Thu.Nov 01, 2012

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Entrepreneur Success is Not Enough for Fulfillment

Startup Professionals Musings

Is it possible to be successful in business and not fulfilled? The answer is a resounding yes today, and I’m convinced that it will be even more true tomorrow, as young idealistic entrepreneurs try to adapt to the long-standing business culture where success is only measured in the money you make for yourself and your business. That isn’t very fulfilling to the growing number of entrepreneurs whose vision and satisfaction comes from making the world a better place, and enjoying a leisurely lifes

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Disaster and Technology Seizure

Venture Chronicles

In watching the coverage of hurricane Sandy’s aftermath on the east coast I am struck by something that is a consequence of our technology driven society… what happens when all that technology becomes disabled because of environmental conditions, otherwise known as water? We depend on electronics in nearly every conceivable object we encounter on a daily basis and the fragility of electronics due to water and power surge is well known.

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FindersCodes – Recover Lost Items Through QR Codes

YoungUpstarts

We’ve never been really been big fans of QR codes. The cases where technology’s been put to good use have been few and far between (only TESCO Homeplus’ use of QR codes to create an entire virtual subway supermarket store targeted at busy professionals comes to mind). But here’s a startup that aims to use QR codes in a different way.

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What are the downsides of communicating a key differentiation in your name?

Gust

One reason is that because of rapidly changing nature of business, today’s competitive advantage can easily become tomorrow’s disadvantage…or at least irrelevancy. Think about how useful the name Tote.com would be for a shopping site developing a social-sharing universal shopping bag/cart. Pretty cool, huh? But what happens when that doesn’t work particularly well so they pivot to socially-sharing images?

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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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[Singapore] [Event] UP for PMEs’ Personal Data Protection Act Workshop

YoungUpstarts

Singapore recently passed its Personal Data Protection Act to help safeguard an individual’s personal data against misuse, such as those annoying cold calls from telemarketers touting anything from bank loans to yet another credit card. The bill encompasses the creation of a national Do-Not-Call registry and as well as a new enforcement agency tasked to regulate the management of personal data by businesses and impose financial penalties if they prove miscreant.

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A Dream Job for an Intern: The Google Five

VC Cafe

Remember the ad for the "Best job in the world" campaign in 2009? That was for an environmental job in Hamilton Island. now comes the tech equivalent for an Intern if you ask me. The team is called. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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[Infographic] Daily Deal Horror Stories

YoungUpstarts

For merchants, running daily deals can be mighty scary.

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The Enterprise Trifecta: Data, Security, and Mobility.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The enterprise software stack is undergoing once in a generation refresh largely driven by virtualization, data explosion, infrastructure commoditization, socialization, unlimited connectivity, and online services. With ever growing security parameter and attack vectors, enterprises are looking for ways to secure information access without compromising the business agility unleashed by the abovementioned forces.

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Use Product Tiers To Make Money Faster & Easier

Mike Michalowicz

When you make a lot of money, or you did then lost it all and are now rebuilding yourself , they want to know how you do it. I guess that’s why one of the most frequent questions I’m asked is, “Mike, how do I make more money?”. I have an answer, a very good answer as a matter of fact, but before I give it to you, let’s be clear on one thing. We’re assuming that you’re already making some money now, right?

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Austin Chamber Announces 2012 “A List” Winners

Austin Startup

The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce yesterday recognized 28 innovative technology start-ups as members of The Chamber’s 2012 A-List at a ceremony at Capital Factory.

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Pete Williams Shares How He Started A Phone Company, Bought A Finger Foods Business, Became Incredibly Good At Getting Customers Online And Came Up With A Truly Effective Outsourcing System

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. Pete Williams is a long time Aussie friend, who lives in Melbourne, and is co-founder of three bricks and mortar businesses, all of which use online marketing to get customers. Pete’s first big business success was a telecommunications company that sells things like phone systems, which Pete and his partners grew initially without having … Read the rest of this entry » Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes.

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Book Marketing Lessons from Brian Massey

ConversionXL

Two months ago I met up with Brian Massey to talk about his new conversion optimization book Your Customer Creation Equation. Now we met again to discuss what he learned from marketing it. So there we were, having breakfast in a small restaurant in Austin, Texas, and pulled out a video camera to talk about book marketing. If you’re planning to release a book any time soon, it’s a good idea to listen to what Brian had to say.

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Assessing Customer Impact

SVPG

In my last article I wrote about the trends of continuous discovery and continuous delivery. At the end of the article I pointed out that while I love these techniques because overall they are much better for our customers, and for our ability to rapidly improve our products, there were a few important consequences that had to be dealt with. In this article I want to take about the impact of continuous delivery on product marketing and our marketing, sales, and service organizations.

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Discount your projections. Make surprises positive.

Berkonomics

Lots of people do or will depend upon your leadership in driving growth, stability, and profitability. There will always be times when salespersons or associates provide you with projections for future sales that reflect their inherent optimism. Whether you in turn report to a CEO, a board or just your bank, you must reconcile such projections against the commitment of resources that will drain short term cash in expectation of revenues.

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Good to see the email scams are getting more sophisticated

Jeff Hilimire

This is a new favorite of mine. ”Did someone from another country try to scam you by offering you an obscene amount of money via email? If so, we’ll give you $950,000, all you have to do is give us your bank account number and we’ll send you the money over in a jiffy.” Brilliant. Call it a cool million and I’m in. =. Economics And Financial Crime Commission. 15a Awolowo Road Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria.

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StartUp Communities, Ecosystems

Seeing Both Sides

I participated in a WBZ radio breakfast panel yesterday on the Boston start-up community and recently delivered the presentation below at the Harvard Innovation Lab as part of an HBS Entrepreneurship Club Event. It reflects a survey of the local start-up ecosystem that dissects what it takes to build a great ecosystem. . My friend Brad Feld talks about this topic in his new book on Startup Communities , as summarized in his fun Kauffman video "Sketchbook": Boston startup scene presentation fal

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Gmail new Compose and why I like it!

Guy Nirpaz

Google has changed the way composing new messages works in Gmail. Now when clicking compose, Gmail opens a new window layered on top of the inbox instead of switching to another widow as it used to be. I like it a lot. Now I can write several email messages without the need to switch between browser window. Gmail was always rapidly fast, but with this new behavior it is feels even faster than before.

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Cloud Traffic to Grow Sixfold by 2016: Cisco Global Cloud Index

YoungUpstarts

Global data center traffic is expected to grow four times and reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016, according to networking giant Cisco in its second annual Global Cloud Index (2011-2016). The company also predicts global cloud traffic, the fastest-growing component of data center traffic, to grow sixfold – a 44 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) – from 683 exabytes of annual traffic in 2011 to 4.3 zettabytes by 2016.

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The Real Reason Your Guest Post Flopped

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Tommy Walker – Enjoy! Image credit: WhatTheCell. You did it! You got past the discomfort and pitched a popular blog – and they’ve agreed to showcase your magnificence. You poured hours forging the most epic work of writing. Gods will weep and babies will smile. You’ve read it, re-read it, and read it some more, and truly, this is the apex of your craft.

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Job 1

OnlyOnce

Job 1. The first “new” post in my series of posts about Return Path’s 14 Core Values is, fittingly, Job 1: We are all responsible for championing and extending our unique culture as a competitive advantage. The single most frequently asked question I have gotten internally over the last few years since we grew quickly from 100 employees to 350 has been some variant of “Are you worried about our ability to scale our culture as we hire in so many new people?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – October 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].