YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2016
by Shane Kenny, founder of Filtersnap. I love the fast-paced, see-my-work-have-a-big-impact nature of a new startup. I love it so much that, since middle school, I have been part of starting eight businesses. Admittedly, they have not all been successful. Some have been spectacular failures. Despite this, I have been drawn by the siren call of the startup once again.
View from Seed
AUGUST 30, 2016
This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. Full disclosure: NextView is an investor in Alignable. Let me start with a few addresses: 1355 Market Street. 2029 Stierlin Court. 1 Hacker Way. Any of these ring a bell?
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 24, 2016
I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. So the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 15, 2016
The existence of a problem doesn’t mean there’s a solution to that problem. Wanting to create impact is great. But to do it, you need to actually have a sustainable business model. I don’t recommend anyone become an entrepreneur. It’s too hard. It’s too painful. Starting a business is too risky. There are better ways to make a living.
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
Brandanew
AUGUST 14, 2016
What does it take to create a big brand? What does it take to rebrand and follow your heart in doing something new? Can you change your brand DNA and begin to weave stories with customers? If you’ve been looking for answers to these questions, here’s the next edition of the Social Trends Show. Listen in to House This CEO, Shikha Pahwa on how she’s been at the helm of all things branding for her small business.
Up and Running
AUGUST 22, 2016
“Know Thyself”—an ancient Greek maxim inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. What are you good at? That’s a question we all want to know about ourselves, as well as the question that occasionally comes after it: What aren’t you good at? If you don’t know how to answer those questions about yourself, keep reading—I’ll help you come to a better knowledge of yourself.
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ConversionXL
AUGUST 19, 2016
It seems all technology is getting smaller and more efficient. It’s certainly true for computers, as smartphones are progressively overtaking their larger counterparts. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 billion smartphone users in 2012. This number increased by 27.1% in 2013 to 1.43 billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 20, 2016
Every inventor seems to think their invention is worth a million dollars, but I haven’t seen anyone pay that much for one yet. In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. Early-stage ideas fall in the same category.
Version One Ventures
AUGUST 26, 2016
There’s a lot of debate surrounding the right time to bring executive level hires into your start-up. But one thing is clear: how you build your team over the first few years can determine the trajectory of your company more than any other decision you make. There are no right answers here. Every start-up is unique so the same path won’t work for every company and management team.
Brandanew
AUGUST 22, 2016
The Social Trends Show where we meet social experts, brand owners, bloggers and all sorts of creatives got a high degree of ultra cool recently. We spoke to a cartoonist and all round creative, Meera Sapra. Now Meera incidentally, also wears another hat of being the social media guru at Zoho. She recently shared Zoho’s vision for a business operating system, no less.
Up and Running
AUGUST 31, 2016
You’ve done it. You’ve successfully launched your business and now you’re ready to metaphorically sing about it from the rooftops. You’ve listened to the internet gurus. You’ve read the statistics. You know if your business isn’t online, you’re leaving money on the table. But then you see that tsunami on the horizon. It’s a massive wave filled with over 20 different social media platforms, hundreds of industry-specific blogs and blog directories, portfolio websites, forums, video collectio
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 25, 2016
by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. In the realm of software and internet companies, 2006 was a whole different landscape, and it was the year that I founded JotForm. At the time, most users accessed the web through Internet Explorer. Facebook had just opened its doors to outside college campuses. Myspace was the largest social networking website in the world.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 27, 2016
Share The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it.
Hippoland
AUGUST 21, 2016
Portfolio founder: There’s an investor who wants to invest about $500k. me: Oh great! Who is he/she? Portfolio founder: That’s the problem. Person X isn’t well-known. I want “value-add” investors in my round. So, I’m thinking about declining the money. I have this conversation all the time with portfolio companies. This especially happens when founders start getting a lot of inbound requests from investors to meet, so they think that they have a lot of investor options.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 14, 2016
I love reading non-fiction as a way to challenge myself to understand topics that stretch my understanding of the world around me. I love history and biographies and even novels that are “faction.” This Summer I read “The Third Chimpanze” by Jared Diamond and since he’s my favorite history writer I of course loved it. If you haven’t read Diamond, though, I’d recommend starting with “Guns, Germs & Steel” & then “Collapse” but all three are worth reading.
Brandanew
AUGUST 19, 2016
In our last post , we talked about what tools and infrastructure you need to develop a remarkable blog. And as a follow-up in today’s post, we’ll be sharing how to effectively use WordPress as your CMS (Content management system). This post comes to us via guest blogger and tech-guru, Shahid Mansuri. Shahid has some really mean tips for taking your blogging game up several notches.
Up and Running
AUGUST 23, 2016
In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. He needed a job, but breaking into the job market was tough. “I had a lot of requests for freelance work,” Kinsman says, “so I decided to set up a branding and marketing business in Hong Kong.”. Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2016
by Shawn Overcast , managing director at gothamCulture. You have a million things to consider when investing your startup’s money. Developing your product is just the beginning. Then come the marketing, sales, and accounting considerations. But throughout all this, you can’t overlook the single most important financial consideration: your team. Your employees, after all, become part of what you sell.
deal architect
AUGUST 31, 2016
The question jumped out at me in this article about the wide open spaces in Mongolia. It’s a question a nomadic herder asks. It may seem quaint to us these days but it is something that was accepted for generations.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 26, 2016
Three Reasons Google Analytics is Worthless for Small Business written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Pexels. If you own a small business that has a website, you probably want to know how many people are visiting your site. In fact, you probably want to know a lot more than that. You want to know how they got to your site, how much time they spend on your site once they get there, how many pages they look at, and lots of other things.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2016
I just finished Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. I can’t recommend this book strongly enough. I loved it in so many ways. J.D. grew in a single-parent (often zero parent) lower-income home in Middletown, Ohio and spent much of his youth also in his family’s cultural home of Jackson, Kentucky. His youth was surrounded by family members who struggled with substance abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy and lack of social mobility.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 29, 2016
We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S. Department of Defense, delivers geospatial intelligence (satellite imagery video, and other sensor data) to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responde
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 14, 2016
As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Startups which display real innovation, such as alternative energy sources and new medical treatments, are still rare.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2016
If you’re thumbing through a catalog of restaurant supplies with the idea of starting a food service business, you’re reviewing an idea that dates back through history. Busy Romans out on the town enjoyed the fare of street vendors. Meanwhile, public cooks gratified affluent Romans in their villas with delicious meals. Later, the catering business expanded into hostelries, monasteries, taverns, and inns for medieval travelers.
deal architect
AUGUST 30, 2016
An interesting set of observations from Silicon Collar While analysts are predicting doom and gloom from automation to other sectors, they themselves continue with a labor and paper intensive model based on dated, static tools like Magic Quadrants and Waves.
entrepreMusings
AUGUST 24, 2016
It’s been over 7 years since I submitted a panel idea to SxSW Interactive and now the time has come to do it again. You may wonder why or you may not care at all, but nonetheless I’m letting you know about it. Please vote, comment on, and share our panel idea: Customer Differentiation in Competitive Markets before September 2, 2016. We’d love to have the opportunity to share our collective wisdom on how to create, build, and maintain a highly successful customer focused org
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 29, 2016
GOAT just announced it raised $5 million in venture capital led by our friends at Matrix Partners. On the surface that sounds unremarkable — fundings happen daily. But this isn’t just any funding. GOAT (“Greatest of All Time) is a sneakerhead marketplace that is en fuego, but we led the company’s last financing round in 2012 (yes, four years ago) when they were an application for letting people join group dinners.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 29, 2016
We tend to associate the government with words like bureaucracy rather than lean innovation. But smart people within government agencies are working to change the culture and embrace new ways of doing things. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a great example. The NGA, an organization within the U.S. Department of Defense, delivers geospatial intelligence (satellite imagery video, and other sensor data) to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responde
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2016
Most entrepreneurs I know are so passionate about their new idea that they are surprised when family and friends don’t line up to invest in their new venture. Yet they tend to ignore this problem, and move on quickly to professional investors. They don’t realize that most Angel investors and venture capitalists will also decline to be first, if you have no commitment from friends and family.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 22, 2016
By Bindu Sundaresan, Strategic Security Solutions Lead at AT&T. Data security breaches suffered by big, high-profile companies earn the most attention, and rightfully so, but the reality is that even the smallest companies and vendors fall victim to cyber-attacks. Many hackers see smaller companies as weak links and the entry point to gain access to their larger clients, or an easy access point to get valuable credit card information, social security numbers, or other private information.
deal architect
AUGUST 28, 2016
My new book, Silicon Collar, which will be released in Kindle format on Friday, is on balance a positive book about the impact of automation on jobs, but as I write “While the practitioners I interviewed were positive about the.
View from Seed
AUGUST 22, 2016
On August 9, we released the first episode in a series together with Reboot , which helps educate and coach entrepreneurs on communication, leadership, and well-being. Today is Part 2, in which I play the role of skeptic and Reboot’s Chief Product Officer, Dan Putt, shares how to push through that mentality that “the soft stuff matters less.” After that, we address a couple more big challenges facing founders, all with one aim: debunk the myth that the “soft stuff”
Brandanew
AUGUST 31, 2016
Research by Content Marketing Institute (and partners) shows that only 32% B2B businesses in 2016 had a documented content strategy. And at the same time, 48% businesses cited a documented content marketing strategy as the reason for their overall improvement in content effectiveness. The best way to predict the future is indeed to create it. If you’re at a point in your business where you’re doing things without a documented content strategy, you need to read this!
Steve Blank
AUGUST 19, 2016
I just finished reading J.D. Vance’s excellent book Hillbilly Elegy , and had that funny feeling when you find the story arc of someone else’s life eerily paralleling yours. Vance’s book and the story of my own life suggest that there is an archetypal journey (a pattern of human nature) that describes the flight from a dysfunctional family and the escape from the constraints of cluster, class and culture.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 31, 2016
Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand and relate to. They become frustrated with investors, senior executives, and even customers who don’t seem to “get it,” with the result that everyone loses.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2016
by Max Emelianov, CEO of HostForWeb. I’m equal parts baffled and agitated when I see someone complaining about how adblock is killing the Internet. Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive. Without clicks and impressions, they can’t pay the bills – and with that in mind, anyone who uses adblock is a dirty, no good thief. There are several things wrong with that perception.
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