Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 24, 2020
As a frequent advisor to new entrepreneurs and startups, I often hear your frustration with being treated differently from other startups by investors, on expectations for valuation , traction, and market size. Of course, it could be your level of experience, or the quality of your team, but the difference is often more related to the lifecycle stage of the market you are trying to enter.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 24, 2020
by Sharon Koifman, CEO of DistantJob. The rapid shift to remote work sent ripples through the business world. As quarantine orders were passed, businesses had to quickly modify their processes to make them compatible with a remote workforce. In total, about 20 percent of U.S. adults were able to work from home, with those in the service industry and essential workers unable to work remotely.
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The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
If your website is starting to look dated or you find yourself wondering why your traffic is stagnant no matter how hard you work at your digital ad campaigns, it might be time for a reboot. Redesigning a website is a great way to drum up some new traffic, encourage users to give your new page a look, and re-establish yourself with the major search engines after an overhaul.
deal architect
JUNE 24, 2020
Even though I call myself a glass half-full optimist, like everyone, I have mood swings during this wild phase. I had a roller coaster of a day yesterday, but did two calls in the evening and went to sleep very.
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
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
There are many factors that make or break a business. Whether external or internal, these factors should be evaluated and understood both from an owner’s viewpoint and an expert’s opinion as well. Mentorship has proven to be one of the most powerful tools that any business owner can have, especially if they are new to the journey of being an entrepreneur.
deal architect
JUNE 24, 2020
I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 24, 2020
The product information management (PIM) market is expected to grow from $7 billion to $11.4 billion by 2024. Right now, large corporations are investing heavily in product information management. The reason why the market is supposed to grow quickly is that startups and small businesses recognize the need for a PIM solution. If you sell products, you’ll need to have a way to manage those systems.
View from Seed
JUNE 24, 2020
After operating quietly for the past year, our portfolio company Jumbo made a couple big announcements yesterday, including the launch of Jumbo 2 as well as their $8M series A financing led by Balderton Capital. We were proud to be investors in Jumbo pre-product and to be working once again with Pierre Valade, one of the founders of NextView I portfolio company Sunrise.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 24, 2020
by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change “ Everyone knows that jobs have been automated over the last 20 years. But the number of those automated jobs will be a small number compared to what is coming over the next 10 years. The continuing advancement and convergence of artificial intelligence, bio-technology, nanotechnology, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, and Big Data will automate millions of jobs in the United States.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
In today’s business climate, maximum efficiency and productivity usually rely upon the use of appropriate technologies. However, for startups and young businesses, securing the relevant technology presents its own challenges. Whether it is a result of a tight budget, or a lack of know-how, a failure to invest in the necessary business technology is likely to limit the potential growth of a young business.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 24, 2020
Misty Robotics’ goal is to create a robot platform (hardware and software) that any developer can use to build useful and immediately applicable robot applications. A number of early customers have started building solutions. When the Covid crisis hit, companies started to realize that to be safe, checking people’s temperature on entry into a building would be a powerful preventative measure.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
Many businesses find themselves on the wrong side of the law due to non-compliance with tax laws. To some, this may happen not because they do not want to pay taxes, but because they do not have proper measures to know what they are supposed to pay. Such cases may leave a business with less money when time comes to remit tax. Are you facing a similar tax compliance situation?
SiliconHills
JUNE 24, 2020
Telsa officials gave more details on its proposed $1 billion Cybertruck factory in the Austin area. Rohan Patel, Tesla’s director of policy and business development, and Valerie Workman, Tesla’s head of human resources for North America, appeared via video before the Travis County Commissioners Court Tuesday afternoon. Tesla is seeking a 20-year tax abatement on […].
VC Adventure
JUNE 24, 2020
Like a lot of people, I’m stuck on Zoom for most of the day, although I’ve tried to mix in some regular phone call meetings – even when Zoom would be available – just to give me a break from time to time. I’ve found that Zoom works reasonably well for functional meetings and for information sharing / webinar-style meetings.
SiliconHills
JUNE 24, 2020
Last year, ScaleFactor made the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce’s A-List of Hottest Startups in the mid-sized category. On Tuesday, ScaleFactor announced plans to shut down after raising $103 million from investors – including $90 million in 2019. Its investors included Coatue Management, Bessemer Venture Partners, Canaan, Broadhaven Ventures, Firebrand Ventures, Vulcan, Stripes Group, and […].
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
Since the release of bitcoin in 2009, cryptocurrencies have been an attractive subject to follow and participate in. With bitcoin being the king, this industry has paved the way for so much discussion filled with excitement. Now, the odds are saying that cryptocurrencies are the future so there are loads of people who want to get in the industry. Photo by Clifford Photography on Unsplash.
Our Own Start-up
JUNE 24, 2020
Though lean startup is the best method to grow, a very small number of startups exist as lean startups. The culture of massive venture capital backing can be difficult to resist.
Board Effect
JUNE 24, 2020
In a perfect world, all corporations are driven by their missions. More often, when we think of mission-driven organizations, we think of the nonprofit sector. All corporations face challenges and the nonprofit sector presents a host of challenges that are far different from for-profit companies. Just as not all corporations within the same industry have the same business model, nonprofit organizations all need to form the best business model that works for them.
Our Own Start-up
JUNE 24, 2020
The ring of greenhouses clover supports, in Bangalore helps it handle the most basic issue of predictability and consistency of horticulture output to walk in pace with the urban consumer demand.
Version One Ventures
JUNE 24, 2020
Today, one of our newest portfolio companies, Cape Privacy , announced their seed fundraise in conjunction with the public launch of their privacy platform. You can read more details about the launch here. We co-led the seed round with our friends at boldstart ventures with participation from Haystack, Radical, and Faktory Ventures. Privacy and machine learning are two key themes for a lot of people right now, and Cape Privacy is sitting right at the intersection.
Our Own Start-up
JUNE 24, 2020
Online events have become increasingly popular in the last few years, and that’s not without a reason. They can be just as beneficial for your business as in-person events, if not more.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 24, 2020
How to Outsource Small Business Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Nathan Hirsch. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Nathan Hirsch, co-founder of OutscourceSchool. Nathan started off selling textbooks his my dorm room before discovering Amazon. Then scaled a 25 million dollar Amazon business selling toys and baby products, but always struggled to hire help.
Our Own Start-up
JUNE 24, 2020
Even though the human connection is vital to the success of small retail stores, that doesn't mean they can't invest in technology that can help improve their operations.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
If you have ambitions to launch your own successful tech startup, then funding your venture should be on the top of your list of priorities.
ConversionXL
JUNE 24, 2020
Click fraud occurs when a pay-per-click advertisement is clicked on by a user with malicious or disingenuous intent. Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. However, it continues to poison marketing campaigns—and find its way into more and more courtrooms. Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 24, 2020
HelixNano was founded to develop cancer vaccines. When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. It only took them a week to become fully committed to this new work. Just five weeks after that they had animal data on immune responses to their first vaccine candidates.
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