Sun.Dec 23, 2012

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6 Approaches to Maximizing Good Business Habits

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the entrepreneurs I know realize they have some bad habits, like maybe procrastination or not listening well, so they focus on dropping these. New studies indicate that a more productive approach would be adopting new good habits and behaviors that clearly move your business forward, like good time management and implementing customer recommendations.

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Do I feel lucky?

deal architect

I can somewhat understand citizens of Orlando getting upset about the optics of the City’s apparent no-bid award to Workday. But for competitive vendors to howl about it is, well, a bit hypocritical. Sole sourcing runs our industry: a) Most.

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Snapchat and Poke and culture

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lots of coverage about Facebook Poke, which many have pointed out is a feature for feature clone of Snapchat. Some have pointed out that Poke was written in 12 days as evidence of the lightweight nature of Snapchat, and others have noted that Poke was at the top of the app charts within 24 hours as evidence of Snapchat’s peril. It’s not surprising that Poke got so much lift since it was promoted by the Facebook app, which has tremendous daily active usage.

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog In politics, the era of Big Data has arrived Carbon Nanotube Yarn MindMeld me maybe? Santa’s Warehouse An event-ful year Wireless charging comes to Madison Square Garden The song of the Alien Birds The Hurricane Simulator.

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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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“Pay with a Tweet” and Other Growth Hacking Examples

VC Cafe

There are however, many clever ways to acquire users in the early stages, when your startup has no brand recognition. In the post, "Introduction to Growth Hacking for startups" we went through the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to use Foursquare to market your business & reach a new audience

The Next Web

When we think of social media and business, the first few things to come to mind are Facebook and Twitter. Yet, there is one mobile app that tends to get overlooked by businesses: Foursquare. True, it doesn’t have the same numbers that the likes of Facebook and Twitter can boast, but what it does have is a dedicated audience which has made over three billion check-ins.

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How To Explain What You Do

Mike Michalowicz

The Customer Might Not Get It. There is a danger in simply sharing a one or two word title of what you do. The reason is your customer may already have defined what that means in their head, and it may be totally different than what you really do. In this MSNBC interview with Mike Michalowicz and Jeff Hayzlett share business strategies, including how to explain what you do when a customer asks.

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Guns and Preventable Suicides

Diego Basch

Warning: what you are about to read is mostly speculation. Take with a grain of salt. Don’t trust my numbers blindly. Find your own data. The suicide rate in the United States is twelve per one hundred thousand inhabitants. That means that every year, around 38,000 people kill themselves. About one hundred per day. Of course, not all suicides are equal.

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What Talents Do You Need to be a Successful Entrepreneur?

Small Business Force

Almost every day some aspiring entrepreneur raises the question with me or on some question board along the lines of "what does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? "Well it takes certain talents � those innate characteristics that define you as an individual, which can and should be developed and honed. And, while there is no absolute recipe, there some key talents that every successful entrepreneur I've ever met or dealt with has, either all or a majority of them, some in great abundance.

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[Review] How China’s Leaders Think

YoungUpstarts

by Aaron Tan. When Internet giant Google threatened to pull out of China in 2010, few were aware of the paradox that the Internet brings to China’s leaders beyond the political fodder. In “ How China’s Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China’s Past, Current and Future Leaders “, Robert Kuhn, an international investment banker who has advised the Chinese government for over two decades, notes that Chinese leaders recognize that free access to information is critical for t