Thu.Nov 14, 2019

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When’s the Right Time to Leave the App Store?

ReadWriteStart

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference used to be the stuff of legend. We waited with bated breath for groundbreaking innovation. But… this year’s WWDC didn’t feature the significant product launches of yesteryear. Instead, the crowds watched the unveiling of Apple Arcade – the games subscription service. On the one hand, it indicates the growing importance ‘services’ business hold is for Apple.

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What’s the Deal with Seed Funds Waiting for Traction?

View from Seed

I sent a tweet out last week that elicited quite a few responses from both founders and investors: seed funds that don’t invest pre-traction =. — Rob Go (@robgo) November 4, 2019. I could hear the internet nodding in violent agreement. I thought I’d share a few additional thoughts on what may be driving this. First – there are a lot of seed investors out there that don’t actually want to invest in seed.

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What intellectual property (IP) steps should a startup take?

NZ Entrepreneur

IP steps for startups should be the same as for large multinationals, but within their budget. Make IP decisions and do so early. One of the main (and early) steps is to make a considered decision about what IP means to your business and what IP tools will be used to support your business model. Not doing so can cause big problems later for your business.

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How Robotics Have Changed The Manufacturing Industry

YoungUpstarts

Technology has completely transformed many industries in recent times, but none more so than manufacturing. The rise of robotics has forever changed this industry and made it quicker and easier than ever for companies to mass-produce goods. Assembly. This has largely been achieved through the use of automation with robots and machines now being able to handle just about any industrial task with accuracy as precise as 0.02 mm.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Happy 13th Anniversary Techstars

Feld Thoughts

Techstars was born 13 years ago. There’s a delicious article in the Denver Post that was the launch article of the first accelerator in Boulder titled How TechStars was born from 5/18/07. The photo is fun. Some of my favorite lines from the article include: Jared Polis, Brad Feld, David Cohen and David Brown are the “professors” – the founders of an organization called TechStars, created to mentor 10 startup companies for the summer.

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Key Reasons Women Entrepreneurs Should Consider Writing A Book

YoungUpstarts

Women entrepreneurs usually encounter gender barriers as opposed to men in their attempts to achieve industrial advancements. Potential business collaborators have always overlooked women entrepreneurs and snagged them of significant opportunities. When women entrepreneurs write books and dissertations about their innovations, they improve their founding profiles, develop expertise, gain positive perceptions, introduce female culture in business, and become competitive in entrepreneurial environ

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Reasons To Hire A Lawyer To Get Worker Compensation Benefits   

The Startup Magazine

Accidents are often unpredictable and can lead to severe injuries at times. However, when you face casualties at your workplace, you are owed compensation. This allowance is to be provided by the employer. But in many cases, the intricacy arises when the firm withholds one’s rebate. If you are facing any such dilemma, you can file a case against the company or the employer that you are working for.

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What type of capital should you raise, and from who?

David Teten

How do you decide which investor you should target and raise capital from? . I wrote recently about Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Since then, I’ve talked with a number of other firms, and greatly expanded my database: Who are the major Revenue-Based (RBI) Investing VCs? That said, venture capital is just one of many options to finance your business, and it’s typically the most expensive.

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#1 Reason for Companies to Hire Remotely in the Future

Transformify

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Our guest today is Dmytro Okunyev, the Founder of Chanty - a simple AI-powered team chat. This powerful and free Slack alternative is aimed to increase team productivity and improve communication at work. Dmytro, many founders believe that in-office teams are easier to manage.

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The Not-So-Obvious Approach To Finding More Upside In Business

YFS Magazine

It’s logical to focus on the service you provide as a way to stand out from the competition. But there's a better way.

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Hustle isn’t the answer, its actually part of the problem

Jeff Hilimire

Alright, cue all my startup friends (and really, anyone anywhere in the startup world) to be upset with this post. But I just can’t take another sticker-blog-video-tshirt-etc espousing the necessity of hustling. The internet is riddled with hustle blogs, hustle quotes, and yes, hustle memes. And look, I used to be all about the hustle. The problem is that most of the time, when people look to hustling as the answer, one of two things happens.

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The Strategy And Appeal Of Successful Brand Partnerships

YFS Magazine

Developing a strong brand partnership at the local level can give your business a real boost in brand equity. Follow these world-class examples.

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10 VCs Backing Game-Changing Startups of the Past, Present and Future

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post 10 VCs Backing Game-Changing Startups of the Past, Present and Future appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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The Same, But Different

OnlyOnce

I’ve been to India once before, when Mariquita and I came here on holiday in 2006. We did a lot of the main tourist things – the Taj Mahal, Rajasthan, a tiger safari, Goa. And we spent a little bit of time with our expat friends Anuja and Bobby in Bangalore. At Return Path, we never had any business in India, though, so this week’s trip to see LRN’s Mumbai office was my first ever work trip to India.

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Over-promoting employees. Recalling the Peter Principle

Berkonomics

Remember the Peter Principle? Funny how good messages come back in new forms after years of languishing out in the ether. Dr. Laurence J. Peter in The Peter Principle : Why Things Always Go Wrong wrote in the early 1960’s of the “lateral arabesque,” describing how companies promote incompetent employees sometimes by sending them to another department or division to get them out of the way of progress.

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Attracting great staff in a job-seekers market

NZ Entrepreneur

It’s a job-seeker’s market out there. Talented people have the pick of the crop, which makes attracting great staff a challenge, even for the best businesses. A good salary, job title and perks might tick the functional boxes for a potential employee, but people are increasingly looking for more from their job. Here, Vanesha Din – co-founder and director of HR and recruitment advisory firm Sprout – talks about how the world of employment is changing, and how a strong brand story crea

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Creating an Image for Your Business That’ll Help It Grow

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Making your business successful on a continuous basis requires constant reinvention. The marketplace will keep changing around you, and you have to be ready for that. You have to be ready to adapt. Of course, if you really want to make your company successful on a long-term basis, then you should aim to set the pace at which your industry changes. Instead of playing catch-up, you should be trying to get ahead of your competitors.

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Tips for choosing a heavy haul trucking company

Our Own Start-up

If you require the services of a heavy haul trucking company, now is a good time to avail of them.

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Surviving & Thriving in the Modern Market: A Contractors Guide

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you are a subcontractor, some issues can be problematic, and so can threaten the survival of your business. Fortunately, you can find out how to not just survive but thrive in this situation as well. In fact, all you need do is read the advice in the post below. Make Sure You Get Your Bidding Process Right. Firstly, bidding for jobs is likely to be one of the most critical aspects of your business.

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Is It Easier For an All-remote Company to Tap Into a Diverse Talent Pool?

Transformify

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Our guest today is Fredrik Thomassen, the co-founder and CEO of Superside , a Sam Altman and Slack-backed company that's building a new labor market for global design talent. Fredrik, why did you introduce remote work policy at Superside?

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Branding + Positioning = Influencing

YoungUpstarts

by Divya Parekh , Influence Architect and author of “ Expert To Influencer: How To Position Yourself For Meaningful Impact “ Becoming an “Influencer” is the desired goal for many professionals, regardless of their industry or interests. Except in rare cases, it takes a systematic process to achieve the purpose of being an influencer where a person has a tribe of followers who eagerly wait to see what he or she has to say next.

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10 Takeaways for Israeli founders considering the UK

VC Cafe

This week brought together a few different parts of my personal and professional life. On Monday, Kevin Baxpehler and I hosted the UK Israel Business investor delegation to Tel Aviv, and today I spent the morning with the 8200 EISP startup delegation to London where I was joined by Kirsten Connell (Cylon Lab, Managing Director) Simon Menashy (MMC Ventures, General Partner).

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