Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2016
Too many entrepreneurs tell me they are looking for an investor, and can’t differentiate between venture capital (VC) investors versus accredited Angel investors. They argue that the color of the money is the same from either source. They fail to realize that the considerations are quite different for each, which can make or break their investment efforts, and ultimately their startup.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 5, 2016
If you’re a budding entrepreneur, aside from working your way to set off on the right foot, one other thing that you need to think hard about is potential pitfalls that you might encounter along the way. According to Bloomberg , 8 out of 10 startups fail within the first 18 months. That’s 80 percent of all small businesses started in any year. Interestingly, most of these businesses usually start off very well, getting a reliable stream of customers for the first few months and even managing to
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This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 5, 2016
but you do need a team. And if you happen to find someone amazing you want to partner up with, that's fantastic. Just don't go picking someone who really doesn't compliment you just because it's some kind of VC rule. I've heard a lot of VCs tell founders they need co-founders--and that they wouldn't look at a business at a very early stage without a co-founder.
Hippoland
JUNE 5, 2016
We talk about the importance of demonstrating traction and being in a big market, but we don’t talk about founder-likability, because it’s such a touchy topic. tl;dr If an investor doesn’t like you, he/she won’t invest. Ouch. How do you know if you like someone after knowing him/her for only a short time?! And shouldn’t it be about whether you are running an awesome business or not?
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
SiliconHills
JUNE 5, 2016
By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News It’s hard making a mobile app. Just ask 80 fourth, fifth and six graders who just finished Hello World’s first engineering program and created 12 prototypes. Hello World, a new after school program, teaches kids web and mobile development, game design, data science and design thinking. The […] The post Students Debut Mobile Apps at Hello World Demo Day appeared first on SiliconHills.
David Cohen
JUNE 5, 2016
We’ve been running Techstars for almost a decade now. Every time we select ten or so companies for one of our accelerator programs, there’s some kind of group dynamic at play. Multiple smart people are in a room debating which of the 1,000 or so companies we’re considering should be funded. And those rooms are full of very smart people.
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Scott Edward Walker
JUNE 5, 2016
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar. Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball f
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2016
The funding environment for tech startups is an ever shifting ground as we go through predictable shifts that go hand-in-hand with the slowing of the overall market. The most important shift I would characterize as the market moving from “high conviction” and thus strong follow-ons to “limited conviction” and lots of gamesmanship / games of chicken … at your expense.
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