YoungUpstarts
MARCH 8, 2016
by Martin Hunter, co-founder of Free Event Finder. While many consider “ Who Moved My Cheese? ” by Spencer Johnson to be overly simplified, the heart-warming tale of mice and little people learning to adapt under ever-changing conditions was exactly the push in the right direction that me and my wife needed to pack our bags and head off in search of personal growth and adventure.
Steve Blank
MARCH 11, 2016
“Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.”. We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. This year we made a small but substantive addition to way we teach the class, adding a week for reflection. The results have made the class massively better. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 11, 2016
Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. According to the Angel Capital Association , at least 300,000 people have made angel investments in the last two years, totaling $24 billion in the U.S. alone. These are all accredited investors who risk their own money.
Up and Running
MARCH 8, 2016
So, you’re in the market to start a cleaning business? You have the skills. There aren’t that many hurdles or license requirements compared to other operations. And you can get started fast and affordably. The thing is, you’re not quite sure what, exactly, is involved in starting a cleaning a business. In this guide, you’ll get a better sense of the industry, what skills you should develop in order to be successful in it, and how to go about starting your own operation.
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
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 11, 2016
It’s not enough to launch a startup that offers a new product or service that shakes up the market. If you make common mistakes , like not hiring the right people, you’re heading for trouble. If, as Peter Drucker, the father of Management Science, pointed out, the purpose of a business is to acquire and keep a customer, your first order of business should be to hire the right people.
ConversionXL
MARCH 9, 2016
UX mistakes often go undetected because they are quiet. They aren’t a broken image or a misspelled word or a form that isn’t sending. No, UX mistakes are foundational. To visitors, UX mistakes are loud, whether they consciously detect them or not. In fact, IBM is credited for the saying, “Ease of use may be invisible, but its absence sure isn’t.” [Tweet It!].
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Up and Running
MARCH 9, 2016
Whether opening a new business or expanding an existing one, when evaluating new markets, many entrepreneurs ask themselves several questions: Is there a demand for my product or service in the area? Will I be able to adequately staff my business in the local market? Does the city promote and support small businesses? If you’re the one starting a business, the last question in particular is one you must answer before you plant your roots.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 9, 2016
by Larry Fontillas, managing director of the Americas for ansarada. For a young entrepreneur, the mergers and acquisitions process can be exciting and potentially lucrative but it can also be the source of considerable stress. When the company you are selling is your “baby” that you created and nurtured over time, it’s important to make sure that every part of the deal process runs as smoothly as possible.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2016
As the human ear ages it loses its ability to hear high-pitched sound frequencies (above 15-16 kHz) through a condition known as presbycusis that starts at 18 years old. There’s an old parlor trick where a sound is played at a higher frequency than adults can hear while kids are left smiling and laughing at us because for once it’s US who are out of the loop.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 8, 2016
The Secret to Getting Unstuck written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This post applies to business and life I think – so use it as you will. I’ve owned my own business for a very long time and like most businesses I’ve had my share of ups and downs. More often than not though I’ve had sometimes long stretches where I mostly just felt a bit stuck – not going anywhere exciting and not knowing what my next move should be – only that I should mo
View from Seed
MARCH 8, 2016
Jesse Derris is the founder and CEO of Derris & Company , a PR, branding, and communications firm based in New York. His firm has worked with companies like Warby Parker, lululemon, Oscar, and more. He and his firm are widely applauded for their work with high-growth startups, particularly those with a consumer focus. Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 11, 2016
by Gyawu Mahama, Social Media and Marketing Manager at Hiscox Small Business Insurance. The clock is ticking and while daylight savings will give us a little more daylight to burn, time is running out before the March 15 th business tax due date. Tax season is a stressful time for anyone handling their own personal taxes, but especially for small business owners whose time might be their most valuable (and at times, scarce) commodity.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2016
In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur.
deal architect
MARCH 11, 2016
MVNOs - mobile virtual network operators - are doing pretty well. They lease network capacity from the Big Four U.S. carriers and resell it under their own brands with their own value added services. Google Fi has only been doing.
View from Seed
MARCH 9, 2016
The prospect of selling a new product from an “unproven” business into a large corporation can seem daunting. But startups launch all the time as enterprise-focused entities. Still, that doesn’t make the situation any easier, so in this episode, Joe Coleman, cofounder and CEO of Contently, gets way into the weeds of selling into the enterprise.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 9, 2016
Why do a few entrepreneurs, like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, seem to come up with all the real innovations, while the majority of business leaders seem stuck in the rut of linear thinking? I have always wondered if innovation required some rare gene mutation, or whether I might be missing a simple formula for unlocking the ability in any intelligent business person to innovate.
Steve Blank
MARCH 9, 2016
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. They don’t tell the awful, painful, and exhausting job it is to build a business. The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup.
deal architect
MARCH 9, 2016
Salesforce highlighted for me this report which says “by 2018, Salesforce and its ecosystem of customer and partners will create 1 million jobs and generate $272 billion in GDP impact worldwide.” My initial reaction was “Uh-oh” about the $272 billion.
Brandanew
MARCH 11, 2016
This week, I attended an AADL (Ann Arbor District Library) event hosted by Steve Feinman, the Director of SCORE – a mentoring leader for small businesses. In particular, we had a crowd of artists from the region. While the event really was focused on how to sell art and build a remarkable brand, for me the things that spoke particularly were about branding.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 5, 2016
Almost every entrepreneur starts their journey by developing a solution, based on their knowledge of a new technology or required service. Developer skills are necessary, but not sufficient, to build a business. A real business requires leadership – thought leadership to attract customers and mind share, as well as people leadership around a team, partners, and investors.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 10, 2016
by Emma Rosser of Publicize. An effective morning ritual can kick-start a productive day. Many entrepreneurs start their day with a morning run, personal meditation or writing in their journals. Silicon Valley guru, Tim Ferris claims that small tasks like this, provide a feeling of control and organization, this could even be accomplished by making your bed.
Rembrandt Communications
MARCH 11, 2016
Keep your BtoB and BtoC Sales Flowing with These Insights If you are an entrepreneur, you constantly think about your BtoB or BtoC sales, customers, team members, and more. It can be a roller coaster of ups and downs. And whether you are having a really good month right now, or things are not going […]. The post 5 Fast Tips for Business Success appeared first on Boost sales with BtoB Content Strategy and PR here.
Brandanew
MARCH 7, 2016
In many previous organizations that I’ve worked with Sales was always a team somehow disconnected with marketing or product. As an engineer one of my first challenging problems was how to reproduce what the sales guy had promised the customer on our software. At that time, I’d often think- I want to join a sales team in my next job. I’ll only tell the customer what’s really feasible.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 6, 2016
Every business wants and needs top performers, but most entrepreneurs and executives assume that if they hire and train the smartest and most experienced people, they will get exceptional performance. They forget that top performance is a two-way street, requiring comparable initiative and responsiveness on the part of the leader, as well as contribution from each team member.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 7, 2016
On Saturday I went to two films at the Boulder International Film Festival – Code: Debugging the Gender Gap and A Good American. Both were excellent and worth watching, but Code was special for me as its an issue I’ve been helping work on for over a decade. When I joined the National Center for Women & Information Technology board as the chair in 2005, it was a nascent organization and the issue of the small number of women in computer science, while often talked about, wasn
Gust
MARCH 8, 2016
Kathryn Schifferle, Founder and CEO of Work Truck Solutions, turned being a woman in work trucks into an oversubscribed $2.1 million round. We sat down with Kathryn as she shared what her fundraising journey was like, the startup lessons she learned, and her advice to fellow founders, especially women. Here is what she had to say: HK: Tell. Read more >.
Brandanew
MARCH 9, 2016
I recently wrote to a friend of mine about brand storytelling. He said, his only connection with storytelling was kids’ storytelling and everything else seemed like buzzwords. Many times when I host a storytelling workshop, people don’t necessarily know the terminology or understand how it works from a brand perspective. You may think that it’s fluff, or something that can’t work for your products.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 10, 2016
by Patrick Stroh, author of “ Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win! “ To stay relevant these days, your company must innovate or die. For many leaders, scarier words have never been spoken. But it might take the pressure off to realize the I-word doesn’t necessarily mean what you think. An “innovation” doesn’t have to be a hot new product worthy of Steve Jobs or a Eureka!
For Entrepreneurs
MARCH 9, 2016
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about how to run a company, and immediate personal rapport.
Up and Running
MARCH 7, 2016
When I was growing up, I had tons of hobbies. I loved to draw, paint, and make things out of clay. I never played sports, but I was involved in gymnastics, ballet, and community theater. I was constantly finding joy in doing, creating, and learning something new. As I grew older, most of those hobbies fell by the wayside. Recently, I find myself wondering—what changed?
Brandanew
MARCH 11, 2016
Use of social media in political campaigns is no longer new. Everybody has more or less understood its importance and we are seeing their widespread use in many elections across the globe. But the reason Obama’s campaign is discussed here is because he was the first major leader to use it effectively. His team realized it before anyone else did, way back in 2008 when Twitter was just starting and even Facebook was just beginning to morph into the behemoth it is now.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 10, 2016
Image credit: Detour road closed from Shutterstock. Starting a business is difficult. Doing it when you’re young is even more difficult. You haven’t had the time to experience what the world of work is really like. There are loads of potential roadblocks that you will face, and it’s important to be aware of that. You should never start a business without doing as much research as you can, but you can’t plan for everything.
Mucker Lab
MARCH 8, 2016
Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital , we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. This is our third fund, which might make us seem like grumpy, rich, old VCs. In reality, we are scrappy founders, just like the entrepreneurs we serve. To use a startup fundraising analogy, our first fund was a small friends and family round; our second fund was a seed round that allowed us to validate the core hypotheses of our business; and Mucker III is our
Version One Ventures
MARCH 8, 2016
Last week I attended the NFX demo day. For me, it is one of the most fun demo days to attend as NFX, like Version One , focuses on network effect businesses, particularly marketplaces and social platforms. During the day, NFX partners shared their insights from having worked with dozens of businesses over the first 2 cohorts and one of the most interesting takeaways was hearing about how they try to help companies move faster.
For Entrepreneurs
MARCH 11, 2016
At Matrix Partners, we’ve collectively hired many people by starting our own companies and as investors, and written lots of advice for startup founders. We’ve put together the following articles into a comprehensive resource guide for you to reference as you navigate through the stages of your hiring process. The advice will help you hire the best talent and scale.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 8, 2016
by Eyal Shinar, CEO and founder of Fundbox. The typical 9-to-5 (or let’s be honest, the 8-to-7) workday is becoming less prevalent as the first generation of freelance natives carve out a new frontier: working from wherever, whenever, on select business ventures of their choosing. As the gig economy expands, freelancing is becoming a viable and attractive option for many millennials and recent college graduates.
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