TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
'You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. We have since posted a second round and third round that each include community-contributed updates. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. We have left this first round intact as a historical record.
Steve Blank
APRIL 11, 2013
'I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.Thanks to Kai-Fu Lee of Innovation Works, David Lin of Microsoft Accelerator, Frank Hawke of the Stanford Center in Beijing , and my publisher China Machine Press.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 24, 2013
'You’re unlikely to have heard of Singapore-based creative agency Imaginary Friends Studios – unless you’re in the fields of film, games or animation. They’ve done work for games developer Square Enix , Sony Online Entertainment , DC Comics , and publisher Random House amongst many others, and this year they celebrate their eighth year in the industry.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 2, 2013
Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast. It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues. I’ve written about these before, but since I see them so often, I thought it might be worth reiterating: “Business plans are for dummies.
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 Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
'This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live. Today, we’re following up with answers to frequently asked questions we’ve received since then , because the answers will help your app lication succeed.
Version One Ventures
APRIL 30, 2013
'hardware (Photo credit: alorenzi). Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. Hardware requires time, money, and inventory. As a result, most venture capitalists are reluctant to touch hardware projects, opting for the lower costs and smaller risks of software.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 16, 2013
'“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” Groucho Marx. In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to religiously read the Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2013
'What are entrepreneurs and business builders made of? Who should you bring to your team at different stages of growth, and why? The answers, according to venture capitalists and business leaders Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington and Tsun-Yan Hsieh , are contained their book “ Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business “, or HSGL for short.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 22, 2013
'I’ve noticed that some entrepreneurs seem to have no trouble attracting investors, while others with a great business plan struggle with it. The reality is that angel investors are humans, and personal traits often make or break the relationship, even before the investment is considered. On the top line, angel investors look to invest in entrepreneurs that have an almost unwavering passion and sense of urgency.
ConversionXL
APRIL 23, 2013
'What’s the best way to persuade somebody when talking to them? You have to be confident, talk fast and swear a little among other things. But what about persuading somebody without words – possible? You bet. Researchers installed a ‘fly’ onto urinals across different airports around the world: The presence of a fly in a urinal literally changes human behavior.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 18, 2013
'This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Exciting news: we’ve nailed down dates for The Lean Startup Conference 2013. We’re holding it December 9 – 11 in San Francisco, with sessions at the Nob Hill Masonic Center and the Fairmont Hotel, a half-block away. This is the fourth year of the conference, and we’re acting on feedback last year’s attendees shared with us: as Lean Startup practices have evolved, you want in-depth talks, new speakers with fresh sto
Start Up Blog
APRIL 29, 2013
'Recently I’ve been lucky enough to attend a few events which have been centered around what’s next socially and commercially. So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition. You’ll find it is full of contradictions and juxtapositions. A bit like our emerging and likely to be permanent business environment.
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
'I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Thanks to Kai-Fu Lee of Innovation Works, David Lin of Microsoft Accelerator, Kevin Dewalt and Frank Hawke of the Stanford Center in Beijing , and my publisher China Machine Press. .
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 5, 2013
'by Alvaro Fernandez, founder of SharpBrains. Technology has completely changed the practice of medicine, providing incredible imaging techniques and data that now play a key role in treating injuries and illnesses. Sophisticated tools give researchers amazing new insights that advance our understanding of human anatomy, including the brain. Standard treatments for virtually every serious injury and illness have been utterly transformed over the past 50 years due to technical advances.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 20, 2013
'Change is hard. I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. In both cases, it’s easy for them to become frustrated and give up, since most have never been trained in change management, and don’t even know what questions to ask.
ConversionXL
APRIL 29, 2013
'Most people won’t buy anything on the first visit, so you need to capture emails. And then what? In this article we’re going to dive deep into a discussion about creating content for your autoresponder campaign. We’ve talked about ReOptimizing your autoresponders and creating effective drip campaigns before. This article is about how to not sound like a robot and keep that personal vibe even when your content is on auto-pilot.
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 15, 2013
'The formula is simple. You fix your bottom line by increasing revenue or cutting costs or both. Yet, most entrepreneurs put all their efforts on the sell side only. They try to “sell their way out” of an unprofitable business. Its not necessarily the best thing to do, and not even logical at times. Selling is unpredictable. You can’t guarantee that you will increase revenue by next month, but you can guarantee that your rent will be due.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 5, 2013
'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!
David Cohen
APRIL 3, 2013
Recently, I took my 11 year old (Andrew) to Beijing, China for 10 days. Inspired by Mark Solon , and organized through Globe Aware , we worked in a school for the children of migrant workers who have no government services. The goal was for my son to experience more of the world and to learn how many others are not as fortunate as we are. Mission accomplished.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 21, 2013
'Creators of new products in environments of extreme uncertainty, startups face enormous risks. In the US, about 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years. Insufficient capital, over investment, and low sales are just some of the reasons leading to this sobering statistic. As a startup owner, what can you do to improve your chances? Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Ti
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 4, 2013
'Most entrepreneurs, and members of any small team, naively assume that the key to their success is hard work, dedication, and long hours at the business. In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. First they need to decipher correctly every relationship as a workship, friendship, or foe.
readwrite.com
APRIL 25, 2013
'And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. Shows what you know. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time. waiting.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 17, 2013
'Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. I like to think of it as the Yahoo answers for people who are interested in the interesting. Their weekly digest is something I’d recommend anyone to sign up for, it’s actually an email I like getting – rare indeed. There is some info about it here.
TechEmpower
APRIL 22, 2013
'We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. The community''s response remains strong! We have really enjoyed your comments, advice, questions, criticism, and pull requests. Speaking of pull requests, we received tests for several additional frameworks since Round 2 and we have posted Round 3.
Growthink Blog
APRIL 21, 2013
'On April 4th of last year, the JOBS Act was signed into law. As part of the JOBS Act, equity-based crowdfunding was made legal in the US. However, before entrepreneurs could start using equity-based crowdfunding, the SEC had to write the specific rules governing it. The SEC was given 9 months to write those rules; they were due on December 31, 2012.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 15, 2013
'He’s a big bad wolf in your neighborhood. Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good. —Run DMC, Peter Piper. Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 26, 2013
'Over 25 years ago, Michael E. Gerber wrote a best-selling business book called The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. The E-Myth (“Entrepreneurial Myth”) is the mistaken belief that most businesses are started by people with tangible business skills, when in fact most are started by “technicians” who know nothing about running a business.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 21, 2013
'This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. If you don’t like it hot, use less,” he said. “We don’t make mayonnaise here.” . This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that Christine Tsai had posted on Facebook. It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 4, 2013
'Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Vitra Singh – Enjoy! I started a small business. And I failed. Not exactly the ideal outcome for an aspiring entrepreneur. Looking back, there are things I should have done differently. Here are 5 pitfalls to avoid, based on my own experiences: 1. Avoid jumping in too quickly: I came up with my business idea while in grad school for my MBA.
deal architect
APRIL 28, 2013
'In two seperate venues this week I saw Oracle execs, Thomas Kurian (in front of customers) and Steve Miranda (in front of analysts) passionately and articulately talk about cloud computing. Thomas talked about the speed clouds bring citing a Herbalife.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 16, 2013
'Seems like every third startup nowadays is using the “Freemium” business model: The lowest service tier is free, and the business is designed to get those users hooked and then upgrade to a paid plan. It can work wonderfully of course, but usually it crushes and destroys companies , not only because it costs more than anticipated but because the founders didn’t realize the business model itself caused them to make incorrect decisions.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 15, 2013
'He''s a big bad wolf in your neighborhood Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good —Run DMC, Peter Piper. Perhaps the most common mistake that I see a technical founder make when building her sales organization is she applies strategies that worked in building the engineering team to the sales hiring process. This may sound shocking, but sales people are different than engineers and treating them like engineers does not work well at all.
Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2013
'I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. My post about Japan will follow. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Thanks to Kai-Fu Lee of Innovation Works, David Lin of Microsoft Accelerator, and my publisher China Machine Press.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 25, 2013
'Note: if you’re a parent please check out their website. Kara called me on a Tuesday. She was leaving IAC to start a company. “Tasha, clear some space on my calendar tomorrow. OK?” “I want you in my offices tomorrow, Kara. Does that work for you?” Kara came. She didn’t tell me she was bringing anybody. I didn’t ask her for a deck.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 25, 2013
'Enjoy this guest post from Michael Reynolds is President/CEO of SpinWeb. photo credit: Folk Media via photopin cc. Inbound marketing is both an art and a science. The technology, metrics, measurements, testing, and goals are the science part of it while the creative campaigns and intuitive ideas are a critical part of the art of inbound marketing. While the numbers and metrics are very quantifiable, the multifaceted nature of inbound marketing can make it somewhat challenging to tackle from a p
deal architect
APRIL 18, 2013
'Consumerization is not a new concept. In 2005, Gartner defined it as "the growing practice of introducing new technologies into consumer markets prior to industrial markets". Unfortunately, in the years since, the definition has gotten narrower - to where many.
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