Mon.Nov 05, 2012

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. The concise guide is here. My narrative has stayed pretty simple: People in the US watch 5.3 hours of TV per day. People read for less than 30 minutes. You will not fundamentally change consumers media consumption habits. So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be?

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. But the other archetype is a thirty-something entrepreneur who, taking his experience seeing the playbook of success at larger growing startups or even “established” companies, utilizes that domain and functional expertise as unique insight into founding a company.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

Both Sides of the Table

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. It is election season. So it’s tempting to think this is going to be a partisan post – it is not. I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. I use it because I believe in the power of visual and memorable stories to sink into the consciousness.

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[Infographic] Laziness And Workplace Productivity

YoungUpstarts

We often hear how staff are often overworked in the office, but did you know that employee laziness at the workplace actually cost employers a lot of money? For example, the average worker admits to wasting up to 3 hours per eight-hour workday (and this does not include scheduled lunch and break times) on social media, socializing or just plain spacing out.

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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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Collaborative Consumption Creates New Marketplaces (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

It would not surprise me if you had recently stumbled across the term "collaborative consumption" while roaming the World Wide Web. The Peer-to-peer movement seems to be making waves of technological. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. It would not surprise me if you had recently stumbled across the term "collaborative consumption" while roaming the World Wide Web.

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Finding Traction

Feld Thoughts

Ever since I did the American River 50 Mile Endurance Run I’ve been fascinated with ultramarathons. After struggling through the emotional fallout of the six weeks after the race , I decided that for now I’m sticking to marathons given my work schedule and general life tempo, but I’m still completely intrigued by them and the people who do them.

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Running My Business From A Shelter

Mike Michalowicz

A picture from my “office” at the local town shelter. This is Day 7 with no power, heat, phone or beer at my house. Damn you Hurricane Sandra. Damn you!

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Samsung marching ahead of Apple but all not rosy for Android

The Equity Kicker

Last night I was reading that UK gadget rag Stuff Magazine named the Samsung SIII as their gadget of the year, and also as smartphone of the year. The iPhone 5 got third place in the smartphone of the year list. Then this morning I read a bunch of other relevant data points: Samsung has sold 30m SIIIs in the last five months. analysts are predicting the iPhone 5 will sell 26m units by the end of the year (3 months and ten days of sales). overall in Q3 Samsung sold 58m units, vs Apple’s 26.9m iPh

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 8 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Season 4 week 8 of sharktank was a great episode, and provides a number of different lessons on the importance of experienced management, how celebrity endorsements can work for you or against you, and how an entrepreneur can blow up his own success by poor management of a deal process. Cool Wazoo. The first company to pitch makes a 5-in-1 combination swing cover, high chair cover, car shade, carseat cover and changing pad, to protect kids from germs and from getting burned by hot surfaces.

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Subway Thumbing

This is going to be BIG.

I'm annoying cold right now. I didn't used to get this cold--i.e. I used to have hair. Ever since I shaved my head, I learned the hard way that it's true what they say. Heat does escape through your head. The only reason I'm even on the subway now is because I thought I had gloves at my office. Without gloves, biking around in the winter is nearly unbearable for me--or at least wildly unpleasant.

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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!)

OnlyOnce

Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!). One of the things I’ve often thought over the years since starting Return Path in 1999 is that there’s no instruction manual anywhere for how to be a CEO. While big company CEOs are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren’t…and they’re often young and relatively inexperienced in business in general.

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This Happens in Just 56 Days

Growthink Blog

2013 is just 56 days away. And if you want to make 2013 your best year ever, you need to start planning now. To help you succeed, I’m hosting a complimentary webinar next Wednesday, November 14th at 8pm EST / 5 pm PST. The webinar is called “How to Make 2013 Your Best Business Year Ever!” REGISTER HERE (note, to allow for quality audience interaction, we are limiting attendance to the 1st 40 registrants):?

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Fifteen Personal Finance Tips For Making Sure You Are Better Off Four Years From Now

YoungUpstarts

by Eric Tyson, author of “ Personal Finance For Dummies “ Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you know that the presidential election is just around the corner. The constant media coverage and ubiquitous political ads simply won’t let you forget (no matter how much you’d like to!). And amid the candidates’ posturing, daily interviews, debates, and gaffes, one important question keeps popping up: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

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Innotech Beta Summit Participants

Austin Startup

Our showcase companies this year are TrustRadius, Outbox, Ube, Skyence, and Compare Metrics.

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The Secret to Finding Highly Profitable Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

Most people view marketing and selling like this. photo credit: tiffany yelitza. You target a market segment, tell them what you have to offer, maybe work in a little solution selling and hope they choose you. Or. You target a market segment, respond to RFPs and hope they choose your price. Either way, what you’re building is a recipe for low prices and even lower profits.

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Our Investment in 3D Robotics

Bryce Dot VC

A few months back at a group dinner, someone asked what areas OATV was interested in these days. At the time, I gave an answer that set the table back on its heels a bit- Drones. I went on to explain that we were seeing a ton of activity around drones with the alpha geek crowd. Visit any hacker space or Maker Faire these days and you will see drones in all of their varieties.

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The Premium Economy

Jason Ball

I’ve been trying out various new services lately, and have been completely blown away in most cases. It’s registered that we’re now entering the Premium Economy. And it’s going to make our lives richer, but us poorer… I don’t mean Premium accounts where you lose the banner ads; I mean Premium where you get a slick service.

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Star ratings are the LaserDisc of local. Well done foursquare!

Bryce Dot VC

Star ratings are the LaserDisc of local. Well done foursquare !

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The one barrier to entry startups should focus on

Version One Ventures

Barriers to entry! (Photo credit: phill.d) Creating effective barriers to entry can be the single most important driver defining the profit potential of a company. In today’s B2B and B2C web markets, barrier to entry boils down to one thing: demand-side benefits of scale. To be successful, every web start-up needs to be thinking about how it can build demand-side economies of scale.

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Great Startup Teams Foster a Culture of Likability

Startup Professionals Musings

You don’t have to be likeable to everyone to be a great entrepreneur, just to the people who count. Of course, we can all point to apparent exceptions, like Ted Turner or Larry Ellison, who are sometimes seen as lions, downright predators, or even jerks. Yet I’m told that even these guys are considered quite likable by an intimate group of business and personal associates.

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5 trends that are changing how we do big data

gigaom.com

GigaOM. Home. Apple. Cleantech. Cloud. Data. Europe. Mobile. Video. Nov 3, 2012 - 2:00PM PT. 5 trends that are changing how we do big data. By Derrick Harris 7 Comments. Tweet. Email This. In just a few years, big data has turned from a buzzword and concept best left for large web companies into a force that drives much of our digital lives. Here are five technological trends that will change how data is processed and consumed going forward. photo: Shutterstock / Sebastian Kaulitzki.