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33 Must Read Books for Entrepreneurs. 12 Must Watch TED Talks for Entrepreneurs. We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world.
TED is a circuit of highly popular conferences that present "Ideas Worth Spreading" - which have quickly grown to become some of the most well known conferences around the world. TED has attracted presenters such as Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall, Larry Page, and a large handful of Nobel Prize Winners. Many of the presentations, known as TED Talks, present ideas that are particularly valuable to entrepreneurs. I put together a collection of TED Talks that all entrepreneurs, including ecommerce store owners, should find interesting and worthwhile. Since a lot of the presenters below have written books, I have included a link to purchase. RichRelevance. Event. TeamWork.
Getting the first 1000 users; Marketing 101 [Part I] You’ve got an idea for the next Big Thing? Awesome! Customer Development Engineering. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank's entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steve's method of Customer Development. I've attempted to embed the relevant slides below. The basic idea is to extend agile, which excels in situations where the problem is known but the solution is unknown, into areas of even greater uncertainty, such as your typical startup. In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers.
As always, we had a great discussion with the students, which is helping refine how we talk about this. Customer Development: How to develop your customers like you develop your product. Entrepreneurship. Start-up Trees. Schlep Blindness. January 2012 There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses.
One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task. The Top Idea in Your Mind. July 2010 I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I'd thought.
I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower. Everyone who's worked on difficult problems is probably familiar with the phenomenon of working hard to figure something out, failing, and then suddenly seeing the answer a bit later while doing something else. There's a kind of thinking you do without trying to. I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time.
Tools for innovation. Product Management. P&G, mobeam team up to simplify mobile couponing. Designers. Showcasing The Best Startup Videos. Payment Options. Stop asking “But how will they make money?” Business models are important, but today they’re commoditized Let me first state: Business models are important.
Of course businesses have to make money, that’s a given. But that’s not my point – my point is: Business models are a commodity now, so “how will they make money?” Isn’t an interesting question. The answers are all obvious. So when you see the next consumer mobile/internet product with millions of engaged users, let’s stop asking about their business model expecting a clever answer – they’ll have dozens of off-the-shelf solutions to choose from – and instead, let’s start asking about the parts of their business that aren’t commoditized yet.
Outsource your monetizationBetween the original dotcom bubble versus now, a lot has changed for consumer internet companies.
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Actually, what IS a startup? - @JoeTaylorLand. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition The following is a guest post by Brian Balfour, Co-Founder and CMO of Boundless.
You can read more of his writing on his blog at BrianBalfour.com. Stories about the growth of "hot" startups such as Facebook, Instagram, AirBNB, and others have created a belief that if you build the right product, customer acquisition will be easy. A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu If you read the academic literature or business press, you might believe that large companies and their business models are brought by the stork. This series of posts are going to offer a new three-stage model of how startups grow into large companies. Behavior Change as Value Proposition. There's a lot of academic research around the areas of persuasive technology and design for behavior change.
It's getting more exposure as technology has allowed products and services to have an increasingly pervasive role in people's lives. But where does persuasion live? How do we recognize these products in the wild? And what has caused the tipping point for the growth of these products and services? Data, Feedback, and Smart Products. Startup Professionals Musings. Beware of MBAs! The business school curriculum teaches how to suck at startups.
I have an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.
It was some of the best experiences of my life. I met fabulous friends, learned from incredible professors, and developed in many important my ways. My entrepreneurship professor, Gregg Fairbrothers, is one of my all-time favorite teachers and he taught me a lot about doing start-ups right. An interview with investor Paul Graham of Y Combinator. Paul Graham believes we’re not in a bubble, that startups shouldn’t worry about their business models and the best companies are the ones with potential to kill old monopolies.
Graham is a partner at Y Combinator, a Mountain View firm that invests in very early tech startups. Companies that Y Combinator has funded include the social news site Reddit, online form creation tool Wufoo (our coverage), and the online calendaring startup Kiko, whose controversial sale on eBay last month ended with a quarter million dollar winning bid. How to Deliver a Great Presentation Like Steve Jobs. 19 Jul 2012 If you like to learn some of the techniques and styles that make Steve Jobs such a great presenter, watch these excellent videos and slides by Carmine Gallo, author of ‘The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.’ The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog. Venture Hacks - Good advice for startups. A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) Lessons Learned.
A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company. @JoeTaylorLand. Smoopa, The Price-Scanning App That Pays Shoppers To Find Bargains, Lands On iOS. How to Fail Less: Steve Blank on the Secrets of Start-Ups - Business.
Instagram Aftermath: It’s Time For Entrepreneurs To Go All In. Editor’s note: Adeo Ressi is founding member at TheFunded and The Founder Institute. Follow him on Twitter @adeoressi. Q: What does the Instagram acquisition mean for startups? What Makes A Startup Successful? Blackbox Report Aims To Map The Startup Genome. Generally speaking, the odds are stacked heavily against the average startup. The rate of failure among entrepreneurs and startups is startlingly high — it comes with the territory. Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World’s Top Tech Hubs Stack Up.
How to Build the Next Instagram. Startup Desi — Chronicles of an Indian Start-up Owner. Plan B for Fund Raising : The World. Here's how most entrepreneurs approach venture capital funding raising. Nir and Far. 33 Ways To Fund Your Startup Business. No matter what the economic situation, someone somewhere, eyes bright with potential, is looking to start a new business. Lessons Learned by a Solo Entrepreneur. 8 Reasons To Choose A Startup Over A Corporate Job. You've graduated from college, diploma in hand (or in the mail), and you have a couple of job offers on the table. 10 Facts About Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company.
PayPal’s New Digital Wallet Will Offer Personalized Deals, Flexible Payments, And More. Shopitize. Developer Support. What Every Programmer Should Know About SEO. What start-up recruiters look for in job applicants.