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Is India finally getting serious about software, not just services?

deal architect

The big irony about India is it has produced tens of thousands of software engineers, but hardly any successful software or web services companies. The reasons are many – its successful services firms like TCS and Infosys invest heavily in.

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[Review] Unrelenting Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Innovation – that strangely elusive quality that most businesses would kill for, but many struggle to attain or maintain. There’s plenty already written on the topic – for example, how animation company Pixar approaches innovation in “ Innovate The Pixar Way ” – but “ Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance ” by Gerard J.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

Both Sides of the Table

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. Harlem Shake is a YouTube phenomenon that in just 2 weeks has gone from nothing to on air on both Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert and collectively the Harlem Shake has been viewed around 200 million times.

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Don’t Let Early Adopters Distract Your Market Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

For most new high-tech products, the first customers are always “early adopters.” The conventional wisdom is that early adopters are the ideal target for new products, to get business rolling. I see two pitfalls with any concerted focus on early adopters; first, the size of this group may not be as large as you think, and secondly, their feedback may lead you directly away from your real target market of mainstream customers.

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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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Seattle Startup Life Meetup – Wednesday 2/20

Feld Thoughts

Wednesday night I’ll be in Seattle doing a Startup Life Meetup with some of the contributors to the book Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur. Well – I’ll be in Seattle all day (and all day Tuesday) meeting with Startup Weekend, Rover, SEOmoz, Cheezburger, and BigDoor, but the real fun will happen at the Hard Rock Cafe between 5:30pm and 7:00pm on Tuesday.

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5 Easy Steps To Find Your Hidden Talents

Mike Michalowicz

5 Easy Steps To Finding Your Talents. Is talent born or made? The dictionary says talent is a “natural endowment” of a person—so we’re all born with our talents. It’s up to us to grow and develop them, but the seeds are in us at birth. Talent is an ability or natural capacity or potential that we have, which may range from our creativity or intellect or social skills to our athletic abilities.

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Can Money Buy Happiness?

crowdSPRING Blog

Much has been written about money and happiness. Perhaps Abraham Lincoln summed it up best when he said that “most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Did you know there is a science of happiness? Economists have spent a great deal of time researching happiness and money. Just like everything else, money has diminishing returns, even if generally speaking, people who are more wealthy are happier people.

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Bigcommerce Signs New Austin Office Lease

Austin Startup

Bigcommerce, the leading e-commerce platform for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that its 120 Austin employees are moving to 11305 Four Points Drive at FM 2222 and RM 620. The company’s target move date is April 2013.

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The Best Lead and Referral Generation Tool Is.

Duct Tape Marketing

I suspect I’ve uttered the sentiment in the image below several thousand times over the past few years. It sounds so simple, but it isn’t always easy. The greatest way to generate more referrals is to be more referable. The greatest way to generate more leads is to give your customers something to talk about. The greatest way to build a business is focus more energy on conversion and fulfillment than you do on creating awareness.

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6th Annual Austin Tech Happy Hour SXSW Kickoff

Austin Startup

It turns out a whole bunch of our friends from technology centers around the country are going to be in town for some kind of conference or other, so we thought it would be a great opportunity to hold our usual kickoff happy hour. This is traditionally one of our biggest and best happy hours of the year.

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How To Stand Out From The Competition

Mike Michalowicz

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Shame on You PrivCo

Rob Go

I saw this recent list published by PrivCo today, and I couldn’t stop myself from writing a quick post. It’s actually a teaser report for readers to go purchase the full report and underlying data. I have to say, DO NOT BUY this report. Even if the data is accurate, the marketing is so misleading I think one should avoid it out of sheer principle.

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Top 5 Benefits of Creating Financial Projections

Business Plan Blog

'An old Woody Allen joke resonates with financial modelers and forecasters: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.” We all know that financials projections are based on assumptions that likely never come true. Yet, putting together the financial information for your startup might be one of the most important and eye opening experiences before the launch date.

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Some of the most mind-blowing facts…

Jeff Hilimire

Quora is a great source of information, both via asking questions and pure discovery. For instance, I asked, What one thing more than any other makes a company “great”? If you have any thoughts on THAT, please submit an answer! I was browsing this weekend and came up on a submission for, “What are some of the most mind-blowing facts?

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What Would Abe Lincoln Do?

Growthink Blog

The greatness of Napoleon, Caesar or Washington is only moon­light by the sun of Lincoln. His example is universal and will last thousands of years…He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together…and as a great character he will live as long as the world lives.” - Leo Tolstoy, The World, New York, 1909 In honor of President’s Day, I went and saw Steven Spielberg's great movie “Lincoln” this past weekend.