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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. Our user numbers are up.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The power of large screen real estate.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. Our user numbers are up.

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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Even if you have heard some of the new terms, but can’t explain how, when, and why they are relevant to your startup, you may be in jeopardy. Startup pivot.

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Rebranding Should Be Driven By Growth, Not Desperation

InfoChachkie

As Wired magazine pointed out in a January 2013 article , "It’s a Hail Mary pass for a company that held 44.5 For a growing, successful startup, rebranding can be an effective way to redefine the company''s expansion beyond its initial core market. The path from a product name to an umbrella brand is not uncommon in the startup world.

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How Roambi Is Making Mobile Work For The Enterprise, with Quinton Alsbury

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We caught up with Quinton Alsbury , president and co-founder of the company, to learn more about what Roambi is doing for enterprises, and where it's going. We realized that what Apple had done, was introduce a completely new way of interacting with computing devices, using touch, a rich, animated UI, and the size of the screen.

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When Will Dinner Cook Itself? | Moment The Smart Home Goes Mainstream

Tech Zulu Event

Turning lights on automatically and setting thermostats from a smartphone is the stuff geeks revel in now, but for the smart home to reach flooding point, it must transform, not augment, the domestic realm — and it needs to start in the kitchen. It would certainly be a start. And herein lies the rub.

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