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Start Your Niche Website Today

YoungUpstarts

by Lior Levin. When it comes to business, whether offline or online, the most difficult thing to do is to get started. Unlike traditional businesses, setting up an online business does not require much in terms of capital investment and labor costs. You just need a website and an idea which you can or would want to sell to potential customers. Sounds easy but trust me, nothing could be harder.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. I know this is an unpopular thing to say, since it sounds so patently absurd. But I've seen the teams with my own eyes and witnessed their results first hand. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Today, I'm excited to share the latest round of startups that are being run by the Presidential Innovation Fellows program.

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[Review] Startup Guide For The Technopreneur

YoungUpstarts

Have you ever wondered why some startups are able to land funding while so many others struggle to do so? What is it about those startups that were able to attract not only the attention of venture capitalists, but also make them rip out their checkbooks and fall over themselves signing them? Is it a great business plan? An ace team of business types and star programmers?

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How I negotiated my startup compensation

keen.io

Youre reading Radical Transparency — a blog brought to you by the team at Keen IO. Michelle Wetzler. Engineer, arranger, communicator, amateur photographer. Follow @michellewetzler. How I negotiated my startup compensation. Tweet. August 21, 2012. Hi, I’m Michelle. I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here ).

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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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Better for whom?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We looked at all the products in the space and thought, “We can do it better.” So we did. – most founders It’s a common refrain, and I suppose this is what all founders should think! After all, if your product is inferior in every way to even one incumbent product, why do it at all? Still, this is always an invalid “idea” for a business.

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When I grow up I want to be a

deal architect

HANA consultant? Android developer? Nah, Here are some really interesting jobs Next Big Sound Data Journalist NASA Curiosity Driver 3M Staff Scientist EA Environmental Scanner Tumblr product manager ESPN Statistician Spotify Machine Learning Engineer Shapeways 3D Printing Materials Manager Novacoast.

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Private Dell: More or Less Conservative?

deal architect

As Dell seeks to go private, it makes me ponder if that is another symptom of an organization which has played safe for the last decade, or will the cloak allow it to make larger, riskier bets again? As I.

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The New York Times Launches TimeSpace, Its Own Startup Incubator/Accelerator

VC Cafe

The New York Times is launching a new startup accelerator, TimeSpace, a 4 month program taking in early stage media startups into the NYT Headquarters. TimeSpace will bring in three to five start-ups to connect with NY Times staff, demo their product, and teach/learn alongside entrepreneurs and employees who make their livings in digital media, technology and journalism. [[ This is a content summary only.

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What Is Your Inner Animal Spirit?

Feld Thoughts

I asked Amy to send me a picture of my inner animal spirit. She won’t let me share her’s, but that’s me on the left. I’ve always felt like a bear. A big, cuddly, nice, soft bear. Mellow. I like to sleep. I like to eat. I wander around, a little curiously larger than comfortable in my slightly oversized body. I’m really f **g ferocious when I’m mad.

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Safer Internet Day – Top 10 Tips For Younger Online Users

YoungUpstarts

Today is the 10 th anniversary of Safer Internet Day, organized by Insafe – a European network of Awareness Centres promoting safe, responsible use of the Internet and mobile devices – to promote the safer and more responsible use of online technology, particularly with the increasing connectivity on mobile in young people around the world.

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9 Things You Must Forget from Your School

Life Beyond Code

Good teachers can change your life – be it in school or outside of it. I was fortunate to have some really good teachers when I was at school and I am forever indebted to them. But, we both know that school and marketplace are very different environments. There are some things that you must leave behind as you enter the marketplace. Here are nine of them: 1.

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What? Avoiding Undue Diligence? Seriously?

Gust

I suspect this is one of those provocative posts that gets misquoted, misaligned and misunderstood, and definitely not to be taken at face value. Still, read Avoiding Undue Diligence: My Strange Approach To Angel Investing , in which Dharmesh Shah argues against due diligence in angel investment. . I don’t subscribe to the idea in the title.

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How to Get Traffic That Converts

ConversionXL

It’s not unusual in our line of work to see the exact same landing page convert at 11% one month, and 55% the next – without making any changes. How so? Your conversion rate is mainly determined by the quality of traffic. The right traffic with the right expectations makes all the difference. This post will tell you how to get traffic that converts. .

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7 Ways To Spark Innovation In Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

7 Ways To Spark Innovation In Your Business. Leaders innovate. Followers follow. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, was quoted as once saying, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” And he should know, right? But it’s true! As an aspiring entrepreneur, you’ll have business ideas that come and go, probably on a daily basis. It’s the hallmark of being an entrepreneur.

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Mini Saga #127 – The Search

Life Beyond Code

Mini Saga #127 – The Search. “My companion should be someone who will put more life in me” – Mark was frustrated. Years had passed by and he had no luck. So, when Jim mentioned he had found someone who could put more life in Mark, it was pure delight. “Simple,” Jim said, “Look in your mirror.” When the answer lies within, searching outside won’t help.

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Marc Barros on the shift from Product to Marketing/Sales

VC Adventure

Marc Barros , the founder of Contour cameras wrote a great follow-up to my post on your company’s shift from a product focus to building out a sales and marketing organization that’s definitely worth reading. A few excerpts here: 1. Make A Clear Definition of Success. Early on, often before you raise venture capital, you want to create a clear picture of what the future looks like.

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Spredfast Raises $18M Series C

Austin Startup

It was a year and a half ago that Spredfast raised their $12M Series B round, and today the company announced an $18M Series C round. The round was led by OpenView Venture Partners, with follow-on investment participation from existing investors Austin Ventures and InterWest Partners.

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How and Why I Use Workflowy to Keep Organized

Duct Tape Marketing

I’ll admit it; I’ve looked high and low for just the right tool to keep me organized, on task and up to date on all my to-do lists and projects. There are seemingly hundreds of tools and systems that have been created to address this obvious challenge and I’ve tried at least a dozen of them. You’ve got some great ones like GTD , Evernote and Basecamp.

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Marc Barros on the shift from Product to Marketing/Sales

VC Adventure

Marc Barros , the founder of Contour cameras wrote a great follow-up to my post on your company’s shift from a product focus to building out a sales and marketing organization that’s definitely worth reading. A few excerpts here: 1. Make A Clear Definition of Success. Early on, often before you raise venture capital, you want to create a clear picture of what the future looks like.

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TagCloud your resume!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

At work, someone had a great idea to show a tagcloud of her slide deck content at the beginning her presentation. I thought, “Hey that’s cool, how about my resume?” So I was geek-ing around and made a tagcloud of my resume. Yep, this is what I do. Go to TagCrowd.com to create your own!

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This leadership quality won the Super Bowl for the Ravens

Jeff Hilimire

“Calm under pressure.” If you listened to a lot of sports talk about the Super Bowl yesterday like I did, you heard the same thing over and over. “The Ravens were ready for the moment.” “Flacco was calm and collected, Kaepernick looked jittery.” “Although they have more talent on their team, the 49ers weren’t as ready for the moment as the Ravens.” I talked about this last week and listed, “Calming Confidence” , as one of The Fiv

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10 Tips for Giving Better Work Presentations

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally posted in Fox Business Small Business Center Fox Business asked YEC members for their best tips for giving better work presentations. The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library

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Coding Horror: How to Hire a Programmer

www.codinghorror.com

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How to Maximize Results in the Art of Persuasion

Startup Professionals Musings

Being a good entrepreneur means being able to effectively convince an investor that you have a great idea, persuade partners that your approach is right, and convince potential customers that the solution is right for them. If all your ideas are intuitively obvious to everyone, you probably aren’t thinking outside the box, or don’t really have the next big thing.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

About. Twitter. Subscribe. Om Says. About Me. Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is a venture partner at True Ventures. Om is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. He has been blogging for over a decade and in the past held various staff writing positions at Forbes.com , Red Herring and Business 2.0. He also has contributed to the Wall Street Journal and the Economist.

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Hoping for an end to passwords

The Equity Kicker

Two things have happened recently which have increased my dislike of passwords to levels that are approaching pathological. Firstly a number of the services I use (mostly associated with my blog) have forced me to make my password more secure by including more numbers and avoiding common words. Moreover, different services have different rules about what is and isn’t acceptable, and I now have more passwords to remember than ever before.

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3 Interview Tips for Hiring Outstanding Developers

mashable.com

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