Up and Running
AUGUST 8, 2017
I’ve had a 30-year love-hate relationship with mission statements. I’ve read thousands. I love it when a mission statement defines a business so well that it feels like strategy —which does happen—and I hate it when a mission statement is generic, stale, and completely useless. Which also happens, but not nearly as often. What is a mission statement?
Austin Startup
AUGUST 8, 2017
You have heard it said that everything is bigger and better in Texas! Well, I for one would agree with that but the only thing that could make Texas even better would be if organizations within Texas started to collaborate even more than they already do… Well today, that happened… The DEC and Capital Factory combine forces to offer entrepreneurs across the state the best of all resources for entrepreneurs This morning the Dallas and Austin entrepreneurial ecosystems combined forces.
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 8, 2017
by Rory J. Clark, creator and innovator of Focus Selling. Some say listening is a lost art, especially when it comes to selling. Said a different way, salespeople talk too much. For example, the victims of timeshare salespeople are promised tantalizing vacation gifts in exchange for “90 minutes” of their time. In reality, the presentations are two and a half hours of talking incessantly.
Version One Ventures
AUGUST 8, 2017
Nearly two years ago, we published our first ebook, A Guide to Marketplaces. Towards the end, we touched briefly on emerging marketplace types and included decentralized marketplaces in the mix. At the time, OpenBazaar was still in beta. Since then, we’ve been closely following the evolution of blockchain technology and looking at the potential impact that blockchain will have on the marketplace landscape.
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
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 8, 2017
Venture capital funding is an elusive beast. So, here's a look at 5 sure-fire ways to prime the pump and attract VC funding.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 8, 2017
By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Heather Hoover, executive vice president of operations at uShip, joined the company in 2005, a year after its founding. At the time, uShip, the online shipping marketplace and freight automation software provider, didn’t have a formal office. Nick Parker, chief technology officer at uShip, and the founders […].
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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
AUGUST 8, 2017
Do You Wish To Accelerate Innovation? Get Training! When I step into a room to facilitate an innovation, strategy, or idea generation session I always find a great deal of energy. What I also often find is inexperience. Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 8, 2017
Real estate agencies and companies in the real estate industry typically focus on similar things: buying and selling real estate. But that’s like saying that Microsoft and Apple sell the same thing (computers). We know that there are many fundamental differences that make Apple products unique from Microsoft’s. The same thing is true for real estate companies.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 8, 2017
Indeed, a global job site based in Austin announced it has acquired Interviewed, a human resources technology company based in San Francisco. “Indeed’s mission is to help people get jobs, and today we make it easy for millions of job seekers to find and apply to jobs all over the world,” Chris Hyams, president of […]. The post Indeed.com Acquires Interviewed appeared first on SiliconHills.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 8, 2017
Real estate agencies and companies in the real estate industry typically focus on similar things: buying and selling real estate. But that’s like saying that Microsoft and Apple sell the same thing (computers). We know that there are many fundamental differences that make Apple products unique from Microsoft’s. The same thing is true for real estate companies.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 8, 2017
How to Use Webinars for Every Stage of the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Simply put, webinars (online meetings) are a convenient form of content that gives you the ability to create “one to many” engagements. One of the things I love most about them is that you can use webinars for every stage of the customer journey by altering the intent of the content as the buyer’s questions, goals and needs change.
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 8, 2017
This is a long post (1,900 words). For those of you who are time poor here’s the tltr: Forward Partners operates a focused investment strategy because it helps us make better investment decisions and provide better support to our companies. A good focus area for us is one that can generate 50+ deals and where we can build some generalised expertise that helps with our decision making and value add.
Campus Entrepreneurship
AUGUST 8, 2017
Everyone is looking for them. We have them already… They function pretty well. My recent paper: The Campus as Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. From the abstract: One question that immediately comes to mind when studying ecosystem performance is what the proper unit of analysis is: the country, the state, the city, the region, or something smaller, like an incubator or accelerator?
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 8, 2017
by Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder of BELAY. Entrepreneurs are an interesting bunch. Although I don’t usually like to generalize, there are certain qualities and personality traits that seem like must-haves for entrepreneurship — determination; a willingness to take risks; a preference for action over deliberation; self-reliance; persistence, and perhaps the most common of them all, confidence.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 8, 2017
I embarked on a 30 day blogging challenge to restore my passion for writing (more about it here ) Please sign up to my newsletter to receive the latest updates. This was day fourteen. There is no. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!
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