Sat.Mar 31, 2012

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Exclusive: Announcing a Startup that Brings More Efficient Government to the US and Other Countries

David Teten

(An aerial view of Parliament House in Singapore. Photo credit: Wikipedia). I’m exceptionally excited to announce that I’m now Chairman and lead investor with some other angels in a new company, Spright Governance Inc. Spright is a spinoff of the Singaporean government, which will leverage their proven expertise and technology to run other cities, states, and nations globally.

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. If you haven’t read Adam Lashinsky’s awesome new book about Apple , you should. It takes on many of the lessons MBA programs and Corporate America have been teaching about business for the past 50+ years and questions whether lessons from Apple might be more applicable in thinking about the future.

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5 Ways to See If Your Business Integrity is Showing

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur, your personal integrity is critical for getting and keeping the support of investors and team members, and your company’s integrity is critical for getting and keeping customers and vendors. But in a practical sense, what does that really mean? Most definitions of integrity include something like “the quality of being honest and morally upright.

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A Bumper quarter

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One of my New Year’s resolutions was to post an average of 1.25 innovation posts a day on the New Florence blog. Year to date I have 155 posts, so 1.7 a day! It truly feels like living in Florence.

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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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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

It has been said many times that ‘selling’ is the worlds highest paid profession. While I had my doubts early on in my career, I have never been more convinced of it that I am now. For quite a few reasons which I have shared below. There is no limit. If we are in a real sales job, then there is no limit to what we can earn. That is, we work on commission.

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Damn, The Samwers Are Entertaining (& Dangerous)

Babbling VC

The Samwers have become the talk of the town when you're en-route in Germany. I was at Thomas Promny's D3Con event Friday and was again reminded of this. No, actually, I am reminded of how prevalent these guys are in the German VC scene whenever I leave the confines of my home. Not one party, event, business pitch nor even at times dinner conversation goes without mention of these infamous brothers.

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Weekend Favs March Thirty One

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs March Thirty One This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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Entreprenuerial double dipping

Start Up Blog

An important fact that emplyees and entrepreneurs ought remember: You can’t sell your job. Yes, we can build personal brand equity, but the revenue and value we create belongs to the owner of the organization we work for. This leads me to an important factor that we must remember when we set out out on our way into startup land. We get the uncommon opportunity to get twice the benefit of everything we create.

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Visit to ASU Skysong | G3Box | AZ Pro DJs | Coolest College Start-Up

Campus Entrepreneurship

Last week while in Scottsdale I was fortunate to visit with 3 of the founders of G3Box , a start-up out of ASU converting shipping containers into mobile medical clinics. Clay, Gabby, and Billy (John) are dynamic young entrepreneurs looking to solve a specific global problem and their successes so far really highlight the culture of entrepreneurship being built at ASU.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

It has been said many times that ‘selling’ is the worlds highest paid profession. While I had my doubts early on in my career, I have never been more convinced of it that I am now. For quite a few reasons which I have shared below. There is no limit. If we are in a real sales job, then there is no limit to what we can earn. That is, we work on commission.

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Link Post (weekly)

Venture Chronicles

How The Wall Street Journal Uses Pinterest – 10,000 Words. tags: blog Pinterest. Google to Launch Third-Party Commenting Platform. tags: blog. What’s your Must Have Score? tags: blog. The Rise Of The Explainer Video | TechCrunch. tags: blog startup. TechCrunch | Wildfire Is Huge: First Stats In Years Reveal Social Marketer’s 300 Employees, 13K Customers. tags: blog wildfire.

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More Innovation

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On the New Florence blog The CNN Virtual Republican Convention Innovations to help female farmers worldwide James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger Taser’s AXON wearable camera SXSW: Social Discovery.