Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? After all, most great breakthroughs, like a computer in every home, seemed like a crazy idea before Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it happen.

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SiliconHills

MAY 13, 2023

By Laura Lorek, publisher and senior writer of Silicon Hills News Newchip entered into bankruptcy liquidation last week. The Austin-based company rebranded as Astralabs, doing business as Newchip and Newchip Accelerator, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on March 17th, listing $1.7 million in total assets and $4.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

“Worst case scenario we’ll sell to a larger startup or public company for about ~$1.5m per engineer.” Yes, this was the ‘fallback plan’ for many team in the web2 era and they weren’t wrong. Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2023

The Emergence of Fractional CMOs: A Powerful Shift in Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing As businesses evolve and competition increases, the marketing landscape is changing significantly. Traditional marketing agencies have long been the go-to solution for businesses seeking marketing expertise. However, a new model is emerging that offers more strategic value: the fractional Chief Marketing Officer Plus (CMO+).

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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

Startup

Transformify

MAY 13, 2023

Introduction The advent of technology has ushered in an era of profound transformation. One of the most significant disruptions we've witnessed is in the world of payroll and accounting, with the emergence of 'on-demand payroll.' This innovative payroll model has transcended the traditional boundaries of fortnightly or monthly salary disbursements, introducing flexibility like never before.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2023

Weekend Favs May 13 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but I encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one I took on the road.

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