Mon.Jan 21, 2013

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The Chinese government appears to have completely blocked GitHub via DNS

The Next Web

Reports are coming in that the social coding site GitHub has been blocked in China. While the service has seen blocks in the country before, this appears to be a much broader denial of service, affecting most, if not all users in the world’s most populous country online and offline. We first heard about the new censorship from Chinese web monitoring site GreatFire (and our own Josh Ong confirmed he couldn’t access the site as well): GitHub completely blocked in China now, including H

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[Singapore][Event] Inaugural PlugFest International Programming Competition Launches

YoungUpstarts

Tertiary students in Singapore looking to be the next star programmer or code monkey should look at the inaugural PlugFest International Programming Competition (IPC) , a programming competition targeted at tertiary students and individuals to create complete, usable web applications that utilize publicly-available datasets from the Singapore government through data.gov.sg.

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Clay Collins Founder Of Startup Leadbrite, Pioneer Of The Prelaunch, And Serial Entrepreneur Shares His Story

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tweet. Download the Text Transcript in PDF (coming soon). Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. Clay Collins is the founder of Leadbrite , the company behind LeadPages and LeadPlayer , two tools that are fast becoming the go-to-standards when it comes to collecting leads online with video and landing pages. This interview is epic in terms of how many things Clay talks about.

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SAP cloudwashes its image

deal architect

Watching the playoffs this weekend, I chuckled when I saw SAP is the NFL’s Official Cloud Software Solutions provider. Not sure how much it cost SAP but they are clearly eager to be considered “cloudy”. Since the revenues show a.

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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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Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates

Steve Blank

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, LaunchPad Central.

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Whats mine is mine. Whats yours is mine also.

deal architect

We all know how aggressive tech companies can be in enforcing all kinds of even minor patents. What is less discussed is the tendency of many to only grudgingly give credit to technologies they may themselves be embedding in their.

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Adobe Systems Rolls Out Creative Cloud Over Asia

YoungUpstarts

Adobe Systems , a leading maker of multimedia and creativity software, brought its experience to the cloud when it launched Adobe Creative Cloud , a membership-based online cloud-based platform that allows users unlimited access to its entire suite of tools and services in the U.S. market last April. The platform was also recently made available to Australia and New Zealand, and today, the software company announced Singapore as the first of many Asian countries to get access to the service.

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Request for Laptops for Monarch High School Students

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post from Lura Vernon, President of the Monarch High School PTSO. Lura is also a good friend, contributor to Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur , mother of two awesome young women, and wife of Todd Vernon, CEO of VictorOps. . Lura’s request is for laptops for Monarch High School Students.

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[Singapore][Event] Office Hours Revealed With Jeffrey Paine

YoungUpstarts

Ever wondered what a venture capitalist does and what that means for a startup seeking funding? If so, check out “ Office Hours Revealed With Jeffrey Paine “ Jeffrey Paine is a founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures an early stage technology incubator based in Singapore with a $10 million fund to invest in the region. Paine started and manages the Founder Institute in Asia where he is currently overseeing its expansion in the Southeast Asian region.

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Don’t think about an elephant!

The Next Web

Have you ever been asked to “think outside of the box”? I thought this phrase was now extinct, but recently I heard it pop up during a meeting again, and in all seriousness too. Amazing. Thinking outside the box is virtually impossible. You can stop saying it. It is about as useful as NOT trying to think about an elephant. Are you thinking about an elephant?

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Self parking Audi

The Equity Kicker

Every now and again I like to post a video which shows how fast new technologies are coming down the pipe. The pace of technology innovation is accelerating all the time but most people don’t fully grasp the implications. By showcasing technologies like self driving cars and robotics I hope to make those implications more real for people. Audi released this video at CES this year.

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44 Ways To Reinvigorate Your Entrepreneurial Drive

Mike Michalowicz

44 Ways To Reinvigorate Your Entrepreneurial Drive. Here’s your pseudo-science lesson for the day. The entire universe, including business here on earth, is controlled by a dark force scientists call entropy—a tendency for every ordered and organized system to turn into total chaos, and for the poop to hit the fan when we’re not looking. Entropy is what is responsible for socks, wet towels and underwear ending up on the floor, and for critical files to go missing three minutes before your first

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GM, Raising the Innovation Sting Ray

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Why does it take a near death experience to wake some companies up? I guess there is an innovation equivalent to a drunk hitting bottom. If only the drunk could see what they are headed for before they land in the gutter. Case in point: General Motors. As an owner of General Motors, I’m feeling pretty good about their progress since being pulled back from the abyss.

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FUN, EASY CONTEST!

Mike Michalowicz

THE OBJECTIVE: I want some funny, relevant phrases for my website and thought a fun, easy contest would make this a win-win for both you and me. THE PRIZES: I am giving away a FREE autographed copy of The Pumpkin Plan and an even more FREE copy of my “Industry Authority” DVD training (which I recorded last yea r) to each winner! There will be 10 winners… and one person can win multiple times, up to all 10!

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Strange Project

Start Up Blog

I was thinking about someone doing a project where they give themselves to others for a year via twitter. Each day or week they are available to help someone (person, SME, startup) for free to do anything so long as it is legal. The only price will be that it is able to be documented. Or maybe this: sell their labour a week at a time on eBay and see what the starting price is (early on in the year) and what it becomes towards the end of the year based on the value they add, or social followers t

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My "Aha" Moment in San Francisco

Growthink Blog

This weekend I had the very good fortune to attend Ryan Deis and Perry Belcher's Traffic and Conversion Summit in downtown San Francisco. Headlined by speakers including Guy Kawasaki and William Shatner, it was an awesome gathering of 2,000+ of the best, brightest, and most accomplished from the worlds of online marketing and sales. “Aha” moments were aplenty for all who made the effort to attend.

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How to Guarantee ROI With Social Media Participation

Duct Tape Marketing

Now that more and more organizations are investing time and money into social media participation, people are looking for ways to measure the return in terms of direct business rather than fans, friends and followers. But, this seems to be in direct opposition to the common advice offered about social media participation. I mean, everyone knows you can’t sell on Twitter and Facebook.

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Overcoming the Fear of Starting a Business

Business Plan Blog

'There are thousands of startup articles that offer advice on the methods, processes and mechanics for starting a business. However, the inner, personal workings of starting a business are just as important as your business plan and capitalization strategy. If you are not mentally prepared to start your business, you will be stopped dead in your tracks.

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Looking at Martin Luther King, Jr. Day through a new set of eyes

Jeff Hilimire

I wonder what Martin Luther King, Jr. would think if he were here today. Would he think that significant progress has been made since he left us on that fateful day in April, 1968? This is a question I wouldn’t have even considered a year ago. It’s embarrassing, really, that it took me being a part of Leadership Atlanta to finally start to see the reality that is all around me - that there is still a massive crater in this country between the Haves and the Have-Nots.

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The Art and Science of Dreaming

entrepreMusings

Martin Luther King. Thanks For Dreaming Mr. King was the post I wrote last year on MLK day. I posted it verbatim below. Many of our dreams have come true because of the risks he took. Why are people so scared of some people’s dreams that they feel the need to kill them? Many of us are still dreaming and our dreams don’t always come true in our lifetimes.

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When it was a game: Hoping Foursquare returns to its roots

This is going to be BIG.

I don't know anything about Foursquare's fundraising plans--but as a user, I certainly hope the company lives to die another day. Somewhere along the line, the product went from changing the way I interact with the real world around me--running into friends more often, choosing to go to stick to habits to maintain a Mayorship--to aiming its sights on Yelp.

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