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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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7 Promising Trends Defining the Future of Remarkable Brand Storytelling in 2016

Brandanew

The future of remarkable brand storytelling in 2016 will be defined by this new normal. As we end the year, here are new trends that are redefining the future of remarkable brand storytelling in 2016 and beyond. Check a quick snapshot of all the remarkable brand storytelling trends for 2016 in a visual at the end of this post!

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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform. Then in 2016 I found a dressmaker in Romania who created fashion-forward designs that were made to measure, and the light bulb went off!

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The Full Dataset on What VCs are Thinking About Funding in 2016

Both Sides of the Table

Our last thoughts on the VC funding markets heading into 2016 was published here and I followed up with a little more context on the resetting of the venture industry , some thoughts on how startups are valued and how to think about burn rates at startups. VC survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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25 Marketers Share Awesome Social Analytics Tools For 2016

Brandanew

Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. Brands that will stand-out in 2016 will leverage the power of the community and create a strong ROI based on measurable data-backed decisions. Come for our first 2016 digital marketing workshop on Jan 15 (3pm to 6pm) in Delhi, India.

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Venture Capital Funding: A Curated List of Our Best Resources

Up and Running

12 of the Hottest Venture Capital Firms in 2016. According to Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, there’s a certain something you need if you want to appeal to investors at firms like his. Yes, they did raise money later—but that didn’t stop them from starting. The low down on VC funding. Got “Founder Fit”?

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ).

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