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.
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.
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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 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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
deal architect
AUGUST 24, 2016
(Cross posted at Medium) I am releasing in time for Labor Day weekend, Silicon Collar — an optimistic perspective on humans, machines and jobs. I studied how automation — machine learning, robotics, unmanned autonomous vehicles, white collar bots, exoskeletons etc.
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
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 26, 2016
By Lea Schneider. It’s no surprise that everyone I know plays the “makeover game.” Take a walk or drive around your neighborhood and you can’t help but thinking of ideas for other people’s houses. You look at them and imagine updating with cedar shutters, trimming back old hedges and brightening things with new trim paint. You might be surprised to realize people do that with stores as well.
Brandanew
AUGUST 26, 2016
Implementation of innovative technologies is not the end of your enterprise digital strategy. Success of a digital transformation for a business depends on your overall vision. You need strategies that move away from solving just a few problems to embracing solutions that can improve the total performance of your company. In this age, it is important to adapt to the rapid business changes by fully incorporating digital solutions in future plans.
deal architect
AUGUST 25, 2016
September to November brings many enterprise events – Oracle OpenWorld, Workday Rising, Salesforce Dreamforce and others. I am looking forward, this year, to updates on core ERP, HCM and CRM functionality, but also hope to hear more around: a) Use.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 21, 2016
It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business which builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that ultimate new disruptive technology. There are many levels of innovation that go beyond copying someone else’s idea, but stop short of pushing the leading edge (bleeding edge). Many of the major business successes started this way.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2016
by Paul Smith, author of “ Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale “ As brain science now proves, emotions play a critical role in decision making. Human beings make rapid, subconscious, emotional decisions in one part of the brain, and then justify (or possibly adjust) those decisions more rationally in another area.
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”
deal architect
AUGUST 20, 2016
In writing my book, Silicon Collar, I knew I would need to address the pessimism of many academics, analysts and economists about automation leading to jobless societies. I also found myself getting in all kinds of policy issues around Universal.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 22, 2016
Based on my years of experience in both startups and large companies, trusted relationships are more the key to success than a great business model, how smart you are, or how much money you have. Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2016
By John Wechsler, Founder & CEO of Launch Fishers. It seems impossible that Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper job for “lacking imagination” and “having no original ideas,” that Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team or that The Beatles were rejected for a recording contract on the rationale that “they had no future in the music business.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 23, 2016
A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. If you see a need or problem and you think you can solve it, you don’t want that destiny to belong to someone else. You have to disprove the naysayers. You sometimes get a chip on your shoulder and say, “You know what?
Brandanew
AUGUST 24, 2016
I’ve recently talked about the importance of having a ideal space for your best work as a marketing or creative person. But the ideal work environment requires us to collaborate with teams and other people with a totally different or complementary skill set. So, as a brand owner, how do you create a creative space for collaboration? The key reason why this is important is because collaboration between diverse team members can drive innovation.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 26, 2016
With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. At the same time relationship perceptions have become the biggest drivers to customer loyalty and employee engagement. Thus in every business, big or small, culture can make or break your success.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 21, 2016
by Adam Carlson, CEO of Soar Payments. If you’re starting a business you’ll likely want to accept credit cards, and to do so you’ll need a merchant account. Credit cards are, of course, a convenient and popular way for your customers to pay, but unfortunately they’re also a key vulnerability point through which fraudsters and hackers can target your small business.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 23, 2016
A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. If you see a need or problem and you think you can solve it, you don’t want that destiny to belong to someone else. You have to disprove the naysayers. You sometimes get a chip on your shoulder and say, “You know what?
Rembrandt Communications
AUGUST 22, 2016
Stick to the important stuff and get results! You hear all of the buzz about search engine optimization (SEO), and know you need to use it for your business. However, with all of the different SEO companies out there clamoring for your business, constant changes from Google and your daily work-responsibilities, the whole process can […]. The post The Top 3 Things You Really Need to Know about Search Engine Optimization appeared first on Boost sales fast with content marketing strategy, SEO
Version One Ventures
AUGUST 22, 2016
A few weeks ago, we quietly launched a really cool bot on the Version One website. Its goal is to help you navigate our content in a more interactive, and hopefully, faster way. Look for and click the red help button in the bottom right corner and a chat panel pops out. What can you do with this bot? Ask it the best way to contact us, or what our investment thesis is, or what our portfolio looks like, or what we know about marketplaces.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2016
Having the most suitable IT support for your business is essential. It’ll keep your business up and running, and sort out any issues you have. When running a business, having problems is inevitable. If you’re looking for the right IT support service for you, read on…. A Fast Response Time. When you’re looking for the most suitable IT support business for your business, you want a place that responds fast to queries.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 23, 2016
Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Lean Startup Week has it all: keynote talks, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities and lively flashes of inspiration from our extended community in the form of Ignite Talks. Yup, our Ignite Talks are back because you all love filling your heads with new ideas over cocktails—and apparently dozens of savvy founders, intrapreneurs, city planners, retailers, and consultants are just dying to become performers with five minu
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 22, 2016
Today, I'm happy to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I founded and continue to run as the sole General Partner, has raised a second fund, totalling $15.1 million in commitments. Nearly all of our existing investors returned, and they were joined by a couple of new family offices and a prominent college endowment. What does this mean?
OnlyOnce
AUGUST 23, 2016
A Path Forward in California! Back in March I was proud to announce the launch of Path Forward , a nonprofit on a mission to get people back to work after they’ve taken time off to care for a loved one. I’m even more thrilled today to announce the launch of a Path Forward program in California with six top tech companies — Go Daddy , Demandbase , CloudFlare , Coursera , Instacart and Zendesk.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2016
If you plan to be a successful entrepreneur then learning how to start a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending business will be very beneficial for you. Small business owners have always looked for funding alternatives due to the stringent and difficult policies of banks, especially after the great recession of 2008. P2P lending is when there is a social lending between two parties; it can also be considered as a form of crowdfunding.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 26, 2016
Facebook can be a magical thing. I’m often frustrated about how to engage with it (I’m more of a Twitter person) but every now and then something happens that reminds me how awesome Facebook can be. For a variety of silly reasons, I had lost touch with my best friend in high school (Kent Ellington) about 30 years ago. Last year, when I was in Austin with my college fraternity gang – about 20 of us that span three years who go someone every few years (whenever someone gets their
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 25, 2016
I've learned many invaluable entrepreneurship lessons that have changed my business forever. To be honest, I wish I'd learned them sooner.
The Next Web
AUGUST 23, 2016
As our world gets more and more connected, consumers and businesses alike must think fast about how they protect important information. In particular, there’s a burden on businesses that work in and around the Internet of Things (IoT) to ensure that they’re serving their customers’ best interests by taking every measure to protect sensitive information.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 23, 2016
The latest edition of the Global Entrepreneur Report found that more millennials than ever are starting their own businesses. This equals more than double the number of businesses their baby boomer grandparents were starting. Many factors cater to the rise of new businesses as millennials come to age, and they all work together to create an ideal environment for entrepreneurs.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 26, 2016
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Monica Berrondo pulls up a digital schematic of an antibody. It resembles remnants of different-colored ribbon stuck together by someone with no sense of design. Each color and bend represents information about the amino acids that comprise the antibody, explains Berrondo, whose company, Macromoltek, made this model […] The post This Fast Software Can Whip You Up an Antibody appeared first on SiliconHills.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 24, 2016
I’ll start with my bias – I’m very optimistic about the superintelligence. Yesterday I gave two talks in Minneapolis. One was to an internal group of Target employees around innovation. In the other, I was interviewed by my partner Seth (for the first time), which was fun since he’s known me for 16 years and could ask unique questions given our shared experiences.
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