Fri.Dec 21, 2012

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Being Too Early and VC Self Improvement

This is going to be BIG.

This week, three companies that I met super early and passed on raised significant rounds of funding. Actually, I wouldn't even really call them passes, because in a couple instances, they were just conversations--"Pre Deck" if you will. Devrim Yasar just raised an additional $7.25 million for Koding.com. I met him in April of 2010--almost two years before he got a venture round.

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The City of Orlando and the Workday contract

deal architect

The Orlando Sentinel ran a story “Vendors complain after Orlando spends $ 8.7m on software without bids” I sent the reporter and the Editor this email “I read your article and would like to share some reactions. I am a.

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The Mobile Enterprise in 2013: Getting Down to Business

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over the last 12 months, there have been a handful of acquisitions of mobile start-ups like RapSphere * (by Appsense), Nukona (by Symantec) and most recently Zenprise (by Citirix) that help enterprises better manage mobile devices. In the consumer world, the newness of mobile has, for the most part, worn off as everyone from teenagers to grandmothers now proudly carry smartphones, using apps and taking photos wherever they go.

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My 2013 predictions

deal architect

are - - - That’s right, they are blank. My visit to the Mayan ruins at Tulum last weekend affected me deeply. While we smugly make fun of their end of world today prediction, I was in awe that their.

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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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[Infographic] Entrepreneurial Spirit And Education

YoungUpstarts

The Kauffman Foundation (2011) reported that only 320 out of every 100,000 adults set up new businesses in the United States – which shows that while many actually consider taking the plunge, most of them don’t actually end up doing it. Well, quite possibly many of you may be considering entrepreneurship as an option, whether you’re just about to graduate from college or looking at a second wind in the middle of your career.

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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Boulder Startup Community

David Cohen

With the help of some friends, I threw together The Hitchhikers Guide to the Boulder Startup Community. Thanks are due to Brad Feld , Jason Mendelson , Tim Falls , Rob Delwo , Robert Reich , Brad Bernthal , Clare Tischer , Nicole Glaros , Dave Jilk , Niel Robertson , and Jim Franklin for their contributions and review of the first version. This was inspired by the Guide to the LA Startup Community by Sam Teller.

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How To Get More Business From Existing Clients

Mike Michalowicz

More Business From Existing Clients. The easiest way to quickly grow your top line (and your bottom line for that matter) is by generating more business from existing clients. Instead of simply asking them for more business, which may in fact turn them off to you, set your goal on learning more about them. Find out what is important to them. Find out what they read.

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The three types of advice

Berkonomics

OK. So I occasionally read suspense novels to break up the relative monotony of constant business books. A sentence in the one I am currently reading caught my eye. “There are three types of advice,” the wise White House Senior Counsel to the President told the young White House attorney. He referred to the three as legal advice, moral advice and political advice.

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Are You Taking Advantage of Your Awesomeness

Duct Tape Marketing

As we come to the end of another year I wanted to send a very simple message of thanks. There’s no Holiday Sale, free shipping or act now call to action in today’s post. Today I just want to share the short video above that I hope you find contains some inspiration. I firmly believe that small businesses and entrepreneurs hold some very natural advantages and my message in this video is to urge you to take advantage of your awesomeness.

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“You Need to Sacrifice Almost Everything to Achieve Your Goal”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to execute your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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CrowdFunding Texas and Top Austin Kickstarter Campaigns

Austin Startup

The passing of the Jobs Act is already having an impact on entrepreneurs, investors, and startups. Join in at CrowdFund Texas on January 8th at the Omni downtown. If you're raising money, or if you think you're going to raise money, you need to understand the changes that are happening in the investing landscape right now.

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Ask Your Customers to Participate in Your Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Have you noticed that more companies beg you to participate in their business today? It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers. Welcome to the “Participation Age” of marketing.

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Twitter Link Roundup #159 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

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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If this doesn’t inspire you…

Jeff Hilimire

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Angry, Hostile, and Bitter Is Not A Winning Strategy

Feld Thoughts

We are sandwiched between Thanksgiving and Christmas in a country that is recovering emotionally from two disasters named Sandy – one natural (Hurricane Sandy) and one man-made (Sandy Hook). Our politicians in Washington are playing a zero-sum game around the Fiscal Cliff. The CEO of the NRA just held a press conference and said “we should be able to afford to put a police officer in every school” and he called on Congress “to appropriate whatever is necessary to put arme

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For Startups, 2012 Swung From Consumers To The Enterprise

ReadWriteStart

For consumer-oriented startups, 2012 came in like a lion, but left like a whimpering lamb. As the year went on, startups that target the consumer market had an increasingly hard time getting funded. Blame Facebook. Blame Groupon and Zynga. All of them had a discouraging year and their flaccid performance caused a lot of investors to cringe and scroll feverishly at their touchscreens in search of enterprise startups to fund.