Wed.Mar 07, 2012

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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the first five. It Feels Like 20 Years Ago Today. It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we taught the first 10 teams in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class. To share what we learned, we blogged each of those class sessions , (all the slides can be found here.

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50 Terrific Twitter Chats For Journalism Students

YoungUpstarts

The web has become the place where a large number of people go to get their news, and with good reason. It’s always on, numerous viewpoints are represented, and anyone can contribute. Thus, students of journalism not only need to study web journalism itself but would also be well-served by keeping up with the best ways to use the web to find information, network, and learn about their chosen career path.

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Shout Out to Seth Levine, or the In-N-Out burger startup

Scalable Startup

Shout Out to Seth Levine – Seth Levine’s VC Adventure – “I’m getting sick of the bull$%!^” [link]. Seth Levine, a successful VC with the Foundry Group , wrote a great blog entry about all the hype going on currently in the startup world. Worth the read. His focus is on people bragging about how amazing they and their startup are when they usually have close to n o t h i n g, which goes against the karma good business and screw it up for those really trying to build

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[Review] Say Yes, And!

YoungUpstarts

Two words. One simple idea. The author of “ Say “Yes, And!”: 2 Little Words That Will Transform Your Career, Organization, and Life! “, as the title implies, believes that just by learning to say two simple words – “Yes, And” – can have a profound impact on your life. Avish Parashar, a professional improv speaker and comedian who is also author of “ Improvise to Success!

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Life Gets In The Way – Punting on SXSW

Feld Thoughts

This morning I was taking a break between meetings in San Antonio at TechStars Cloud to check my email when I saw a note from my wife Amy with the header “ I just broke my wrist.” The email said “ Fell on stairs. At urgent care. Got x ray. Have “dinner fork” type fracture. Pam and Ryan will get me home. Not hurting too bad.

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Stolen SEO Content – Opportunity or Major Problem?

Rembrandt Communications

“Help! Someone is stealing my SEO content and posting it on their site. What can I do?” I’ve heard this a lot lately, and it may be something you are worried about too. They say imitation is one of the best forms of flattery. But you spent time, money and effort crafting the right, search [.].

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50 Questions: Should I let my lawyer negotiate the deal?

The Equity Kicker

Forty third in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series here , and the list of questions here. We welcome your comments on any and every aspect of what we are doing. —————————————.

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How To Make Money Online Without Having Your Own Website

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Most internet marketing websites and blogs you come across these days preach the idea of being able to generate income online through websites and blogs. While owning your own web property is certainly a favorable situation, it doesn’t have to be for you to profit from the resources already available on the internet.

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Next One’s On Me Launches for SXSW

Austin Startup

Good things come to those who wait and Austin has waited long enough. Sara Rodell and Jeffrey Schwartz introduced their new mobile application, Next One’s On Me, or NOOM, last night at a private launch party at Ranch 616. The event, with an invite list of 300 tech savvy individuals, debuted their mobile app that allows users to spontaneously treat their friends to drinks, eats, lattes and more, all through their phone.

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MVP vs. Minimal Product

SVPG

To continue on the series of articles describing the critically important concept of Minimum Viable Product (MVP), in this article I wanted to contrast this concept with what I call "Minimal Product.". So often I meet teams that tell me that they have identified their MVP, and I ask them how they have validated this, and I'm told that they've tested their prototype on customers and the results are excellent.

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Capture Audience Contact Info with PresentNow.Me, Launching for SXSW

Austin Startup

We've all been on stage somewhere giving a talk on something. Your last slide typically is your contact information, right? Some people email you, other people follow you on Twitter, and others want to connect with you on LinkedIn. With PresentNow, you will have a structured way of getting audience contact information when you present at conferences.

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The solution to my iMessage problem

VC Adventure

It turned out that the solution to my iMessage problem was relatively straightforward. That said, it only worked because I still had my old phone (it hadn’t been stolen; I hadn’t traded it in; etc.). It also worked when doing things like going to Apple’s site and deauthorizing my devices didn’t (which I still don’t understand).

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What Can City Hall Do For Your Business

Up and Running

This video from CBS contradicts much of my thinking on this subject: how federal, state, and local governments can boost small business and entrepreneurship. Watch it and see what you think: What I like about it is the quick rotation through real people, real business owners, making specific and concrete suggestions. It’s also nice that it has some snippets about what local governments are already doing right.

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On Women: Leading, Mentoring and Changing the Face of Business

Duct Tape Marketing

On Women: Leading, Mentoring and Changing the Face of Business This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. March is Women’s History Month. Some 10.1 million firms are owned or co-owned by women, 40 percent of all businesses in the U.S., says the Center for Women’s Business Research. Between 2002 and 2007, women created almost twice as many businesses as men, according to data from the Census Bureau.

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The solution to my iMessage problem

VC Adventure

It turned out that the solution to my iMessage problem was relatively straightforward. That said, it only worked because I still had my old phone (it hadn’t been stolen; I hadn’t traded it in; etc.). It also worked when doing things like going to Apple’s site and deauthorizing my devices didn’t (which I still don’t understand).

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How I’m starting my week to help focus on the important things

Jeff Hilimire

Focus is tough. Especially when you’re in leadership or management roles and you have to largely create your own schedule. It’s very easy to spend far too much time on things that either come naturally to you, are things you enjoy more than others, or the things that come at you throughout the day (fighting fires, etc.). In order to help me focus this year, I’ve decided to do a few things.

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Subscription business models are getting their day in the sun

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Today’s NY Times notes that subscriptions are all the rage in ecommerce. It features three of our portfolio companies. Alex Zhardanovsky, cofounder of Petflow *, and Azoogle before that, is one of the people interviewed: But he had an idea to build the business by taking a different approach to sales. While selling online ads, he had seen other companies, like Netflix, persuade consumers to lock in monthly fees for repeat orders.

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People Should Come with an Instruction Manual

OnlyOnce

People Should Come with an Instruction Manual. Almost any time we humans buy or rent a big-ticket item, the item comes with an instruction manual. Why are people any different? No one is perfect. We all have faults and issues. We all have personal and professional development plans. And most of those things are LONG-TERM and surface in one form or another in every single performance review or 360 we receive over the years.

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Hey Klout, One-dimensional Reputation Is Meaningless.

Diego Basch

According to Klout, ” Your Klout Score measures your online influence on a scale of 1 to 100. ” I just read a blog post (from June 2011) that carefully analyzes all the ways in which the Klout score is flawed, and therefore meaningless (hat tip to Peter Skomoroch ). However, there is a more important reason than the flaws in the calculation: what does “online influence” even mean?

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More Profs Support Free Online Courses | Inside Higher Ed

Campus Entrepreneurship

Whats old is new! Over a hundred years ago leaders at schools such as the University of Wisconsin (Van Hise) and the University of Chicago (Harper) were building correspondence courses and extension programs. These efforts were meant to democratize education for a growing, industrializing nation and to pull teachers, business leaders, policy makers, and ‘everyday citizens’ deeper into the higher education infrastructure.