Wed.Jan 23, 2013

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7 Failures of Corporate Executives as Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Mid-level or even top executives who “grew up” in large companies often look with envy at startups, and dream of how easy it must be running a small organization, where you can see the whole picture and it appears you have total control. In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations survive in the early-stage startup environment.

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Why and When to Learn to Program

Spencer Fry

I can only share with you what worked for me. Everyone learns differently. The only thing without a doubt that holds true for everyone learning to program is that you must deeply want to learn. Need to learn. If you go about passively learning then you'll get frustrated and give up as soon as it starts get tough. A few hours a week isn't going to cut it.

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How to Wow Your Manager

OnlyOnce

How to Wow Your Manager. Last week, I talked about how to Wow your employees. Now I am going to discuss the converse of that – How to Wow your Manager. Why Wow your manager? Even if you are senior leader in an organization, the Wow factor is still important. What impact does a Wow have? It sends the signal that you are on top of things. Symbolism is important.

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Excuse me, Maestro

deal architect

The numbers are in SAP’s Total 2012 Non-IFRS Revenue EU 16.3 billion Revenue from “New” products introduced in last 5 years HANA 392 Mobile 222 Cloud 456 (incl Ariba) NEW 1070 So, roughly 6.5% of revenues from “new” products. Compare.

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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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Five Things You Can Do In The Office Today

YoungUpstarts

So it’s been a good week at the office so far – the sales team has reported some success with those new accounts, development on the new product is ahead of schedule, and there’s been no PR or customer service crisis so far. Even the plants in the corner office are finally thriving. It’s time to kick back, relax, check your Facebook feed and look forward to the weekend… or is it?

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More New Renaissance

deal architect

on the innovation blog Adobe Marketing Cloud The answer is blowing in the wind Consumer Reports Top Products at CES Disney’s MyMagic+ Dynamic pricing comes to retail The UAE as technology/innovation hub The Detroit Auto Show: the buzz is back.

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Support the Consumer Reports Foundation

deal architect

I wrote recently about the 50 shades of Independence, and highlighted Consumer Reports as a model for analysts and bloggers to emulate. They accept no advertising or corporate contributions. They purchase everything they test at retail prices. And they influence.

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Funny Dilbert: I Can Fail at Any Speed You Like

VC Cafe

The daily Dilbert caricature this morning put a smile on my face this morning (image below). Lean Startup methodology is all about rapid prototyping and "Failing Fast". According to Dilbert, given a crappy idea, he can fail as quickly or as slowly as you'd like. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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5 Simple Tips On Working At A Startup

Up and Running

If you’re interested in startups, especially working with one, you should read 17 Simple Tips On Working At A Startup , posted in LinkedIn by Dharmesh Shaw of the very popular Hubspot and the onstartups.com blog. . I’ll let the link here take you to his full list. But here are some of my five favorites (with their original numbers from Dharmesh’ post): 1.

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HR by the numbers

The Equity Kicker

One of the most important changes in business practice over the last century has been the use of numbers and analysis to improve productivity. My (admittedly vague) grasp of industrial history is that the start of this movement came with the notion of piece work and production lines to improve the efficiency of manufacturing – see Taylorism and The Model T-Ford for more details.

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Move Your Startup to Austin for Free at SXSW

Austin Startup

In conjunction with Capital Factory's Demo Day at SXSWi 2013, one company will receive a relocation package worth over $50,000 to move their startup to Austin. If you think you might be a fit, check out Capital Factory's investment thesis, find out more about how to be one of 10 companies to pitch on demo day, and apply on AngelList.

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The Easiest Way To Start Doing Business Internationally

Mike Michalowicz

If you are located outside the US, you probably already get this. If you are here in the US, like I am, you may not. You need to start doing international business immediately, and (the good news) its damn easy. Thank you, Internet! Why the urgency? The world isn’t coming to an end. But, the business world as we know it is. The New Global Economy.

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12 Month Total Online Presence Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

Last week I wrote a post that addressed the overwhelming amount of things you need to focus on in order to build a Total Online Presence. I broke it down into 12 months of action themes to make it easier. I received so much feedback on this approach that I decided to conduct a live online seminar and reveal a set checklist of steps for each month. The Total Online Blueprint Seminar was a hit!

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More Words of Wisdom from Steve Jobs

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Steve Jobs in this brief, powerful clip for entrepreneurs. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Scott. [link].

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Focus on the Customer

Business Plan Blog

'When considering the business model of the sales for your startup , leave yourself the flexibility to cater to the precise needs of every specific customer. As your business is small you can do this better than your big competitors. Accommodating the specific needs of every one of your customers is your competitive advantage. You know your customer face to face and you communicate with him in person.

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Just so we are all on the same page…

Jeff Hilimire

“To make a long story short…”, does not mean the same thing as, “…and in summary” If you’re going to tell an entire story, and then sum it up, you just say, “…and in summary” Please don’t try to fool the listener into thinking that telling your story twice – first the long version and then the short version – is making a long thing shorter.

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End of an Era: Intel Exits the Motherboard Business

Venture Chronicles

There are two seminal moments in m personal history that explain why I ended up in the technology industry. The first was when I first encountered a BASIC compiler in the 8th grade and discovered that I could write a program, store it on a cassette tape (that I later upgraded to an 8″ floppy drive) and make the computer do things, however trivial it was.

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Inspiring rules to live by

Jeff Hilimire

This blogger just keeps getting better and her latest post struck me as something I should share as well. My favorite part: We may be a few weeks into 2013, but I know I could certainly resolve to do a little less worrying, a little less stressing and a lot more following my heart and listening to those Bigger than myself. Inspired by this weekend, here’s my slightly late, slightly lofty, but all around possible 2013 resolution list: Worry less, act more.

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Does DC Know Startups?

Seeing Both Sides

The short answer is no, but perhaps there’s hope. The day after President Obama was inaugurated for a second term, I was invited to speak at the (MUCH smaller) inaugural meeting of the newly formed Congressional Caucus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The caucus is a bi-partisan group, created by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Gary Peters (D-MI), to focus federal policy efforts on supporting startups and innovation.

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Don't Write Off Relational Databases For Big Data Just Yet

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instagram – malibu

Scalable Startup

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How to get over 100 developers in a room, when you're not a developer

This is going to be BIG.

Next week, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is running Devstackup. It's a monthly event where developers can hear from the tecnnical leads of startups using the same technology that they use--all in a fast paced format. Seven or so startups go up, talk about what they do, their team, the stack they use and the challenges they face. This month, we're focusing on iOS.

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How invention timelines distort

Start Up Blog

The screen culture era that we have entered is clearly here to stay – but it does represent some interesting nuance in human perception. Given that we are in the middle of a technological upheaval there is a default belief that everything newer is better. And often it is, the real challenge is for us to train ourselves to stop and compare the new option with the existing method.

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Sell More By Being Human and Building Relationships

ConversionXL

Your customers are real people. They have friends, family, colleagues and yes – even feelings. How can acknowledging this help you sell more? Read here. This time we’re taking a closer look how you can build better connections and real lasting relationships with your customers. Looking at not only web pages but also what can be done after the sale has been made to make customers come back again and again.

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