startups
How to hire a advisory board member for early- stage startups company?
By Martin at May 7, 2011 | 10:58 am | 0 Comment
Every startup faces a myriad of challenges that are well beyond the scope of any founder, so you need a few guiding lights to illuminate the road ahead. These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. Make sure they are willing to check their egos at the door. Let’s talk specifics. I more...
Intellectual property portfolio for startups
By Martin at May 4, 2011 | 8:44 pm | 0 Comment
A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for more...
How to reduce the business risk for startups ?
By Martin at April 20, 2011 | 10:45 am | 0 Comment
Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and secondly the business plan. I define these products and services more...
What is biggest reason for startup failures?
By Martin at April 13, 2011 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
People are always asking me for an inside tip on Internet sites that will be “the next big thing.” Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. In some cases, these are concepts that have already been done too many times, and the space is crowded. In others, the concept has more...
Spot Startups Bubbles Before They Burst
By Martin at March 26, 2011 | 11:05 am | 0 Comment
In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In all these cases, a bust is inevitable, and everyone more...
“Viral marketing”tips for startups
By Martin at March 22, 2011 | 10:59 am | 0 Comment
Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. First of all, Seth more...
Ten Innovative Tips For StartUps Survival
By Martin at March 10, 2011 | 4:20 pm | 0 Comment
Continuous innovation is required to survive in all businesses, beginning with your startup, and increasing in importance as your business matures. Technologists often insist that new things can’t be invented on a schedule, but successful companies seem to be able to do it on a regular basis. Many people have tried to define a process for innovation, but most are too more...
How technology companies create success
By Martin at February 23, 2011 | 11:15 am | 0 Comment
Even though I have seen many startups succeed, and many that failed, I still struggle with what really makes the difference. It seems like some CEOs are just more tuned in to the market realities, customer dynamics, people interactions, and are better leaders. But what does that really mean? A while back I found some great business leadership insights in “The Secrets more...
Four golden rules for your startups
By VisionwizTeam at February 4, 2011 | 1:39 pm | 0 Comment
If you’re in the early stages of building a B2C product, you know that capturing people’s imaginations by explaining to them why they absolutely have to sign up to your beta is critical to your future. But there’s a problem, right? At precisely the time in your company’s lifecycle that you need a bunch of users to prove your model, you can least afford more...
Why Location-Based Services is next big opportunity for startups?
By Martin at February 1, 2011 | 10:41 am | 0 Comment
These days, I’m hearing more and more about Location-Based Services (LBS) as the next big opportunity for startups. So far, it’s just another mobile phone app that tells people where there friends are (Foursquare and Facebook Places), but it’s poised to be a lot more. Internet marketers see it as a better way to target consumers, and even retarget them to close a more...
Q&A With Puntalo.com’s CEO
By Rile at January 25, 2011 | 9:54 am | 0 Comment
New phone/kid finder Puntalo.com is making a splash in Europe, as it slowly becomes the only product available of its kind outside of North and South America. VisionWiz had a chat with founder Adrien Hingert about what makes this new startup so interesting--and where he sees is going in the near future. Hingert said that puntalo collects data from the phones via more...
Grow VC launched a local funding network exclusively for China
By VisionwizTeam at October 19, 2010 | 3:07 pm | 0 Comment
Grow VC which is known as grow venture community and also called as "The Virtual Silicon Valley", is bringing the first truly global, transparent, community-based approach to seed funding. Now they have announced the new local funding network for china as they have earlier announced in july for india,which is known as Grow VC india local funding more...
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Grow VC today announced that it has just closed a “service investment round”
By Vineet at May 27, 2010 | 8:44 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Grow Venture Community - "The Virtual Silicon Valley", is bringing the first truly global, transparent, community-based approach to seed funding. Grow VC can help startup to secure initial funding for their businesses up to 1m USD. Grow VC will not only connect startup entrepreneurs with investors to help them discover their common interests, more...
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What Motivate Start Ups?
By ajay at May 12, 2010 | 8:52 pm | 0 Comment
The report, commissioned by Opal this month, surveyed the owner-managers of 250 start-ups across the UK, established in the last 12 months, asking what motivated them to start and exploring the pressure points along the way. More than a third of those surveyed (36 %) said that recent redundancy had been the catalyst to launching their own business, 20 per cent had more...
BoomStartup – Mentorship-focused investor program
By Vineet at March 11, 2010 | 8:46 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Staring a business is another thing and running it smoothly is another thing especially when you dont have much experience on hand ,you can sustain it for long only when you get value advice or mentorship from some established business person or consultants.This new site will help you in getting valued mentorship for your business more...
Fast Pitches–Broadcast your startup and network with people interested in your business
By Vineet at March 3, 2010 | 1:29 am | 0 Comment
Want to pitch your startups ideas to larger audience ? Then you should use this new site named Fast Pitches. What Company Is Offering: Fast Pitches is a place to broadcast your startups and network with people interested in your business.It provides a resource for entrepreneurs to seek advice, seek capital, and fine tune their business plan/business pitch. At Fast more...
Startups innovation competition- Win $250,000 worth of prizes at Innovate!2010 Pitch
By Vineet at February 19, 2010 | 8:33 pm | 0 Comment
Looking for bigger platform where you can showcase your startup ideas and win attention of big investors for your startup projects then join this startups innovation competition. Eligibility: Qualifying startups are eligible to compete for nearly $250,000 worth of prizes provided by its world-class partners and sponsors. In addition, finalists will have an more...
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Launchpad Europe to stimulate the cross-exchange of technological innovation between the U.S. and the U.K
By Vineet at February 18, 2010 | 8:20 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Launchpad Europe is a leading market accelerator providing high-tech start-ups with a proven “rapid-entry” methodology to European markets. Services range from individual sales representation to building an entire, fully functional business entity. Launchpad Europe accurately matches the team’s extensive skill set to each client’s more...
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Grow VC Is Redefining The VC Funding Model
By admin at February 15, 2010 | 8:36 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Grow VC can help mobile and web 2.0 startup stars secure initial funding for their businesses ranging from $10,000 to $1m USD. Grow VC is fixing the inefficiencies of private seed funding for web and mobile companies with a global social network and crowdfunding. The service includes the tools needed for building a startup from the ground more...
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Sproutpitch–Present your startup elevator pitch to world
By Vineet at January 25, 2010 | 2:33 am | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering: Sproutpitch is to help entrepreneurs to showcase their startups ideas to world.It will provide you platform where you can present your startup elevator pitch to world. They invite you to submit your pitch for their community to evaluate the prospect of your startup and give you some ideas and advice. How It Works: Record or Upload more...
