Fri.Nov 16, 2012

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My psychedelic 360 journey

deal architect

As an author, I love flowery, poetic language, so I admired how Jamie Anderson of SAP opens his column at Forbes celebrating The Doors I can hear Ray Manzerek’s analogue keys (pounding bass notes) reverberating through my subconscious as I.

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Are You Building A Business That’s ‘80 Miles Wide and An Inch Deep’?

YoungUpstarts

by Lonnie Sciambi, author of “ Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success “ It never ceases to amaze me how many small business owners think that having multiple sources of revenue, often across multiple market types is a good business model. Or having products that seemingly have application across a series of vertical markets and attempting to penetrate all of them.

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Welcoming a new blog sponsor: Infor

deal architect

It is an honor to welcome Infor to the past and present gallery of innovators and disruptors who sponsor this and the New Florence. New Renaissance blog. The timing is impeccable as Infor has an all-new look that reflects its.

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[Infographic] What Nintendo Means To The Gaming Industry

YoungUpstarts

We may all be happily playing Halo 4 now on our Xboxes or racing to Forza Motorsport 4 on the PS3, but it’s all too easy to forget that video games pioneer Nintendo once helped save the video game industry way back in the 1980s. Originally founded way back in 1889, today Nintendo is the world’s largest video game company by revenue as well as being Japan’s third most valuable listed company with a market value of over US$85 billion.

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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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Brilliant Clay Shirky post on why industries succumb to disruptive innovation

The Equity Kicker

Clay Shirky is one of my favourite business writers and last week he wrote a post about the coming disruption of the education industry. He begins by describing how Napster was a watershed moment for the music industry, making the interesting point that although they won the battle against Napster they went on to lose the war, failing to regain control over even legal channels of music distribution.

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“If You’re Not Aiming for Something a Billion Dollars or Larger, Why Waste Your Time”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to execute your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.