Tue.Mar 13, 2012

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[Event] [Singapore] Mobile Flea Market App Snapsell Wins Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

YoungUpstarts

Startup Weekend Singapore 2012 participants. After 54 hours of intense product development and business pitching at Startup Weekend Singapore over the weekend, Team Snapsell – which developed a mobile application which allows users to sell stuff on a mobile-first marketplace – beat over 40 other ideas to emerge victorious as grand winner of the event.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Home. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing. March 13, 2012. Yesterday Yahoo! filed it’s much awaited lawsuit against Facebook for patent infringement. New Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public).

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Capital On Stage – the conference where VCs pitch to startups

The Equity Kicker

Please take a few minutes to read the passage below about the upcoming Capital On Stage conference in London. Arjen Strijker (the conference organiser) and I had a meeting of minds when we spoke last week about the importance of demystifying venture capital, it is one of the reasons I write this blog, it is why he started his conference and it is why I’m promoting it now.

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Profit Per Impression - The Most Important Number in Your Business

Growthink Blog

I've spent years starting and growing my own companies and helping thousands of entrepreneurs do the same. And one thing that's helped me and others succeed is keeping track of key numbers. We refer to these number as KPIs or key performance indicators. KPIs allow us to better manage our businesses. Since they allow us to clearly see what figures correlate with success, and allow us to focus on improving them month after month.

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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] You Are Not Safe Online

YoungUpstarts

The information you post online is not safe. That’s right – according to a study by Stanford University, even anonymous data posted online are collected via personal web browsers and then sold. Some shocking statistics: 8.1 million people in the United States fall victim to identity theft every year, and a further 1.6 million households have had their bank accounts compromised.

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Games Where The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play

Feld Thoughts

By now the blogosphere, twitterverse, and even mainstream media is abuzz with the absurd decision that Yahoo has made to sue Facebook over ten software patents with the assertion that Facebook’s entire business is based on Yahoo’s patented inventions. My partner Jason Mendelson called this on 2/28 when he wrote his post Goodbye Yahoo! It was nice knowing you and Fred Wilson weighed in this morning with his post Yahoo!

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5 Branding must-haves for startups

Up and Running

This is a guest post from Amina AlTai , Marketing Director at Imagemme, a New York-based packaging design and branding agency. Building a memorable brand is more important than ever. In this climate of unlimited choices, your brand has to be cohesive, memorable and differentiated to captivate consumers and eventually capture mind share. Branding isn’t simply a visual identity, and a lot of start-ups go wrong by undervaluing the importance of branding initiatives.

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[Sponsored] ReputationWatch – Monitoring Online Conversations About Your Business (Part II)

YoungUpstarts

Ms. Veron Lau, Vice President of Cat Welfare Society. Monitoring social media can be tricky – but it need not be. Earlier we highlighted three organizations who were selected to trial ReputationWatch , an affordable online social media monitoring solution available on SingTel myBusiness. Local businesses FarEastFlora.com and Rochor Beancurd House , as well as non-profit organization Cat Welfare Society , wanted to understand what the public could be saying about them in the online space, a

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PBS Mini Documentary About Typography

crowdSPRING Blog

Typography is all around us. It’s on products we buy, in movies we watch, on websites we read, on street signs, and pretty much everywhere we look. Here’s an outstanding 7 minute PBS documentary about typography. I recommend you take the time to watch it if you want to understand why typography is important. Related posts: Fun With Typography.

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Big Data Has Already Entered The Building

Austin Startup

Unless you’ve been under a big rock, you’ve heard the chat about big data. It describes the tools and practices associated with unlocking the value in large amounts of structured and unstructured data. If that sounds confusing, just think of of how much information is being created daily. Now think of what it takes to find the nuggets that matter. Big data means big business.

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Learning to Let Go

The Entrepreneurial Mind

But delegating often turns out to be easier said than done. There are three common mistakes that entrepreneurs can make when delegating. The first mistake is being hesitant to delegate. When first beginning to delegate to employees, some entrepreneurs feel that no one can do what they do as well as they can do it. Employees don't seem to care quite as much as the entrepreneur does.

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Austin Tech Incubator Landscape at #SXSW

Austin Startup

On the Tuesday of SXSW, I have the pleasure of being on a panel of the rockstars of the Austin technology incubator scene. Steve Guengerich (@sguengerich) has done an incredible job of bringing together a panel of people representing the best of what Austin has to offer young and upcoming startups. Here are the panel details.

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The Cycle of Getting the Important Stuff Done

Duct Tape Marketing

The Cycle of Getting the Important Stuff Done This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. In yesterday’s post I listed what I called The Hierarchy of Getting the Important Stuff Done. Truthfully, I wasn’t prepared for the immediate and passionate response from my readers. It seems that staying focused on priorities is one of the toughest jobs we all have.

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Four For You, One For Me #SXSW

Austin Startup

Now that Larry Chiang has been at SXSW for a few days, he has some mid-conference words of wisdom. A few people have told me that it's hard to understand what Larry is saying. His thinking is about 3 steps ahead of the rest of us, and he's always looking at everything with thoughts about how to hack it. For those of you with issues, I've decided to translate (in bold).

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Idea: Driving Time Predictor

Diego Basch

When you live in a sprawled suburb like the Silicon Valley, it’s sometimes hard to predict how long it will take you to drive from point A to point B. For example, my one-way commute time from Mountain View to San Francisco has ranged between 45 and 120 minutes in the past few months. Of course the travel times are somewhat predictable. I know that if it’s a nice day and I leave SF at 10 am, the odds of time(travel) < 50 are high.

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Disintermediation - It's a B h. - A Crowded Space

A Crowded Space

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PitchIt! Conference & Challenge | WeMedia.com | Deadline 13 Mar 2012

Campus Entrepreneurship

$50,000 to help innovators, both commercial and social. Submit your idea to the We Media PitchIt Challenge by 9 pm 13 March 2012 and get a chance to win one of two $25,000 awards to build out your vision. Time is short, but if you can mobilize your supporter today you can get to the next round by community votes. ( Submit your idea — rules/faqs ).

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Instead of Filing That Patent, Why Not Just Post Your Product Design on a Billboard on the NJ Turnpike?

Small Business Force

While patents, ostensibly, provide the foundation for and the protection of intellectual property, without a strategy and plan to implement the underlying invention and the capital to defend it, you might just as well put your product design on a billboard on the NJ Turnpike. And worse, there are, literally tens of thousands of patents like that. Filing a patent is often viewed as a critical step for an entrepreneur.

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Disintermediation - It's a B h.

A Crowded Space

Every marketplace deals with disintermediation: oDesk, eBay, Airbnb, CustomMade, and Etsy. No matter what, if you take a fee, some people will try to cut you out of the loop. This is known as disintermediation. . From Wikipedia: In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: “cutting out the middleman”. . Disintermediation initiated by consumers is often the result of high market transparency, in that buyers are aware of supply prices direct from the manufa

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SailPoint Extends Global Footprint, Adds Major European Companies to Its Customer Base

Austin Startup

SailPoint, the leading provider of governance-based identity management solutions, continues its steady global expansion and has signed more than a dozen of Europe’s largest companies as customers in the last six months. SailPoint's European customer base now includes prestigious companies such as: Aviva, Nordea, Rabobank International, Sanofi-Aventis Group, Société Générale, Swedbank, Tesco Bank and UBS, among others.

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