YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
by Andrew Armstrong. Too often, businesses view their supply chain as a necessary evil as opposed to a valuable resource. This integral element of most businesses is woven through every aspect of operations. From manufacturing to sales to finance, the supply chain routinely fails to command the respect it deserve. For most companies to succeed, the goal is to deliver a quality product at a reasonable profit.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. In fact, leaders are not remembered for their dreams, aspirations, or intentions – they are remembered because they achieved results.
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View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
New York City is a dream but can also be a navigational nightmare, equal parts crammed circus and rat race mixed at warp speed. This holds for the city’s tech sector. NYC Tech is bursting at the seams with nightly networking events at floors and floors of co-working spaces. We do not suffer a lack of tech activities. At the same time, the perception of our ecosystem as an insider’s game can often be self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating – creating a walled garden that can’t be breached.
Brandanew
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
A lot of people have problems with marketing because they often don’t understand it all too well. The whole world of marketing can be confusing. Pitching your business services and products in the structured way can make a huge difference to your bottom line. A correctly set-up marketing network can make lead generation easy. Here are some tips to help you learn how to get started!
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
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Article: Behind Every Great Product. When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Very often, start-ups fail at the earliest stages. They might get the wrong advice at a critical point, or they can’t raise the first hundreds of thousands of dollars required to move from prototype to initial product. This problem is relatively minor in large, vibrant ecosystems like Silicon Valley, but can be more pervasive in smaller locations that lack the depth and breadth of experienced start-up advisors and angel investors.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
Entrepreneurs who experience success with their first startup are often amazed to realize that the risks and fears of doing it right the second time go up, rather than down. Encores are tough, especially in the high-risk world of startups, yet every entrepreneur I know can’t wait to start over and do it again. Sometimes their haste or ego causes them to ignore basics, and they fall hard.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
When hardware maker Quirky went out of business, Ben Einstein at Bolt had this to say : "A good company builds one product, learns from its customers, and iterates to make that product exceptional. Each step in the process is designed to refine a product and find the often elusive “product/market fit” that is the basis for all successful startups. Imagine if Apple built the first app-free iPhone and then moved on to the Apple Watch, or GoPro only sold one version of its camera and then decided t
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
I’m honored to chair the quant and big data stream of the upcoming Terrapinn Trading Show, New York, October 6, NYC. This is a large conference focused on quant and automated investing, big data, and High Performance Computing. We expect over 400 people. Among the speakers are: Aaron Brown, Chief Risk Officer, AQR Capital Management. Fabio Mercurio, Head of Quantitative Analytics, Bloomberg LP.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
It seems you can’t talk about business anymore without talking about disruption. Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently singled out disruption as his country’s defining economic issue, telling Channel NewsAsia: “Old models are not working, new models are coming thick and fast, and we’re having to adjust and to keep up, because of technology and globalization.
Hunter Walker
SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
The whole process had taken just a few minutes. Generating a similar query without automation, he said, ‘‘would have taken days, probably 40 man-hours, from people who were making an average of $350,000 to $500,000 a year.’’. Fascinating New York Times article of the impact an analytics startup called Kensho is having in investment banking. High frequency trading driven by algorithms have dominated the transaction side of public markets and it makes sense to see software crawl (literally in this
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
Every new business has its own share of teething troubles. And, ensuring a consistent growth is definitely one of them. Online marketing can not only help you get past the initial hurdles but also enable your business to survive and grow consistently in today’s increasingly digitalised world. However, if you’re just getting started, setting up an online presence for your business can be just as challenging, especially considering the fact that in the online space, you no longer compete with busi
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. Each year, we bring you new case studies from Silicon Valley startups (and beyond), government agencies, and global enterprise companies, along with expert advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and newcomers alike.
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
I just read a review of a new Wiley book Design a better business which argues that: better businesses are ones that approach problems in a new, systematic way, focusing more on doing rather than on planning and prediction. For them, of course, the point is that design thinking is that ‘new, systematic way’, but this sentence made me think of startups, where the emphasis is very much on doing rather than planning.
YFS Magazine
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Here's a look at 14 tell-tale signs that your website is need of a refresh.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
A solid understanding of cash flow is incredibly important to small business success. According to a U.S. Bank study, 82 percent of business failures are due to cash flow issues. For this reason, the topic of cash flow is extensively covered on Bplans—so much so that it can be hard to ensure that you’ve learned everything you need to know. To fix that, here are our top resources on cash flow.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
As an optimizer, you might be thinking that user interviews fall outside your role. Or, perhaps, that they are a “nice to have” on the qualitative conversion research checklist. Worse, you might be conducting and analyzing user interviews with an “I’ll just wing it” mindset. User interviews are more complex and important than most optimizers realize.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Sometimes power lies in small things. And one of the areas in which this adage is completely true is ecommerce website. Ecommerce fashion sites have a lot at stake when it comes to sales and online reputation. A small lapse can not only dent their reputation but also decrease customers and sales. Conscientious designers and owners will pay a lot of attention to the principle and content while creating their websites but there is room for even more sales to come in with a few small changes.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
How To Turn An Email Subscriber Into A Loyal, Paying Customer written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. “The money is in the email list”. This has become the mantra of marketers everywhere. In fact, most experts agree that an email subscription list is the most powerful tool in your arsenal. But, building a subscription list is just the start.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
There are only two emotions in startups — utter ebullient enthusiasm and outright terror. Here’s the big thing about tech companies: They all believe that if they build it, the world will come, but it doesn’t really work that way. The reality distortion you create is imperative to be able to believe what you’re doing, and get the people around you to believe what you’re doing.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Rolf Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z’s returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” Scott Kupor of A16Z responded with a comprehensive overview of valuation methodology in a post that while accurate feels more targeted at sophisticated Limited Partners (LPs) who invest in funds. Let me offer you an insider’s take.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Image Source: American Salon. You are not alone, although it often feels that you are. According to the Small Business Administration , 78.5 percent of the nearly 28 million small businesses in the U.S. are individually owned and run by the owner, without any employees. Many of you are already leading teams or have employees working for you. Even if you aren’t doing so now, the odds are pretty good that you’ll need to start building your team as your business grows and you find yours
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Right now there is almost certainly an enterprise exec in a boardroom somewhere saying, “We need it to go viral.” Kittens and memes and babies kissing puppies… viral. When most people think about going viral, they think about raising a lot of awareness for their product or company. But what about money in the bank, what does going viral mean for your bottom line?
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
by Sam Wheeler, Digital Business Consultant with Inseev Interactive. With more e-commerce websites popping up on the Internet than ever before, you might be thinking it’s time for your own company to strengthen its digital presence. While there’s never been a better time to start creating the website of your dreams, it’d be wise to get informed on some industry-leading tips and recommendations your new online marketplace should employ.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Two Ways User-Generated Content Can Keep Your Brand Relevant written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In today’s digital age of marketing, brands are focusing on User-Generated Content (UGC) campaigns to improve their web performance and increase organic responses. User-Generated Content refers to any form of online content such as a Tweet, Snap, Facebook status, Instagram post, or blog that contain authentic opinions about a service or product as experienced by a non-professional
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
The more that people pay you, the more influence customers feel they should have, but they don’t necessarily know what they want. Customers will try to be polite and tell you want you want to hear. We had to figure out how to get honest feedback. Doing customer discovery isn’t the same as running a focus group. And customers don’t always know the best way to solve a problem or fill a need they have.
deal architect
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
They say the modern day author is cursed because he/she has to compete with short attention spans and many competing forms of content. I say the modern day author is, in reverse, blessed with all kinds of instant feedback. Imagine.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Image Source: American Salon. You are not alone, although it often feels that you are. According to the Small Business Administration , 78.5 percent of the nearly 28 million small businesses in the U.S. are individually owned and run by the owner, without any employees. Many of you are already leading teams or have employees working for you. Even if you aren’t doing so now, the odds are pretty good that you’ll need to start building your team as your business grows and you find yours
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. The news blogs will cover the what, how and how much but I want to focus on the “why” and try to be instructive of what I think makes for a great A-round startup.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
It is often a great moment when the business plan and the marketing actions taken have begun to take off. The revenues increase, and the public are becoming more aware of the brand and this is reflected in a great online presence. And other companies are wanting to get into bed with you. But what happens when the opposite occurs? When you’ve spent so long implementing a marketing ploy and it doesn’t seem to take off at all?
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016
As an Angel investor and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always disappointed to see founders who seem stressed out most of the time, and more annoyed than energized by the abundance of challenges they see in building their startup. The entrepreneurial lifestyle is a tough one under the best of circumstances, and it’s one you have to love in order to succeed.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees. The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create
deal architect
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
I saw Panera Bread present eye-popping stats at Workday Rising - 65,000 hires a year with rapid growth and 90% staff turnover and yet, on-boarding expectations of less then 24 hours.
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Image Source: American Salon. You are not alone, although it often feels that you are. According to the Small Business Administration , 78.5 percent of the nearly 28 million small businesses in the U.S. are individually owned and run by the owner, without any employees. Many of you are already leading teams or have employees working for you. Even if you aren’t doing so now, the odds are pretty good that you’ll need to start building your team as your business grows and you find yours
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
How to Tell Google What Your Content Means written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Search engines love content. That’s what they eat all day long, and they use HTML code to figure out what all those web pages say. The problem is that sometimes they don’t know what you mean by what you say. Have you ever done a search for a product or service and find the occasional odd result mixed in with what you thought you were looking for?
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
by Michael Manning , chief relationship officer at Rocksauce Studios. No matter your age, just about everybody loves the Beatles. But can your company learn from the Fab Four’s success? Of course, John, Paul, George, and Ringo had the swinging outfits and the screaming fans. But up until the very end, they also shared a key element that helped them stay together as a collective.
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