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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When people can devise their own lifestyle, career, and mobility more than at any other time in history, it’s interesting to ask how a startup can support and encourage its employees beyond a paycheck. When job-hopping is a badge of honor instead of a scar of disloyalty, it’s interesting to ask how a company can retain talent over significant stretches of time.

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Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. Who owns all of these names, and should you ever buy one for a premium? The simple answer is that if you want to be found on the Web, the perfect domain name can be well worth a few thousand dollars, but don’t pay a fortune for one.

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The Importance Of A Monthly Cadence With Close Friends

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been thinking a lot about Aaron Swartz the past few days. I didn’t know him, but knew of him and have a lot of friends who knew him. I’m still processing it, especially the dynamics around his suicide, and expect I’ll have plenty to say in the coming weeks about depression and entrepreneurship. In the mean time, I thought the USA Today article, Activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide sparks talk about depression , by Laurie Segal, is particularly good.

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Find Local Service Providers With Aladom.com

YoungUpstarts

Frenchman Guillaume Thomas, a father of five young children, had a problem. He was finding it incredibly difficult looking for babysitters to care for his kids while living in France and wasted much time doing so. In fact, he was so frustrated he did something any problem-solver would have done – come up with the solution himself. Thomas started Aladom.com in 2007, a French website that started by providing a babysitter matchmaking service – they were given free listings – and

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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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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – December 2012

Gust

December update and insights about new startups: India became second last month as the country with the highest count of new Startups, right below the United States. India’s average position for the year has been fourth, it came up to third in February and between June to August, but only reached second for the first time this past month. Top 5 Us states remained steady this month and were consistent with their yearly averages.

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Causora.com Converts Your Skills Into Donations To Causes

YoungUpstarts

Let’s say you have a heart of gold, but instead of money you have a set of valuable skills or knowledge. Instead of giving money (that you may not have) to charity, how about contributing that talent instead? That’s the premise of Causora.com , a charity-focused online marketplace where people turn their passion and skill into donations for their favorite charity.

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The Intersect Fund – Small (Business) Is The New Big

YoungUpstarts

Rohan Mathew and Joe Shure, founders of The Intersect Fund. When Rohan Mathew and Joe Shure were editors at The Daily Targum — Rutgers University ’s student-run newspaper — they were privy to two totally different sides of New Brunswick, New Jersey. On one hand were sparkling skyscrapers, swanky restaurants and luxury apartments with their well-off occupants; the other face wasn’t quite so pretty.

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Camping out and closing deals

BeyondVC

I am sure you can see a common thread in many of my recent posts - Sales, Sales, Sales! I don't care how great your product is because without an ability to articulate the value proposition succinctly, tell the world about it in a capital efficient manner, and sell the damn thing, you are SOL (yes, s**t out of luck!). Pitch11x14 original. So what does camping out have to do with selling?

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Is the Startups Buzz Dimming?

Gust

Is the bloom off of the startups rose? Two days ago the New York Times published this story about investors getting pickier. I think the NYTimes’ headline is slightly off from the story’s content. It’s not that much about a rocky recent past; it’s more about money being too easy in the recent past, and now, as a natural result, things get tighter because “easy” money doesn’t always mean enough of the due diligence and thought to make good deals.

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Why governments support venture capital

The Equity Kicker

The Canadian government announcement yesterday of a $400m plan to strengthen the Canadian venture capital industry is the latest in a long series of similar announcements and initiatives from governments around the world that put government cash into VC funds alongside private money to make it more attractive for private investors. The Canadian government is investing directly in funds, some other governments have followed that model whilst others achieve the same result via manipulation of the

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The Biggest Excuse We Tell Ourselves

Mike Michalowicz

If Only. It hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. A prospect for my business growth consulting group decided to go with a competitor. Egads! I mean how could they pick someone else? This is when I started analyzing the situation, and came up with all the possible ways I could have prevented this. If only I had called them more frequently. If only they had heard about my company first.

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There is no digital

Start Up Blog

While it is clear that the birth of the omnipresent web has changed our business infrastructure, it’s not clear that most people understand the truth about digital as it pertains to business, brand or startup strategy. Here’s a simple phrase to help remind us: There is no digital. There is only ‘life’ We seamlessly move between a variety of technologies in our day.

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Change Your Context, Change Your Results

Duct Tape Marketing

The context in which an idea, thought, sales pitch or even piece of music is received has a great deal to do with the value or importance we place on it. photo credit: TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via photopin cc. For example, one of the greatest benefits of being able to call yourself an author is, in that context, people trust you must know what you are talking about and they are willing to pay more to gain access to it.

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13 Tips for Starting Up in a New Industry

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally published in Inc. Don’t be afraid to explore foreign territory. We asked successful young entrepreneurs for their most poignant pieces of advice for founders starting up in an unfamiliar industry. The Young Entrepreneur Council asked 13 successful young entrepreneurs for their best tips for starting a new business in an unfamiliar industry.

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The Intersection of Private and Business…

Venture Chronicles

Like for many in the tech industry, and beyond, the case of Aaron Swartz touched a nerve with me. We live in an era where government has few boundaries and the threat of legal action carries as much consequence as successful prosecution. Tyranny is a strong word but it comes in many sanctioned forms, government regulation is perhaps the most insidious because it exists as a sanctioned form of the onerous execution of power.

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Israeli Tech Funding & Exits in 2012: Lots of Chutzpah but Show Me Your Instagram?

VC Cafe

Groucho Marx could have been talking about the Israeli hi-tech sector when he said “I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago…I shot my broker”. In 2012, as Israeli exits topped $5.5 billion, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].