YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'by Stella Fayman, CEO and cofounder of matchist. You’ve decided to hire a development shop to build an MVP , give your product a facelift, or build that mobile app you’ve been wanting to build for years. If this is your first time hiring a dev shop, it can be confusing understanding the difference between competitors. However, you’ll be spending a lot of money on developing your product, so it’s important to take time to research and interview the firms that interest you.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

'Christian Jurinka is Chief Engagement Officer and Co-founder of Attack! Marketing , a multi-channel lifestyle agency specializing in experiential and promotional services. As tech seeps deeper into our work and the digital and real worlds combine, a whole new demand is rising for people who can bridge the ‘in-between’ space – a place that straddles both creativity and technology, and takes two very distinct areas of expertise and melds them together.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'Are you looking for resources to build your app, or your website? Do you need help expanding the functionality of your website, or improving the design? Are you wondering which web hosting service to use, or which programming language you need to learn, or what’s important to look for when hiring a software or web developer? The first-ever Bplans #askadeveloper Tweet Chat is your opportunity to get free consultation from a professional computer programmer on any of your programming-relate

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'Labor Day is over, time to get to work! Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. This is why this was created, and why I try to refresh it every year with the most interesting meetups, companies, and folks to follow online. Boston is a great place to start and build a company.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'By Scott Tarlow, founder, president and CEO of Success Systems. For any business, revenue matters. For a startup, sustained revenue is of paramount importance: a paucity of sales in one month could lead to bankruptcy the next. To prevent disaster, it’s essential for startups to lock down a big client as soon as possible. Big clients have the wherewithal to make large, timely payments and have reputations outsized enough to give your company lasting credibility.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'_. This post is brought to you by Lenovo Inspire Me. More info can be found at LenovoInspireMe.com , where you can enter our competition to win the trip of a lifetime. _. In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'There are some things which we as humans intuitively know will occur. Almost every industry has a future state which we can see occurring at some point. While the timing might be hard to predict, the inevitability is predictable. We can take a quick look at certain industries to provide exemplars of this contention: In the future cars will not run on gas / petrolium.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'San Antonio-based AirStrip has announced a strategic partnership with Samsung to include its products on all Samsung computer products. Dr. Cameron Powell, an obstetrician, and Trey Moore, whose background includes application development and building scalable business applications, founded AirStrip Technologies, which has recently changed its name to AirStrip.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

'Vik Singh is CEO and cofounder of Infer , which recently raised a $10 million Series A round from Redpoint Ventures and provides data-powered applications to companies like Box, Jive, Nitro, Tableau, and Zendesk. . Over the past two years while building up my company, I’ve gained some valuable insights on what it takes to succeed in the enterprise world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'Today is a day I’ve waited patiently for for 5 years but more earnestly for more than 1 year. I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. Now that he’s become a VC he’s promising me he’ll provide way more public information and discourse so please welcome him by following him on Twitter and better yet welcoming him with a Tweet of your own linking to his Twitter handle or this post.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Yesterday Apple announced the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. In the past, I would have blocked out my calendar for the keynote address and watched it streaming on my laptop, soaking up all of the new features and desperately waiting to hear when the first available ship date would be. But not yesterday. Yesterday I had completely forgotten about the announcement until about half way through and then only quickly checked to see what was announced before going back to the work I was doing at the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

'Investors will tell you that they love to put money into startups that are scalable, and ready to scale. But what does that really mean? Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

'Gabe Rivera wrote a post on why TechMeme is now using its editors to curate titles that appear on its site. Gabe’s post appears first on TechMeme’s website, which must mean Gabe has paid off some TechMeme editors to get his story to rise to the top. I never saw it go out with a “tip @techmeme” on Twitter. Did you? Well. His article is well worth reading anyways.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Just a week after Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) completed its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, the startup and technology blog today announced that it has also acquired Indonesia-based gaming blog GameSaku from Apps Foundry. Founded just last year in 2012, GameSaku quickly became Indonesia’s top mobile gaming blog – GameSaku.com went from nothing to generating over 800,000 monthly pageviews within 16 months and with just two ful

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. Executives from large companies have sometimes long forgotten how to do this (“My people will contact your people to work out the details.”). Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment. An obvious reason is limited funds, but a more important reason is the need to know and intimately understand what is really going on in the business and the mar

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'This is the fourth article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap , COC: a new metric for cancellations , and The mistake of 1/c in LTV. Its tough for a growing SaaS business to ascertain whether or not it’s truly profitable. Here’s a way to do it. First model: EBITDASM When Rackspace was scaling quickly, they had an interesting metric they called EBITDASM to answer the question: “Are we truly ‘spending

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'Every September, as MLB teams overnight expand their 25 player rosters to 40, I think about the iceberg of talent that most of us do not see on the field or in the dugout. I got a glimpse of that.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'Brainstorming rooms, interactive co-working spaces – these are just some of the things that companies have introduced into the work space to help boost the creativity of their employees. But did you know that implementing simple changes that help to stimulate the five senses can actually lead to improving workplace creativity? While many offices tend to have whitewashed walls, did you know that people who work in white offices complain more about nausea and headaches than those who work f

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'Behind most great startup success stories is a long list of mistakes! Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see. But rather than dwell on the failures, I’ve tried to extract from them a list of practical action items that will improve your survival probability. Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. In building the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we’ve tried to strike a balance. We’ve invited some deservedly well-known experts—people like Steve Blank, Laura Klein, Cindy Alvarez, Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, Janice Fraser and Ash Maurya—to share their insights.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'Workday likes to call its customers Citizens of the Cloud. Listening to a customer executive panel at Rising, I think they could easily rename them as Jedi Masters of Complex Change Kevin Ledford of Chiquita described a corporate HQ move.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'by Sean Blanks, marketing director of www.cartridgesave.co.uk. A USP doesn’t necessarily need to be unique. Instead, it’s worth thinking of your USP as the one thing you set your stall by: the offering you protect at all costs which in turn helps you maintain your customer base and market position. For us it’s ‘free next day delivery’. You’re right, it’s not sexy and it’s not unique.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'When you are not presenting to investors or your team, try to spend more time listening than talking. You can’t learn anything new while you’re talking, yet many entrepreneurs seem to never stop. It’s a sad spiral, since the more you talk, the less people really hear, meaning they don’t learn anything either. If someone left this article on your desk, read extra carefully.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

'Taro Fukuyama is a co-founder and CEO of AnyPerk. He’s a Y Combinator graduate and hustled his way to be the first Japanese team ever admitted into the program. He once founded a company in a Taco Bell parking lot. It’s fairly common knowledge that happy employees are simply better at their jobs. No matter the industry, hours, or education required, individuals perform better when their spirits are high.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'The keynote this morning by co CEOs Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri was a study in contrasts. There were plenty of reminders of the complex world we live in. Mike McNamara, CEO of Flextronics, talked about his 30 country, $20+.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

'We often hear of so many stories how enterprising individuals turned their hobbies into multi-million dollar businesses that sometimes we tire of and get numb on them. But once in a while you do stumble upon a tale of an epic entrepreneurial struggle against all odds that revive your faith in the story of human resilience – “ Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co ” is one of those.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low, and most entrepreneurs avoid this option like the plague, knowing the process is painful, and public company executives are seen as greedy sharks.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'My love for segmentation knows no bounds. Weather you do online, offline, nonline analysis, or just randomly playing with data, insights arrive faster with segmentation. In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'The skies are spectacular September blue as I head to the Bay Area for two Workday events – their Rising user conference, and their Technology Summit. Both events stand out for their transparency. At the user conference they allow analysts.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'by Thomas Moran, CEO of Addison Group. Though job numbers may be increasing, the job market is still a competitive place. With human resources departments receiving hundreds of resumes it’s crucial for applicants to have a resume that’s effective in order to stand out. . It’s tough to stand out in such a competitive atmosphere. Luckily there are several easy ways to attract employers with a strong resume.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

'The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to businesses. None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

'John D. Rockefeller. Greatest Wealth – $318 Billion at age 74. First Job – Book keeper. Andrew Carnegie. Greatest Wealth – $298 Billion at age 68. First Job – Textile laborer. Henry Ford. Greatest Wealth – $188 Billion at age 57. First Job – Machinist. Warren Buffet. Greatest Wealth – $62 Billion at age 77. First Job – Newspaper delivery boy. Bill Gates.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

'Workday had a nice U shaped table configuration for the analysts it invited to the Technology Summit this week. It gave you a nice opportunity to easily and repeatedly scan the room for familiar and unfamiliar faces. As the day.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

'by Stacey Thompson. Working from home (telecommuting) might be a real trendy thing nowadays, but chances are that most of the people you know are still reporting to an office or worksite to do their daily toil. The modern day office may still have a lot of traditional holdovers from eras past, but it has to be said that there are also many fundamental changes.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

'Having long-term vision is one of the keys to good leadership, and necessary for any successful business. With long-term visions come long-term projects—and the longer-term the project, the harder it is to manage your team’s progress towards completing it. All the complications are what make executing your long-term vision the sign of success; it’s definitely not easy to do.

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