Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

An entrepreneur lifestyle that continues to gain in popularity these days is being a “social entrepreneur.” In the simplest of terms, these are people who seek to generate “social value”, rather than profits, and use traditional business principles to provide solutions to social issues On the surface, this sounds like entrepreneurs who want to build a non-profit organization.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

When starting a business today, going online is certainly one of the best ways to keep your company expenditure to a minimum. With nine out of ten start-ups failing within the first year or even earlier, the lean business model is proving hugely popular, allowing entrepreneurs to get the most for their money when it comes to business development and success.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The hardest thing about pivots (major shifts in company/product direction) isn’t just the actual pivot. It’s the courage to make the decision… and being honest with yourself as a CEO.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

by Heather Landau, founder of Open A European Company.com. Your business is doing brilliantly. You’ve had a successful launch, with customers letting you know how pleased they are. With sales ticking over nicely, you take on more staff, and start developing a new line of products. Then suddenly, performance drops off. Orders stop coming in. Your online reputation has taken a hit, and you’ve narrowed it down to one of five factors: 1.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

It’s a busy week for tech events in San Antonio with Startup Weekend kicking off Friday and running through the weekend. And the following week is the second annual San Antonio Startup Week. MONDAY – Feb. 20 – 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Southwest Research Institute – Southwest Research Institute Annual Meeting featuring presentations […] The post Tech Events to Attend in San Antonio This Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

This is on the list of things I almost never do these days. Over time, I have slimmed down the number of things I do into four core categories: family, Dragon Army , writing (this blog and my first book ), and “Doing Good” (which right now is mostly 48in48 and Central OAC.) I would say +90% of my time goes toward those four things. When I’m catching up with someone and we share the things we’re up to, I usually get the same bewildered question, “How do you do all of

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The old adage of “Always be selling” definitely applies to fundraising. One of the things I didn’t realize as an entrepreneur was that at the seed stage, *anyone* could potentially be an investor. A lot of entrepreneurs just think to pitch to VCs or well-known angel investors or people who have signaled they are angels on Angelist. But the reality is that angel investors can be anybody, especially these days, now that non-accredited investors can invest much more freely.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

“What’s your end game?”, I asked. This particular founder had just raised a mid eight figure round of funding. And, after hearing about struggles with their board, struggles with the new investors and watching their ownership drop from mid double digit percentages to high single digits I couldn’t help but wonder. What’s your end game? Seemingly surprised, the founder shot back that this round was a step towards the next nine figure round and another brick in a world domination strategy to upend

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

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