Wed.Jan 02, 2013

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Startup Mentors

SoCal CTO

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. I suggested that they should look for someone like me, but on the business end. Then we discussed how they could go about finding this startup business advisor. Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup.

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[Review] Mastering Story, Community & Influence

YoungUpstarts

There are those on social media, and then there are those who define how to really use social media. Jay Oatway , former journalist and leading social media authority calls the latter Socialeaders. In fact, the author in his book “ Mastering Story, Community and Influence: How to Use Social Media to Become a Socialeader ” details not only the role of social media plays in modern-day narrative and competitive landscape, but how one can also maximize one’s own digital influence w

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How to pitch to investors in 10 minutes and get funded

Up and Running

I know what it’s like to pitch to investors – both angels and venture capitalists. I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology start-ups. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Below is a format I’ve successfully used, as well as helped many other first-time start-up CEOs raise investment capital.

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[Interview] Hitachi Data Systems’ Hu Yoshida On Startups And Storage Virtualization

YoungUpstarts

We managed to speak to Hubert Yoshida of Hitachi Data Systems when he was in Singapore recently to share his top ten predictions on storage virtualization in the IT industry in 2013. Hu Yoshida, Hitachi Data Systems’s Chief Technical Officer responsible for defining the company’s technical direction and instrumental in evangelizing the unique Hitachi approach to storage virtualization, which leveraged existing storage services within Hitachi Universal Storage Platform® and extended i

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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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Google Analytics Tips: 10 Data Analysis Strategies That Pay Off Big!

Occam's Razor

In the coming year, based on current announcements , Google Analytics is set to go through an almost unprecedented amount of evolution. My postulation is that by this time next year the tool will be almost unrecognizable. [My favorite is Visitor Analytics, and visitor level segmentation that will be pervasive throughout the product. This is insanely cool.].

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My favorite apps to keep productive in 2013

Up and Running

I’m a sucker for any app that helps me be more productive. I’ll try any new to-do list and I’m always on the lookout for the next great project management tool. Over the past year, there have been some fantastic new productivity apps as well as some refreshes of a few classics. To help you increase your productivity in 2013, here are my top 12 favorite apps from 2012.

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[Singapore] Startup Asia Singapore Back For 2013 Edition

YoungUpstarts

After a series of successful startup events in Singapore, and Jakarta and Bandung in Indonesia last year, Asia-based online technology news site TechinAsia will be kicking off Startup Asia Singapore ‘s second edition later in April this year. To be held on 4-5 April, the event will showcase a wide variety of startup-centric activities that will again include the wildly popular Startup Arena , which will see 20 new startups pitch and challenge for US$10,000 in cash.

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More Innovation

deal architect

on the New Florence blog Tim Cook speaks FoxBots The Big Data that is earth at night Curate a TV show of your own “Tis the season The motion-capture technology behind Gollum The real secret behind German engineering Craft distilleries

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Hit Reset, It’s 2013

Feld Thoughts

My long-time friends Fred Wilson and Joanne Wilson each had powerful posts about saying goodbye to 2012 and welcoming in 2013 yesterday. Fred’s is titled Putting 2012 To Bed. I know many people who don’t know Fred other than via his online presence, public actions, and reputations. I expect that 99% of them, when asked if Fred had an awesome 2012, would say ”of course – he has an amazing life.” But my answer would have been more nuanced based on the time Fred and

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Partnering Strategy, Subcontractors, and Uber

David Teten

You can’t hire in courtesy and managerial competence; it has to flow from company management outwards. I’m traveling to Atlanta and Boston this month, so starting to plan my logistics. Part of what Uber ’s customers pay for is an easy-to-use layer across multiple cab services in multiple cities. I don’t mind too much paying them a premium when I’m traveling in a strange city, but I feel silly doing so when in my home city, New York.

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How Does a Startup Incubator Really Help You?

Startup Professionals Musings

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. They dream of appearing at the door, with their idea on the back of a napkin, and popping out a few months later with investor money to burn. The reality is far different.

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Taking Stock, Part II

OnlyOnce

Taking Stock, Part II. Last year, I wrote about the three questions I ask myself at the beginning of every year to make sure my career is still on track. [ [link] ] The questions are: Am I having fun at work? Am I learning and growing as a professional? Is my work financially rewarding enough, either in the short term or in the long term? This year, I am adding a fourth suggestion following a great conversation I had a bunch of months back with Jerry Colonna , a great CEO coach, former VC, and

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Some of the Most Memorable Marketing of 2012

Mike Michalowicz

The world not ending on December 21, 2012, wasn’t the only memorable marketing moment in 2012. From Twitter and LinkedIn breaking up, to FaceBook posting an embarrassingly low initial public offering, and Pinterest’s astounding 11 million unique monthly visits (the fastest growth of any other standalone site ever), 2012 was packed with memorable marketing moments.

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7 Marketing Metrics Worth Obsessing Over

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketers need to measure a lot of things in order to get better. Not everyone does and those that do sometimes measure the wrong things. photo credit: aussiegall via photopin cc. The obvious things like leads and sales revenue are important, but they’re quite often just a measure of what is and not an accurate measure of what could be or, perhaps more importantly, what’s causing what is.

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Windows 8 for a Mac User

Venture Chronicles

I recently purchased an Asus Zenbook Touch laptop to replace my trusty Macbook Air. I was impressed by the hardware design being exhibited by the top tier ultrabook manufacturers, they embody sleek design elements and a fantastic build quality but more importantly Windows 8 has created a once in a generation opportunity to redefine what a PC is and much to my delight manufacturers like Samsung, Asus, Acer, Dell and HP are running with it.

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The Year of the Timeless Stream

Rob Go

I’ve been noticing something that I think will make some big strides in 2013. It’s a trend that I think we’ll see in consumer services. That’s right, even amidst the gloom of the series A crunch and the flock towards enterprise focused software, I think we are going to see a big and important shift in consumer facing services in the coming year and beyond.

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My (and your) favorite posts from 2012

Jeff Hilimire

At the end of every year I take the time to look back and see what posts you liked the best (using Google Analtyics and comments) and which ones I was happy that I wrote. I also like to reflect on how my blog has evolved and what trends I see emerging. In 2012, I shared more of my personal thoughts than I had in the past. If I look back at the type of posts that were the most popular over the years, it looks like this: 2009 – Social media and digital dominated my posts. 2010 – Still

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3 rules for new founders

The Startup Toolkit

Lean is good for companies but bad for people. It doesn’t help with that potentially lengthy period when you’re still trying to find an idea with legs and don’t yet have funding or revenue. Here’s how I’ve been handling that bit: Protect your downside. Work on whatever’s interesting. Tell people how it went. For me, protecting one’s downside meant learning how to make money and doing paid work a few days each month.

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Banking and Unbundling

aweissman.com

You might be somebody's landlord, you might even own banks, but you're gonna have to serve somebody - Bob Dylan If it is the case that the Internet unbundles things , that the " power of connected networks such as the Internet is that they unbundle all that came before them," then looking at areas that might be in the process of unbundled might be interesting.

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Perfecting the Art of the Pitch: 8 Young Entrepreneurs Weigh In

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally posted on Tech Cocktail. The following answers are provided by The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC recently published #FixYoungAmerica: How to Rebuild Our Economy and Put Young Americans Back to Work (for Good), a book of 30+ proven solutions to help end youth unemployment.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

CSS -Tricks. treehouse : what would you like to learn today? Web Design. Web Development. iOS Development. Show search box. Search. Search in: All. Articles. Forums. Snippets. Videos. ?. Home. Forums. Snippets. Gallery. Videos. Almanac. Demos. Deals. Navigation n Search. So You’re Going To Start A Huge New Web Project. Published. December 18, 2012. by Chris Coyier.

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"Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are."

Bryce Dot VC

“Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.