Thu.Jan 10, 2013

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Kick-Start Your eCommerce Business for $100 or Less

Startup Professionals Musings

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. The cost of entry has never been lower. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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The Anatomy of an SAP event

deal architect

There are a few truisms when it comes to an SAP event: a) The production quality is usually slick In my review of 2012 events, I complimented Sapphire's excellent event production. Today, SAP is planning as my friend Predrag (PJ).

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Nine “Resolutions” For Creating The Best Odds For Business Success In 2013

YoungUpstarts

by Bill McBean, author of “ The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don’t “. The confetti has fallen, the ball has dropped, and the champagne has been popped — 2012 is officially over, and 2013 is underway. For many business owners, that means doing a post-mortem on their businesses by looking back at what went right and what went wrong in the year gone by.

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NetSuite deepens Retail presence

deal architect

I have written about the attractiveness of NetSuite’s cross-channel “commerce-as-a-service” capabilities to fast growing retailers like Ibex. Ibex uses NetSuite to manage customer interactions across smartphones, tablets, PCs and brick-and-mortar stores. So, I am not surprised to see NetSuite acquire.

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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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StartupVitamins – The Poster Boy In Startup Motivation

YoungUpstarts

Hitting a rough patch and facing failure when you’re building and running a startup – and that’s going to happen relatively often – can be downright depressing. Take it from the folks from StartupVitamins – its founders are a team of serial entrepreneurs who’s learned the hard way to the tune of eleven failed projects to date.

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Here comes the Gold Stack

deal architect

SAP today announced its apps would run on its in-memory engine HANA. My reaction, as a CIO, would be “Here we go – the Gold stack now” (Gold as in prominent in the German flag and in SAP’s gold plated.

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From evolutionary biology to the attention economy–fantastic short intro video from Jason Silva

The Equity Kicker

A MIND MADE FOR MATING! by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on Vimeo. This ninety second video from Jason Silva is a wild and entertaining intro to a range of ideas from evolutionary biology to the attention economy. Jason’s brilliance, and my reason for posting, is that he takes important but complicated ideas and makes them fun and accessible (The Singularity Hub describes Jason as a ‘modern day beat poet’).

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Free Mini-reviews (Part 3)

ConversionXL

Part 3 of my annual free mini-reviews. Here are part 1 and 2. Disclaimer: I haven’t seen any analytics or survey data for any of these websites, and all my comments are only based on my experience in the field. I’m only spending very little time on each site, so there’s going to be superficiality. Some of my feedback is going to be brilliant, and some of it won’t make any difference.

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How To Be A Million-Dollar Entrepreneur – And Why It Matters

ReadWriteStart

Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com , which backs up emails in the cloud. If you have a startup, ignore the business plan, financial projections, valuations and statistics for now. Instead, look at yourself. Would investors spend $1 million to have coffee, much less champagne, with you? Let’s face it. The entrepreneurial path is a lonely, hardscrabble one that often ends in failure.

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Hold on to some “sticky” cash.

Berkonomics

It is tempting to use available cash in good times to build the business and in challenging times to pay the bills and even to outdo competitors in marketing efforts. Those are both good strategies. But there is a tactic that we need to remember that just might save the business. Once a business has achieved breakeven and beyond, it should build a cash reserve equal to at least two months’ worth of fixed overhead to protect against unexpected internal or external emergencies, and to allow for

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Videos and Secrets Draw More Referrals

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Scott Yates – Enjoy! photo credit: fensterbme via photopin cc. We are in a funny spot at my company, BlogMutt. We are a business blogging service for people that know how important it is to blog (all the smart ones), but who don’t have the time to write their own posts (nearly all).

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: David Kelly

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present David Kelly , the Chairman and Co-founder of IDEO , the Donald W. Whittier Professor at Stanford University, a long-time friend and colleague of Steve Jobs , and a creative genius.

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7 Best Strategies for Maintaining Equity

Early Growth Financial Services

Of utmost concern to many entrepreneurs is how to retain maximum equity in their startups. Rightly so. It’s a constant balancing act: growing your company without losing control of it. Whether you’re funded, seeking funding, or still bootstrapping, here are some of the best strategies for avoiding dilution and maintaining maximum equity: 1. Milestone raises.

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Don’t Call Them Students. They’re Entrepreneurs. Bloomberg

Campus Entrepreneurship

My friend, superstar student entrepreneur Caroline Pugh , co-founder of VirtualU , sent me this great piece by Mark Bauerlein in Bloomberg Businessweek. Here is a snippet: “Entrepreneurship programs have exploded on U.S. campuses, and administrators love to talk about them. They aren’t just for business students. Kansas State University’s Center for Advancement of Entrepreneurship declares , “The mission of our award-winning center is to promote entrepreneurship among all academic discipli

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How much capital should you raise?

Version One Ventures

One of the biggest questions facing any entrepreneur is how much capital to raise for their startup. It’s a delicate question…one that can have a significant impact on the fate of any startup. Raise too much and you’re diluting your ownership; raise too little and your company will have trouble gaining traction or making it to the next month. While every investor tends to offer different advice on the topic, most will agree that there’s no magic number that applies to all startups and situations

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The 15 Business Trends To Avoid This Year

Mike Michalowicz

Every day it seems like there are a dozen new trends that I “need” to jump on to give my business a competitive edge. The truth is most new trends, aren’t really trends yet. Most are flashes in the pan. And if you jump on the wrong ones (which, since most are the wrong ones) you are stuck spinning your wheels. The Rule Of Thumb. The rule of thumb here is to employ patience.

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