Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
This post originally ran on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I asked what the audience most needed to hear. He said, “They need an unbiased view of the fund raising environment because there is too much misinformation and everything seems to be changing fast.&#. This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 23, 2011
by Quincy Yu, SeaYu Enterprises. According to a recent report , there was a 59-percent jump last year in the number of businesses that have gone green. This is great for the environment, plus nine out of ten of those businesses experienced cost savings by going green. Going green could spell black for your business, and this is especially important for small businesses.
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 23, 2011
We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. It is a quick self-assessment that you can apply to calibrate where you are in your business-building process. We have also provided relevant 1M/1M curriculum modules that you can use to bridge the gaps in your knowledge and understanding of a robust entrepreneurship methodology.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 24, 2011
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
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
Berkonomics
JUNE 24, 2011
At many board meetings, I can be counted upon to ask, “Where’s the bottleneck this month?” Senior management is usually prepared with an answer, and a good discussion of resource availability and application follows. Sometimes, the bottleneck is not so visible to the CEO. In those instances, I follow with: “Do you notice people waiting at your door, telling you that they were waiting for your response or decision, even if you were unaware of this?
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 21, 2011
by Dave Anderson, author of “ How to Lead by The Book: Proverbs, Parables, and Principles to Tackle Your Toughest Business Challenges “ Confronting poor performers: Of all the responsibilities that come along with leadership, it’s not likely to be among your favorites, and yet, it is among the most important things you’ll do for your organization.
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Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
This post originally appeared as my opening statement in my debate with my friend Steve Blank in The Economist. We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. Predicting such things is a bit like predicting the end of the world; the prediction will eventually come true, but almost everyone who listens to you in the meanwhile will regret having done so.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 24, 2011
SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John J
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 23, 2011
One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. Then there are the additional challenges of balancing the demands of family and friends. Having too much on your plate can turn your dream into a nightmare. Some people will tell you to just get a bigger plate, meaning hire some help.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 24, 2011
In this exclusive Caplinked interview with Peter Thiel – co-founder of PayPal and managing partner of Founders Fund – discusses why he invested in Facebook, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and why he would not start PayPal today knowing what he now knows. (Disclosure: Thiel is an investor in Caplinked.). Last fall you announced the “20 Under 20” scholarship to encourage talented young people to drop out of college in order to pursue entrepreneurship.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
This post originally appeared as my rebuttal to my friend Steve Blank’s opening statement in our debate in The Economist. In reading my friend Steve Blank’s arguments, I found the bubble definition quite compelling: “A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin.&#.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 21, 2011
SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John J
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 20, 2011
Investors are people too. They evaluate you like you should assess a possible co-founder or first employee. What are your credentials? What have you done that would convince me that my money is safe in your hands? Only after they see you as fundable, do they want to assess your plan for fundability, not the other way around. Even with great credentials, it is all too possible for an entrepreneur to come across as a high risk investment.
Venture Chronicles
JUNE 18, 2011
“Do You Know How Well Educated I Am?&# Indignant Commuter Flips Out At The Conductor On Metro North. and the award for making the biggest ass of yourself goes to… Hermon Raju, who completed an internship at BNP Paribas and thinks the world should bow at her feet. Public humiliation is the only thing that works for people like this and even that isn’t always true. tags: blog.
deal architect
JUNE 23, 2011
We have seen it in the movie Godfather. We have seen it hilariously parodied by Billy Crystal in the movie Analyze This (see clip below). It is a meeting where the Cosa Nostra – the major US Mafia families -.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2011
Just as Alicia Keys sang that you can be a superwoman , acclaimed entrepreneur and business coach Vicki Irvin also believes that any woman can lead a superwoman lifestyle. In her new book, “ The Superwoman Lifestyle Blueprint ”, Irvin inks a blueprint that breaks down the steps you can follow in achieving career success while holding on to the other important things in your life.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 24, 2011
When you are not presenting to investors or your team, try to spend more time listening than talking. You can’t learn anything new while you’re talking, yet many entrepreneurs seem to never stop. It’s a sad spiral, since the more you talk, the less people really hear, meaning they don’t learn anything either. If someone left this article on your desk, read extra carefully.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 22, 2011
Back in 2006, I posted about the Promise of Web 2.0 - Comparison to Macros, IDEs, and Visual Basic and pointed out that Visual Basic was a huge innovation that allowed many new developers to build applications. We've been using Google Apps as the basis for developing some very interesting online applications. The announcement today Building UI in Apps Script just got a whole lot easier that shows how you can use a drag and drop - Visual Basic like.
deal architect
JUNE 20, 2011
Chanced upon an old issue of Time which had an interview with author Salman Rushdie and he says “You tell a crowd of stories. You literally overcrowd your narrative, so that your main story has to push its way through”.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 19, 2011
An increasing trend in entrepreneurship is in the area of social enterprises – those non-profit organizations that operate businesses both to raise revenue and to further their social missions. These social ventures straddle the fine line between needing to be viable businesses, yet on the other hand to generate enough profits to sustain their chosen causes.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 21, 2011
I’ve often said that creating and building a business is not a one-man show, even though it usually springs from the mind and determination of one person – committees don’t start successful businesses. But taking an idea to a business success requires many people to work together effectively, and that requires entrepreneurial leadership. Leadership is not a skill one is born with, but it can be learned and honed from experience and failures.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 19, 2011
I thought I’d start off father’s day with a tribute to my dad. I’ve learned an amazing amount from him and to this day he’s one of my best friends. When I was a teenager, I remember a number of Stanley-isms that stuck in my mind. One of my favorites was “if you aren’t standing on the edge you are taking up too much space.&# As I type this, I can remember being in my bathroom at home taking a shower thinking about this, which is part of how I remember I first h
deal architect
JUNE 22, 2011
on the innovation blog What color is your Taffy? Technology at the dentist Visualization of Flickr Geotags Spain’s wind energy leadership.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 22, 2011
For entrepreneurs, it represents an age-old battle – how to reconcile the company’s vision with the market’s reality. Too many times, a company will hold fast to the vision while ignoring what their customers really want. In other cases, companies compromise their vision too much, and become something so completely different that they wind up being a fad instead of a going concern.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2011
If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.
Genuine VC
JUNE 22, 2011
In the past couple years, I’ve written a couple blog posts explaining how startup offices are like faces , which can basically be summed up in an excerpt paragraph – “they [startup offices] communicate what is going on in the inside. Of course, they convey an intentional outward expression, like a face does. But they also reveal subtle cues about a company’s core, just as a face does, too… A startup’s office directly speaks to prospective & current employ
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2011
Many of the tech blogs / news blogs that I’m reading are suddenly about deals. financings, IPOs, valuations, and bubbles (or not bubbles). Several years ago, there was a lot more about “how to startup a company&# , especially around product, vision, and team. Now a lot of that focus has shifted to deal making and exits. It was with this backdrop that I read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries over the weekend.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 22, 2011
by Tradeshift. Forget hounding people to pay their invoices on time – the mere act of creating and submitting an invoice can lead to drama. Most small business owners know how the invoice process can be fraught with pitfalls that lead to delayed payment, or worse, no payment. But steering clear of a few simple mistakes can keep everything on time – here are seven blunders to avoid: 1.
Rembrandt Communications
JUNE 20, 2011
You receive hundreds of e-mails, calls, Webinar requests, and more each month about how someone can get you better search rankings on the Internet. Most of these messages go into your trash with a simple click of the delete button. After all, all this data is overwhelming, and you need to focus on your work [.].
Life Beyond Code
JUNE 18, 2011
If you have never made a bad decision, chances are you have avoided all the big decisions. Mini Saga #92 – Action. Life seemed unfair for Keith. I mean, he had got most of his decisions right in the past. No blunders. Yet, he was stuck. One day his friend Matt asked, “Keith, are you making any big decisions now?” Keith shook his said,”No.” Matt smiled,”Have you ever made one?”.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 23, 2011
I had a board update call recently that inspired me to write the first of my Reinventing the Board Meeting posts. The call was for a company that is doing great, is extremely well managed, and extraordinarily transparent. Two days before the call a very detailed update package was sent around to the board. It covered the operating characteristics of the business extensively and in a format that is consistent with all of the other reports.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 23, 2011
Being an entrepreneur isn’t exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog ‘s co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one. The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 22, 2011
Turntable.fm might very well be the hottest startup on the planet right now--and I feel very fortunate to say that it is a First Round portfolio company. Credit for that, however, should go to Billy Chasen , the founder. We made a bet on Stickybits, a QR code platform, that didn't pan out. We continued to be supportive of Billy as he decided to work on another idea after disproving the hypothesis that people wanted to engage with QR codes here in the US--and that idea is the fantastic new social
Growthink Blog
JUNE 21, 2011
I just read an interesting article about how Entrepreneurs' Organization , a networking group, now offers a support group for spouses of entrepreneurs. Clearly, as the article points out, being married to an entrepreneur is different than being married to someone with a regular 9 to 5 job. Being married to an entrepreneur has many challenges. For instance, many times we'll work early in the morning and late at night.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 24, 2011
I’ve worn glasses since I was three years old. I was trying to look at something on my iPad yesterday without them on and I heard Amy burst out laughing with “you really can’t see a thing without your glasses.&# True – my eyes are defective. I’ve contemplated getting LASIK’s a few times but chickened out each time – if 42 years of glasses have worked, I expect another 42 will be just fine.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2011
We don’t usually think of hair salons being on the “cutting-edge&# of technology – pardoning the pun – but one 29-year old hair salon brand is taking web and mobile technology to its business. Minneapolis-based Great Clips, Inc has launched the industry’s first-ever online check-in service, so those looking to get a fuss-free, convenient hair cut can simply check in for an appointment via the computer or a smartphone.
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