Willis Wee , Penn-Olson.com. #1 Pivot fast. If you keep doing the same thing, you will just keep getting the same results. If a problem arises, find the root cause and make changes. There is no such thing as keeping things constant. At Penn Olson , we change a lot even up to now. #2 Don’t be stupid, ask. There isn’t a point to guess when you can actually ask.
Rembrandt Communications
MAY 16, 2011
As an entrepreneur, you are probably bombarded with e-mail messages every day with someone telling you how they “get your site to the top of the search engines.” Well, if you’re like most business owners, you don’t have the money to pay for a search engine optimization (SEO) service. Well, SEO does not need to [.].
deal architect
MAY 14, 2011
SuiteWorld was NetSuite’s first major user conference in its 12 years of existence. Kicking it off, CEO Zach Nelson joked he was so scarred by his experience with Oracle (his previous employer) events that he had avoided thinking for this.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 19, 2011
Assuming no one would demotivate their team intentionally, then why do we see it happen so often? I believe it’s because too many entrepreneurs and leaders are so self-centered that they really don’t see what impact their actions have on others. What these leaders need to do is spend more time eliminating their own demotivating habits, rather than delivering more motivation.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2011
by Kevin Kaiser , Startup Biz Blog. Apple just blew past the competition in a big way. Everyone’s been familiar with how pervasive their products have been in pop culture for years now and they continually wow the public. According to an article in M&C.com , Apple posted gaudy second quarter results that reported they had sales of 18.7 million iPhones and 4.69 million iPads.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 16, 2011
The Glue Conference is next week – 5/25 and 5/26 – in Boulder. When Eric Norlin and my partner Seth Levine first cooked up the idea for glue, they built it around our Glue theme – namely integrating (or “glueing&# ) together web applications. We’ve invested heavily in the area with great success, but have only just begun.
deal architect
MAY 20, 2011
As I read SapphireNow updates from fellow bloggers, analysts, journalists, it is clear I am one of the more cynical ones in the bunch.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 20, 2011
One of the biggest myths I still see in the community of new entrepreneurs is the assumption that “All I need is a good idea, and some investor will give me the big money I need to build the business.” In reality, investors fund good business plans, not big dreams. It’s all in the execution. A related myth is that it takes a lot of money to start a business.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 17, 2011
Mike Foong (@mikefoong) of theITChannel interviews Yan Phun, founder of Singapore-based startup FlickEvents. FlickEvents is a “one-stop&# online event management platform that helps event organizers manage their events. In the interview, Phun shares what her company does and how she looks at differentiating FlickEvents from other competitors in the space.
Genuine VC
MAY 18, 2011
Today TurningArt officially announced its $750K initial round of financing which I led for NextView Ventures and included a “who’s who” list of notable east coast angel investors like Niraj Shah & Steve Conine (Founders of CSN Stores ), Thomas Lehrman (co-Founder of Gerson Lerhman Group ), and local Boston super-angel Will Herman.
deal architect
MAY 18, 2011
on the innovation blog InnoJam at SAP’s Sapphire 50 years of Plantronics The LiveScribe Echo The iClicker.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 17, 2011
Did you ever wonder how a new entrepreneur knows how to “do the right thing” for his business? Most experts believe that the essence of doing the right thing is ethics. Translating that into business value, a study by Wirthlin Worldwide concluded that 80% of customers still base a good portion of their buy decision on their perception of that firm’s ethics.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 18, 2011
The wedding industry is probably one of the most old-fashioned, but one young woman entrepreneur intends to modernize the industry through technological innovation. Taryn Westberg is the founder and CEO of online wedding management site Glö ( www.glosite.com ), which offers online wedding invitations and streamlined guest communications tools for the modern wedding.
David Teten
MAY 18, 2011
Congratulations to Business Connect China , which is merging with my old company, Evalueserve Circle of Experts , and Tribeca Insights to form a new consolidated expert network, Advantus Global. Integrity Research reports , “At the high water mark, there were over 45 expert networks. By our count, the number has shrunk to 37, of which 7 cater exclusively to non-financial clients.” A number of research and data companies have acquired expert networks: Evalueserve acquired Circle of Ex
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