Entrepreneur Of THe Week: Bjoern Hermann
Author: Gary Whitehill
Bjoern Hermann has started 4 profitable companies prior to starting Compass. His biggest learning lessons were his failures a long the way.
Jun 13
Author: Gary Whitehill
Bjoern Hermann has started 4 profitable companies prior to starting Compass. His biggest learning lessons were his failures a long the way.
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
The number one failure factor of web and mobile startups is lack of traction. The most traditional way to get people to know about your app is by using traditional and guerrilla marketing. However, there's a great shortcut that for some reason many startups don't use. This shortcut is building distribution channels.
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
Online food ordering service Eat24 gets about a million visits a month and will reach $150 million in sales this year. Here's how it happened.
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
Income from invention royalties at the University of Minnesota and University of Iowa has plummeted faster the past two years than at all but a handful of U.S. research institutions, an analysis of royalties data shows.
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
B2B Communicators are Under-Utilizing Social Media: Of 548 B2B communicators surveyed by Eloqua, about 40% say they are not yet using social media in their communications.
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
Marketers are clamoring to measure every touch point of a marketing campaign. There are countless metrics to track, the amount of data you get back can be staggering. It’s never been easier to answer the question: “What do people share?”
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
Never once in my life until my mid 30s did anyone ever (to the best of my recollection) call me "creative." But now, I hear it all the time.
So what happened?
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
November 13, 2012: Since Benchmark’s investment in Ebay 15 years ago, we have been fascinated by online marketplaces. Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. The arrival of the smartphone amplifies these opportunities, as the Internet’s connective tissue now extends deeper and deeper into an industry with the participants connected to the marketplace 24×7 – whether they are in the office, at home, or out in the field. It is a special experience to see an entrepreneur go from a PowerPoint describing a new marketplace opportunity to having established an online hub at the epicenter of a particular industry.
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
Summary: Language – be it Objective C, Chinese, Ruby, or Klingon – isn’t something you learn through study, it’s something you learn through use. The best way to learn how to build your startup MVP is to start building your startup MVP.
Jun 13
Author: Guest Blogger
At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them. All of these companies face the challenge of the marketplace cold-start problem: simultaneously attracting both sellers and buyers to generate enough liquidity so that meaningful transactions can result. Without enough buyers in the system, it’s not worth it for the sellers to show up; without enough sellers present, buyers don’t have anything to purchase.