Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 4, 2017
With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 40 percent increase in data breaches in 2016, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity, to make people’s life better, rather than stoke the fires.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 4, 2017
In a physical environment like a cafe or a restaurant, people recognise that there are external factors that affect their experiences and that these factors are out of a business control. Hence they naturally have a lower standard for what is deemed a satisfactory experience. They don’t mind queuing a few minutes to get into a restaurant or to make a payment.
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This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 4, 2017
One aspect of venture capital that rarely gets talked about is competition to get into a deal. What happens when a founder has that rare wealth of riches when they're choosing who they're going to allow onto their cap table? The tables turn and the one being pitched to becomes the one pitching. The moment when you find out that you're not guaranteed a slot is my least favorite as a VC.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 4, 2017
Some robots are getting so ridiculously good – you can literally code, or should I say ‘train‘ them, by moving their arms and legs. You show them what to do like you would a child. The Baxter robot by Rethink Robotics is an example of this pictured above. In addition to this Natural Language Processing is. Continue reading → The post Why you shouldn’t fear a robot version of you appeared first on Steve Sammartino.
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
Austin Startup
JUNE 4, 2017
Get Your Hands Dirty Early on to Prove Product/Market Fit Originally Published at The American Genius Creating and running a tech startup is no mean feet. In addition to coming up with the idea, fundraising, recruiting and selling, it involves lots of…well…tech. You’re likely going to need to set up hosting services, code repositories, analytics, CRMs, CMSs, VPNs, CDNs and a host of other three letter acronyms.
Scott Edward Walker
JUNE 4, 2017
News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the June 5, 2017 edition.
Austin Startup
JUNE 4, 2017
Recently I was fortunate enough to have raised a seed funding round from a fantastic group of investors for my pre-product, pre-revenue B2B SaaS startup here in Austin, Texas. If you would like to read more about my company, here is the product launch and funding announcement. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 million round in SaaS management tool Meta SaaS Raising the round was a full-time job for four months.
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