Tue.Nov 06, 2012

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Entrepreneurs as Dissidents

Steve Blank

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.

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Workday: The Locker Room at Half-Time

deal architect

A few weeks ago, I wrote it is “Halftime in Enterprise Technology” Workday invited a group of analysts and bloggers to their annual Technology Summit, this year in conjunction with their user event, Rising. To me, the opportunity to mingle.

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Become An Entrepreneur In College: It’s Easy

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Kaiser of Startup Biz Blog. There’s no reason to wait for graduation before diving into the world of entrepreneurship. College students who have a great idea and who believe that they can juggle their entrepreneurship with college should consider taking the dive. Plus, there are many ways that young college students can take advantage of skills that they have.

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DAD: at his most huggable and corniest

deal architect

Dave Duffield is not slick - he kept forgetting his notes and guest mike at the podium. But during his talk at Workday Rising he was also generous and brought up several executive guests to the stage, thanked his growing.

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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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[Infographic] How Social Media Is Destroying Productivity

YoungUpstarts

Earlier we showed how employee laziness is affecting productivity at the workplace. One of the biggest culprits is indulging in social media – whether is it checking your Facebook account, watching that frivolous YouTube video a friend (or worse, colleague) just sent over, the problem is not so much wasting time indulging, but it takes an average of 23 minutes for a worker to get back into their work rhythm after!

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Politically Correct

deal architect

One good thing about this long and expensive election cycle is many folks are back to the adage of “Don’t talk politics in polite company” The pilot of this flight politely announced he would not be broadcasting any results and.

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Encouraging the right type of innovation

The Equity Kicker

Clayton Christensen article in the New York Times last weekend which argues that the poor performance of the American economy is explained by a lack of empowering (i.e. job creating) innovation. This is, I think, an important point. Fred Wilson has since blogged twice about it. Christensen’s argument has three tenets: The economy is in bad shape, as evidenced by the fact that whereas it used to take six months for employment to recover after a recession this time round we are at 60 months and co

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Stinglight Photography

crowdSPRING Blog

There comes a time in everyone’s life where it seems like everyone they know gets married. That time in my life is now. I feel pretty comfortable in saying that I’m kind of an expert by default when it comes to weddings. And if there’s one thing I’ve come to the conclusion that you should never skimp out on, whether you’re eloping or having a 500 guest bash, is the wedding photographer.

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On this Election Day, I wish…

Jeff Hilimire

Today the nation votes for the next President of the United States, and I have but one hope. Let’s (hopefully) agree that no matter who wins, the next President will do his best to improve this country. You or I might not agree with the tactics or the strategy, but the intention will be to make this country better over the next four years. With that in mind, my hope is that we can accept whoever wins, know that they won fairly and that the country chose him, and lets back him for the next

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The November cS Award and the October cS Award Winners!

crowdSPRING Blog

Last summer, we announced that we would issue a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. November cS Award. This month we are hosting another fun project! We need a new T-shirt designed for cS, and with the holidays on the horizon we figure we can get it done in time. The project went live yesterday and you can read all about it and participate here !

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Case Study: 13 Pre-Launch Traffic Strategies for Startups (Part 3 of 3)

Software By Rob

This article is a guest post by Dan Norris, founder of Informly. In this 3 part series I’m running through 13 pre-launch traffic strategies (actually it’s turned into 14) I am using for getting attention and building an audience and a list for my reporting app Informly. In part 1 , I went into detail about my onsite content strategy which forms the backbone for my traffic generation efforts.

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Stages of Social Enterprise Capital

Business Plan Blog

'Survival or Establishment Stage: Once initial seed capital is drying up and no profit has yet been earned, the challenge for a social enterprise will be to expand the customer base and increase the market penetration while preserving capital. In order to increase access to more equity capital, social enterprises in an establishment stage can consider applying for a Program Related or Mission Related Investment from Mission Investors.

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I’m infinitely fascinated by the stories of people who can.

Bryce Dot VC

I’m infinitely fascinated by the stories of people who can spot and nurture talent within people who can change the game. Whether it’s Stacy Peralta organizing the Bones Brigade who went on to change to face of skateboarding, to Rick Rubin who used his label, Def Jam Records, to break the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, LL Cool J and countless others into the mainstream, I want to understand what they saw that no one else did.

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Case Study: 13 Pre-Launch Traffic Strategies for Startups (Part 3 of 3)

Software By Rob

This article is a guest post by Dan Norris, founder of Informly. In this 3 part series I’m running through 13 pre-launch traffic strategies (actually it’s turned into 14) I am using for getting attention and building an audience and a list for my reporting app Informly. In part 1 , I went into detail about my onsite content strategy which forms the backbone for my traffic generation efforts.

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How to Change Your Thoughts and Why You Must

Duct Tape Marketing

A few weeks ago I started a series of posts I’m calling Recover You. The series is focused on practices and habits that I believe lead to a healthier mind, body and spirit, a healthier business and ultimately a healthier economy. photo credit: Mait Jüriado via photopin cc. You can read my overview Recover You post here. Today I am going to talk about the role our relentless thoughts have on our outlook, habits, motivation, words, actions and outcomes.

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Without Deep Pockets, Profitability Trumps Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

A question that I often hear debated these days is whether a new startup should focus on growth or profits. First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the money went to growth. In the long run, everyone wants both profitability and growth, but the question is still which comes first.

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