Fri.Feb 10, 2012

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Twitter Link Roundup #119 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Red Flags To Avoid When Talking About Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most important questions you will be asked by potential investors is how your solutions beats the competition, not just today, but over the three to five year life of their investment. There is no perfect answer to this question, but there are many wrong answers which will immediately jeopardize your credibility. The concept is called “sustainable competitive advantage.

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FBI on Steve Jobs: Snore

deal architect

The FBI has made public notes from the background check on Steve Jobs when President Bush wanted to consider him for an appointment. Sure there is some unflattering personal detail, but this was during Bush Sr’s (yes!) tenure – over.

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Mobile Technology And Travel Top Needs Of Small Business Owners: RapidBuyr

YoungUpstarts

A customer survey conducted by B2B daily deals service RapidBuyr ( www.RapidBuyr.com ) has found that mobile technologies and travel deals top the list of purchases that small business owners plan to make in the coming year. Conducted by RapidBuyr in November and December last year with over 2000 respondents, the survey revealed that: Technology. 1.

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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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Happy Birthday, I’m Unfriending You

Feld Thoughts

In December I wrote a post titled It’s Not About Having The Most Friends, It’s About Having The Best Friends. Since then I’ve been systematically modifying my social networking behavior and cleaning up my various social graphs. As a significant content generator in a variety of forms (blogs, books, tweets, videos) and a massive content consumer, I found that my historical approach of social network promiscuity wasn’t working well for me in terms of surfacing information.

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6 Tips to Create the Best Possible Work Environment

Up and Running

If you are the manager of a small business, then you know how difficult it can be sometimes to properly manage human resources. Organizing interviews, talking salary and mediating employee conflict are some of the less-glamorous aspects of the job. However, it’s also one of the most important facets of maintaining a happy and stable workplace. Developing a positive company culture may be one of the best investments you will make as a small-business manager.

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Is it the jockey or the horse?

Berkonomics

Early stage investors have been arguing over this for years. Do they bet on the entrepreneur (jockey) or the business idea and plan (the horse)? This is serious stuff. If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. My answer always varies as I examine each deal, sometimes deferring and passing on an investment because of an uneasy feeling about the ent

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How Important Are Industry Clusters To Startups?

Austin Startup

If I suggested a way for your clean energy startup to set-up shop near a bunch of companies involved in things like renewable technology and the smartgrid, what would you say? If I sweetened the deal and told you the list of companies included a few of the Fortune 500 and a slew of established mid-market companies, you’d probably say, “sign me up!” So goes part of the argument for industry clusters, a term [.].

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Product Friday: Hierarchy!

ConversionXL

I decided to turn Friday on this blog into something I’m going to call “Product Friday” Each time I will showcase a product that is doing a great job selling itself. Today: Hierarchy T-Shirt by UIStencils. Protest your passion for UX and get hierarchical with this anti-sloppy showpiece. - Maroon color shirt, black Ink. - 50/50 Hanes Heavy weight t-shirt. - Design Commission logo on left shoulder.

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Seeing Beyond the Numbers

Duct Tape Marketing

Seeing Beyond the Numbers This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing podcast with Greg Cabtree (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes or subscribe via other RSS device (Google Listen). Woodlouse via Flick CC Traditional accounting practices, or at least the ways that many business owners interpret the data from those practices, often lead business to the brink of extinction.

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Thanks Junior Achievement and Chick-fil-A, for reminding me about the personal touches

Jeff Hilimire

Everyone is trying so hard to connect with their customers via digital, social and mobile. And those things are clearly important, no question about it. But sometimes, its the personal touches that matter the most. I was reminded of that this morning when I got to the office and found a bunch of letters from the kids I taught entrepreneurship to last week via Junior Achievement.

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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part II

www.socaltech.com

In recent months, a dozen accelerators and incubators have emerged in the Southern California area, looking to help take the new generation of technology startups to funding and beyond. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out. which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs.

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Ashoka U Exchange 2012 | “Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education” for a Few

Campus Entrepreneurship

A few of my colleagues from GMU, Phil Auerswald ( @auerswald ) and Greg Werkheiser ( @masonsocent ) are off to ASU this weekend for the AshokaU Exchange , to discuss “disruption in higher education” (topic so hot it could fry an egg). We generally love Michael Crow and his ideas for ASU. I am going to dial into a ‘ blogger conference ‘ call at 4 pm MT and will tweet ( @campus_entre ) during the call.

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Taking People With You - Book Review

Seeing Both Sides

"Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something you want done, because he wants to do it.". - Dwight D. Eisenhower. I'm a business book junkie, so when my friends at Penguin (publishers of my book, Mastering the VC Game ) told me I should meet with the author of Taking People With You , I jumped at the opportunity. Author David Novak is Chairman and CEO of Yum!

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UT 1 Semester Startup | Video Story | Student Startup

Campus Entrepreneurship

Fox News Story on 1 Semester Startup at UT Austin. videoplayer.swf?dppversion=11212.

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Big Revenues vs. little revenues

Scalable Startup

Big Revenues vs. little revenues – a strategy question that startups often struggle with. Should we focus on a business model that supports small payments, subscriptions, etc., or look for major large chunks of money from partnerships or strategic investors? There are strong arguments for both types of incoming dollars for a startup, but the correct answer is have both coming in simultaneously; it will balance your cash flow get you through valleys and help you avoid raising expensive equi

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