SVPG

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. You can watch that talk here , or read the narrative article here. As I mainly shined a light on why so many teams are operating so ineffectively, and despite claims to the contrary, most product organizations are hardly “agile” in any meaningful sense of the term, as the organization overall is still operating in a very waterfall fashi

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2016

By Saad Amanullah Khan, author of “ It’s Business, It’s Personal: From Setting a Vision to Delivering it Through Organizational Excellence “ One of the greatest challenges that any start-up, entrepreneur or an existing business can face is how to convert their innovation or unique idea into an actual running, profitable and sustainable business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

Starting a new business is not an informal process, and should never be treated like a hobby between friends. Unfortunately, as a startup advisor and angel investor, I’ve seen too many ventures with great potential get destroyed or set back by legal and other shortcuts that should never have been allowed to happen. The path to true success does not allow for shortcuts.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

We just held our fifth week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the teams passed the half way mark in the class. They’ve collectively talked to over 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) Their focus for this week was to figure out how to get products rapidly deployed into their sponsors organization. Our advanced lecture explained how to get buy-in for your solution by creating an insurgency among your supporters and advocates.

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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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Brandanew

MAY 2, 2016

Content Marketing and brand storytelling have been around from thousands of years and as a Startup or small business, it’s not just a good to have, but necessary in the 2016 world. The big difference is that consumers are now creating content on multiple platforms themselves. Different channels across the purchase cycle, and brand touch points for consumers have exploded.

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Steve Blank

MAY 2, 2016

We just held our fifth week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the teams passed the half way mark in the class. They’ve collectively talked to over 550 beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) Their focus for this week was to figure out how to get products rapidly deployed into their sponsors organization. Our advanced lecture explained how to get buy-in for your solution by creating an insurgency among your supporters and advocates.

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Up and Running

MAY 2, 2016

This year, National Small Business Week (NSBW) is May 1 to May 7. At Bplans, we’re happy to participate in National Small Business Week by giving you access to the best resources and advice we have for small businesses and startups. Whether you’re thinking about starting a business or are an already established business owner looking to grow, there’s bound to be something useful for you.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2016

Project management is a big responsibility that involves proper coordination among various departments involved in a project and proper planning. Estimation is the foundation of any project which is expected by planning and allocating the tasks. If your estimation is flawed, your entire project may become a huge disaster. There are many estimation software available in the market which help the project managers deal with project estimation and even better project management more efficiently.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 2, 2016

Closing the gender leadership gap won’t happen overnight. It will take a concerted effort by companies and society alike to eliminate unconscious biases and empower more female leaders to succeed.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 2, 2016

I read Bill Walton ‘s autobiography Back from the Dead on Saturday after my long run. It was a good one and does a great job of capturing a complicated life filled with super high peaks and extremely low valleys. I was into basketball as a pre-teen. I played forward for a little while but really settled into my role as a guard. I played until junior high school when I stopped playing soccer and basketball and focused entirely on tennis, which lasted until high school when I smashed my la

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YFS Magazine

MAY 2, 2016

A mere few months of working at a loss can severely damage any reserves you have built up. Protect cash reserves you have by having these important flags in place to immediately warn you when your business finances are going off track.

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The Next Web

MAY 2, 2016

You cash-out your hard-earned money in perfecting your website, getting the word out, and bringing in as many footfalls on your landing page as possible. Positive signs begin to surface, with increasing number of coveted clicks landing on the “Sign me up!” button. And that’s where the next catch is patiently waiting to pounce on you.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 2, 2016

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today, President of Stratford Financial Group, Jeffrey Ingalls, joins us to discuss the different insurance requirements businesses have, when you need it vs. when you don’t, and the key to doing it profitably. Many people in the past would go for the best insurance at the cheapest rate, or the most benefits at the cheapest rate… but that’s no longer the way to success.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 2, 2016

Certainly these are just a few industries that the Internet of Things will have a huge impact on. Nonetheless, it’s creating a more connected life between you and your devices.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 2, 2016

Nine Ways to Play At Work (see list below). The idea that one should invoke a sense of play around challenges is not a new one. Tim Brown of IDEO did that great TED speech on play , and there have been several more TED play-centric talks ( Stuart Brown , John Cohn, Sue Palmer) all variations on the theme. Sunni Brown’s talk on Doodling is a personal favorite because she gets specific about how one can begin to be more creatively playful with problem solving.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 2, 2016

Share. This motivational quote and videos for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners will help you start the week off on the right foot. I should be the weakest chain in the link, that will make me run faster. Have a vision that pulls you. A grinder wakes up early & stays up late. No matter how bad it gets. I’m going to make it. When it hurts, keep going.

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2016

“Networking” is one of the most useless terms in modern business vernacular. It’s about as meaningless as “innovation.” Continue reading on Medium ».

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Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

Thursday was a pretty cool day as a microcosm of startup VC life. We signed a termsheet for a new seed investment in the morning and then spent the afternoon/evening hosting our 3rd Homebrew Annual Meeting for our fund’s investors. I’ve written before about our LP meetings – if you want to check those out before hearing about 2016’s version, here you go: Homebrew Annual Meeting 2014.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MAY 2, 2016

Tyler Newkirk talks about how Gun.io offers a unique concierge service that matches customers with their very own Hackers. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Firm Connects Customers with Their Very Own “Hackers” appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

Thursday was a pretty cool day as a microcosm of startup VC life. We signed a termsheet for a new seed investment in the morning and then spent the afternoon/evening hosting our 3rd Homebrew Annual Meeting for our fund’s investors. I’ve written before about our LP meetings – if you want to check those out before hearing about 2016’s version, here you go: Homebrew Annual Meeting 2014.

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Rob Go

MAY 2, 2016

When we started NextView 6 years ago, most seed rounds were relatively small. If a company raised $1M in a seed, that was pretty substantial. Our average round size in our first fund was about $1.2M. Actually, the average in the first half of the fund was quite a bit lower, but during this period (2011–2014) there was a pretty dramatic rise in seed stage valuations overall.

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Jason Ball

MAY 2, 2016

It’s one year that I’ve had my Apple Watch, and people still ask me “How is it?” “I love it”, I always reply. It’s as simple as that. It’s the best watch I’ve ever owned because it’s the one I *enjoy* wearing the most. Other watches just tell time (and maybe the date); this watch does that, plus gives me weather at a glance (that’s important in London) and is my credit card, on tap, on my wrist, always.

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ConversionXL

MAY 2, 2016

We’ve been in this industry many years – doing optimization work, teaching, consulting. The core problems we’ve observed with the optimization people seem to still boil down to these things. Not knowing what to do in general (resulting in using random hacks and tactics). Not knowing what to test (and testing silly thing that make no difference instead).

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Jason Ball

MAY 2, 2016

It’s one year that I’ve had my Apple Watch, and people still ask me “How is it?” “I love it”, I always reply. It’s as simple as that. It’s the best watch I’ve ever owned because it’s the one I *enjoy* wearing the most. Other watches just tell time (and maybe the date); this watch does that, plus gives me weather at a glance (that’s important in London) and is my credit card, on tap, on my wrist, always.

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