Mon.Oct 29, 2012

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 7 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

This is the first week that I’ll be splitting coverage of Shark Tank episodes between this blog and Entrepreneur.com. I’m posting my analysis of the most interesting story of Shark Tank season 4 episode 7 over there, and reviewing the rest of the pitches here. You never get just one offer to invest in your company. You either get zero, or many.

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10,000 Startups

Steve Blank

In 24 hours we’ll announce something revolutionary. Moving entrepreneurship forward. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Startup Execution Transcends the Idea From Day One

Startup Professionals Musings

A startup begins with a great idea, but all too often, that’s where it ends. Ideas have to be implemented well to get the desired results. Good implementation requires a plan, and a good plan and good operational decisions come from good people. That’s why investors invest in entrepreneurs, rather than ideas. People and operational excellence have to converge in every business, large or small.

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Changing How We Think About Education

Feld Thoughts

On Friday I spent three hours at Tufts University meeting with Chris Rogers and a few of his colleagues at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. We had an awesome, wide ranging conversation about what they are doing, how the accelerator model could apply, and how education, especially around engineering and computer science needs to radically change, as well as some concrete suggestions about how to change it.

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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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Will The Nexus 10 Be The New Small Business Workhorse Device?

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve been catching up on the most recent tech news, the latest gadget just announced is the Nexus 10, a 10-inch Android tablet put together by tech giants Google and Samsung. This powerful device looks to marry Samsung’s best-in-class hardware chops with the best of what Google has to offer, including the latest Android version, 4.2 Jelly Bean.

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Nov. 13-14, NYC: Global Innovation Conference

David Teten

Worldwide Investor Network (WIN) is holding a 2-day conference on “ Funding The Best In Global Innovation” November 13-14 in NYC, showcasing 10 promising tech startups from around the world. Among our speakers are Habib Kairouz (Managing Partner, Rho Capital), Ed Sim (Founder of BOLDstart Ventures), Kirill Sheynkman (Senior Managing Director, RTP), and me.

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Should You Play a New Game or Just Keep on Keeping On?

Growthink Blog

Dave Allen, author of the great productivity best seller " Getting Things Done ," has developed an almost cult-like following for his ideas, structures, and best practices around to-do list management, prioritization, and metrics and schematics that define what an effective work day should be. Without question, there are great benefits to his methods, and I especially like his best practice of always ending a meeting, conversation, or work on an open-ended project with the simple question " What

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5 Google Analytics Reports and Tips You Should Embrace Now

Duct Tape Marketing

Google Analytics just keeps getting better and better as far as I’m concerned and marketers that use this free tool need to get better and better at understanding what it can tell you. On a side note, anytime Google improves a free tool they are probably getting ready to offer a paid version. Quite frankly the tool is worth paying for if you take advantage of the many ways to slice and dice your data.

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Do You Dream Of Becoming A CEO?

YoungUpstarts

by Karen Edwards of AARP The Magazine. How non-profit organizations called incubators give life to new entrepreneurial ventures. Thinking about starting your own business ? If so, an incubator might be the best way to help your company get off the ground. The concept is simple: Incubators — usually nonprofits supported by economic-development organizations — help launch businesses by offering shared work space (often at below-market rates), tools, resources and training in the form of classes

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The truth about crowd funding

Start Up Blog

Most web tools that are re-shaping commerce are doing one thing, handing over control to the users from the producers. They are democratizing the factors of production so that anyone with access and ideas can now play. They do this through cutting out two things that existed and thrived in the industrial era: middle men and gate keepers. The power of collaboration has been touted as a revolution consistently since the the word web 2.0 exited the mouth of Tim O’Reilly.