Fri.Feb 22, 2013

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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The 10 Questions I Didn’t Expect to Be Asked by Investors

Up and Running

If you’re raising money for your company and you want to pitch to angel investors or venture capitalists , then there are a few important things to know that savvy investors care about. I’ve raised close to $1 million for my previous startups and the following questions were not what I had expected to hear from the investors I was pitching to.

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MetroHi.com Embraces a Unique Approach for Reputation Management

SiliconHills

BY IAN PANCHEVRE Reporter with Silicon Hills News MetroHi.com , a San Antonio based startup in the review management space, started with humble beginnings but is now picking up momentum, and it’s all thanks to a unique approach to an enduring problem. Radu Istrate, the founder and CEO of MetroHi and a Boston College graduate, [.] The post MetroHi.com Embraces a Unique Approach for Reputation Management appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Only the paranoid survive

deal architect

I have made a personal resolution – avoid watching shows like Homeland and 24. I find myself paranoid after watching them. Not sure, though, I can avoid conversations like below: a) I hear the term “paparazzi drones” from an exec.

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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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Atlanta’s 6th Annual Startup Riot Throws Up Three Winners

YoungUpstarts

Held as part of Atlanta’s Tech & Startup Week , the 6th Annual Startup Riot featured 30 local entrepreneurs pitching their ideas for a chance to win huge cash prizes, thousands of dollars in professional services and meetings with top venture capitalists and investors. Startup Riot , initially founded by Atlanta-based entrepreneur Sanjay Parekh as a way to give back to the city’s burgeoning technology community, saw T.A.

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The Best Business Voicemail Greeting

Mike Michalowicz

There is a 97% chance that your office voice mail greeting stinks. That’s because there is a 97% it sounds exactly like this: “Hello, this is (insert your name blurted out too quickly to understand). I am unavailable to answer your call at the moment, but if you leave your name and number, along with your message I will call you back as soon as possible.

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“If I Fail, I Try Again and Again and Again…It’s Not the End”

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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Infochimps Raises $2.78 Million

SiliconHills

Infochimps raises $2.78 million of a $3 million offering, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Austin Business Journal reported the “filing is an update to an April 2012 report in which the company received $305,000 of a planned $1.3 million financing from six investors.’ “In 2010, about a year [.

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HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

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Sections. Social. Mobile. Enterprise. Cloud. Hack. Play. Small Biz. About. Contact. Advertise. Privacy. Search. Follow us. Share. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter. on Google+. on Linked in. by Email. Social. Mobile. Enterprise. Cloud. Hack. Play. Small Biz. Hot Topics. Microsoft. Apple. BlackBerry. Cybersecurity. Facebook. Pause. About. Contact.

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If It Ain't Generating Qualified Leads, Don't Do It!

Small Business Force

Regardless of glitzy campaigns, attempts to create videos that can go viral, no matter how many likes you have on Facebook or followers on Twitter, the ultimate purpose and very reason for the very existence of marketing is to generate qualified leads that can be converted into sales. No matter how exciting, attractive and ego-stroking your marketing programs might be, if, at the end of the day, they ain't generating qualified leads, you shouldn't be doing them!

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Twitter Link Roundup #167 – 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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TNW’s Ultimate Marketing Bundle — Only for those who actually want to be successful [Sale Price]

The Next Web

Chances are that if you read TNW then you’re either an entrepreneur or you at least fancy yourself as one. Entrepreneurs create things. We make businesses where they never existed before. But with so many potential stumbling blocks along the way, how do you know what step to take next? TNW’s Ultimate Marketing Bundle is here to help. We’ve collected some incredible courses from experts in different fields, and gathered them into a single bundle of information that will prove to

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Handwritten Notes: The Forgotten Business & Sales Tool

Mike Michalowicz

For Those Who Can’t Read My Handwritten Note. I admit, there is one downside to a handwritten note. sucky handwriting can’t be understood. So, just in case you can’t understand what I wrote, here is the text: Doing the expected is easy. Every single competitor of yours is doing the expected. They send a thank you e-mail after the big meeting.

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Leadership is not a popularity contest

Jeff Hilimire

Delta’s President, Ed Bastian, took the time to chat with some of the people from my Leadership Atlanta class and we were all blown away. In all of these sessions, such as the one with Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer , I find myself furiously taking notes as I don’t want to miss anything that these great leaders are gracious enough to share with us.