Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk. Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” In reality, all risks are not the same. Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
by Leonard Callejo, Director of Online Marketing at Cisco Webex. Small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can face pressures that larger organizations may not. These range from budgets being significantly smaller, profit margins being squeezed, and employees juggling various roles to meet the needs of the company. Every investment needs to be carefully scrutinized to ensure it can deliver tangible ROI and positively impact the business.
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Version One Ventures
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Enterprise SaaS has seen tremendous growth over the past decade and created many, many large stand-alone companies. Given the current public struggle of tech-enabled services, marketplaces, hardware and DTC companies, enterprise SaaS also feels like VC’s most favourite investment category right now. The amount of money that has poured into this space has made enterprise SaaS highly competitive.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase The Startup Testing Evolution Story and Some of the Lessons Learned We sometimes focus on robust testing or the best testing strategy but it’s not quite that simple. While there is a strategy that is typically best if we want to release code with very few bugs in the most efficient way possible, this is not always the strategy that makes the most sense for a particular company.
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
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
by Kevin Manship , co-founder of Gamer One. Pick up the sticks, put on your headphones and get ready. Esports finally hit its stride in 2019, and with momentum behind it, the industry’s growth shows no signs of slowing down in 2020. When the first year of the new decade ends, esports fans around the world will number 307 million. Imagine all of America tuning in to watch the world championship of Fortnite, League of Legends, or Overwatch.
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Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase The Startup Testing Evolution Story and Some of the Lessons Learned We sometimes focus on robust testing or the best testing strategy but it’s not quite that simple. While there is a strategy that is typically best if we want to release code with very few bugs in the most efficient way possible, this is not always the strategy that makes the most sense for a particular company.
Board Effect
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Preparing for board meetings used to be laborious and time-consuming. Technology gives boards the capability to streamline many of the routine pre-meeting planning and activities. With many of the routine matters out of the way, boards can more easily focus on strategy and oversight. A board portal system will cut down meeting preparation from several weeks to several days, or maybe even a few hours.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
by Anant Kale, CEO of AppZen. Today’s companies put huge efforts into negotiating the best terms with their suppliers. Procurement teams regularly spend weeks or months going back and forth on contract terms and volume discounts to get the most bang for their buck. Too often, these savings aren’t realized. Suppliers may ignore the negotiated terms when invoicing, and AP teams, faced with a deluge of invoices and limited time to get payments out the door, only sample select transactions and only
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
When it comes to business success, data protection is vital. Even if an enterprise generates an endless amount of sales and glowing feedback from customers, this could be wiped before you could even blink, by a crippling cybersecurity attack. Yet the risk of your data landing in the wrong hands is constantly growing. This is because the workplace continues to allow employee-owned devices to be used.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
During the course of a fundraise, founders are likely to encounter a few questions from VC’s that seem awkward or even a bit unfair. These are questions that usually don’t have anything to do with the business itself, but center around the dynamics of the round or maybe the motivations of the founders. Below are the most common flavors of these questions.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Too many people, young and older, let their career and their lifestyle happen to them, rather than proactively making things happen based on their personal passions, skills, and interests. Others make decisions based on someone else’s interests, such as the father who wants his son to take over the family business, or dreams openly of having a doctor in the family.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
It is no surprise that Agile as a revolution of the software development and project management world is still picking up its pace. This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. If you have long considered taking on the challenge of learning Agile and becoming a Product Owner or a Scrum Master, but are wondering if it’s worth it, we hope to answer your question.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
For a lot of businesses – and especially those in retail – inventory is the most important aspect of day-to-day operations. So much time is spent on inventory: manufacturing it, ordering it, paying for it, unpacking it, collecting it, shipping it. And yet, for many companies, organizing inventory seems to fall by the wayside. You might not believe it, but taking the time to carefully organize inventory can help your business in myriad ways, and not just by having a cleaner, easier-to-navig
Start Up Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
We don’t just have a relationship with technology, we use technology to find relationships. Newspapers, video dating, website matching services and apps – and to the most direct of all – Tinder. The reason Tinder works is simple. It replicates human behaviour in the real world. The moment someone walks into a night club they look around at the faces of people and say to themselves, Yes, No, No ,Yes, No, No, No, No Yes, Yes.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive c
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
So, you figured out that your business finally requires additional online presence with a company website. However, since you are not a web design company, you will need the assistance of a web design agency to take care of your creating your website and launching it. One of the things you should think about before hiring one is the engagement model for working with it.
deal architect
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
I am big fan of automation and how it can make workers more productive and customer-friendly. In my book, Silicon Collar, I had a number of examples of automation which led to "super workers" - drivers who can drive millions.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
When I started blogging in 2004, there weren’t many VC bloggers. I followed Fred Wilson and David Hornik’s lead and just started writing what was on my mind about, well, anything that was on my mind. Today, VC content pieces are everywhere. I’ve become less interested in writing this kind of stuff so my blog has evolved into whatever is on my mind, but a lot less “VC stuff.” Every now and then I come across a spectacular VC blog post (or article in Techcrunch, or on
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Thus everyone has to make sure they are focusing on what is important, and making leadership decisions to save the business.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Even if it’s successful, you know in the back of your mind there are ways to improve your business. Are projects not finishing as swiftly as expected? Maybe stock levels are too high and they’re causing unnecessary expenses? Or perhaps the productivity of your employees has dropped off? Whatever the case, no business is perfect and issues will arise.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Working a life in which you’re an employee can be a little tiring. You work hard every day – often in a role that you feel you could do all by yourself – only to be paid a wage, with the profits siphoned off at the very top. It’s this feeling of unease that leads many people, especially those with practical and hands-on experience, to set up their own companies, trading privately with their own clients.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
While reading Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity , I came across an anecdote from a discussion she had with Dick Costolo. One of my favorite stories about Dick and diversity was his effort to eliminate the phrase “you guys” from his vocabulary. I told him a story about my twins—one a boy and one a girl—who were in kindergarten.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
While this blog is normally about startups and venture capital, I wanted to share a personal experience. If you don’t care about nutrition, you can stop reading now… A couple of weeks ago, I watched Game Changers on Netflix. Produced by James Cameron and narrated by James Wilks, a former UFC fighter and martial arts trainer, the movie includes an all-star team of co-producers (Arnie, Hamilton Lewis, Serena Williams, etc).
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
If you generally have the idea of starting up a business or buying an existing business, each has its advantages and disadvantages to it (If you are looking to fund your new venture and need help comparing the market Nowloan can provide you with some of the best rates on the market just click here ). Businesses can be tricky if you aren’t careful enough.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
I would be lying if I said working from home is easy. Here's how to conquer distractions and stay productive while being mindful of your surroundings.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Is owning a business your only professional goal? Are you still in need of that one amazing idea that’ll be sure to get you started on the entrepreneurial career path? Well, you’re in luck, as a number of brilliant business ideas can be found below. Turning your Ideas into Assets. Rest assured, you don’t need a lot of funding to get these startup ideas off the ground.
K9 Ventures
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
This is a recent tweet-storm that I wanted to cross post here as well as I feel so strongly about the lessons. 1/ So much of building a product/company is about progressive discovery. You build something, you figure out something else, then you build that, and so on. But you only figure out what to build by taking the first step, which may not always be *exactly* in the right direction. 2/ This is why it’s impossible to “accelerate” a startup.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Navigating the corporate landscape is a challenge for anyone: for women, it can be akin to climbing Mt. Everest. It was in the mountains, in fact — in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum — that Meghan Fitzgerald realized she had been trading her health for her career. As others in Davos shared their stories about their own climb, she saw a disturbing thru-line: in general, the higher women rise, the less they value their own health.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Want your customers and team to love you? Chocolates are enjoyed and forgotten. Roses eventually wilt. But heartfelt leadership endures.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Motion control has quickly taken an integral role in the development of modern industrial processes and consumer products. Motion control allows the automation of any application to be enhanced offering superior movement, precision, velocity, and force. Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash. By working with an automated system that is made up of motion controllers, hardware, drives, feedback devices, sensors, and software tools it can help to create the route the motor follows.
ReadWriteStart
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Let’s face it; we all overcomplicate things. But when you’re just starting as a new company, you can’t afford to waste time overthinking and complicating simple processes. You’ve got the gift of a clean slate. Meaning you’re not like the more prominent, older companies who have thousands of employees learning new CRM software. You’ve got you and maybe a few other people heading up your main departments.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
It’s no secret that marketing a business is hugely important, as it’s what advertises products and engages customers. Without marketing, it’s very difficult to grow and evolve as a business. There are a lot of different ways to market products and services, but a lot of businesses focus their attention on digital marketing. This is because digital marketing is hugely impactful and it has a number of benefits.
YFS Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Becoming a thought leader can provide a steady stream of new business opportunities, and these five tips can help you get there.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) , over 37,000 people were killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2017. Furthermore, research has shown that the majority of road accidents are caused by human error. Employers must do what they can to keep their employees safe when acquiring or leasing vehicles for employee use, as well as to reduce business liability of company vehicle accidents.
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
LiveOak Venture Partners, founded in 2013, this week announced it has added four executives to its Venture Advisors Program. The venture capital firm, which invests in early-stage companies, is adding Lynn Atchison, Peter Klante, Dave Rubin and Keith Zoellner to the program. Last year, LiveOak Venture Partners closed a $105 million fund, its second fund. […].
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