Mon.Dec 10, 2012

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room.

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Be the Startup I Want to Fund

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I'm in a meeting where someone told me an industry magazine that would be relevent to one of my companies. I texted the founder and got the following response: " Yeah. We were in their last issue.". Oh, umm. yeah. well, carry on. A lot of times, I take meetings with companies that feel a lot more like they're on the outside looking in than they should.

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The Nike+ Accelerator, powered by TechStars

David Cohen

Today, Nike announced their first Nike+ Accelerator program, powered by TechStars. Ten companies will participate in a three-month, mentorship-driven program. The technology focus will be about leveraging the success of the Nike+ FuelBand, Nike+ Running and NikeFuel to support digital innovation. Anyone that knows me will tell you I’m a quantified self geek and enjoy data.

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Some Quick Sage Advice for Young Employees Early in Their Careers

Both Sides of the Table

My wife & I have a close friend who recently entered the workforce for his first-ever job. On his first day of work my wife was kind enough to write down words of wisdom from her years on the job. I don’t write about Tania very often – mostly at her request. Otherwise I’d shout from the mountain tops how smart & capable she is.

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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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10 Perspective Checks on Your Startup Aspirations

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. For any entrepreneur, even the best business opportunities, if entered for the wrong reasons, will likely fail. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgive me for restating, but I still hear them too often.

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[Interview] Rajbir Singh Chopra, CEO of Weston Corporation

YoungUpstarts

The past year has seen exciting growth for online and mobile commerce in Asia , and that trend looks set to continue all the way through 2012 into 2013. But the numbers, however phenomenal, hide the fact that many traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have struggled to incorporate online and mobile retail into their business. We speak to Rajbir Singh Chopra, the CEO of Weston Corporation , probably Singapore’s most renowned sports apparel and merchandise company founded way back in 1948,

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[Review] Great By Choice

YoungUpstarts

Why do some companies succeed in turbulent times while others fail? Is there a “secret sauce” to enduring corporate performance? I found the answers to these and more in “ Great by Choice “, a highly thought provoking business book by bestselling “ Good to Great ” author Jim Collins and his partner Morten T. Hansen.

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Google Announces the Launch of Campus Tel Aviv

VC Cafe

I'm thrilled to share the news that today, 9 months after the launch of our beloved Campus London, Google announced the launch of Campus Tel Aviv, a floor in the new Google Tel Aviv office, dedicated. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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[Infographic] Gender Wage Gap – Equal Education Unequal Pay

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to wages, apparently having a different set of equipment matters. Despite efforts in the US to equalize wages at the workplace between men and women, men still generally make almost 20-percent more than women in nearly every industry. It’s a terrible statistic, considering women receive the same education, pay the same price for tuition and inherit the same level of debt once they graduate.

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Nike Accelerator – Powered By TechStars

Feld Thoughts

When we started TechStars in 2006, one of our premises was to help build a strong startup community in Boulder. Our experience with TechStars – starting in Boulder, but expanding to Boston, Seattle, and New York – helped us understand not just TechStars’ role and impact on a startup community, but what drives startup communities over the long term.

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Blue Creativity

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Life isn’t always easy is it? These past few weeks are notable for some rather sad and tragic events, both globally, and with myself. The simple point of this post is that creativity is not just for the good times.In fact, when you have the blues might be an opportune time to create something. A nurse in London committed suicide last week. Why?

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The problem with indispensable employees

The Equity Kicker

Rand Fishkin , one of the better thinker/bloggers out there on startup culture in the connected age, put up a great post on indispensable employees. For me the key section is his advice to CEOs and founders: Startup Employers/Founders – I know we’ve all had that one engineer who’s the only one that understands the middleware code and without him/her, everything could fall apart.

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The Trend That Matters Most In 2013

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I’ve had my own small business online since the early 2000s. One of the benefits of being an “early adopter” is that I was able to assume a position of leadership before I faced too much quality competition. It was great for me back then as I could test basic ideas, see how they went and report back my findings.

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What Do Jeff Bezos and Alesandro Giuliani Have in Common?

Growthink Blog

Last night, I read this fantastic article in Fortune Magazine about one of my business heroes - Jeff Bezos - who was named this year's Fortune's Businessman of the Year. It is full of awesome anecdotes of how Jeff leads Amazon to keep changing and prospering in our brave new worlds of global and social e-commerce and business. I particularly was struck by the description of how Jeff manages the meetings of Amazon’s senior executive team: “…the Amazon CEO's fondness for the written word drives on

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Why Did Mass Relevance Move Downtown?

Austin Startup

Many have asked me "Why did you move downtown? How has it been?" As a public service to fellow entrepreneurs, I'd like to share our experience.

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The Open Shop

Start Up Blog

One of the things I really dig on the web, is how easy it is to self educate from various respected sources. One of my favourite forums is tuning in to at Google Talks. A Youtube channel Google has set up where they share internal education events with anyone who cares to watch. Amazing talks at great cost to Google no doubt, from global thought leaders including, authors, scientists, entertainers, entrepreneurs et al and everyone’s favourite price – zero.

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Use Reality TV To Get Your Business More Exposure

Mike Michalowicz

Use Reality TV To Get Your Business More Exposure. Television has changed in more was than just getting skinny enough to hang on the wall. There have been some amazing changes inside the TV set as well as outside of it. And aside from the size and quality of the images, the biggest changes have to be the number and popularity of reality shows we have now.

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How To Reverse Engineer Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Many of today’s most successful businesses got their start without an apparent business model in mind (I’m looking at you, Facebook). But while drifting around for years as a free service without a clear path to profits might work for some businesses, it’s not a road that’s going to lead most startups to a good place. That’s the clear message from Dave Lavinsky advocates in his new book Start at the End: How Companies Can Grow Bigger and Faster by Reversing Their Bu

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How to Make Your Content Mobile Friendly

Duct Tape Marketing

When I think about the work I do these days very little of it actually needs to be done on a “real” computer. Writing a post like this, creating a PowerPoint deck or maybe editing a video are things that are still best done by me using lots of computing power and a large screen or two. Just about everything else – managing email, reading blog posts, participating in social media and consuming content in various forms – can be done, sometimes much more conveniently, using a mobi

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Where We Invest in 2013 and Beyond

Rob Go

What I find funny about the noise about the series A crunch and the difficulties of consumer applications is that it was predicted and reasonably explained 1-year ago by Mike Maples in this outstanding blog post. My partners and I have been pretty open that we think it’s foolish to jump in and out of sectors in a whim. What we DO think makes sense is to have a POV on MEGA TRENDS and to have a sense of where we are in the greater arc of innovation and progress.

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The Open Shop

Start Up Blog

One of the things I really dig on the web, is how easy it is to self educate from various respected sources. One of my favourite forums is tuning in to at Google Talks. A Youtube channel Google has set up where they share internal education events with anyone who cares to watch. Amazing talks at great cost to Google no doubt, from global thought leaders including, authors, scientists, entertainers, entrepreneurs et al and everyone’s favourite price – zero.

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How to attend a hackathon

dickey.xxx

Jeff Dickey. Let's grab a beer! About. Skills. Projects. Resume. Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. GitHub. [email protected]. How to attend a hackathon. December 9, 2012. hackathon. networking. meetups. I think hackathons are really a great thing. They are a relatively new concept, so it is not surprising when I attend one I find myself hacking away with others that are new to the idea.

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Sometimes, Poor Customer Service Starts Right at the Entrepreneur's Desk!

Small Business Force

Every entrepreneur or small business CEO I have ever known has always put "great customer service" at the top of any list of company strengths or company objectives, or both. Yet, often, this same entrepreneur is doing things, internally, that are subliminally undermining critical aspects of good customer service. And it usually happens during early growth periods when the small business begins to take off and add more staff.