YoungUpstarts
JULY 25, 2016
by Amy Anderson, principal owner at Anderson Technologies. In the past two years, 63 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) began using an online or cloud-based backup service. Clutch , a B2B research firm, recently surveyed 304 SMBs who use cloud-based, online backup solutions to determine how businesses use the technology and what they think about it.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 23, 2016
The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders.
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Up and Running
JULY 26, 2016
Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. I’m going to go over the approach that we followed and the most successful growth tactics that we implemented during this period. If you’re interested in figuring out how you can growth hack your way to success, keep reading! Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 28, 2016
A lot of time can be spent choosing the perfect startup name. Conventional wisdom says that the name should be less than 10 characters, easy to remember, and the.com has to be acquirable. Startup names can be descriptive (PayPal), suggestive (Amazon), or even fanciful (Apple). Once you find the perfect name for your startup, it’s hard to think that any other name could fit the company you are building.
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
JULY 26, 2016
By Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds. Software defined networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are key technology trends sure to affect the future of networking. As such, they currently enjoy the lion’s share of broad industry attention. Now, there’s no harm in devoting time to thinking about and planning for cutting edge, on or slightly beyond the horizon trends such as these, and in fact, it’s smart to start doing so.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 26, 2016
Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that you need to focus on a billion-dollar idea. There are very few ideas that are obviously a billion-dollar idea from the start. So what should you do? I advise founders to focus on what I call “basecamp,” which is the first level of success or validation at a startup.
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Hunter Walker
JULY 28, 2016
Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. She was a cultural critic at the New York Times and writing about YouTube in a way that no one else was. About its communities, content niches, the aesthetic of the first wave of user content. In a manner which was academically-informed but not stuffy. Critiquing but not judging.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 28, 2016
Your website is your digital shop window, in the same way as high street stores have actual windows through which shoppers can take a look at what they are selling and start to make decisions about what they want to buy. It’s your opportunity to entice people to your product and keep them engaged. Most websites work best if they are uncluttered , simple to read and understand and easy to navigate.
deal architect
JULY 27, 2016
Just about a decade ago, I ran a guest column from Sridhar Vembu which was striking in that he promised to invert the traditional software model which typically invests 10 to 15% of revenues in product, and 50 to 60%.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2016
I was in France and the UK for business last week so I was a bit out of the tech news cycle and more focused on the world events that were happening nearby. But one tech news story stood out for me — the fact that LA-based Dollar Shave Club (DSC) was sold to Unilever for $1 billion. This continues to solidify Los Angeles’ place as a major player in the global tech ecosystem and while any one success doesn’t define a city — the number of high-profile startups and exits has definitely increased.
Hunter Walker
JULY 28, 2016
Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. She was a cultural critic at the New York Times and writing about YouTube in a way that no one else was. About its communities, content niches, the aesthetic of the first wave of user content. In a manner which was academically-informed but not stuffy. Critiquing but not judging.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 24, 2016
If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. More and more professionals agree that a better strategy is to explore and fine tune your assumptions before declaring a specific plan with financial projections based only on your dream and passion.
deal architect
JULY 28, 2016
Oracle is buying NetSuite for $ 9.3 billion. I have long admired NetSuite. They are cloud pioneers going back nearly two decades. CEO Zach Nelson helped in countless ways when I wrote The New Polymath I was hoping they would.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 24, 2016
Meetings. The bane of many of our existence. They suck up time and are often unproductive or don’t yield the results we expect. I want to talk about a specific type of meeting today — a Board Meeting — but this could easily apply more broadly. A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period.
Steve Blank
JULY 29, 2016
The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. This is the second of a two-part post following my stay on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Part 1 talked about what I saw and learned – the layout of a carrier, how the air crew operates and how the carrier functions in context of the other ships around it (the strike group.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 25, 2016
Every new entrepreneur who has not spent years in corporate life has the advantage of an unbiased look at business opportunities, but at the same time has the disadvantage of missing critical business experiences that can cost them dearly in their first startup venture. In my experience, building a successful business is more difficult than building an innovative solution.
deal architect
JULY 25, 2016
As I have done with previous books, I will excerpt about 10% of Silicon Collar over the next several weeks in prep for the book release early September. Amazon is taking advance orders for the Kindle version here. On New.
Brandanew
JULY 29, 2016
Imagine this : “W e’re in the difficult situation of having a product people use for traditionally dull stuff. We have a boring product.” Sure, as a brand, you think it’s exciting because you know what it can do. But when you think about software that could be used for HR and Operations teams or a machine that works in the corner of a data center, I’d bet you’re half asleep already as a consumer.
Steve Blank
JULY 28, 2016
The future is here it’s just distributed unevenly – Silicon Valley view of tech adoption. The threat is here it’s just distributed unevenly – A2/AD and the aircraft carrier. Sitting backwards in a plane with no windows, strapped in a 4-point harness, wearing a life preserver, head encased in a helmet, eyes covered by googles, your brain can’t process the acceleration.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 29, 2016
A common pain of startups after an exhilarating first surge of early adopters is a long and frustrating plateau of slow growth, where it seems like nothing you do will get your business to profitability. Too many entrepreneurs don’t know what to do at this point, largely accounting for that disappointing 50 percent of startups that fail in the first five years, according to Gallup.
View from Seed
JULY 28, 2016
In episode 22 of our podcast, Traction , Unbounce co-founder and marketing keynote speaker Oli Gardner shared five key parts to well-optimized startup landing pages. It’s a common tactic, the use of landing pages, all thanks to the power of building an email list. Your email list can be used to get real-world feedback as you validate the market.
Brandanew
JULY 27, 2016
We are so stoked to let everyone know that in the next month we’ll soon be sharing our very first Social Trends Show Podcast. We’ve just made ourselves visible on SoundCloud and can’t wait to share all the episodes with you. The idea of having Podcasts as a medium to share our learnings really came from believing in the inherent power of audio storytelling.
Steve Blank
JULY 25, 2016
I simply wasn’t happy in corporate America. I was a square peg in a round hole and needed to be someplace where I could think creatively. You are 100% responsible for your own decisions, your career, your failures, your success. You can’t rely on anybody else. . Self-motivation, drive and creativity are key entrepreneurial traits that can’t be discounted or ignored, say the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 29, 2016
I’ve been thinking about what “truth” means lately. With almost no effort I can find contradictory articles, thoughts, perspectives, statements, and opinions on almost everything being discussed today. I’m sure our election cycle is amplifying this, but I see this in a bunch of stuff I’m reading about tech as well. As someone who views independent critical thinking as extremely important, this dynamic is perplexing to me.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 25, 2016
by Caitlin Kullberg, Alignable. Yesterday we at Alignable talked about how to use “Lure” in Pokémon GO to Lure New Customers. While the cost associated with this method is low, it could add up if you wanted to light up your PokéStop for hours at a time every day. It’s also possible you don’t have a PokéStop conveniently located right next door to your place of business.
Brandanew
JULY 25, 2016
The tenets of storytelling remain the same, and yet it feels different with the media today. Brands are available not just on one, but multiple screens- from a large 60 inch TV set to a small mobile phone. The key to success is staying creative and consistent with all the experiences customers may have with the brand. Digital convergence across media types and devices is necessary for a cohesive brand view.
Version One Ventures
JULY 28, 2016
A question we’re often asked during conversations with early-stage entrepreneurs is “What do investors look for when considering a Seed or Series A startup?” At some point, this question might be followed by “What does it take to get to Series B?”. The expected trajectory takes a startup from Seed to Series A, Series A to Series B, and so on. But as our good friend Christoph Janz at Point Nine Capital points out, “ financing rounds are obviously not a goal in itself.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 23, 2016
I’ve started working on my next book, currently titled #GiveFirst: A New Philosophy for Business in the Era of Entrepreneurship. As a result, my brain is especially tuned to good examples that show a particular aspect of what we refer to as #GiveFirst at Techstars. I was working at my desk the other day when Krista Marks, the CEO of Woot Math came in and said hi.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 27, 2016
In recent years e-commerce has become so substantial to the economy the U.S. Census Bureau has given it a separate reports section all its own called E-STATS. When the government acknowledges a business trend, you know it’s relevant and here to stay. According to the Department of Commerce, e-commerce took in $341.7 billion in sales last year. For the majority of large and small retailers, maximizing profitability means fully supporting and investing in e-commerce.
Rembrandt Communications
JULY 28, 2016
Take the time to focus and watch your success skyrocket! Google just changed their content and algorithm… again. There is a new social media venue you must check out for business. Your clients need responses and updates ASAP! If you’re a small business owner, the things you need to keep up with can be overwhelming. […]. The post Stop the Content Madness and Get Results!
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 28, 2016
I'm a founder. Sure, I'm an investor, too, but I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the firm I invest out of. That means that in addition to thinking about what kinds of investments I'm going to make, I need to think about where I'm going to work, payroll, business cards, all that stuff. As we've seen, the "business stack" of a variety of services entrepreneurs run on everyday has changed dramatically over the last few years.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 27, 2016
The post is aimed at CEOs of startups who have at least 15 employees. If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. While it’s trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size it’s dangerous. I know there is a lot of advice going around right now – especially in the bay area – that you should focus on your product, start getting customers (o
YoungUpstarts
JULY 27, 2016
By Doug Kisgen, author of “ Rethink Happy: An Entrepreneur’s Journey Toward Finding Authentic Joy “ When a business is struggling, there are many areas where problems could be lurking. Here are a few ways to revitalize a struggling small business, namely prioritization, mentorship, and attaining authentic joy. 1. Prioritization. Prioritization is key.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 29, 2016
We see a lot of startups that fail, it’s the nature of the beast in an environment that is so incredibly fast moving and competitive. These are some of the more common and avoidable mistakes that we work hard alongside our partner companies to help them avoid. This post was inspired by John Zeratsky’s post Eight common dysfunctions of design teams.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 25, 2016
Someone asked me recently if they should raise a fund, because they had access to investments that were being made by "top, brand name investors". Whether there even is such a thing relies heavily on your perspective. It is absolutely true that many of the firms you've heard of being called the "top" funds consistently perform in the top quartile, even decile, of all funds, over time--Sequoia, Accel, etc.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 28, 2016
At dinner last night with Amy and friends we ended up in a long conversation about what’s going on in the world right now. We went down a few different paths, including a set of provocative questions like “Should the US have gotten involved in World War II earlier?” (me: Yes) and “Should the US have have gotten involved in World War I earlier?
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