Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
We just finished our 6th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. With the pandemic winding down it finally feels like the beginning of the end. This was my sixth time teaching a virtual class during the lockdown – and for our students likely their 15th or more. Hacking for Defense has teams of students working to understand and solve national security problems.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 11, 2021
Since releasing my newest book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors I’ve been continually getting the questions “Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?” and “Why Nietzsche?” Dave and I cover this right off the bat in the book, so I thought I’d toss up an excerpt that addresses the question with part of my own origin story with Dave.
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Up and Running
JUNE 7, 2021
Most companies are focused squarely on the extrinsic motivation of making a profit to expand their operations and satisfy their shareholders. Today, however, we are witnessing a shift toward a more intrinsic motivation for both companies and their employees. Once united merely by their commitment to providing value for their companies and their customers, they are now united in being of value to society.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 9, 2021
It would seem that growing your Instagram account organically is more complicated than ever before. Most of us have seen a decrease in interaction and follower numbers, which could be incredibly stressful because you think you’re doing it correctly. Whether you have a personal or business account it is vital that you grow your follower count. There are several ways you can go about growing Instagram followers.
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
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 8, 2021
After launching a new startup, you’ll be interested in growing the business as quickly as possible, thus generating more revenue, securing more stability, and improving your reputation as well. But one of the secrets to effective scaling is an efficient team; if your employees are working productively and consistently, they’ll be capable of making your vision a reality.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 7, 2021
Last week I was scheduled to do a live interview with Eliot Peper about The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche. He opted to use Twitter Spaces and diligently tested it out a couple of days beforehand to confirm that it would work. Nevertheless, we immediately ran into difficulties, and after ten minutes, we decided to bail on the interview and reschedule.
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The Startup Magazine
JUNE 8, 2021
With the limited businesses that were allowed to operate this past year due to the pandemic, the online market and electronic commerce became more relevant than ever before. In the past, we enjoyed going to the malls, spending countless hours at local shops, and having a great time at your favorite restaurant, but sadly that all became impossible to do with the fear of getting the virus.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 11, 2021
“The term 'residence' shall be deemed to mean that place where a person maintains a fixed, permanent and principal home and to which he, wherever temporarily located, always intends to return.” Putting aside the archaic gendering of the law, this one sentence written into New York State’s Election Law that defines the residency requirements of candidates is one of the laziest and most ridiculous pieces of text I’ve ever seen.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 9, 2021
Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 9, 2021
Right before the pandemic hit, Ryan Rich and his brother Ross left their job at Google and Stripe for their craziest adventure yet: founding Accord ! They’d worked together in the past – performing as a hip-hop duo in college (yup, that’s them in the photo) and organizing countless fundraisers and concerts. Starting a VC-backed tech company was the next logical step for them, right?
Transformify
JUNE 10, 2021
2020 penned the most challenging excerpts of our personal as well as professional lives. From the nine to five work routine to the laptop on the couch no routine, life painted a major shift for everyone. The hard times did pass but left an imprint like a storm. As businesses get back to work after an unfortunate 2020, they’re using a hybrid work model to conduct their business activities.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 9, 2021
Many budding entrepreneurs struggle mightily with that first step – out of their comfort zone and into the unknown. They keep asking people like me whether the time is right, and the truth is that there’s never an ideal time to start your own business. It’s like starting a personal relationship, if you wait for exactly the right time, you’ll never do it.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 11, 2021
Since releasing my newest book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors I’ve been continually getting the questions “Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?” and “Why Nietzsche?” Dave and I cover this right off the bat in the book, so I thought I’d toss up an excerpt that addresses the question with part of my own origin story with Dave.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
When COVID-19 upended the travel industry last year, Airbnb was among its earliest victims, losing 80% of their business in the first two months of the pandemic. Such a blow would leave any CEO reeling, if not prove fatal to the company as a whole. While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid.
deal architect
JUNE 8, 2021
Let's start with the positives from the keynote last week: I loved Julia White's (the new CMO who has joined from Microsoft) omnipresence and bundle of energy. Christian Klein has come of age in the age of digital keynotes. He.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 11, 2021
Over my years as an advisor to new businesses and startups, I have learned that the only certainty that I can offer entrepreneurs is the fact they will face many uncertainties. So my first advice is that if you can’t handle uncertainty, don’t even start down that road. On the other hand, entrepreneurs have a reputation for being one of the happiest and healthiest career paths around.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 9, 2021
Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path.
Board Effect
JUNE 9, 2021
Thousands of great ideas never come to fruition because business owners and founders of nonprofit organizations aren’t familiar with the startup business grant process. They simply don’t have the seed money to get a business or organization off the ground. In learning about the benefits of grants, startups often pursue them without having a good understanding of where to find the most appropriate start up business grants or how to submit an application that results in a much-anticipated approval
Our Own Start-up
JUNE 11, 2021
This article is focused on tips businesses should consider when designing their applications to boost effectiveness. The post 4 Tips to design the most effective applications for your business first appeared on Our Own Startup.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2021
In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In all these cases, a bust is inevitable, and everyone may lose.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 7, 2021
Last week I was scheduled to do a live interview with Eliot Peper about The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche. He opted to use Twitter Spaces and diligently tested it out a couple of days beforehand to confirm that it would work. Nevertheless, we immediately ran into difficulties, and after ten minutes, we decided to bail on the interview and reschedule.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
JUNE 11, 2021
When you plan to introduce a new product to the market, the first thing that comes to mind is organizing a special event for that particular product. And that special event acts as a key to attract new customers and bring them closer to your brand. As long as you know how to build brand awareness using online and offline marketing strategies, you can leave your mark in the industry.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 11, 2021
Customer experience might have its roots in the origins of bartering and business, but it remains the most important aspect of commercial success in the digital age. The post Advice On How To Deliver Excellent Customer Experience appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 7, 2021
I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. Who owns all of these names, and should you ever buy one for a premium? The simple answer is that if you want to be found on the Web, the perfect domain name can be well worth a few thousand dollars, but don’t pay a fortune for one.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
When COVID-19 upended the travel industry last year, Airbnb was among its earliest victims, losing 80% of their business in the first two months of the pandemic. Such a blow would leave any CEO reeling, if not prove fatal to the company as a whole. While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
JUNE 7, 2021
With the word “technical” thrown in front of it, technical SEO might sound challenging, but it’s really not too difficult once you get the basics. If you want your site to get more traffic, rank higher, and net more conversions, it’s important to understand technical SEO or hire website design services to help. Technical SEO is all about fixing errors that can impact all of those elements, like broken links.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 8, 2021
By providing a generous employee relocation package and powering through this to-do list, you can vastly improve the company relocation experience for your employees. The post 6 Ways To Improve The Company Relocation Experience For Your Employees appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 6, 2021
Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. The simple reason is that everyone expects quick results, no one can make that happen, and users get very unhappy very quickly. Even the main industry rag, Online Dating Magazine , admits that the success rate is a mere one percent, compared to an estimated fifty percent for startups in general.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 8, 2021
I reread Enough.: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John C. Bogle over the weekend. I’d read it in 2012 and it had a huge impact on me. If you aren’t familiar with John C. Bogle , he founded The Vanguard Group , is credited with inventing the index fund and is a spectacular writer (every one of his books is worth reading.) He passed away in 2019 at the age of 89, but I expect his legacy will last a very long time.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 6, 2021
Since the internet is the dominant force in every industry, startups need to conquer many challenges to succeed these days. The competition is incredibly fierce – modern consumers demand more and more with each passing day, while business trends come and go so quickly that it’s hard to keep track. To start, you really need to get some advice on the best business launch steps.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 11, 2021
Even hard-working entrepreneurs determined to leave nothing to chance can still make mistakes. Stephen E. Gerard shares some of the more common ones. The post 4 Basic Blunders Every New Business Needs To Avoid appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Version One Ventures
JUNE 8, 2021
We’re thrilled to announce the closing of two new funds: Fund IV ($70M USD) and Opportunities Fund II ($30M USD). . While these funds may be new, our values and goals remain the same. We still look for pre-seed and seed stage opportunities, as we believe these are the stages where we can add the most value. We still are high conviction investors who love backing founders and opportunities that are overlooked by others.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 8, 2021
I won’t lie. Starting a business during the middle of the most challenging economic time since the Great Depression took a lot of guts.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 10, 2021
There are many reasons you may choose to sell your business. However, regardless of your reasons, you might not know how to get started when you decide it’s time to sell your business. Don’t worry if that’s the case. While there are several ways to go about selling a business, the following general tips will help you begin the process: Prepare for the Future.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 10, 2021
Creating unique customer experiences sets you apart, signaling to customers that they’re appreciated and essential to shaping the success of your business. The post Customer Experience-Based Business Models Lead To Greater Customer Loyalty appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Up and Running
JUNE 8, 2021
Your brand’s connection with your customer is strengthened with good storytelling that’s authentic and that’s true to your brand’s values. Clear, well-intentioned core values will consistently resonate. This makes them essential. By focusing on what you stand for and weaving that into your content and communications, what you share with your customers becomes linked with how they will view you.
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