Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
'This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live. Today, we’re following up with answers to frequently asked questions we’ve received since then , because the answers will help your app lication succeed.
Version One Ventures
APRIL 30, 2013
'hardware (Photo credit: alorenzi). Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. Hardware requires time, money, and inventory. As a result, most venture capitalists are reluctant to touch hardware projects, opting for the lower costs and smaller risks of software.
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ConversionXL
APRIL 29, 2013
'Most people won’t buy anything on the first visit, so you need to capture emails. And then what? In this article we’re going to dive deep into a discussion about creating content for your autoresponder campaign. We’ve talked about ReOptimizing your autoresponders and creating effective drip campaigns before. This article is about how to not sound like a robot and keep that personal vibe even when your content is on auto-pilot.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 30, 2013
'If your memory is as bad as mine, you’re likely to be using some sort of organizer – whether a physical version or a digital one – to help keep track of your life. I’m a huge fan of Evernote – in fact I also use its Smart Notebook – but there are many options out there both paid and free that you can opt for to manage the nitty-gritties in your life.
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
David Teten
MAY 1, 2013
'This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. (This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz etc. (credit: Wikipedia)). It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space. Foursquare won vs.
TechEmpower
MAY 2, 2013
'We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. As with previous rounds, the developer community has contributed several additional frameworks for Round 4, bringing the total to 57! This round adds Bottle (Python), Dancer (Perl), Kelp (Perl), MicroMVC (PHP), Mojolicious (Perl), Phalcon (PHP), RingoJS (JavaScript), Spark (Java), and Wai (Haskell).
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
MAY 1, 2013
'What does “big data” mean to you? When most of us hear the term, we immediately think about mainstream use cases that leverage smarter data sets to assist companies in making better decisions that optimize business operations, improve enterprise application performance, and even create apps for children to foster more engaged and successful learning.
deal architect
APRIL 28, 2013
'In two seperate venues this week I saw Oracle execs, Thomas Kurian (in front of customers) and Steve Miranda (in front of analysts) passionately and articulately talk about cloud computing. Thomas talked about the speed clouds bring citing a Herbalife.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2013
'I travel the country a lot. And I am often approached by entrepreneurs in cities which don’t have a vibrant VC community. They often ask whether they have to move to SF, NY or LA to get financed. I have the same response always, “Where do you want to live? Where do you want to build your community, your relationships, your family?” I’m trying to get a feel for their commitment to local community versus being in a place where financing is easiest.
SVPG
APRIL 30, 2013
'I''m not sure why I haven''t written on this topic before because it comes up as an issue with so many teams. For many product managers, managing stakeholders is probably the least favorite part of their job. I don''t want to suggest that this can always be easy, but it can usually be substantially improved. First let''s discuss just who is a stakeholder, then what the product manager''s responsibilities are with these stakeholders, and then we''ll talk about techniques for success.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 29, 2013
'In the first year of business, you have literally no data for making decisions and predictions. Even after the first hundred customers, half of those were serendipitous one-offs, not representative of repeatable, controllable customer acquisition, and the scale of the data isn’t statistically significant. One of the root questions you have at the start, which is supposed to be data-driven (but you don’t have data) is: What’s the maximum I should bid for CPC (cost-per-click) ca
deal architect
APRIL 30, 2013
'I tend to be a bit wary of vendor surveys of technology trends - they tend to be self serving in the scope of industries/countries they cover. But when I saw this TCS study of Big Data at over 1,200.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 28, 2013
'You have probably heard plenty of times that being an entrepreneur is a risky business, and investors talk all the time about reducing the risk. Yet everyone seems to have their own view of key risk drivers for startups, and I’m no exception. I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment.
Steve Blank
APRIL 29, 2013
'Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 1, 2013
'LinkedIn first established an office here in Singapore back in 2011. Then the online professional networking site had around half a million members – earlier this week the company announced that its membership base has approximately doubled to over a million members, addressing about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population.
deal architect
APRIL 29, 2013
'I found myself in Palm Springs, CA last week, and it is a marvel of greenery in the middle of the harsh desert. While people criticize it for being wasteful with over 100 golf courses in the vicinity, you have.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 29, 2013
'I’m a big fan of mentoring in business, and have been at different times on both the contributing and receiving end of the process. These days, I seem to often hear from entrepreneurs who are struggling to find a mentor, or complaining about their lack of effectiveness. Like any other relationship, it takes work on both sides to make mentoring work.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 3, 2013
'There are many reasons I love Dropbox , but one thing they do better than almost any company is their incentive program. Check this out, I’ve earned 5 GB and have ways to earn more. I think those 1 GB referrals are from me posting my dropbox referral link (hint, hint, nudge, nudge) on this blog and a few people signed up. Hoping they add things to this like leaving a customer review, writing a blog about them, etc.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 3, 2013
'by Mike Broderick, co-founder and CEO of Turning Technologies. If you were built to lead instead of follow, a career as an entrepreneur might be right for you. But before you can launch a high-growth company, you’ll need to find the right business plan and create a culture of success. Here are four strategies that can help you generate the spark: Tap into a Behavioral / Cultural Trend.
deal architect
APRIL 28, 2013
'We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that is refreshing to hear about innovations in unexpected places: Amsterdam''s Design and Dining Renaissance Satellites and Sudan''s war Startups in Montevideo, Uruguay The breakneck speed of Seoul, S.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 30, 2013
'As an entrepreneur, your personal integrity is critical for getting and keeping the support of investors and team members, and your company’s integrity is critical for getting and keeping customers and vendors. But in a practical sense, what does that really mean? Most definitions of integrity include something like “the quality of being honest and morally upright.
Steve Blank
APRIL 29, 2013
'Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. After watching my Secret History of Silicon Valley talk, he became fascinated by how serendipity created both weapon systems and entrepreneurship in World War II – and brought us federal support of science and Silicon Valley.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 2, 2013
'By Robert D. Smith, author of “ 20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course For Mastering Your Life Right Now ”. Prince, what you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am through my own efforts. There have been thousands of princes and will be thousands more; there is only one Beethoven! According to tradition, from a letter, which Beethoven wrote to Prince Lichnowsky when the prince attempted to persuade him to play for some French officers on his estate in Silesia.
deal architect
MAY 2, 2013
'I saw a tweet this morning about Salesforce sending its B team to an event in London. While rude to the presenters it made me wonder how many Salesforce events this person and others actually go to? You could make.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2013
'Every dark cloud has a silver lining. Driven by the recent recession, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. I see it most in the newest generation of entrepreneurs (Gen-Y), who were shocked out of entitlement into action by the recession. Donna Fenn, in her book from a while back, “ Upstarts!
Genuine VC
APRIL 29, 2013
'Posts in the blogosphere, conversation on panels of/about VCs, etc. all talk about the best way for entrepreneurs to optimize their fundraising process with the end-goal of receiving a term sheet. It’s often spoken as if the second that magical term sheet document is in hand, the process is over. Unfortunately, that’s an oversimplification which should be recognized by savvy entrepreneurs.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 1, 2013
'Crowdfunding has been one of the latest innovations to sweep the funding and startup world – but that’s not only the industries it’s been impacting. Today more and more people are concerned with the environment, but more entrepreneurs are also looking to innovate the green sectors. Some of these entrepreneurs are looking to come up with innovative solutions to the world’s many ills, and crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are helping them get traction fo
deal architect
MAY 1, 2013
'In a panel last week at the Inforum Executive Forum I marveled at how much personal data consumers are voluntarily sharing via social networks. We are uploading 350 million photos a day on Facebook, then helpfully tagging them, sharing what.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 2, 2013
'One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “terror barrier,” as popularized by Bob Proctor , a 75-year-old millionaire and world renowned entrepreneur. This is the imaginary barrier that always seems to appear at the critical point where we would step out ahead of peers or competitors, but fear causes us to stop short. Everyone has a comfort zone, or level of risk, where they feel in control.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 2, 2013
'In 2009 AirBnB’s revenues were stuck at $200 per week. This quote from a blog on the First Round Capital site explains how they got back to growth: At the time, Airbnb was in Y Combinator. One afternoon, the team was pouring over their search results for New York City listings with Paul Graham, trying to figure out what wasn’t working, why they weren’t growing.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 29, 2013
'More often than not these days it may not be what’s on your resume but what’s off it. That’s right, it’s no longer enough to put all your skills and experience into a piece of paper and send it out hoping that some job recruiter bites. Recruiters are now on the search for those with a difference – so maybe what you need is a digital social resume.
TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
'You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. We have since posted a second round and third round that each include community-contributed updates. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. We have left this first round intact as a historical record.
Rembrandt Communications
MAY 2, 2013
'Does your business need content marketing? There is a lot of buzz out there about “content marketing” and how it can make your business successful. But what is content marketing, anyway? It’s just a fancy name for using content to market to customers. And as I’ve said many times before, by providing value to your [.].
Feld Thoughts
MAY 1, 2013
'For the past two days I’ve been at an even called SERGE (Seasoned Entrepreneurs Gathering Exchange). I co-founded it with two long time friends, Martin Babinec (founder of Trinet ) and Keith Alper ( founder of Creative Producers Group ). Martin, Keith and I have known each other since the mid-1990s when we were much younger entrepreneurs playing leadership roles at the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (now simply “EO”).
YoungUpstarts
MAY 2, 2013
'by Kevin Kaiser of Startup Biz Blog. Have you ever had a boss that you just didn’t like? I am assuming that the answer to that question is yes. It happens, sometimes we just have to suck it up in the name of professionalism. It is extremely difficult to work in a hostile environment, and often the reason for hostility is simply personality clashes.
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 29, 2013
'Seemingly overnight, a bunch of parking spaces disappeared in New York City--replaced by bike share racks. Lots of car owners aren''t happy about it. For that matter, lots of people in the city have argued against bikes for years. Residents of Vinegar Hill signed a petition to prevent a greenway from going through their neighborhood--citing that "The Greenway would bring thousands of bikers from all over that would add noise, traffic hazards, and garbage to a neighborhood that currently has non
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