TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

'Round 10 of the Framework Benchmarks project is now available! It has been a little less than a year since the previous round and in that time, approximately 133 contributors have made 2,835 git commits. These contributions have improved the project''s toolset and added many new framework test implementations. We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large instances.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

'On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Below is a summary of some of their answers in which they discuss the genesis of each company, their views on when MBAs should start companies, and more. On Launching and Finding Early Traction.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2015

'It is quite difficult to create an effective brand management team, especially for small or mid-sized firms. It is great to notice that business managers understand how important it is to invest in the online image of a firm but actually managing to do this properly is complicated. Everything basically starts with an improper understanding of what brand management is and what has to be known.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2015

Millennials are now filling up the job market and with them has come a different mindset—sharing, caring, and a low level of commitment is trending in Western cultures. While this seems troubling for larger corporations who are looking to keep their payroll stocked with dedicated, lifelong employees, there exists a benefit for smaller, low-staffed companies who are looking to save money wherever they can.

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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

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2015

'Why do we do all that we do? Is it for the money? The recognition? Is work a part of life and life a part of work? Is it just the next rung in the ladder after we finish college and join the next grouping of people we’re tied to for a brief period in time? These aren’t generally the thoughts of 20-year-olds. That is the age where you do more than think. “Of course I work!

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deal architect

APRIL 23, 2015

'Verizon announced it lost last quarter over 100,000 mobile phone subscribers to aggressive pricing from Sprint and T-Mobile. No matter – it is not about to start discounting. Instead, it has ramped up an aggressive ad campaign about how it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

'How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Too many founders have learned that passion and free beta products do not imply a sustainable business.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2015

'There has been a lull in the chanting that “Silicon Valley is the center of the tech universe.” I’m in Boulder for the next three weeks and I woke up pondering something Ben Casnocha said to me the last time we were together. Silicon Valley is a religion, just like Crossfit is a religion. This has stuck with me for a long time and I’ve read many posts about Silicon Valley through this lens.

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deal architect

APRIL 24, 2015

I do not often listen to quarterly earnings calls. I did to NetSuite’s 1Q call yesterday. It was a good primer to SuiteWorld coming up in a couple of weeks. Besides CEO Zach Nelson is always entertaining. Zach did not.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2015

'Why do you need home security? While intruders are an area of concern, if you live in the countryside, home security can warn you against unwanted wild animals entering your home too. Alternatively, you are protected from the number house break-ins America witnesses today. And if you actually work from home, such systems not only help you protect your personal assets but your business ones as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2015

'Real innovation in the business world is still rare. As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Historic changes and great successes don’t come from linear thinking.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

'2015 has been the year of wearables HYPE. Want proof? The number of Google search links for “wearables” (25 million) exceeds the number of units sold last year (19 million, according to Juniper Research ). On April 24 th , the first wearables PLATFORM , Apple Watch, will redefine the role of wearables. Consumers are loyal to platforms, not gadgets.

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deal architect

APRIL 21, 2015

'The WSJ profiles IBM CEO Ginni Rometty after its 12th straight quarterly decline in revenues and she calls some of her divested hardware units “empty calories” “These units were producing revenue but not profits” The WSJ adds a chart where.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2015

'By Rudy Simondi, founder of FLIPS and a proud Baby Boomer. Retirement is hypothetically just around the corner for the Baby Boomer generation. And yet, many are debating if they want to actually settle down after retirement or continue working. A number of Baby Boomers are choosing a more entrepreneurial path, choosing to launch small businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2015

As an Angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers’ apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity. In other words, the entrepreneur quality is more important than the idea -- in investor jargon, people invest in the jockey, and not the horse.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

'A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. We woke up to a city-wide power outage, and Day Two of the conference had stopped before it started. No lights, no wifi, and no A/V. What could have been a disaster evolved into a valuable, unplanned MVP: attendees embraced the three hours of darkness, while we organized unconference sessions and Q&A discussions, and gathered people in windowed rooms for impromptu meetings.

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deal architect

APRIL 21, 2015

'It’s hard to argue with Buck Showalter when he says in this MLB promo "These are the good old days" “These are the best 750 players in the world that the world has to offer” and “The game’s being played.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2015

To be a success at work, one needs to be productive, and not simply be busy. But one of the keys to being productive is having a workspace environment conducive to maintaining your level of productivity at work. For example, it is important to have sufficient and proper lighting – natural sunlight is best – as well as a low level of ambient noise which will not distract you from your work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

'Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency.

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Up and Running

APRIL 21, 2015

'Remember the days when you’d need funding to start or grow your business, and you’d get in your car and head down to the bank on the corner? You knew your banker personally, perhaps even had kids in the same class at school, or would often see them at your favorite local restaurant. This personal relationship helped fuel a strong financial relationship; you knew exactly where to go to get the loan you needed.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 21, 2015

'One of the more interesting developments over the past few years is the emergence of managed marketplaces. The term means different things to different people, but I consider it a marketplace that not only connects buyers and sellers, but takes on additional parts of the value chain to deliver a better overall experience. For example, Beepi , a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling cars, inspects every car listed on the platform – giving people a more trustworthy, stress-free way to b

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2015

The last few years have been tough for personal as well as business finance. One area in which business enterprises can save substantially is the cost of employee business travel. There are contemporary technologies that facilitate video conferencing and electronic communication. These techniques have helped to keep employee business travel costs down, but some business trips are unavoidable.

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Cost Employee Finance Video 139

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 21, 2015

'One of the biggest reasons startups fail is that the founders give up. Sometimes that happens because the idea didn’t turn out to be strong enough, in which case “c’est la vie”, but sometimes it happens because the entrepreneur wasn’t sufficiently prepared for the journey, and in that case it’s a crying shame. The following quotes are from an answer I just read on a Quora answer from Justine Musk which sets out what it takes to be extremely successful (which

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Founder Startup Cost Entrepreneur 122

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2015

'In the comments to my post yesterday titled The Religion of Silicon Valley , Rosey commented that the choice of metaphor could be “ operating system ” instead of religion. “Brad, I expected your choice of metaphor would be ‘operating system’ more than ‘religion’, as the term ‘religion’ carries a lot of baggage and generally involves some supernatural truth claims.

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Rembrandt Communications

APRIL 22, 2015

'Original Copy for your Target Market = Sales Are you writing original, BtoB content specific to your target market? With so much content on the Internet today, it’s easy to “copy and paste” information just to post something and check that off of your “to do” list. But don’t do it! Sure. It’s easy, but […]. The post How Specific is your BtoB Content?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2015

'If aliens were to visit the Earth to understand human culture, they would likely be very confused by our advertising efforts. After surfing the web for a few weeks, they might wonder to whom all those ads were targeted. Clearly, it couldn’t be the humans. That is because even aliens could tell right away that almost everything advertisers do is the exact opposite of what humans would positively respond to.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2015

'We’re thrilled to announce our newest investment: Headout , an on-demand mobile concierge that helps travellers discover and book last-minute activities during vacations at great prices. Headout makes discovering new cities easy and spontaneous. As frequent travelers, we have been watching this space for a while, but most players took a web-first, mobile-second approach.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

'Scott Maxwell of OpenView Partners had an awesome post up this morning titled The Truth About VC Value-Add. Go read it – I’ll still be here when you get back. You may recognize Scott’s name – I wrote about him in my post When VCs Don’t B t You. The next person on the list of supporters is Scott Maxwell at OpenView Venture Partners.

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Up and Running

APRIL 20, 2015

'The technology world is moving fast. While not every new piece of equipment or software can speed up your business, you should stay up to date. That’s why we asked nine entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what will help them transform their startup this year. 1. An internal chat platform. Many companies still rely on email for intra-company communications.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2015

by Amy Klimek, VP of Human Resources for ZipRecruiter. Human resources can be an intimidating thing for a fast growing start-up business. It often means hiring more people to operate a formal HR department, and as any start-up entrepreneur knows, resources are already spread thin. This article will discuss tips to successfully deliver HR – or HR services – within a start-up firm, along with ways to reduce its cost.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 20, 2015

'A while back, a larger fund courted one of my portfolio companies heavily. I wasn''t sure if this firm was the best partner for the company, so I reached out to an experienced founder who had been through lots of rounds as both an entrepreneur and an angel investor. He told me the following: There are maybe two or three VCs on the face of the earth that add any value to the eventual outcome of a company, so there''s really just a few criteria that matter. - They should do no harm. - They should

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 24, 2015

Earlier this week I wrote a post titled The Religion of Silicon Valley. It was intended to be provocative and exploratory. The comments were great and helped me think through this concept more (note: the comment counter is broken on the main page due to a plug-in conflict – we are trying to figure it out. The counter is correct on the post page…).

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2015

'Luh and her partner Taner (center), harvesting the cucumbers for their organic pickle business, DoPickles. We all know the reasons for wanting to start your own business—the freedom to follow your passions, to work for yourself, and to do what you love. But for many would-be entrepreneurs, taking the plunge is difficult. Plenty of wishful entrepreneurs end up in a nebulous shadow world of half-formed business concepts and partially executed ideas.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2015

'By Dr. Karen Reddington, President of FedEx Express, South Pacific. Today’s supply chains form the arteries and veins that keep global trade alive, connecting a largely borderless, always-on world economy. New innovations offer disruptive possibilities for the future of global trade. It’s easy to hypothesize that Star Trek-style teleportation, drones, 3-D printing, and space logistics, will change trading.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 24, 2015

We are told a couple of things in life. The first in the capitalist economy is to go out and be a Go Getter. We’re told to take what’s rightfully ours. To accumulate as much as possible and generally try and have more and be better. It seems now that social media tries to push this idea further. We are not really sharing our posts, we are pushing ourselves.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 24, 2015

Dan Caruso (Zayo founder/CEO) and I are hosting an Open Boulder discussion on the future of Boulder 0n Thursday 4/30 from 6-8pm. Please join us! The post Open Boulder Meet and Greet at Zayo – 4/30/15 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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