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.
Brandanew
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
A lot of people have problems with marketing because they often don’t understand it all too well. The whole world of marketing can be confusing. Pitching your business services and products in the structured way can make a huge difference to your bottom line. A correctly set-up marketing network can make lead generation easy. Here are some tips to help you learn how to get started!
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ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
As an optimizer, you might be thinking that user interviews fall outside your role. Or, perhaps, that they are a “nice to have” on the qualitative conversion research checklist. Worse, you might be conducting and analyzing user interviews with an “I’ll just wing it” mindset. User interviews are more complex and important than most optimizers realize.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
How To Turn An Email Subscriber Into A Loyal, Paying Customer written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. “The money is in the email list”. This has become the mantra of marketers everywhere. In fact, most experts agree that an email subscription list is the most powerful tool in your arsenal. But, building a subscription list is just the start.
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
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2016
Memories are like a treasure trove, and we capture and preserve them in the form of videos, files, and photos. It is a truth that the importance of something is realized when it is lost but losing the files of these precious moments is quite painful and heartbreaking. Nevertheless, do not worry as our technology has made much advancement and now we do not need to regret losing the important data and files.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Rolf Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z’s returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” Scott Kupor of A16Z responded with a comprehensive overview of valuation methodology in a post that while accurate feels more targeted at sophisticated Limited Partners (LPs) who invest in funds. Let me offer you an insider’s take.
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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.
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
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
Superstars in business are the ones who get things done, not the ones who work the most hours or are always busy. Whether it be in a startup or a large enterprise, everyone can name those few individuals who stand out as unstoppable, and always seem to be in the forefront of results. Yet if you think about it, it’s not always clear how they do it, or what it takes to be like them.
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.
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
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
By Siva Ganeshanandan, Director, APAC, Adobe Marketing Cloud. The response to the game’s highly-anticipated release has been incredible, with the app surpassing over $160 million in worldwide revenue within its first month of launch. On the business front, we’ve seen no shortage of big names jumping on the Pokémon GO bandwagon – mobile e-hailing application Grab released a map of Pokémon locations in Singapore with the help of user-generated input, Singaporean telco SingTel released thousands of
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.
deal architect
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
They say the modern day author is cursed because he/she has to compete with short attention spans and many competing forms of content. I say the modern day author is, in reverse, blessed with all kinds of instant feedback. Imagine.
Small Business Force
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
In other words, people don't pay money for a solution unless it solves their problem. As Theodore Levitt, economist and Harvard Business School professor, so perfectly put it: "People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole." In this time of great technological innovation, no matter how cool or dazzling a new product might be, at the end of the day, if ain’t solving a customer problem or addressing a customer need, nobody is buying it!
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 29, 2016
By Michael Alden, author of “ 5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary Results “ Why do some people seem so successful at whatever they do in their jobs or their careers? Do they have exceptional talents or knowledge? Do they know the right people or come from a privileged background? The truth is that highly successful people are not any different from you or me.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 28, 2016
Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype, and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market research data. They don’t realize that business projections with no third-party validation have no credibility with investors, and smart potential investors will walk away.
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.
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!
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 29, 2016
by Matej Zalar, CEO of Visionect. Today’s tech revolution has dramatically blurred the lines between work and play with its infinite well of information readily available at our smartphone-heavy fingertips and the ability to connect with people across continents in real-time. New technology has supported the shift towards collaboration by providing a seamless and effective office interaction model.
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.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 29, 2016
On Friday, the USCIS proposed The International Entrepreneurs Rule. While this is a proposal subject to a public comment period, I expect it will go into effect in about 45 days. We finally will have a startup visa! The best summary I’ve seen so far is from Tahmina Watson titled International Entrepreneurs Rule (Obama’s Startup Visa Alternative)- Detailed Summary by Tahmina.
Brandanew
AUGUST 29, 2016
We’re already mid-way in season 1 of the Social Trends Show, and I am thrilled to share my inspirations with you. Today we bring you a social expert who will talk through what it takes to stand out as a digital brand. Reaching future customers and building engagement for your brand is nothing that we underestimate. What trends are experts seeing and what should you do to be seen as a human brand that connects?
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 29, 2016
Looking for some venture capital funding to fuel the growth of your startup? The process of attracting large dollar donors can be an intimidating one for entrepreneurs that are doing it for the first time. If you find yourself in this situation, there are several things you should keep in mind before picking up the phone or sending an email to a venture capitalist… Is your value proposition interesting enough?
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 27, 2016
Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Even if they realize that they need real technical strength at the top, they are not sure how to attract and select the talent and expertise they really need. Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists?
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
In 2010, Thomas Thwaites decided he wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He walked into a shop, purchased the cheapest toaster he could find, and promptly went home and broke it down piece by piece. Thwaites had assumed the toaster would be a relatively simple machine. By the time he was finished deconstructing it, however, there were more than 400 components laid out on his floor.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
When I first started using Facebook in 2009, I would never have predicted just how influential the platform would grow to become for businesses. Gone are the days where Facebook existed solely as a place for your friends’ (slightly banal) updates on how their days are going. When used correctly, Facebook has the potential to be a huge marketing asset for small businesses.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 31, 2016
by Ivan Lim, founder of Averspace. The last 12 months have been remarkable for me for many reasons. I sold my first property. I quit my handsome-paying job at a bank and became an entrepreneur. To say my life changed a tad bit would be an understatement. But it all started out with a strong belief and conviction that I could change things for the better.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 30, 2016
Recently I wrote about how I think about private company acquisition strategies using FullContact as the example of one where it is working well. Last week I was at a board meeting for a different company which did an acquisition a month ago. I heard a fantastic line from the founder of the company that had been acquired. It’s business as usual except better.
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?
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2016
The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics did not disappoint (i.e. it was lit!), as we witnessed pure athletic greatness, human endurance, and of course, hilarious social media commentary.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2016
Some things in life have to be hard in order to be worthwhile. A workout that doesn’t make your break into a sweat probably isn’t doing much good for your health and fitness. A two ingredients cake is unlikely to be delicious as a more complex one. But in business, and in the office more specifically, not everything has to be hard. So, how can you make office life easier?
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 27, 2016
If you are reading this on Medium and have seen other posts of mine in the past month, tell me if you think it’s been worth it for me to republish what is on Feld Thoughts to my Brad Feld channel on Medium. I’ve been using the Medium WordPress plugin to republish my posts automatically. It’s generally not much effort, although there are a few bugs.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 30, 2016
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News For most people the concept of the “corner drugstore,” with or without a soda fountain, is a quaint anachronism befitting the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but not modern society. In fact, though, there are more than 22,000 small, independently owned pharmacies in the U.S. Some will […] The post RXWiki Helps Indie Pharmacies Compete with The Big Boxes appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 30, 2016
I read two great posts advising founders on fundraising this morning. The first was a deck with pointers on fundraising from Jason Friedman of LionBird, which made two points I want to pick out and expand on (the rest of the deck is great too, and well worth a full read): 60% of fundraisings take three months or more (slide 2). “How long should I leave to raise my round?
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