Mon.Oct 24, 2011

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Registration Form Design with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Authentication

SoCal CTO

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? That post looked at when and why you would use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. as part of your registration and authentication mechanism.

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Will NFC Technology Take Off In Singapore?

YoungUpstarts

Near Field Communication (NFC) – a form of data transmission that allows simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in close proximity to each other – is one of the newest technologies currently being embraced by the mobile communications industry, and especially by handset makers. Samsung, for example, together with Google recently unveiled in an event Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” on the Samsung GALAXY NEXUS smartphone.

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Workday breaking the cloud scale barrier

deal architect

In aviation, shattered windows aside, we have always admired planes which break the sound barrier. Over the last decade, the general assumption has been cloud/SaaS is a SME phenomenon. But that’s a barrier Workday has refused to accept since its.

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Innovation is About Execution, Despite the Myths

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the execution challenge if they expect their startup to carve out a profitable niche in the marketplace, and keep innovating to build and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Everyone thinks they know how to make innovation happen, but I can’t find much real research on the subject.

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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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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. ” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. It’s awesome having podcasting experts on board, Bob with pithy advice and Patrick producing and organizing the show which is a lot more work than you might imagin

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Shop For Fashion Via Short Films With NMRKT

YoungUpstarts

The fashion industry has been one of those to embrace new technological trends – from online shopping to group buying, the industry is one open to constant experimentation. So when a 24-year old graduate from Brown decided it was time for a new, innovative way to hunt for and buy fashion online, she introduced her own with NMRKT. NMRKT , pronounced “in-market”, is a fully interactive e-magazine featuring the latest emerging, up-and-coming fashion designers in New York City.

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Washington Post Launches Web Channel On Small Business

YoungUpstarts

The Washington Post has just launched On Small Business , a new online channel that focuses on entrepreneurship and small business. On Small Business is produced by the team of Capital Business , The Post’s weekly business publication, and will host a panel of experts to address important questions facing small business. There is also a daily blog that will look at the news of the day from a small business owner’s perspective.

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St. Louis Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon

Feld Thoughts

Marathon #20 is in the books. Yesterday I did the St. Louis Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon with Matt Shobe. The amazing Amy Batchelor once again sherpa’d for us. The weather was perfect, the course was pretty but hilly, the support was outstanding (as it typical of Rock ‘n’ Roll marathons), and I came in at a solid 4:51:26. This race was an experiment – I wanted to see if I could do a marathon two weeks in a row while living my normal life.

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People First

This is going to be BIG.

Tweet. On Friday, Matt Blumberg from Return Path came to talk to a group of First Round portfolio companies on scaling your organization from a management perspective. Many of our companies are at the stage where they have only one person, if any, in each functional area—and many areas are probably being covered by someone else. Having spent two years at Return Path, where Matt was generous enough to lend a few desks for my startup, I saw what the end goal was—functional teams of mul

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Good Business Writing is Not a Mark Twain Novel

Gust

In the world of business, you only get one chance for a great first impression. The stakes are high – you are asking an investor for money, a customer for an order, or another executive for a partnership. Badly written letters, long rambling or emotional emails, or an obvious lack of spell checking will brand you as a poor business risk before the message is even considered.

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IM Creator – High Class Websites for the Masses, with 126,000 Websites Created and Counting.

VC Cafe

IM Creator is gaining speed on its Israeli competitor Wix.com to become a leading WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web design website. IM Creator offers high end web design for designers who need to rapidly prototype for their clients, small business owners who haven’t a clue of how to make a website, or for anyone who finds Adobe Dreamweaver too complicated.

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Go with the Flow

Growthink Blog

Saturday night, I had the distinct pleasure of attending Jamie Wheal’s and Steven Kotler’s “ Flow Salon ” at the Summit Series’ awesome home in Malibu, California. The evening was memorable - to say the least - on many levels. First, by whatever name you call it - "the runner's high," being "in the moment," "in the zone", "when time slows down," "the opposite of writer's block,” flow has been studied and celebrated by mystics, athletes, artists and their coaches and guides for centuries.

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The University of Texas System Invests $10 Million in MyEdu

Austin Startup

MyEdu, the nation’s leading student academic platform for completing college, announced today that it has partnered with the University of Texas System (UT System) to provide an enhanced student academic platform, helping students across UT System institutions to significantly increase their return on education by raising graduation rates, decreasing time to graduation and supporting career readiness goals.

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Go Big or Bug Off

Babbling VC

No, I wouldn't ever say that to an entrepreneur but it's the painful truth. I just finished giving this advice to a couple guys who came to me. I thought I'd share it here because it's not the first time I've repeated it. . When VC's look at your opportunity they want to know whether it can be "big". Big is probably different for VC's than it is for you and they probably want it far "faster" than you do.

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Simple Act of Record Keeping Can Make All the Difference in Success

The Entrepreneurial Mind

In the rush to start a new business, the simple act of keeping records often gets put on the back burner. But poor record keeping has been the demise of many otherwise successful businesses. The entrepreneur needs clear and accurate records to help manage the challenges of the startup. These records can help manage cash flow and will provide financial statements that can help monitor the progress of the new venture.

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Target shopping cart abandoners

ConversionXL

Research from RedEye and Econsultancy shows that 70% of companies that target shopping cart abandoners have increased sales. Yet 54% of marketers don’t target cart abandoners at all. Want more sales? Get on it. Image credit.

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The Most Important Element of Your Employee Handbook

Duct Tape Marketing

The Most Important Element of Your Employee Handbook This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Lots of companies invest money and resources in the creation of employee handbooks. These valuable tools usually dive deeply into rules, regulations, mission, policy and conduct, but often ignore what might be the most important category of all – marketing. Any employee that comes into contact with a prospect or client is performing a marketing function.

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Follow the Leader

Ben's Blog

My partner Scott just put up a great post on leadership through action. Head over to his blog and check it out.

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Lytro - Image Quality QA Engineer - K9 Jobs - Posterous

K9 Ventures

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Engauge gets pets

Jeff Hilimire

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Since the beginning of 2011, Israeli startups raised $1.57 Billion

VC Cafe

The latest IVC Online report is out and it offers interesting color on the funding of Israeli startups. According to the report, 137 startups raised $522 million in Q3 of 2011, up 53% from the equivalent period in 2010, but down 8% from the $549 million raised in Q2 2011. Since the beginning of 2011, 422 Israeli startups raised $1.57 billion – Up 71% from the equivalent period a year ago.

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Survey Results: Which Metrics are Key to SaaS Executives?

Guy Nirpaz

As part of my effort to create the SaaS Executive Dashboard , which helps executives to put together their business metrics for SaaS on a single page and track them, I’ve online surveyed 522 executives at SaaS companies. The survey compiles the list of metrics that matter most to SaaS Executive. We aimed to get an industry perspective on questions such as: Which metrics are most important for SaaS executives?

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What I learned from raising venture capital

www.gabrielweinberg.com

Takin' VC Money (Money Cash IPO's) by Smixx Forewarning Be forewarned, this post is long. You can tl;dr it by reading the section titles. It's long because I'm compressing the last four months into one post. I don't normally do that, but I didn't want to influence my funding by blogging about it in the middle of it. And historically I've been bad at doing serial posts, so here you go.