Mon.Jan 30, 2012

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Burning Question: What makes an event memorable?

deal architect

As I start to line up speaking later in the year around themes in my new book, I was reminiscing this weekend about the many industry events I have been fortunate to be part of. Plenty of gorgeous resorts and.

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8 Key Elements Make Your Business Transformative

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements.

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“What the Heck Is Wrong With My Leadership?”

YoungUpstarts

by Pekka A. Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. Two years later we made it a full merger, and I joined the Tieto management team. I was used to managing 200 Finnish nerds, with whom my straight-ahead approach (my nickname is “Bulldozer”) got great results.

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A Flying Fuck

Feld Thoughts

It’s Monday and I’m back in Boulder after being on the east coast for three weeks. My partner Jason Mendelson got me possibly the best remote control toy ever. Even though I’d love to stick around Boulder all week, I’m heading to DC tomorrow and then NY for a day. Oh well.

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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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Great, Heaping Platefuls of Business Guts

Growthink Blog

When I think of the great entrepreneurs that I've been blessed to get to know personally over the years, Mr. Martin Tibbitts truly stands out. Marty, as the Founder and CEO of the BOSS family of businesses, has both built and acquired an impressive array of companies - ranging from telecommunications to security software, to web services and analytics, to digital media.

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Connect to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and G+

Feld Thoughts

I noticed something when I tried out two apps ( Mingly and Cobook ) this morning – they each immediately asked to connect me to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter during their onboarding process. And, by using my Gmail as the starting point / authentication, they connected me to G+. Microsoft is conspicuously absent from this. I’ve noticed this many times in the past but when you onboard yourself in two contact-related apps in the same morning and there is no Microsoft anywhere, there&#

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Avoid the Backward Start-up

The Entrepreneurial Mind

"I've developed this really cool product and I have applied for a patent." "I want to show you this awesome app that I helped design." "We've got a great idea for a website." Those of us who work with entrepreneurs hear these types of introductions all the time when people come to meet with us. Whether it is a result of years of development and research, or a sudden inspiration that leads to a "eureka moment," these aspiring entrepreneurs have come up with what they hope to be the next big thing

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Tabbedout Names Paul Fiore as New CEO

Austin Startup

Tabbedout, the mobile payment solution that enables customers to open, view and pay their bar or restaurant tab with their phone, today announced that Paul Fiore has been named Chief Executive Officer. Fiore brings more than twenty years of executive leadership experience in the technology and financial services industries to Tabbedout. His previous roles include general manager of bank products for prepaid financial services company Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), vice president of strategy for XP [.].

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The moving target & radvertising

Start Up Blog

It’s easy to think that our target audience is the same people it has always been. 18-24 year old influencers. Main grocery Buyers. Retirees. Primary School kids. But sometimes, that target market evolves. Some times it is the exact same people it was 20 years ago – except they are actually 20 years older. Case in point is Ice Magic. Yes, that chocolate coating dessert that is scrumptious when spread all over ice cream.

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Finding Balance Between Family and Business

The Entrepreneurial Mind

I have written often about the challenges for entrepreneurs of finding balance between the strong, often conflicting pulls from family and from their business. Toddi Gutner offers three case studies on entrepreneurs who have worked at finding this balance in a recent piece at Business on Main. One entrepreneur uses mobile technology, one has built a team, and one has become a master at the art of time management.

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the 10% era

Start Up Blog

We are reaching the end of the Pareto Economic Period. A time when we had to garner the interest from a large majority for just about any industrial business system to work. We’ve now entered t he 10% era. A time when a 90% rejection ratio can be the makings of business super stardom. Largely because commerce is now borderless. Startup blog says: focus on the 10% who will and ignore the 90% who wont.

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The Courage of One’s Creative Convictions

Growthink Blog

When I think of the wondrous entrepreneurs that I've had the great fortune to know personally over the years, Mr. Marty Tibbitts truly stands out. Marty, as the Founder and CEO of the Boss family of businesses, headquartered in St. Claire Shores, Michigan, has both built and acquired an impressive array of companies - ranging from telecommunications to security software, to web services and analytics, to digital media.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: January 23rd – 29th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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What do you want to be when you grow up? The president, an astronaut or…an entrepreneur?!

Jeff Hilimire

Last week I went to a school in Roswell, Georgia, to teach a middle school class about entrepreneurship. This was through Junior Achievement’s “JA in a Day” program. I sit on Junior Achievement of Georgia’s board, and “JA in a Day” is a great program. So I spent half a day with a class of about 30 kids ages 11 and 12.

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Tools for Business Model Generation Video | Stanford E Corner | Osterwalder | Blank | #bmgen

Campus Entrepreneurship

Great business model talk from Stanford eCorner with Alexander Osterwalder. Inspiring for lots of reasons. Please watch. Also, Steve Blank’s new book, The Startup Owners Manual (with Bob Dorf) is available for pre-order. #leanstartup #bmgen.

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Google Analytics Tutorial: 8 Valuable Tips To Hustle With Data!

Occam's Razor

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. I mean really use the tools. Ravage all the features. Exploit every possible button. Produce built-in visualization magic. Poke into the hidden crevices and discover exotic delights. Nourish yourself with the "info snacks" the tool's engineers and product managers cooked up.

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How and Why I Use Buffer

Duct Tape Marketing

How and Why I Use Buffer This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. One of the services I believe marketers should provide their followers and community members these days is that of filtering and aggregating good, relevant content. I subscribe to over 100 blogs and I hear over and over again how much some of the folks that choose to follow me on Twitter and Facebook appreciate that I share what I think some of the best reads from each day.

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News You Can Use: Who are the Bplans 100,000?

Up and Running

Bplans.com membership surpassed 100,000 members this week, just three months after the business planning and startup resource site launched a membership network in October. As part of the event, Bplans.com conducted a membership poll and #IamBplans Twitter contest to find out “Who are the Bplans 100,000?” Bplans also created an infographic of “Who are the Bplans 1oo,000?