Mon.Dec 24, 2012

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10 Action Items to Keep Angel Investors Hovering

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable propo

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4 Startup Tenets for Extreme Focus on Customers

Gust

Image via Facebook. New product startups rightfully begin with a heads-down focus on creating the ultimate product – whether it’s a new technology, a new look and ease of use, or a new low-cost delivery approach. Most then add customer service at the rollout, but very few really understand what it means to be truly customer centric, and even fewer really achieve it.

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Book: Ender’s Game

Feld Thoughts

My post The Best Science Fiction Books of All Time from a few weeks ago got 100+ comments with some amazing suggestions. I’d read a bunch of them, but I discovered a lot of new things to read. One that appeared over and over again that I hadn’t yet read was Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I gobbled it down last night and this morning while trying to shake the holiday cold that decided to inhabit my body.

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Never Try To Motivate Employees With Money

Mike Michalowicz

Money Does Not Motivate Employees. I can’t think of anything I love more than being acknowledged, unless it’s rewarded at the same time I’m being acknowledged. Employees are the same way. They love to be rewarded. Heck, we all do! It makes us feel good for putting our hearts and souls into a task, even if it is our job. But, believe it or not, money probably isn’t the best way to reward employees.

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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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Merry Christmas!

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tweet A short and sweet video message for you on Christmas day here in Australia. I hope you have a great day wherever you are and I look forward to staying in touch with you in 2013. This video is from my Yaro.TV channel , please subscribe if you haven’t already!

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Can Ireland Offer Startups Something Silicon Valley Can’t?

ReadWriteStart

In the past few years just about every country with a high-speed network and a national budget has hatched a “startup ecosystem.” From [link] to the Silicon Taiga , these programs offer entrepreneurs funding, infrastructure and support in an effort to lure a critical mass of promising young companies and spawn the next Silicon Valley. None has succeeded.