Tue.Mar 27, 2018

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Academic Research on Accelerators

Feld Thoughts

The first accelerator, YC, was founded in 2005. The second, Techstars, was founded in 2006. Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators. Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem. They have evolved over the years, and many new approaches have been taken.

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Hear This From SXSW: Community Rules!

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 27, 2018 Humans crave community. That sounds obvious, but in today frenetically-paced, always plugged-in world, there are new challenges to finding the meaningful person-to-person support that drives personal and professional growth and satisfaction. In March 2018, SXSW content approached this issue from multiple angles, including taking a look at the lessons from a female-driven community, the importance of building team spirit and the impact of a very, very early o

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Five Keys To Entrepreneurial Funding

YoungUpstarts

by Maria E. Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel, co-authors of “ Beyond Collisions: How to Build Your Entrepreneurial Infrastructure “ How does a community find funding to support building and encouraging an entrepreneurial infrastructure? The connections and collaborations don’t happen by chance. Someone needs to wake up every morning and care about the network.

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A wealth of sources for startup fundraising – A primer for founders

VC Cafe

The financial side of technology entrepreneurship means that almost from inception, an entrepreneur has to think about and plan his or her sources of financing. Wether you like it or not, startups. 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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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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How To Survive The Down Cycle Of Business

YFS Magazine

In business and in life, it’s true that what goes up must come down. But if you pursue your goals with passion and persevere through your down cycle, you’ll also see that what goes down will always come back up!

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The First Thing I Learned In My Marketing Class

Growthink Blog

I took my first marketing course 20 years ago. And I absolutely loved it. I was in my third year at the University of Virginia, and my professor, Sandra Schmidt, was simply awesome. She was one of those professors who loved what she did. She was always smiling, spoke with great emotion, and truly loved marketing and teaching. And on the very first day of class, I still remember to this day, she asked us two questions to test our knowledge.

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Marketplace Theory and Dynamics

A Crowded Space

I recently attended the Marketplace Conference and SDVG and gave this presentation about marketplace theory. It’s a collection of my thoughts and frameworks that I’ve developed over the last 13 years as an operator and investor in various marketplace businesses. Link here: [link].

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The Role of Content Has Changed – Here’s How You Can Adapt

Duct Tape Marketing

The Role of Content Has Changed – Here’s How You Can Adapt written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It wasn’t too long ago that you could follow the formula below to attract and generate leads for your business: Develop a content upgrade, like an ebook. Gate it behind a form on a landing page. Drive people to your landing pages through blog posts, social media, advertising, and email campaigns.

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The next 5 books I can’t wait to read

Jeff Hilimire

When you start with a goal of reading a book a week over the course of a year, you naturally begin collecting books over time that you’re excited to read. I’m working my way through a few great ones right now (including 1776 which I’m LOVING,) but these five I simply can’t wait to tackle. Resistance, Rebellion, and Death – this was a favorite book of Bobby’s , and I’m too big of a fan not to check it out.

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Introverts’ Best Practice Guide To Meeting People And Building Relationships

YoungUpstarts

by J ason Treu , author of “ Social Wealth: How to Build Extraordinary Relationships By Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network “ 1. Use fear as a compass. Fear is actually leading you the direction to make your life better. Once you embrace uncertainty and use it as fuel, life will really open up for you. Simply force yourself to step outside of your comfort zones.

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6 Tips For Writing The Perfect CrunchBase Profile

YoungUpstarts

The past decade has seen digital marketing take the world by storm. Today’s successful businesses are expected to do much more than just provide quality customer service. They also need to find time to create a compelling website and maintain an effective presence on social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram. As a business that’s serious about online marketing, you’ve likely already built profiles on Twitter or LinkedIn, keep them updated and respond efficiently to posts you receive th