Sun.Apr 01, 2012

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A Field Guide on How to Create an Innovator

ReadWriteStart

Are people born innovators, or can they learn to become that way? An interesting new book, "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World," by Tony Wagner, a member of Harvard's Technology and Entrepreneurship Center, explores this question in detail. It is a must-read for anyone who is thinking of taking the lonely road toward starting one's own venture.

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I’m in Unicode Love: The Curator’s Code

crowdSPRING Blog

Attribution on the web is a controversial topic; ideas, stories, videos, graphics are copied and pasted over and over again, propagating their way across the virtual universe. As an entrepreneur and blogger, I am always pleased when I see my articles shared on other sites, or linked to in the social media. While I would prefer for all of those readers to come over to our blog to read the piece, I certainly understand the value of additional reach that can be gained when my posts are re-published

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Adventures of a Bystander

deal architect

Recently, my former Gartner colleague, Bruce Stewart, one of the deepest thinkers I know humbly called himself a “writer”. It’s funny how bloggers strive to be called analysts and ex-analysts feel no such desire. My big revelation in the last.

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WordPress Page Caching Faster than Light — @WPEngine releases TachyCache

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Dateline April 1, 2012. Austin TX. Today WP Engine proudly announces a new WordPress page-caching technology which actually delivers pages before the user clicks the link! In a joint venture with CERN, WP Engine has developed a TCP/IP layer on top of a faster-than-light neutrino beam, delivering page content in negative time. Page state and web analytics is preserved forward in time using quantum-entangled cookies.

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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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Some day soon

deal architect

…we can dream of international roaming included in a fixed monthly plan, like my wife’s calls this weekend to the UK and Ireland. Included in my monthly office Vonage charge. So, are calls from my cell phone from US to.

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11 Compelling TED Talks On Money

YoungUpstarts

Money talks, but what it has to say happens to be grimmer than, “Timmy is trapped in a well.” Sadly, people tend to turn clogged ears toward its intricacies, and as a result wind up compromising their homes, businesses , and even surrounding neighborhoods. Proper financial education, on a macro and a micro level, helps translate some of what dollars and cents can really do, and their potential to make life as amazing as it does hellish.

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Leadership Qualities & How to Develop Them

Growthink Blog

When I think about the great entrepreneurs of our time like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Richard Branson, I not only admire the companies they built, but their leadership skills. Since even the best idea, or the smartest individual, can't evolve into a massively successful company without leadership. Below I will explain the difference between leadership and management, and steps you should take to improve your leadership skills.

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Brand Play

Start Up Blog

I am seriously in love with the Google maps 8 bit – bit for April fools day. So much so, that immediately after I write this post I will be going to Google maps to get my street and suburb (Yarraville) in screen shots in their 8 Bit version. You should too. And by the way – brands that know how to play are brands that win. Especially in a startup world.

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Wisteria Is Stuff That Works

Duct Tape Marketing

Wisteria Is Stuff That Works This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. This is a new Sunday series that I’m calling Stuff that Works. Each Sunday I’ll pick an item that is for me a foundation element in my line up of stuff that matters or as legendary Texas singer songwriter Guy Clark put it – “The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall.”. For about the last fifteen years I’ve marked the arrival of spring with the spectacular blooming of a white Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) that s

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Risk & Conservatism

Start Up Blog

I like to embrace risk, disrupt and take the path less traveled. But I only do this when it comes to innovation in business. When it comes to family, I prefer to take a conservative a approach. An important life trick, is to know which parts are worth behaving in an unexpected or unusual manner.

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We Are Entering A Golden Age of Internet Founders

Rob Go

Bill Gurley had a great post about the advantage of youth, and it got me thinking about the advantages of age and youth. I came to a pretty exciting conclusion: We are entering a golden age of internet founders! We hear about young tech founders a lot these days. We invest in young founders at NextView all the time, and I’m proud of it. But I do think the trend towards young founders in the internet space is driven somewhat by our moment in time.

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Risk & Conservatism

Start Up Blog

I like to embrace risk, disrupt and take the path less traveled. But I only do this when it comes to innovation in business. When it comes to family, I prefer to take a conservative a approach. An important life trick, is to know which parts are worth behaving in an unexpected or unusual manner.

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Will iPad Revolutionize Textbooks? Infographic

Campus Entrepreneurship

Just received this infographic in an email. I’ll share it because there are some good numbers in there. Lets think broader than textbooks though. All kinds of learning. The iPad will likely play a role in the impending disruption of higher education and all kinds of opportunities will be create via the iPad for entrepreneurs in and around the campus.

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Brand Play

Start Up Blog

I am seriously in love with the Google maps 8 bit – bit for April fools day. So much so, that immediately after I write this post I will be going to Google maps to get my street and suburb (Yarraville) in screen shots in their 8 Bit version. You should too. And by the way – brands that know how to play are brands that win. Especially in a startup world.

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Doing something I love

VC Cafe

It’s been a while since I posted regularly. People have been asking me if VC Cafe is still going, so I thought it is about time I updated you on what has been keeping me busy. There’s been a surge in great blogs covering the Israeli startup scene, so I feel less guilty about taking a break from blogging this time around. So, what has been keeping me busy?