Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Building a startup is hard work for low pay, it’s risky, and it requires total responsibility to make it work. Yet, many entrepreneurs are the happiest people I know. On the other hand, I know many unhappy individuals who are always partying, have minimal commitments, and little responsibility. I suspect the real parameters of happiness have eluded these people.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
by Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “ “Obama’s tax policies will cripple small businesses!” “Romney cares only about bankers, huge multinational corporations, and the super wealthy!”. With election coverage ramped up to a fevered pitch and blasting the airwaves 24/7, many small business owners are rightfully feeling confused and anxious over which candidate will save the day and which will rain death and destructi
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The Next Web
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
What have you built lately? 14-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and 15-year-old Bello Eniola have created a urine powered generator. All over Africa, young men and women have missioned across the country and arrived in Lagos, Nigeria. All they want to do is show off what they have made. Maker Faire Africa is more than your typical startup event: it actually shows off innovations, inventions, and initiatives that solve immediate challenges and problems, and then wo
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
by J.B. Brocato, CEO of Intense Coaching and Consulting Worldwide and author of “ A Service Provider’s Guide to Starting a Unique Business Networking Group “ These keys, while applicable to everyone in creating a life of long-term happiness, are particularly relevant to the sales professional. They provide fertile ground on which to not only increase one’s happiness, but to maximize the efficacy of one’s sales efforts. 1.
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
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Along with my partner Jason Mendelson and our friends Brad Bernthal (University of Colorado Law School) and Mike Platt (partner at Cooley LLP) we have launched a series of courses in conjunction with our portfolio company Sympoz on starting a company. This is a bidirectional experiment for us – we are helping Sympoz launch their new set of programs for startups and entrepreneurs while continuing to experiment with new forms of media around education on a topic we know well.
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Yesterday I wrote about the distinction between empowering innovation that creates jobs and economic growth and efficiency innovation which improves profits but destroys jobs and does little for growth. At the end of the post I wrote a little about what we might do to encourage more empowering innovation and today I’m going to add some more to that.
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Up and Running
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
I’m a good writer. I know that. I’m proud of that. I write relatively fast, relatively finished non-fiction business writing. I have degrees to prove it, but of course they don’t. And I have published works to prove it, and they do. Google me. . However — and this is the point — I am not good at copywriting. And I need editing. .
OnlyOnce
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Two Ears, One Mouth. Brace yourself for a post full of pithy quotes from others. I’m not sure how we missed this one when drafted our original values statements at Return Path years ago, because it’s always been central to the way we operate. We aren’t just the world’s biggest data-driven email intelligence company – we are a data-driven organization.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Before I tell you the background story and my own results so far with video ads, if you haven’t yet tried out CrankyAds , I recommend you give it a go. It’s a free WordPress plugin you can use to handle all advertising on your blog, and that includes offering video ads to your sponsors.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Matt Scherer, our San Antonio correspondent, is also serving as the public relations director for the Nov. 8 Innotech trade show. He recently completed this interview with Tim Cox, executive director for General Motors enterprise solutions.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
This post is one in a series of tips for making your small business run better and is sponsored by UPS. This time of year many businesses turn to planning as a way to determine the path for the upcoming year. It’s a great practice and one that I support without hesitation. photo credit: fiddle oak via photopin cc Taking stock of where you are now and how you intend to move towards the vision for your business as you see it down the road is something that you must do to create positive change and
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Sam Decker is Co-Founder and CEO of Mass Relevance, a social engagement platform that discovers, filters, and displays real-time content anywhere.
Seeing Both Sides
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
My first job after business school was serving as a product manager for an Internet commerce software company (Open Market, IPO'96). Back then, we learned the "HP way" - methodical, waterfall, process-driven. The art and science of product management has changed radically in the years since, with agile and lean methodologies replacing the more centralized, older methods.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
With Innotech only a couple of days away, Matt Scherer, the public relations staff member for the Austin Innotech and our San Antonio correspondent, sat down with Amanda Justice, the chair of the 2012 Women of Information Technology Summit.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Tweet. Regardless of whether you were happy about yesterday's outcome, I think we can all agree on one thing: There's a lot of work to do. So, I figured I'd jot a few things down I think the President should spend his time doing between now and 2016. 1. Play nice. The Democrats don't control the government, so if both sides can't work together, we're going to sit stagnant and deadlocked for the next four years while the rest of the world moves forward.
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