Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 14, 2018
Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs seem to prefer to fail their way to the top, rather than do some research and learn from the successes and mistakes of others. It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. As an advisor to many startups, I’m convinced it’s an expensive and painful approach, but I do see it used all too often.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 12, 2018
by Dustin Pfluger, Partner at BKM Sowan Horan, LLP. Developing profitable products and services constitutes a major part of starting a business. However, other aspects such as forecasting and accounting are equally as important in ensuring that a business continues to grow. These tasks may seem secondary and overwhelming when starting out but the output from these activities serve as key indicators of the health of the business.
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Up and Running
MARCH 14, 2018
Image via WOCinTechChat. I know what it’s like to pitch to investors—both angels and venture capitalists. I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology startups. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Here’s how to get started. Create a presentation.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 15, 2018
The goal of becoming a successful business owner isn’t as easy as it appears. In fact, statistically speaking, 90% of all startups will fail. Though the reason for their demise will vary greatly, one of the leading factors is finances. Unable to sustain enough capital to run their business efficiently leads to increased debt, dissatisfied customers, and the inability to sell your products or services.
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
TechEmpower
MARCH 14, 2018
We have retired the hardware environment provided by Server Central for our Web Framework Benchmarks project. We want to sincerely thank Server Central for having provided servers from their lab environment to our project. Their contribution allowed us to continue testing on physical hardware with 10-gigabit Ethernet. Ten-gigabit Ethernet gives the highest-performing frameworks opportunity to shine.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 11, 2018
If you’re just starting out in your career or you’re thinking of taking a new direction going forward, it’s definitely worth thinking about which jobs actually have a future right now. With automation and all the things that might bring in the years and decades ahead, you don’t want to be left on the scrap heap just because you chose the wrong career path.
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Up and Running
MARCH 12, 2018
Imagine this: Someone goes into a supermarket buy groceries. They fill their shopping cart with milk and eggs and everything they need for the week. They start heading for a checkout line, but that moment, their phone rings. They answer the call, get distracted for a few minutes and just wander out of the store and drive away from the supermarket leaving the full cart behind.
Hearpreneur
MARCH 14, 2018
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.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 12, 2018
Dental practices can be found in almost every town; however you’ll often find that your local dentist is reasonably small and well-hidden. If you’ve recently started up a dental practice of your own, you’ll want to ensure your marketing efforts are effective in order to build a sufficient client base and begin earning some profits. There are hundreds, if not thousands of different marketing methods available today, however there are a select few that will work perfectly for small dental business
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 10, 2018
A business runs on diligence, passion, and creativity — but it also needs a whole lot of legal help. Regardless of your industry, your startup needs legal assistance to ensure its growth remains safe and secure. You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. You also need lawyers to help you write contracts for clients and staff. However, what you don’t need is lawyers’ prohibitive fees, which can cost your startup hundreds of thousands of dollars — even millions — in just the
Start Up Blog
MARCH 11, 2018
After a keynote speech, I was asked again today what will happen to all the people who will lose their jobs due to Automation and Artificial Intelligence. The example cited was people who drive for a living. While I’ve written about this before, as well as the shift off farms to the cities in the. Continue reading → The post What is TATE?
Hunter Walker
MARCH 15, 2018
Even though I finished reading Emily Chang’s Brotopia last month, it’s lingered. One passage in particular — Jennifer Hyman , CEO of Rent the Runway, talking about how we call many men in tech “visionary” but fail to apply this characteristic as often (or at all) to women. Reflecting on Jennifer’s assertion, I thought of our experience with theSkimm , one of the most dynamic audience companies out there today and a startup we were fortunate to first back in 2
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 16, 2018
Oh man, my schedule right now is nuts! I’ve always been somewhat maniacal about how I manage my schedule (proof: check out this post from 2014 called I use email and my calendar to manage my life.) But right now, my cup definitely over-floweth. It’s probably because Dragon Army has grown 3x over the last year. Or maybe its because I have five children and they have a seemingly endless number of activities these days.
deal architect
MARCH 15, 2018
Most industry events follow a formula: lots of product announcements, rock bands which feed on audience nostalgia, partner pavilions, often annoying MCs. Cognizant Community is a complete outlier. Client executives convene for 3 days in a relaxed setting over TED.
Steve Blank
MARCH 13, 2018
Co-founder magazine just interviewed me about the current state of entrepreneurship – in startups and large companies – and how we got here. I thought they did a good job of capturing my thoughts. Take a read here. click here to read the rest of the article.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 11, 2018
by Dishan Jayasinha, founder, CEO and creative head of DG Studio. Like every art, discipline, or professional project, marketing also requires a set of systematic principles. Beyond the diversity of brands, corporate cultures and successful strategies that have been created in the business history, all the valuable products or services have something in common: the satisfaction of a social desire or necessity.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 10, 2018
As a startup advisor, I see many aspiring entrepreneurs whose primary motivation seems to be to work part time, or get rich quick, or avoid anyone else telling them what to do. Let me assure you, from personal experience, and from helping many successful as well as struggling entrepreneurs, that starting a business is hard work, and doesn’t come with any of the benefits mentioned.
deal architect
MARCH 14, 2018
I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.
The Next Web
MARCH 11, 2018
For the past five years of my professional career, I’ve been blessed to work remotely from my home. First, as an SEO freelancer, then as an employee, and currently, as a content marketing consultant. Working remotely has meant I’ve been able to work from the comfort of my home (or a coffee shop, whenever I’m tired of seeing the same wall every day) without having to suffer the problems of commuting.
Brandanew
MARCH 11, 2018
It used to be a running joke many moons ago when I was a young employee right out of school that if you had a female boss, you were ruined. This was supposed to be especially true for women employees. For the longest time I believed this to be true only of India. Not only was this view an open-secret in all countries I’ve lived in, it felt true at times.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 11, 2018
As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to set the culture you need for a thriving business, as well as thriving employees, customers, partners, and vendors. In fact, in my experience, cultures are very hard to change, so if you don’t get it right the first time, the road ahead will forever be difficult. “The Art of War” culture as an analogy for business doesn’t always work anymore.
deal architect
MARCH 10, 2018
I am writing this on a flight home. Been gone 12 days in 4 hotels, 7 flights, 20 Uber rides. Have not checked two bags in a long, long while. A friend asked me if I was ok since I.
View from Seed
MARCH 15, 2018
My partners and I have been very public and transparent over the past six months about our thematic investing approach — what we call the Everyday Economy. Our philosophy is about backing technology-enabled startups that have the potential to touch millions of end-users, become ingrained in users’ daily lives, or some combination of the two. Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 15, 2018
Security for your business is paramount to your future success. While many businesses do their best to keep their physical store and office secure, many forget about their digital security. If they do have digital security measures in place, these usually begin and end with an anti-virus subscription. Though anti-virus and anti-malware are a good precaution to take, they aren’t enough.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 10, 2018
Millennials love to optimize their lifestyle and engage in powerful experiences–they live for it. Any brand that can embrace their way of being, become a part of it, and help them enhance it, will firmly set itself up for success.
deal architect
MARCH 10, 2018
I am writing this on a flight home. Been gone 12 days in 4 hotels, 7 flights, 20 Uber rides. Have not checked two bags in a long, long while. A friend asked me if I was ok since I.
The Next Web
MARCH 11, 2018
Everyone I know is working hard, yet only a handful are crushing it. Why is that? I think I have the answer and it comes down to our skills in two areas; prioritization and focus. I first noticed this phenomenon when working as a strategy consultant. As I became increasingly disillusioned with the incredibly long hours and seemingly low impact our work was having, I started assessing my future.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 15, 2018
Conversion optimization is a vital aspect of a business that business owners must understand. But did you know that a simple client response can improve your conversion? A website is not a mere tool to let the world know about your business. It must go hand in hand with your offline operations such as customer support and marketing initiatives. How?
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2018
Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact, the social good division of the Lean Startup Company. This fall, her book based her own experiences using lean approaches to innovate in the social sector, including during her time at USAID, as well as stories from nonprofits, social enterprises, companies, government agencies, foundations, and philanthropists all over the world, will be published.
deal architect
MARCH 15, 2018
Most industry events follow a formula: lots of product announcements, rock bands which feed on audience nostalgia, partner pavilions, often annoying MCs. Cognizant Community is a complete outlier. Client executives convene for 3 days in a relaxed setting over TED.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 13, 2018
Before even thinking about forming a new company, you need to understand that entrepreneurship offers a lifestyle characterized by risk and reward on one hand. On the other hand, being an employee promises a level of security, little risk as well as little reward.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 14, 2018
by Robert Long and Ross A. Williams, partners at Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP. As cryptocurrency goes mainstream, cryptocurrency investment advisers have started to spring up. These may be highly-sophisticated businesspeople who have developed an expertise in cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency investment aces who have developed a financial services business (perhaps by starting a cottage industry advising friends and family), or anything in between.
Up and Running
MARCH 13, 2018
As a graphic and website designer who has grown a business, I fit into the typical definition of “creative entrepreneur.”. So do photographers, interior designers, furniture designers, illustrators, and anyone else who makes money from these “artistic” endeavors that fit neatly into the “right-brained” mold (which is actually a myth ). In fact, I believe that lots of different entrepreneurs can identify as creative—even logistics analysts and financial consultants.
deal architect
MARCH 14, 2018
I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 13, 2018
The term which has been generating a lot of buzzes lately is ‘Cryptocurrency’. Each day we are witnessing new Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrency Exchanges coming up. The list of merchants who accept a particular Cryptocurrency in return of their services or products is also increasing. This clearly indicates that people have accepted Cryptocurrency as a mode of payment and are ready to use it for their daily spending.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 15, 2018
You don’t need an oracle to tell you that starting a new business is difficult and nerve-racking, particularly if you new to entrepreneurship. You have to consider a number of things such as how to raise the startup money to finance the business, think about spending plenty of time mapping out strategies on how to move the business forward and lots more.
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