Tag: business development
5 Questions With Jono Lilley and Fiona Atkinson, Co-Founders of Colony88.com
 There are many intelligent and potentially huge startups in Hong Kong, but they have been restricted to grow and move up by the lack o...
Being a Data Driven Entrepreneur with Bridgette Bean at Cocoon
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2013-06-13-16.37.11.jpg) With all of the data that is available nowaday...
The New Deal – A Founding CEOs Value is Non Linear « Steve Blank
> It’s About Finding the Business ModelI’ll posit that both views are wrong. Lets start with what the real job of the founding CEO’s job is: [to find a repeatable and scalable business model](http...
Here’s The Real Reason Why Business Plan Competitions Are A Huge Waste Of Time
> Here’s The Real Reason Why Business Plan Competitions Are A Huge Waste Of Time > > [Steve Blank](http://www.businessinsider.com/author/steve-blank) > > | > May. 17, 2010, 11:26 AM > > | | > | -...
Strategy Roundtables for Entrepreneurs | Sramana Mitra on Strategy
> Strategy Roundtables for Entrepreneurs > > Sramana Mitra offers free weekly strategy roundtables for entrepreneurs to address positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. Up ...
mite.blog. Facts & figures: The first 20 months of our small SaaS start-up going for premium-only instead of freemium
 via [blog.yo.lk](http://blog.yo.lk/en/2010/03/08/facts-and-figures-the-fir...
Tools « Business Model Alchemist
 via [businessmodelalchemist.com](http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/too...
Mark Sigal’s Blog – The Network Garden: The Nine Essential Truths of Entrepreneurial Success
> The Nine Essential Truths of Entrepreneurial Success > > [](http://thenetworkgarden.blogs.com/.a/6a00...
Founder Institute Now International, Launches In Singapore, Paris, LA, And Denver
> [Adeo Ressi’s](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/adeo-ressi) > > [Founder Institute](http://founderinstitute.com/) > > is g...
Radically improving sales for high priced products with 3 characters and a misspelling – This is so Meta
 via [maxklein.posterous.com](http://maxklein.posterous.com/radically-impro...
A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company « Steve Blank
 via [steveblank.com](http://steveblank.com/2010/01/14/a-startup-is-not-a-s...
Jason Fried of 37signals on How They Work
via [blip.tv](http://blip.tv/file/1356502) This is a good video, 30 minutes on many topics about how they approach business, and then Q&A for 30 minutes. A worthwhile watch....
European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it
> One of the biggest challenges for any investor (regardless of the stage/type of investment they target) and founders alike is hiring great talent. In early stage investing the team may be the single...
10 skills I look for before writing a check – Venture Hacks
> [10 skills I look for before writing a check](http://venturehacks.com/articles/10-skills "Permanent Link to 10 skills I look for before writing a check") > > 10 skills I look for before writing ...
How much seed money should I raise? – Venture Hacks
> [](http://cdixon.org/2009/12/28/whats-the-right-amount-of-seed-money-to-raise/) > > [Chris Dixon](http://cdixon.org/2009/12...
Leave Them Wanting More
>  > > There has been lots of talk about how best to pitch. A [Harvard Business School professor](https://platformsandnetworks.blogs...
Tips for Using Social Media for Business
> If you’ve been involved in the online marketing field over the last few years you’ve probably already familiarized yourself with your share of acronyms; SEO, PPC, CPA, CTR, ROI and not to mention th...
Black&White™ — A simple model for innovation
> Finding the next big thing is probably one of the biggest challenges in the world of startups. A lot of companies, entrepreneurs and VC’s spend a considerable amount of time and money figuring out...
Sales for Startups (Building the Machine | For Entrepreneurs)
> The sequence of steps > > Building the machine involves the following steps: > > 1. Identify your buyers > 2. Diagram their buying processes > 3. Add to this diagram the steps you will take to a...
Our top 10 posts of 2009 – Venture Hacks
> I really wanted to be a cool cat and make a list of the most popular outgoing links for 2009 —a top 10 list of other people’s posts. But it wasn’t meant to be — we don’t have the Javascript inst...