Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with the students early in the quarter, Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken paid a visit to the class in Week 7 and four foreign ministers in week 8.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. He was a great leader, and one of very few who have even been able to dent the barriers to real change in a large corporation. We struggled with the differences between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, and I learned much about both.
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YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
We have all heard the saying, “Your reputation precedes you.” The adage means that what people know of you or have read of you oftentimes shapes their first opinion of you. It’s true that many of today’s young entrepreneurs grew up in the age of the computer and the internet. It’s likely that their business depends fundamentally on online communication.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
If you’re an entrepreneur or working in a startup, you’ve heard all the hype around the extravagant perks and benefits some companies, especially in the tech scene, are offering. Stories about companies with lots of ping pong tables, free yoga classes, gourmet chefs—it’s starting to feel like the TV series “Silicon Valley” is a little too much like the real-life Silicon Valley.
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
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
I can't think of a single time when a white man came to pitch me and I told him his fundraising plans weren't aggressive enough. Yet this is a message I'm giving to women and people of color all the time. It's not that this latter group isn't aggressive enough--after all, they're ditching everything else they could to to start companies. Something else is at play.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. Some of the same underlying principles apply, but because of the inherent differences in buying decisions and sales cycles, pulling B2C optimization practices straight from the book might be a bad idea. You’ll still need to do the same types of conversion research, persona building, and experimentation that is common across conversion optimization, but let’s talk a bit about how and why B2B is different.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Marketing a brand or product can be a daunting task for the uninitiated. However, take a moment to think back to how the old guard used to handle it. Newspaper advertisements, billboards, phone books, radio—they always found a way to advertise even in an age where “digital” didn’t exist. Yes, there are arguments those methods are dead. There are people who are screaming about the death of traditional media — but that simply isn’t true.
Hearpreneur
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Share Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any job they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your job can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that website builders are one of the best tools available to first-time business owners.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
As my series on using social media marketing platforms to market your small business comes to a close (check out past installments on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn ), we arrive at what is possibly the most niche platform in terms of content: YouTube. If you want to use YouTube to market your small business, you’ll be creating videos, plain and simple.
David Cohen
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
I’ve had a couple of situations lately where a portfolio company founder or CEO went dark on me. They just stopped communicating. Sometimes takes me a while to notice it. When I do, I usually check in with the person and just ask something like “Hey – I haven’t heard from you in a while, how’s it going?” Sometimes the response is benign, and all is more or less ok with the company and people in question.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals With the pervasiveness of the Internet, the world is smaller. The cloud makes software easily accessible, without waiting for CD shipments to arrive and installed. The good news is that the reach of your new software application is instantly worldwide, and the bad news is that most people still prefer to work in their own native language.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
by Meghdad Abbaszadegan, adviser with Coplex. When I was 9 years old, I was super hyper and loved to hit things as hard as possible — in retrospect, I might have had some anger issues. Thankfully, my parents had the foresight to get me involved in tennis. I quickly fell in love with the sport. Tennis allowed me to let out some of my adolescent energy on the court while garnering praise for my efforts.
Hearpreneur
NOVEMBER 19, 2016
Share Entrepreneurship and mentorships are often seen as going hand-in-hand. Business mentors are as old as concept of entrepreneurs themselves. From Oprah and Maya Angelou to Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, famous mentorships have a powerful impact on the lives of entrepreneurs. Having a strong figure in your life to help steady you through the currents of growing your business can be a lifesaver.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
There’s no silver bullet with SEO, but start by making your website fundamentally sound and you’ll be on your way to improved search results.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
There are few days more important in your business’s life than your opening day. Not only is it the day when all your hard work finally pays off and all the pieces come together, but your opening day sets the tone for your business’s future success. So, it’s important to have a strategy in place to make your opening day as successful as possible and begin brainstorming ways to create opening day buzz early on.
Transformify
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
London, UK - November, 2016. Transformify, an online platform providing remote work to those who need it the most, announces a new partnership with Laboratoria , a Latin-American social enterprise that gives low-income women the access to education and work in tech, transforming their future and bringing diversity to the tech world. A great number of women in Latin America are unemployed or not employed officially, due to various reasons.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
The ROI of Lead Scoring written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. According to the Content Marketing Institute, more than 85% of marketers consider lead generation to be their top priority in 2016 – a telling statistic on the priorities of the modern marketer. However, lead generation neglects a critical element for creating a real return on investment: lead scoring.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
by Nick Candito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Time and time again, there’s one critical component that hampers productivity and efficiency: We are wired to work within the confines of organizational silos. Your prospects, customers and partners (and employees for that matter) do not see you as a series of disparate organizations.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. As the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Intelligence, she is responsible for building and infusing new technologies within the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE). Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
I’ve had this conversation many times. A friend calls me up from: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, wherever and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let me know if you hear of anything interesting.” I usually slip into counsel mode and tell them it’s a lost cause unless they’re truly committed to living in that city and if they are they should move there first and job search second.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
There is no skill more vital to an entrepreneur than effective networking. You can’t build your business alone, and networking is the best way to open doors, professionally and personally. For introverts like me, it’s not easy to step out of your comfort zone and meet new people, but if you approach the challenge correctly, I have found that it can actually be fun as well as productive.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite tells Diginomica And so I actually believe Oracle’s going to behave more like NetSuite in the future than NetSuite’s going to behave like Oracle. Every company wants cloud DNA. It’s the only DNA we have.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
The Key to Ranking Your Local Business in Google written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. For local businesses, showing up on page one is a must – showing up in the Google 3-pack (or whatever it is called this week.) can be the difference between thriving and merely surviving. All Google products evolve as they find ways to make search better and, let’s face it, make more money from that fact.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
When done right, branding can be a powerful thing. There are hundreds of companies out there that most of us would instantly recognise by their logo alone, and this is something we should all aspire to achieve. One way to start is through the development of your website. In creating your website, you need clear communication throughout in what your company represents.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. As the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Intelligence, she is and is responsible for building and infusing new technologies within the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE). Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
When you hear “brand marketing,” what do you think about? Maybe big brands, big budgets, or even big wastes of money and time as a startup, right? But what if brand marketing could help you get actual results, whether that’s user acquisition or raising a Series A? In this episode, we talk to the VP of Brand Marketing at ecommerce company Wayfair, Nancy Go.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Like many other career-minded business professionals, are you still waiting impatiently for that appointment to a leadership position, so that you can begin demonstrating your real leadership ability? In reality, you are already being evaluated for leadership by the habits and attributes you demonstrate today, so now is the time to sharpen your focus and behavior, not later.
Brandanew
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
YouTubers, bloggers, Instagrammers, and other social media influencers are dominating the world of advertising and brand endorsements. But does this mean that influencer marketing is taking the place of traditional advertising? It seems that several studies are supporting this hypothesis, showing that influencer marketing can improve every aspect of a brand’s performance.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
A month ago Mark Suster (Upfront) and I hosted 75 colleagues for a full day at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County – also known as Lancaster. We did this as part of Defy Ventures , an entrepreneurship, employment, and character development training program for currently and formerly incarcerated men, women, and youth. It was a top 10 peak life experience for me – easily one of the most profound things I’ve experienced to date.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
By Greg Waldorf, CEO of Invoice2go. Being a one-man or woman-show is a tough gig, but for someone taking the leap of faith on a business idea, and taking control of your own destiny outside the 9 to 5, it can be extremely rewarding too. There are many solopreneur success stories out there. Some of these businesses are founded by people who are passionate about a cause, like Saha Global ’s mission to help with the world water crisis, others are entrepreneurs seeking to fill an underserved niche,
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 18, 2016
We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. It struck me as I watched the teams try to find how their technology would solve real customer problems, is that machine learning is following a similar pattern of previous technical infrastructure innovations.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. We’ve decided to share these publicly. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our discussion on drones. You can also read past shootarounds on voice interfaces and drones.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “ terror barrier ,” as popularized by Bob Proctor, a 75-year-old millionaire and world renowned entrepreneur. This is the imaginary barrier that always seems to appear at the critical point where we would step out ahead of peers or competitors, but fear causes us to stop short. Everyone has a comfort zone, or level of risk, where they feel in control.
Brandanew
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
One of the biggest questions of today’s digital entrepreneurship is – where do you start? Which digital strategies in 2017 will enhance your brand performance? Using a digital plan to support digital transformation and lead it towards your objectives is the first step to take. Surprisingly, even though the internet is in its full swing (as are companies giving birth online each day), it seems that not many organizations have a plan.
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