Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. “We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. “Valuations are out of control” is the mantra of others. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

This is the final post (18) of the Techstars Mentor Manifesto. As with item 17, Jay Batson , a long-time Techstars Boston mentor, nudged me several times to finish this up and wrote a draft from his perspective. Following is item #18 of the Techstars Mentor Manifesto, in Jay’s words. During one of the Techstars Boston cohorts where I’ve been Mentor-in-Residence, I worked with a 20-something CEO founder (code named Mary) who, shortly after raising a seed round of several million dollars, hired a

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Starting a business takes a lot of preparation, and once the launch has happened that’s only the beginning; in order to be truly successful, you will need to look into ways of saving money at every turn and running a lean business (at least until you are making a good profit). It’s not always easy to determine where you should save money in business, but if you read on, you’ll find there are some simple ways to get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges.

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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

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Italy may be a latecomer to the booming startup scene but it’s fast becoming a hotbed of new tech talent. Red tape and bureaucracy were some of the biggest challenges new companies faced. But the government is now on a mission to cut down barriers, launching several new initiatives focused on making it easier to grow hi-tech companies, including the Italian Startup Act and Visa scheme.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In recent years, we’ve seen a trend known as the “appification of the web” where businesses are focusing on creating a fully-fledged mobile app experience instead of just having a website. Both apps and websites have their pros and cons. Which one is best for your business isn’t really a question, as most people would tell you that you need to have both.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

One of the most frequent questions I get asked is “how do I get a job in venture?” In fact, I’ve written two posts over the years on this topic – one way back in 2005 and a follow-up to that a few years later in 2008 (the 2nd of the post is the more practical advice if you’re pressed for time; or just keep reading below).

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

10 Things to Consider About Your Website in 2019 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on the 10 Things to Consider About Your Website in 2019. You’ve started a business and created your website. But that doesn’t mean your work here is done. Behaviors and trends change, your needs shift, and your website must continue to evolve so that it’s meeting your goals.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

AWS or Amazon Web Services is a revolutionary, ultra-secure, cloud services platform. AWS officially launched in 2006 and provides scalable compute power, content delivery, database storage and more to businesses of all sizes all across the globe. With dozens of physical data centers across the world, AWS customers enjoy unheard of reliability that is resilient and not prone to failures often experienced by individual servers or data centers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Running a small business means keeping a lot of different balls in the air. There are text, presentations, spreadsheets, and other documents you need to share. Files you need to collaborate on with others, sometimes across different time zones. And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

My friend Rebecca is pretty awesome. She’s a writer and recently published her first YA novel – The Similars. I was curious about her writing process, role of social media in book promotion and consumer fandom, so thrilled Rebecca let me ask her Five Questions. Hunter Walk: Earlier this year your first book, The Similars, was published. What’s more difficult – writing a book or promoting a book?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Transcript of How to Prepare for a Brand Crisis written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is brought to you by Asana , a work management software tool that we use to run pretty much everything in our business.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Having a carefully-developed sales strategy is crucial if you want to grow your business. Regardless of which industry you’re targeting, you need to have a full and clear understanding of the market and specific objectives that you want to reach over the coming year. Whether you’re setting up your sales strategy for the very first time, or updating your current document, here’s our top pointers for developing a clear and well-rounded plan that will help drive your business̵

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in Augmented and Virtual Reality , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Tunnelware is a product of DigitalTwin Technology, founded in Cologne, Germany, which

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Why Don’t B2B Companies Use Qualitative Research? Qualitative Studies Leads to Insights, and Innovative Results. Open-ended Questions Are Powerful. Qualitative research is an effective way to understand your market better. Consumer product companies spend a great deal of time and money doing qualitative, essentially, talking to consumers. They often use the focus group method, but also do one-on-one interviews, and observational research or ethnographic studies.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

As SaaS vendors took off in the early 2000s, I was encouraged by their business model. They had collapsed software, hosting, application management and upgrades into one contract. But in recent years I have seen a reversal and a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In spite of the fact that the earth is mostly covered by water, cities over the world are hard pressed to ensure their citizens have enough water at their disposal. In fact, demand for this precious resource has tripled over the last half-century and, thanks to the ever-increasing human population, this demand shows no signs of abating. Fortunately, forward-thinking cities can take actions to mitigate water shortages while saving money at the same time.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 7, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in the Blockchain category , which will pitch on at 9:30 am Sunday, March 10, Knowbella has a mission to create a publicly available scientific ecosystem whereby all t

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The post Flyability: safe drones for inaccessible places appeared first on Where to Play. About the Company. Flyability is a Swiss company building safe drones for inaccessible places.Their collision-tolerant drone is unique, as it can fly in complex and confined spaces and in contact with humans, because it has a surrounding cage that protects it. They call it Elios.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

How to Prepare for a Brand Crisis written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Melissa Agnes. Podcast Transcript. Our guest on today’s podcast is Melissa Agnes , an expert on crisis management and brand reputation and protection. As an advisor, she has worked with companies and organizations across industries like healthcare, finance, technology, and the non-profit world including NATO, Merck, Hilton, the YMCA, and the City of Los Angeles.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

At times, even your most valuable employee is unable to make it to work, leaving you stranded. What do you do? The role they take is so essential that the company cannot run without their responsibilities being undertaken by someone. Since business has to run, as usual, do the following to ensure business continuity. 1. Look Into Your Risk Management Plan.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in the Blockchain category , which will pitch at 9:30 am Sunday, March 10, Steamchain is unlike any other Industrial IoT company in the market today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Innovation is the key to long-term business success, both in startups as well as established organizations. Yet every business and every entrepreneur I know struggles with this challenge, focused on hiring the right people and implementing the right process. Yet, in my experience the key seems to be more a discipline of innovative thinking from everyone, driven from the top.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

At a conference in 2006, I presented a Top 10 list of technology expenses which to me represented "empty calories". Top of that list was Software Maintenance with the likes of Oracle, IBM and SAP Unbelievably, in the dozen years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

As you may know we run an annual conference called The Upfront Summit in which we try to bring together the world of investors, entrepreneurs and interesting people from the world of sports, politics, music & film. We do this to showcase what is uniquely LA and to create a more cohesive network in our community. We have sought ways to make it more open while not turning it into a mega conference so while we have capped it at 1,000 attendees, starting a couple of years ago we opened up the ev

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

L to R: Tiara Zolniez (Co-Founder & Sales), Dr. Roshawnna Novellus (Co-Founder & CEO), Alisha Griffey (COO) The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the Internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get more out of their own assets and time, and capitalize on the idle resources of others. This sharing economy is rapidly becoming the new business of sharing, with major winners already including Airbnb (rooms), Uber (rides), and Chegg (books).

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I recently read an article which said "AI will not replace accountants and auditors, but accountants and auditors that use AI can replace those that don’t." I predict that will also be true of implementation consultants in the next few.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

by Stacey Brown Randall , author of “ Generating Business Referrals Without Asking: A Simple Five Step Plan to a Referral Explosion “ Networking, cold calling, advertising, thought leadership, sponsorships, cold emailing, publicity, pay-per-click, social media posting, trade shows, direct mail… the list goes on and on and I left many off the list.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The founding team (left to right): Kamal Obbad, George Church, Dennis Grishin. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 6, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

A frequent concern I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is “I have invented a great product, but I have no idea where to start in setting up a company, to avoid all the tax and legal problems I hear about on the news.” In fact, this is a complex question, with answers that are different all around the world, but I have some general rules of thumb that apply here in the USA to get you started: Create a business entity early to encapsulate your venture.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I got this nice note from Francisco D'Souza, CEO at Cognizant this morning "I hope this note finds you well. I wanted you to be one of the very first people with whom I share important news. After 25 years.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

by Kim Burmester, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for ATLAS Workbase. Whenever you’d hear the word “startup” nowadays, you’d immediately think of a tech or software venture in Silicon Valley – the breeding ground of startups, both failures and successes. And if you’ve ever thought about investing or building your own small business, you’re probably well informed about the current state of entrepreneurship in the US.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It might be everyone’s dream to move to Portugal. Beautiful beaches, amazing food, and weather. Its vibrant startup scene is now another reason to add to the list. Like in neighboring Spain, the country was hit hard with a headache-inducing unemployment rate that was concentrated primarily on Portugal’s youth. Instead of plunging the country into a deeper recession, this moment inspired an entrepreneurial zeitgeist that hurled Portugal headfirst into a technological renaissance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. That may sound obvious, but as a new venture investor, I rarely see it happening. Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly.

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