Pmarchive. Stories from female founders and women entrepreneurs – Join us for the PITCH Conference on February 14 in Mountain View, CA – Details at. Welcome to Strictly Startup blog ! InfoChachkie | Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Business - Start a Startup. Brand Name A brand name is a name that you use to identify a family of products, services, or a single line of products or services that a company offers. For instance, Apple is the brand name used on most products manufactured by Apple, Inc. In this example, the business name and brand name are the same, a common use case. Your brand name is who you are to your customers. It is the pillar your business's public image will be built around. The products or services you offer can also have their own brand names. UberEats - Food delivery by Uber Amazon Web Services - Cloud computing from Amazon Google Maps - Web mapping service from Google Registered Business Name A business name is the legally registered name of your business.
Walmart Inc. However, they don't necessarily have to be the same. Brand Name: Google Business Name: Alphabet Inc. Domain Name A domain name is your website name - the internet address where people can access your website. Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1. Nivi · January 31st, 2008 Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about advisors. If you have additional questions, email us at ask@venturehacks.com.
Table of Contents General (answers follow) Compensation (in Part 2) General 1. They provide advice, introductions, investment, and social proof. 2. A “board” of advisors is not a formal legal entity like a board of directors, which is defined in the Constitution and shit. Create a board if it makes you and your advisors happy. 3. Ask questions. Some entrepreneurs set up quarterly advisory board meetings and that probably works well for them. 4. Don’t follow advice. Your advisor isn’t you: he doesn’t have your goals, history, or strengths and weaknesses. Even good advisors may guide you with conventional wisdom. “You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns.” – Jeffrey Pfeffer, The Human Equation 5. From your network and cold calls. If you’re working on something interesting, smart people will offer to help you. 6.
Blog | Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. The two sites you mentioned are both secondary listing services, for later stage companies. For a new angel investor, by far the best thing to do is to join a local angel investor group that belongs to the Angel Capital Association. There are hundreds of them, with at least one in every state. Major metropolitan areas typically have more than one. Some groups specialize, investing primarily in life sciences or tech companies or women-led ventures or other areas.
But regardless of the specifics, what they all have in common is bringing together a group of active Accredited Investors interested in supporting young startups. The typical US angel group will receive a dozen or more funding applications from startups each month; the most active ones, such as New York Angels will receive over 100. As a very rough idea of what these groups are like, the typical member invests in one or two companies each year, putting in $25,000 to $100,000 in each one. Guy Kawasaki: Get it out there & enchant. Startup2Startup's Channel. StartupCaffeine's Channel. Venture Hacks - Good advice for startups. Daniel R. Odio - A Tech Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive. This pages is an archive of quality Hacker News "Ask YC" posts grouped by subject. "Quality" means posts that are a) generally relevant to startups and b) contain a decent amount of useful discussion/advice.
All posts on this page have been looked at manually. Within groups (and sub-groups) stories are sorted in descending date order because newer stories are more timely (in addition to often having more comments). For a more up-to-date listing (that includes postings where this one left off), check out the Ask HN Archive. When referencing this page, don't copy and paste the links to table of contents sections, as they are numerically designated and thus subject to change.
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5 reasons why the UNTHINK Experiment is over – and 6 pieces of advice for new start-ups « interacter. When I received an invitation to join the latest social network as it took its fledgling steps, I promised that I’d give it a month to see how it worked out. Fast forward six weeks – not only have I discontinued use but I’ve deleted my account as well. Here are the five reasons why – and some advice for future social media start-ups.Reason One: The technology wasn’t ready. When I originally blogged about UNTHINK, I criticised the load times. This hasn’t improved – today’s load for example took around 8seconds on IE over a 10mg broadband line. Firefox meanwhile took 9.522s.
This wasn’t even to get logged in. This was just bringing up the home page. Aside from the speed, there have been many other issues dogging the network. Reason 2: The User Interface wasn’t up to it. Look at the cleanliness of the Google+ UI, the ‘newnew’ Twitter or even (gasp) Facebook. I found the UNTHINK UI perpetually confusing. Reason 3: The Privacy controls were ridiculous. Reason 5: UNTHINK weren’t using it. Nothing. (Founder Stories) Kevin Systrom On Instagram's Launch, "I Have Never Felt So Sick Ever" Best Questions on Startup Advice and Strategy. AppMakr Raises $1 Million To Help You Build Custom iPhone Apps.
AppMakr, a service that makes it easy to generate your own custom, native iPhone application, has closed a $1 million seed round. The round includes angel investors and VCs: Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus), Bill Lee, Rich Chen, Charles River Ventures (George Zachary & Bill Tai), Brian McClendon (angel, VP of Engineering at Google), Kima Ventures (Jeremie Berrebi & Xavier Niel), Warren Hellman (previously at Lehman Bros), Ben Narasin (TriplePoint Ventures), Pietro Dova, Sean Glass (Top Floor), Transmedia Capital (Chris Redlitz & Peter Boboff, of Kicklabs incubator). We’ve written about AppMakr a few times in the past — the startup launched in early 2010, allowing users to put together an iPhone application with a surprisingly small amount of work involved. COO Daniel Odio says that applications built using AppMakr now represent around 1% of the apps on the App Store — or around 3,000 applications. AppMakr dealt with this by establishing an “App Quality Index”.