Thu.Mar 15, 2012

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5 ways to help remote workers thrive

Up and Running

Last week’s post about the pros and cons of remote employees discussed how to tell if a remote worker situation would be a good fit for your company. Today, guest author Lior Levin provides tips to help you get up and running with remote employees or offices. Remote workers make up of roughly 10 percent of America’s workforce, according to MIT Sloan Management Review , and current cost-cutting trends suggest that this trade of cubicles for cafes and kitchen tables will continue.

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Five Ways To Know When You’re Done With What You’re Doing

YoungUpstarts

by Jason Womack, author of “ Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More “ The curse for many of us modern-day movers and shakers is that we never seem to have enough time to do everything that needs doing. There simply aren’t enough hours in the work day (or even the work week!) to accomplish everything on our to-do lists.

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Opportunities in 3D printing

The Equity Kicker

You may have noticed that last year I blogged a couple of times about 3D printing. Since the beginning of this year I’ve stepped up my interest in the area in the hope of finding an investment opportunity in the short term. Below are my emerging thoughts on what makes 3D printing interesting, some of the challenges today, some of the end markets, how the 3D printing value chain breaks down, and where the investment opportunities might lie.

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10 Cool Gaming Tools in MBA Education

YoungUpstarts

Despite their huge potential for facilitating learning, “games” have a connotation as being frivolous and time-wasting. While that is often true, teachers in higher education are catching on to the fact that allowing students to learn through competition or in a virtual environment can be effective well past grade school. Many business schools are making use of business simulation games and other games to teach important MBA skills.

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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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Why the NYC startup scene needs Sean Parker

This is going to be BIG.

I have never met Sean Parker. I don't know if the movie portrayal of him is accurate and I don't particularly care. What I do care about is that a person who is long on vision and has a knack for being around big companies early on is now living in New York City. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users.

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Innovative Courage: Are You Kodak, Britanica, or FujiFilm, Wikipedia?

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

This mornings Independent brings the story that Britanica is publishing its last set of encyclopaedias – after 244 years of continuous editions. The story strikes a chord. My family invested in those glorious leatherette tomes when I was a boy and I spent many hours delving into those books. This was of course before the Internet — which, by the way, is going to be big.

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Address the five risks to increase your valuation.

Berkonomics

In the creation of a new enterprise, there are five principal risks to be addressed by the entrepreneur. Professional investors will probe these five risk areas and make the decision to invest based upon comfort with each. So it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business.

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Why You Shouldn’t Assume How Users Feel About Your Site

ConversionXL

I wrote this short rant. Isn’t it fun? It’s totally cool! Yes, it’s that easy! It’s annoying when a website (or anyone for that matter) tells you what you should feel. Especially when you’re not feeling the feeling the website is telling you to feel. Don’t do it. You can guide the user, you can make your site easy to use – but you shouldn’t assume how the users feel.

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ActonMBA Application Deadline Coming Soon

Austin Startup

We all have many reasons to be thankful for living in Austin, and grateful for so many awesome things we have in our city. One of them is a top-notch, progressive, forward-leaning MBA program at Acton. Recently they announced the launch of their newly condensed MBA in Entrepreneurship program, which allows students to complete the first portion of the program from anywhere in the world prior to spending five months on-location in Austin, Texas to complete their MBA.

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the tale of 2 robots

Start Up Blog

I was recently at the WPP Stream digital event in Asia (hence the serious lack of blogging). One of the sessions that we have at Stream are Ignite presentations. The idea for an Ignite tals is this: - Tell us, but tell us quickly. So the format is for 15 slides, where the slides change automatically after 15 seconds regardless of where you are up to.

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Canary in a Coal Mine

OnlyOnce

Canary in a Coal Mine. From Wiktionary : An allusion to caged canaries mining workers would carry down into the tunnels with them. If dangerous gases such as methane or carbon monoxide leaked into the mine-shaft, the gases would kill the canary before killing the miners. Perhaps not the best analogy in the world, but I had an observation recently as we took on a massive new client: over the years, Return Path has had a handful of “bellwether” clients that I’ve jokingly referred to as the canar

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What is Duct Tape Marketing?

Duct Tape Marketing

What is Duct Tape Marketing? This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. More than anything Duct Tape Marketing is an idea that started with the belief that marketing is a system and in order to operate that system there must be a very clear point of view about how to build a remarkable business. I started my little marketing adventure over 20 years ago as a traditional marketing agency and soon found that I loved to help small business owners, but I just couldn’t do it with the model I saw everyone

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the tale of 2 robots

Start Up Blog

I was recently at the WPP Stream digital event in Asia (hence the serious lack of blogging). One of the sessions that we have at Stream are Ignite presentations. The idea for an Ignite talks is this: - Tell us, but tell us quickly. So the format is for 15 slides, where the slides change automatically after 15 seconds regardless of where you are up to.

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Masters in Social Entrepreneurship | Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship | #Socent #Socinn

Campus Entrepreneurship

George Mason University in Fairfax, VA has announced a new, interdisciplinary Masters in Social Entrepreneurship beginning in the Fall of 2012. From the Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship : We welcome applicants from around the globe and from all undergraduate majors for this two-year program. Only a handful of universities in the world offer a graduate degree in Social Entrepreneurship.

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I find this very annoying

Jeff Hilimire

So Kevin Rose builds up Oink to 100,000 users and then pulls the plug because it was just an experiment? Super for the 100,000 people that took the time to download and use the app. Appreciate it. Can’t wait to try his next startup. I’m going to be super eager to waste time on it only to find out he had no intentions of ever making it into something real.

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Y Combinator | “It Really is the Entrepreneur” | Amplifier Venture Partners

Campus Entrepreneurship

My friend, Jonathan Aberman, investor and Startup Virginia leader, has an interesting piece in response to Y Combinator’s current experiment with accepting teams that do not have beta products or services or even an idea. Clearly Y Combinator is bowing to the reality of new venture iterations or pivots. From Aberman : By taking away from the equation the coupling of a business model from acceptance to accelerator program, Y Combinator is taking away one of the pillars that seed stage inves

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Random Blog Post :: Downtown Portland Photographs

Scalable Startup

I lived in Portland for a few years and often miss the special magic that it has. You can try to put it into words – bridges, fog, Powell’s, fresh oysters and salmon, 23rd, Old Town. But it’s better in words, and Hillary caught some of the magic here. A Day in the City « hilaryschaffnerphotography [link].

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Footsy – Socking It To Ya Online

YoungUpstarts

You’ll find e-commerce sites touting almost any kind of product on the Internet. Footsy ( www.footsy.in ) an e-commerce startup from India, is little different – it focuses on socks. And very colorful ones, at that. Founded by Seema Seth, 32, and Pooja Mehta, 27, Footsy was pretty much the culmination of the founders’ desire to having their own product-led business. “For me, Footsy is a promise of both business viability and dreams,” says Mehta, a graduate of Mudra

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REPOST: The Importance of BUS DEV (from august 2011)

Scalable Startup

This question has come up often recently – what is the difference between Sales, Marketing, and Business Development? What the hell is business development? Here’s my take on it: [link]. @tomnora.

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