Sat.Dec 29, 2012

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Does Your Startup Work Hard But Not Gain Momentum?

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs confuse motion with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done. Momentum is moving things forward (mass x velocity). Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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How to increase Pinterest traffic and direct it to your site

The Next Web

While its popularity has evened out over the last few months, Pinterest is still carrying a lot of the momentum it gathered at the beginning of the year. Considering that it drives more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined and had 23 million unique visitors to the site in August , its ability to direct more traffic to your site has rightly gotten businesses and brands interested in the service.

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The Mess of a Second Edition Book

Feld Thoughts

The Second Edition of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist just started shipping. It’s new and improved, fixes a bunch of little mistakes that we listed on the Ask the VC site , and adds a chapter on Convertible Debt which builds on the posts on Ask the VC. I’m happy it’s out, but really annoyed by the mess that is created by the second edition.

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9 Key Tips for a Balanced Work and Personal Life in 2013

Growthink Blog

Isn't it funny how doing less can sometimes be the best way to get a handle on things? Maintaining a healthy life balance is vital; not only for your health and overall well-being, but also for increased productivity in your growing business! If you're a balanced person, you are very likely to achieve your long-term goals. Because the odds are, you're going to run into both ups and downs over time.

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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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The VC Push to Raise More Money

David Cohen

“You’re not raising enough money.”. It’s common to hear this from from VCs after a pitch. But is it true? Sometimes, but not always. For purposes of creating a hypothetical scenario for this post, let’s say you’re asking for $500,000. You think that’s realistic, and enough to keep you going for 12-18 months. You believe you can make real progress and go back to the market to raise more if needed at that point, on a higher valuation.

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Labels You Secretly Love

Life Beyond Code

I am not talking about your Title. If you don’t like it, change what you do or change your job and there is nothing else you can do about it. I am talking about your internal labels. Labels that you secretly love. Labels that you want others to place on you without you having to speak them out loud. A few examples. Smart. Funny. Ultra-smart. Uber -creative.

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Weekend Favs December Twenty Nine

Duct Tape Marketing

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. The last piece – a very sad sight!

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How to screw up your life by getting promoted

The Startup Toolkit

Maybe the smartest thing I’ve done over the past few years is to avoid raising my expenses. I have friends who took jobs in finance 2 years ago, saying it was just to get settled and gain some experience and save some cash before doing what they really wanted. But then, each year’s raise goes into a slightly bigger flat and slightly nicer restaurants.

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Pop quiz: Name these shows

Jeff Hilimire

Ok, here are two of my favorite Christmas presents this year. Style points if you can name one of them, but you earn my respect if you can name both ;) And you’re on the honor system not to skip down to the comments.

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Deciding which features to build for a big demo

The Startup Toolkit

You’ve got a big pitch/demo coming up and an even bigger list of stuff you’d love to fix about the product before then. One way to decide which stuff to prioritise is to mentally walk through the demo and just fix all the bits you find yourself apologising for. “Oh, yeah, sorry about that… just click over here. No, there. Yeah.

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New Year Resolution: Startups, improve your branding!

The Next Web

I have two passions in life: technology and building brands. This is why it hurts me so much when I see so many promising startups who don’t care about developing their brand. Usually branding is seen as an afterthought. First we build it, then they come, then we make it look pretty. Unfortunately, that’s not the way it works. By building the right foundation for a brand you can get better results and most importantly better engagement, promotion and user retention.

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