YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “. The legend goes that prior to becoming the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina (now former CEO of HP) stuffed her pants with socks for a male-dominated meeting. Her message was clear: “I have everything it takes to compete.” Although Fiorina might be alone in literally stuffing her slacks, it’s a sure thing that plenty of other women have gone to great lengths—pulling longer-than-necessary hours, cutting maternity leaves sh

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Today, I want to introduce you to a new concept for starting and growing successful companies: Lean Planning™. Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 1, 2012

“I’ll put you on my schedule.” “I have you marked in my calendar to start next week.” “My schedule is full right now.” Have you ever told a client or potential client any of the above? I have many times. When I started working for myself and taking on client work, I never really “scheduled” client projects.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

“I have become a number… And if you are even slightly active on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, you have become a number too…” So begins “ Return On Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing “, a slim volume delving into the world of social scoring.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The saddest lament of entrepreneurs and owners of private companies seeking to sell and exit their companies is that they want their businesses to be valued on their future potential , and not its CURRENT profitability. Given that the typical, offered purchase multiples for smaller businesses – as in those with less than $5 million in EBITDA – can be as low as 1 or 2 times last year’s tax return profits, this is understandable.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Get 1 Month of Gold for Free! ($49 value). Learn More. ␡ ← Back to Treehouse.  Websites. Coding. iOS. Android. Business. 👤 Membership. 🔎 Search.  Facebook.  Twitter.  Google Plus.  YouTube.  RSS. Post navigation. ← Previous. Next → A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Here is a guest post from Emma Collins that looks at the growth of education-technology ventures, and what these new models may mean for the future of both learning and business. Emma has recently written a guide to this year’s greatest online MBA schools , and is very knowledgeable about most things impacting the higher ed sphere. So, I hope you enjoy her piece: MBAs vs the Education Market: The Rise of Education Startups.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Aww man, you sold your soul. Naww man, mad people was frontin’ Aww man, made something from nothing. —Kanye West, New God Flow. Your startup is going well and as your business expands, you hear the dreaded words from someone on your board: “You need to hire some senior people. Some real ‘been there, done that’ executives to help you get the company to the next level.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Almost every large company understands it needs to build an organization that deals with the ever-increasing external forces of continuous disruption , the need for continuous innovation , globalization and regulation. But there is no standard strategy and structure for creating corporate innovation. We outline the strategy problem in this post and will propose some specific organizational suggestions in follow-on posts. —-.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Greenberg recently wrote about the phenomena of companies declaring themselves to be focused on customer experience, and graciously giving them the opportunity to put up or shut up. Get Satisfaction was referenced in the esteemed list of companies who are at the forefront of this trend and I am here today to take care of the putting up part of the equation.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I remember a meeting with a systems integrator while at Gartner. He wanted to know who would be the “next SAP” they should build a practice around. So I showed him an ERP magic quadrant. I still remember his face.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted millions from an investor to make billions of his own. I was just perusing an older but still very relevant report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, titled “ Making of a Succes

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I get a constant stream of requests to look at new startups or to announce something that a startup just did. As you’d guess, I can’t do it, as much as I love to chat about startups, by which I mean swapping wisdom with fellow entrepreneurs, by which I mean stoke my ego by telling strangers what to do with neither repercussion nor responsibility.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

'Aww man, you sold your soul Naww man, mad people was frontin'' Aww man, made something from nothing —Kanye West, New God Flow. Your startup is going well and as your business expands, you hear the dreaded words from someone on your board: “You need to hire some senior people. Some real ‘been there, done that’ executives to help you get the company to the next level.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Cannot be a fluke. He was using the same examples in yet another presentation. I had seen Andrew McAfee present at Cognizant Community on the possibility of the metric system as currently defined running out of definitions for things like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. The vision part is fine, but successful entrepreneurs have found that the extreme uncertainty of a new product or service usually requires many course corrections, or “pivots” to find a successful formula.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

by Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “ The holidays are here, and too many parents are wondering if they need to buy Santa gifts for the kids who are helping them deck the halls, swill the eggnog, and carve the Christmas goose. Okay, “kids” is a bit of a stretch. But what are the rules when “Little Johnny” is twenty-eight and back in his old room, jobless, his expensive grad school diploma about as useful as a trun

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deal architect

DECEMBER 4, 2012

This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. This time it is my former Gartner colleague, Chris Jones, now EVP Marketing & Services at Descartes Systems. He has over 30 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I’ve noticed that most young entrepreneurs are more socially conscious today than ever before, which is a great trend. Unfortunately, some are so focused on this principle that they forget that every business, even non-profits, have to practice the basic principals of capitalism (build a business model to make money) to cover their costs to do good things another day.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A little more inside baseball from the VC biz… why VC’s rarely make “crossover” investments, with capital from multiple funds the VC firm manages invested in a single startup (see note 1). I was talking with an entrepreneur recently about this phenomenon. This person is an experienced CEO and a veteran of several startups, yet appreciating this nuance of how VC’s operate their business was relatively unfamiliar to him.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

How does one cool down a glass of whiskey or other spirits quickly without the use of ice? The founders of OriginalBOS , Grant Vollmer and Matt Geddie, have more than an idea – they came up with a pair of them to do exactly that. Their product, Balls Of Steel , is a set of two stainless steel balls that is cooled in the freezer and then dropped into your beverage, keeping it at an optimal temperature without affecting its taste.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I am spending the day at the HCL Influencer Day in Boston today. I have long been impressed with HCL’s Product Engineering practice, which still has unlimited runway as it goes after the $ 1.4 trillion annual global R&D spend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Your marketing launch is the most important element of startup success these days, to get customer attention in this world of information overload. Yet it is the one element that too many entrepreneurs focus on only as an afterthought. Everyone assumes their product or service is so great that “word-of-mouth” will carry the day for them. Even great products need great marketing “content” to fuel the ascent of their online message.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

This article ( Business Plans Are An Historical Artifact ) first appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal The Accelerators Column , which I’m contributing to on a regular basis. . In 1987 when I started my first company (Feld Technologies), I wrote a business plan for a course at MIT that I was in called 15.375: New Enterprises. The textbook for the course was Jeffry A.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Imagine this scenario – you check in your coat at a bar or restaurant, had a great time until you were about to leave. That’s when you find out your coat has gone missing, most likely stolen, and now you have to endure a freezing walk home. Most of us would be totally upset by this experience. But for 23-year old Derek Pacqué, who went through that exact experience, instead had an “Eureka!

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deal architect

DECEMBER 4, 2012

When I went to college I learned from Philip Kotler and the five Ps of marketing – product, promotion etc In recent years, it has evolved to the 5 T’s of Marketing. Marketing is all about technology. If you look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills. It’s more than providing recognition, tangible incentives, and clear work goals. A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Sometimes you have to manage progress, not people.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 3, 2012

A few weeks ago I wrote about the consequences of services dependent upon electronic components that have a tendency to become unavailable in an emergency. It’s a fairly simple thesis, we depend on technology in such a broad spectrum of devices and services that when power is unavailable reliance on technology becomes a seizure point. Last night our power went out for a couple of hours, nothing major but right at dinner time so it ended up being more than a minor inconvenience.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Facing high employee turnover and no idea why? There are many reasons why employees leave: too heavy a workload, lack of career advancement or promotion opportunities, or even unrealistic job expectations. In fact, many of the reasons cited by employees when they leave are down to factors you can actually control. Ultimately, 1 in 2 of them leave because they just don’t feel that they are being valued at the job.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 5, 2012

On the innovation blog Learning innovation from a chef Big Data Drama A dairy farmer’s best new friend Mapping the ancient Afghan irrigation system Union Pacific as an “infotech company” The joys of seventh freedom MetaScale: Sears mimics Amazon Descartes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2012

When you have been on the startup firing line, you quickly learn that any insight from experts and entrepreneurs who have been there before you can make the difference between failure and success. Yet, many new entrepreneurs brazenly assume they are bulletproof, and march blindly into the fray. The result is that half or more of startups fail in the first two years.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I spent two weeks without my iPhone. I was completely off the grid for the first week but then spent the second week online, on my MacBook Air and Kindle, but no iPhone. I got home on Sunday and have had my iPhone turned on the past few days. I’ve used it as a phone, but I’ve largely stayed off of the web, email, and twitter with it. Instead, I’m only done this when I’m in front of my computer.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative. At least, that’s the consensus from professional network LinkedIn, who found that the description topped the list of the most overused words and phrases in its member profiles for 2012. Here’s a quick look at what the 2012 No. 1 buzzwords for countries in which LinkedIn fielded this study: Australia: Creative.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 2, 2012

On the New Florence blog Ten things you may not know about DST The payback from LEED certification 50 ways to leave your lover – and to communicate with your smartphone Nice memories from Workday Rising The self-made bed Veterans.

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