Tue.Jan 17, 2012

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The open API secret

Start Up Blog

The biggest flip the technology age has done on the industrial era is the open API. For the uninitiated, an open API (Application Program Interface) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other. It is also a system where web companies ‘open up’ their platform for external non affiliated software developers to create applications on.

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First lot of book reviews

deal architect

Books go through waves of reviews – executives, media, US readers, international readers. You appreciate them all because people take the time from their busy schedules to read, then provide feedback. Over the last couple of weeks I have received.

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Your Office Space is the Face of Your Startup

Genuine VC

Your office space is the face of your startup. Not only does it communicate an outward message, but like a face, a startup office provides insight into what’s going on underneath the surface. A startup’s space tells a story to everyone who is involved with a company spending time there: founders, employees, investors, and (potential) [.].

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[Infographic] The Silicon Valleys Of The World

YoungUpstarts

It’s difficult to supplant Silicon Valley as the hotbed of technology and innovation – our previous infographic looked at comparing Silicon Valley with New York – but that’s not stopping other parts of the world from building their own centers of entrepreneurship and technological innovation. Here’s an infographic – made by the folks at Gist.com – that shows some of these up-and-coming hotspots, ranging from Germany to Mexico, to Nigeria and closer to ho

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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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IAP at MIT

Feld Thoughts

One of the magic special things I remember about MIT is what happens during January. It’s called IAP – Independent Activities Period. Rather than classes, students can do whatever they want, including go home and sleep for the month (which I did a few times). There are lots of events, seminars, and short courses (day, week, month) on campus covering a wide variety of topics.

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Do You Stand Out From The Crowd?

YoungUpstarts

by Murray Newlands , is CEO and founder of Influence People. Let’s face it — there are a lot of people out there going after the same opportunities. Whether someone is on the Internet, at a conference, or at the office, you want your reputation, work and all of the aspects of your self-presentation to make you stand out from the crowd. In the short-term, it will get you into a lot more conversations, which will open doors.

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29+ ways to stay creative

crowdSPRING Blog

As I was taking my daily dose of online inspiration, I found a simple and inspiring video made by to-fu.tv listing 29 ways to stay creative. Some people will find this inspiring, some will find this repetitive, some will agree with a few ways and others will agree with all of them, but one thing I’m pretty sure is that you’ve got your own way to stay creative and we’re eager to hear from you in the comments bellow!

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Dave Gardner on Using Social Media to Connect With Big Companies

Life Beyond Code

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) The story was fascinating and it was very different from the stories that are common out there. The common stories have a general theme of increasing your presence and getting more followers.

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4 Inspiring Ideas And The Entrepreneurs Behind Them

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In my last article I wrote a few of my realizations and how I plan to adapt myself in 2012. In this sequel article I will share some of my personal inspirations , which have shaped me to become who I am, and how I think.

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Dave Gardner on Using Social Media to Connect With Big Companies

Life Beyond Code

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) The story was fascinating and it was very different from the stories that are common out there. The common stories have a general theme of increasing your presence and getting more followers.

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The lifecyle of awesome

Start Up Blog

As far as I can tell the life cycle of awesome is in perpetual decline. Every day we all get sent something that’s awesome. Something that’s great. Something that’s shareable. and every day we make a judgement. A decision whether this piece is worth sharing. There are so many things to share, and so many places to share them, that the stakes get higher and higher for what qualifies – it has to.

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Are you part of the Bplans 100,000? Take the poll and enter to win a free subscription to LivePlan

Up and Running

As membership numbers approach the 100,000 mark, Bplans.com has launched a poll and Twitter contest to celebrate! Bplans is inviting participants to take a brief, five-question poll , then head over to Twitter.com to tweet their business name or idea to @Bplans with the hashtag: #IamBplans for a chance to win a free subscription to business-planning product, LivePlan.

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Help Us, Help You

OnlyOnce

Before becoming Chairman of the Direct Marketing Association , one of the things I’d noticed over the years was that the association didn’t have a ton of primary market research on itself, sort of a classic case of the cobbler’s children having shoddy shoes. Today we are launching a new survey to help us establish a baseline for awareness and perceptions of all aspects of the DMA on behalf of all members of the marketing community. .

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The Day The LOLcats Died

Feld Thoughts

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Protest SOPA: Blackout Tomorrow

Austin Startup

To help raise awareness of the SOPA act, websites like Wikipedia and Google are going to either be blacked out, or take some other drastic action. A prototype of the Wikipedia blackout page is below. What Austin-based websites will join in the protest?

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Small Business Marketing Workshops, Seminars and Keynotes

Duct Tape Marketing

Small Business Marketing Workshops, Seminars and Keynotes This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. This is a video compilation of a few of the speaking events I’ve done over the past couple of years. In 2010 and into 2011 it seemed like all anyone wanted to talk about social media. This coming year I’ll be talking a great deal about integrating online and offline strategies and tactics and the fact that social media has simply become a given that needs to be considered more like a beh

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Putting the Google search controversy in perspective

Jeff Hilimire

Google made a major announcement about their search engine on January 10th. While theoretically the changes they announced are made to improve search results by making them more relative, the point that most people took from it was that Google is going to favor Google+, their social network , over other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It’s caused a huge controversy.

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Why We Love Student Entrepreneurs: X-Men References that Old Reporters Don’t Get!

Campus Entrepreneurship

Inc story on Groupon Founder Andrew Mason’s interview with 60 Minutes highlights why we love student entrepreneurs and don’t watch 60 Minutes. He said of getting rapped by regulators: “I’m not going to pretend like its been fun to have something that we poured our hearts into over the last three years, and see it criticized while we have our mouths taped shut.” Then he added, sounding more like Groupon’s wacky deals copy than the CEO of a company that employs

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It’s a torturous chaos until it isn’t

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When you talk about explosive, profitable startup growth, a few darlings come to mind. DropBox is one. Hubspot is another. I mean, just look at their growth ( published on SEOMoz ): Was it always so powerful a growth engine? Was it always so clear that this was a company with a bright future? Looking back on stats they published in 2010, the curve is identical, just a different scale on the y-axis: Or in 2009, when they published this to boast about how their revenue juggernaut is recession-proo

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New Investment Fun Looks to Find Innovation from Within Higher Ed | Campus as Market

Campus Entrepreneurship

Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Education on a new $100 million fund investing in higher education. The space between nonprofit and for-profit higher education gets a little more crowded today. University Ventures Fund, a $100 million investment partnership founded by a quartet of veterans of the for-profit and nonprofit education sectors, is the latest entrant in a market that aims to use private capital to expand the reach and impact of traditional colleges and universities.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Twittapolls

crowdSPRING Blog

So, we all know that social media is this thing that we’re supposed to use to promote our businesses. There are a billion articles telling small business owners that this is REALLY IMPORTANT and NECESSARY and VITAL, or else we should go crawl into an analog, Web 1.0 hole and end it. This is mostly for good reason. After all, it makes it relatively easy for your company to interact directly with customers and for said customers to submit feedback and suggestions.

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What’s an Entrepreneur? Best Answer Ever?

Campus Entrepreneurship

A former student of mine, now an emerging young entrepreneur, posted a great Inc Magazine piece to the wall of StartUp Mason. From the article by Eric Schurenberg: But until recently, I’d never seen a good elevator pitch for entrepreneurship itself—that is, what you do that all entrepreneurs do? Now I’ve seen it, and it comes from Harvard Business School, of all places.

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Entrepreneurship Education | The University of Delaware

Campus Entrepreneurship

Interesting insight into some of the undergraduate entrepreneurship offerings at the University of Delaware : As the semester was winding down over the last few weeks, students in Matthew Terrell’s Introduction to Entrepreneurship class ended their fall course on a high note with a special visit from Dansko co-founder Mandy Cabot, who created a $125 million company that began out of the trunk of her car.

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Research Sample | Case Study Campus | University of Maryland’s Dingman Center Angels Invest Record Amount

Campus Entrepreneurship

The University of Maryland at College Park is one of the case studies I am producing as part of my research. Here is a press release from the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship: The end of 2011 marked the close of an active year for the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and its Dingman Center Angels investor network.