Starting your own business can be a stressful, complicated, and yet rewarding endeavor. However, if you don’t have much experience launching and growing a company, you surely have more questions than answers. Increase the odds of your startup’s success by considering these five key elements of growing a new business: 1. Be sure you understand […]
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By Richard D. Harroch, Mike Perlis, and Mitch Zuklie CEOs and founders of startup businesses face many challenges: raising startup capital, building a management team, developing competitive products, starting a marketing program, finding early customers, and more. The prospect of launching a new startup can be daunting. We have collectively been involved in hundreds of
It seems like there are as many venture capital firms and accelerators as there are ideas for businesses these days. The good news is it is allowing people across all demographics to find a source of funding for their startups. Outliers was especially created to bring in those new and radical thinking founders and bring
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Drum, an on-demand network sales force, has just been launched by the founders of Kabbage. The new platform offers SMBs a way to gather freelance influencers to promote their brands for a commission. Small Business Trends contacted Vikram Raju from Drum to find out how this new system works. He started out describing the groups
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The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact that brought us to an interesting moment in technology: some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous as they may be — are getting revisited by smaller and more fleet-of-foot startups, who are building new apps that they hope will disrupt their respective Goliaths. In
More than 1,000 former employees of Sun Microsystems gathered near San Francisco International Airport recently to reminisce about the glory days. In attendance were all four founders of the company—Andreas Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, and Bill Joy—who offered their perspectives on the technology business, past and present. Sun Microsystems was one of the highest
Maximize your time and effort with these tips from some of the most successful tech founders and CEOs. Source link
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The CEOs leading this year’s Ready Set Raise companies. (FFA Photo) Female Founders Alliance is back with its second accelerator cohort as the Seattle-based organization looks to help another round of female-led startups grow their businesses and land funding. Eight companies from across the country working in various industries made the cut this year, beating
Canva.com “Am I the only one who is terrified, worried that I don’t have what it takes or will make the wrong decision?” “What if we don’t raise the needed funds, how will I find the cash?” I can quote hundreds of more questions just like these, but here is a simple truth; being a
“I wasn’t temperamentally suited to be CEO or really any kind of manager,” says Craiglist founder Craig Newmark. “So I was thinking maybe it is time to step down. I had also read about something called founder syndrome where somebody who’s good at starting something is really terrible at keeping it going. The biggest lesson
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