The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

When I started my healthy snacks startup five years ago, I knew I would have to juggle a lot of balls at the same time to make it successful. I would have to make terrific hiring decisions, line up top suppliers to buy the choicest ingredients for our snack bars that we would produce, buy the best manufacturing equipment we could find to ensure product quality and shelf life, create a network to distribute and sell our products, and figure out the best way to promote it.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Embrace the big idea and do a big fat startup, Ben Dyer, successful entrepreneur and mentor, advises new entrepreneurs. In the last six and a half years, Dyer has seen at least 10,000 startup plans since he’s been in Austin. The free beer app is not a […]. The post Peachtree Software Founder and Serial Entrepreneur Ben Dyer on Ideas to Invoices appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

I’m running my 25th marathon in South Dakota on 10/8/17. My training has been going well and I’m now in a zone of 30+ miles a week with a long run once a week in the high teens. Today’s run from Aspen to Basalt was the best run I’ve had in over a year. Just under a year ago, I did this same run in 4 hours. So, I’m in significantly better shape, which makes me happy since my October 2016 Marathon in Portland, Oregon was a debacle.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. I thought it would be helpful to put together some notes on market norms and issues to consider in negotiating a partnership at an institutional investment firm. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital.

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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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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Michael Dell, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies announced in a post on Facebook Friday plans to donate $36 million to a fund to Rebuild Texas. “We must rebuild the Texas communities devastated by Hurricane Harvey together,” Dell wrote. On Friday, Michael and Susan Dell launched the Rebuild Texas Fund with Gov. Greg Abbott and […].

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less.

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Street Smart Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s amazing how often product managers forget a simple, yet fundamental truth: Our job as product managers is not just to build features users want… Not just to prioritize the roadmap… Not just to spend time talking with customers… Not just to ensure a successful release… Those activities are important, of course. But they don’t […].

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