Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2011
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. 2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I acknowledged this in the article. You can be pissed off, but I don’t set prices.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 9, 2011
By Nigel Collin, LeadingCreatives. Being Creative is Sexy. Being creative is sexy. Everybody is talking about it and everybody is doing it. Being creative is the new black. And in business, being creative is even sexier. Why? Because being creative drives business. It adds real value to a business. Value to its people, value to its customers, and value to its bottom line.
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David Teten
JUNE 6, 2011
The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community — two groups that don’t normally mingle. One peculiar note: they didn’t disclose the companies selected.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 8, 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
Agile VC
JUNE 5, 2011
How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Home. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Groupon’s S-1: From Zero to Like… Billions in 30 Months. June 5, 2011. So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 10, 2011
We previously looked at YourAM , a web-based application that automatically organize and manage business appointments in real time via the web and SMS, designed specially for small service-focused businesses that need to handle appointments for groups of people. Here’s a similar service – TimeCenter ( www.TimeCenter.com ). Like YourAM , TimeCenter is well suited to businesses that need to manage an appointment calendar, such as massage therapists, dental clinics, sports coaches etc.
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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 7, 2011
In the first article in this series – Ask Yourself This Important Question: Is Your Business Growing Or Dying? – I talked about why the ‘be the best’ mindset is so important and why it has been the ultimate success factor for many businesses. There were, however, a number of misunderstandings, prevalent in the comment section, which I would like to clarify.
Growthink Blog
JUNE 6, 2011
Arguably the best book ever written on the power of entrepreneurial capitalism - The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley - should be required reading by anyone interested in protecting and defending the free enterprise way of life. In an awe-inspiring tour de force of exposition, Mr. Ridley takes the reader all the way back through human economic history.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 8, 2011
By Brian Tracy, Author of “ Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate, And Bring Out the Best In Your People “ It is important that you never trust to luck when you plan a project. Hope is not a strategy. Remember the words of Napoleon, when he was asked if he believed in luck. He said, “Yes, I believe in luck. I believe in bad luck. And I believe that I will always have it, so I plan accordingly.&#.
Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli
JUNE 6, 2011
That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. I spent the first 8 months developing the website myself until I proved to myself that my idea was a viable business idea. I was then ready mentally to spend more money into my idea. Anton is working full-time with me and I wouldn’t look back on that decision.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 10, 2011
Twitter is an ephemeral service. It’s what I love about Twitter. When I’m in the mood to consume what my world is telling me right now I can “tune in&# to Twitter and digest the rapid stream. I don’t really worry about missing stuff. If somebody wanted me to see something they’d @ message me, which I always read. And as I’ve written about in the past, I truly believe that Twitter networks are significantly different from other social networks.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 7, 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
designshack.co.uk
JUNE 8, 2011
Home Gallery Articles Accessibility Business Critique CSS Freebies Graphics HTML Inspiration Interviews JavaScript Layouts Navigation PHP Reviews Software Typography Web Standards Deals Submit Submit a Design Design Dilemma Why get an account? Design Shack - Web design showcase, CSS tutorials and web standards 13,648 Subscribers 12,564 Followers 2,771 Members About Design Shack showcases inspiring web design, alongside resources and tutorials for you to succeed in the same way.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2011
Last week I had 15 Finnish entrepreneurs out to the ranch ( Aalto University has a partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program.) Monday we hosted 40 Danish entrepreneurs for dinner and today its graduate students from Chalmers University in Sweden. Looks like the ice is melting in Scandinavia. Welcome to the democratization of entrepreneurship.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 9, 2011
Deciding to be an entrepreneur is a lifestyle move, and should be part of a long-term strategic plan. You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks it’s a good idea. In these changing times, if you already have a startup, with no plan, maybe it’s time to think ahead for a change.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 10, 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
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 6, 2011
As your self-annointed chief-skeptic-slash-statistician-slash-startup-commentator, I need play Devil’s Advocate against the latest buzz from the entrepreneurial online illuminati: The Startup Genome Project wherein global “rules of business&# have been extrapolated from a survey of 650 startups. But I prefer a discussion to a rant , so I showed this article to the kind folks at the Startup Genome Project and reprinted their response at the end.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 8, 2011
If you own a cat and live in a small, tight shoebox apartment, you’d likely know how traumatizing it can be if your cat isn’t toilet-trained. That’s the situation 26-year old Philadelphia resident Rebecca Rescate found herself in when she and her husband moved into a small Manhattan apartment which didn’t have enough space for even a litter box.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 6, 2011
A good entrepreneur is not necessarily born a good salesman. In fact, they are often the opposite, more focused on building things rather than selling them. Yet, in today’s world of information overload, marketing and selling skills are critical to the success of every startup. The alternative “If we build it, they will come” approach has long been relegated to the field of dreams , after Kevin Costner’s movie by the same name.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 9, 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
deal architect
JUNE 7, 2011
on the innovation blog Apple’s iCloud data center via Google Earth Orient Express – train from China to Germany Eindhoven – smartest city in the world Global Warming Score on New Car Stickers.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 6, 2011
Entrepreneurs are often interesting, inspiring people that anyone can learn from, but other innovators can benefit from examining the lives of ambitious businessmen and women. Whether they’re rising from poverty, picking up the pieces and trucking on after multiple failures or ditching the familiar 9-5, these entrepreneurs have not only stories, but lessons to share.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 10, 2011
As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! A perfect round number is ten slides, with the right content, that can be covered in ten minutes. Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same.
Rembrandt Communications
JUNE 5, 2011
Now that warmer weather is upon us, you may want to increase sales now so you can enjoy more time away from the office this summer. With this in mind, here are three actions you can take right now to start making more money from your business: 1. Update Your Website. Now, I’m not talking [.].
deal architect
JUNE 4, 2011
on the innovation blog Groupon’s Global Rocket The Panasonic Toughbook evolves The Thiel Foundation “20 under 20” Fellowships The Next Gen TripTik 3D Printing and Crowdsourced Product Design.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 7, 2011
by Willis Wee, Penn-Olson.com. Last night, together with a group of tech friends in Singapore, I attended a meet-up session with Arvind Rajan, the APAC Head at LinkedIn. It was a casual session, and also a way for Rajan to understand the technology (and political) scene in Singapore and Asia. Rajan briefly shared a little about LinkedIn’s history and how he ended up in Asia.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 7, 2011
I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. What’s more disconcerting to me is that I can name a few that weren’t even offered! I won’t even try to cover here the ones you didn’t find for your personal life, like managing personal finances and credit.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 9, 2011
The fine folks at Appsumo asked me to record a video interview for their "action video" series. And, for today only, you can get it for free (starting tomorrow, you'll have to pay for it - unless you've already pre-ordered the Lean Startup Book. In that case, you can continue to get it for free - details are at the bottom of this post). I've included the Introduction and Part One of the series below.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 7, 2011
I hate board meetings. I probably have 100 per year which means I’ve gone to well over 1,500 of the past 15 years (I’m sure the number is much higher). The vast majority are excruciatingly inefficient – three to four hours that could be handled in 45 minutes. And even then, it’s unclear that the information covered was particularly useful to the entrepreneurs and management, who are the ones the board meetings should be useful for in the first place.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 10, 2011
We all love YouTube , but let’s admit it: YouTube can be a cesspit when it comes to content and the comments most videos attract. Cue in Castr ( [link] ), a video-sharing platform that is oriented towards protecting your privacy. Brooklyn, New York-based Castr is an upcoming free, open yet anonymous platform for sharing video content, and allows you a space to curate content from all over the web.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2011
Everyone knows that that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Microsoft and Google). Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top. Assuming you are lucky enough to get hired, what can you do to survive, and even stand out above the rest in this environment?
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 9, 2011
Less than a year after the launch of the investment fund, Dave McClure's 500 Startups is going full throttle. That's the image that you should take away from the fund's press release today with a headline that invokes The Fast and the Furious at least. Speed, risk, victory - you get the picture. 500 Startups makes a couple of important announcements today, including some staffing changes (the promotion of Christine Tsai to partner and the addition of Paul Singh as principal) and the recipients o
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 7, 2011
I recently wrote about how well things are going at Gnip. Here we are just a few weeks later and my friends at Gnip continue to generate goodness in several different directions. Today Gnip announced it has partnered with Twitter and the U.S. Library of Congress to manage the receipt of all historical data from Twitter and facilitate its delivery to the Library of Congress.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 7, 2011
I’m usually very wary of books that tout of helping you to find that perfect job. Many of those self-help books tend to give career advice that are simply superficial – how to spruce up your resume, or on acing that interview, for example – without delving into the intricacies to help understand the hiring world works and what recruiters really look for when hiring. “ Knock ‘em Dead – Secrets and Strategies for Success in an Uncertain World “ by internat
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 4, 2011
Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out the
Life Beyond Code
JUNE 6, 2011
“Being reasonable&# and “wanting to change the world&# won’t go hand in hand. Mini Saga #79 – Unreasonable. As soon Ryan left, Phil remarked, “Mike, that was unreasonable advice for an aspiring entrepreneur.” Mike smiled, “I know.” A few months later, when Ryan came back completing all the tasks, Phil was definitely surprised – “Unbelievable Mike!
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