Mon.Apr 16, 2012

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Why Don’t We Make Learning A Computer Language A Requirement In High School?

Feld Thoughts

I spent this weekend at LindzonPalooza. Once a year Howard Lindzon gets together a bunch of his friends at the intersection of financing, tech, media, and entrepreneurship, we descend on The Del in Coronada, and have an awesome 48 hours together. Many interesting and stimulating things were said, but one I remember was from Peter Pham over dinner. It was a simple line, “why do we teach languages in junior high and high school but not a computer language?

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[Singapore][Competition] Students’ Digital Scrapbook Idea Wins Microsoft Imagine Cup Championship 2012

YoungUpstarts

Over the weekend, inventive students across Singapore came together for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Championship 2012 , an annual competition that showcases the inventiveness, maturity and thinking amongst students across the world. Conceptualized and organized by software giant Microsoft , the event is now considered somewhat as the Olympics version of student technology competitions.

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12 Deadly Grammatical Errors Startups Must Avoid

ReadWriteStart

Can the difference between "it's" and "its" actually affect the fortunes of a technology startup? You might be surprised. If you're working with a startup, odds are you're wearing a half-dozen hats and doing too much with too little. Often, this means that founders are writing their own website copy, press releases and blog posts. Too often, that results in grammatical errors that reflect poorly on the startup.

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[Singapore][Event] InnovFest 2012

YoungUpstarts

Held on April 18-20, 2012, InnovFest 2012 is an exciting festival of innovation-related activities featuring innovative technologies, dynamic startups as well as award-winning innovators and entrepreneurs. Organized by NUS Enterprise , the annual event hopes to see some 450 participants – including entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and technology professionals – converge and connect.

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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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Seeking CEO+Cofounders for Spinoff of VC-Backed Startup, W. 36th St.

David Teten

- Do you have a great team but your product just isn’t working? - Are you thinking of applying to Y Combinator without an idea? - Does your team want to quit your day jobs and really kick-off a company? - Would you like to have a salary from day one of your startup? If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading. ff Venture Capital is creating a new, spin-off business from an existing company, and we need a team to take the reins.

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[Infographic] The State Of IT Security

YoungUpstarts

You’d be surprised how bad IT security can get. According to Verizon, who has been tracking how many data breaches occur in the United States since 2004, in 2011 there were a total of 855 incidents resulting in the second highest number of compromised records lost since they started tracking. Here are some other interesting statistics: - 81-percent of data breaches result from hacking, - 94-percent of data compromised involved servers (and not personal computers, despite what paranoid IT s

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End of the Android Road: Why I got an iPhone

This is going to be BIG.

I've always been one to veer away from what the masses are doing. I never saw Titanic, didn't watch Lost and I'm not into American Idol. When a whole bunch of people get out of their heads excited about something, it makes me a little bit less interested--because I want to discover the awesome thing that no one knows about yet. That's why I've always tried out a wide variety of phones.

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Jeff Bezos explains why gatekeepers are a brake on innovation

The Equity Kicker

Regular readers will no that I’m a long-time fan of Jeff Bezos and Amazon and also that I have a keen interest in the evolving roll of gatekeepers in the internet age (see here and here for two recent posts). For these reasons I was very interested to read the following quote from Jeff Bezos recent letter to his shareholders (reported on Techcrunch ): even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation.

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What has your logo done for your lately?

Up and Running

Stop and think about all the material you produce to support your small business: ads, catalogs, stationary, envelopes, mailing labels, business cards, reply cards, websites, socials media pages and blogs… Your company name and logo appears on an extensive range of supplementary marketing collateral. But how memorable is it? Retention has long been a challenge in establishing a solid (and profitable) brand persona.

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Glue 2012 will be the best Gluecon yet

VC Adventure

As you may know from reading prior posts on the subject the two days that comprise the Glue Conference (May 23rd and 24th, 2012) are some of the most information packed and interesting days of my year. To me what sets Glue apart is that it stands almost alone in the conference circuit as a show that’s neither company specific (Google I/O, Dreamforce, Chirp) or startup celebrity focused (DEMO, TC50, etc.).

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The Kind of Luck that Every Entrepreneur Deserves to Have

Growthink Blog

A lot of folks are frightened by the word luck. Especially for those of the capitalistic persuasion, luck can be a very uncomfortable word. It can offend our puritan sensibilities. Our sense of us as masters of our fate. It can fly at the heart of that sacred concept of our American way of life, of the American dream, that if we work hard, we get ahead.

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5 tips for emerging women leaders

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

It’s been awhile since I’ve been out and about in the Valley. Last Saturday, I attended Santa Clara University’s Women in Business Conference at eBay’s north campus, aka PayPal. I’m a bit of hard person to please when it comes to talks. I get bored easily if the talk is too high-level, abstract with no takeaways. That Saturday morning, it was far the opposite.

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How to Build a Business That Cannot Fail

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Build a Business That Cannot Fail This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. There are many reasons why businesses don’t make it, but undoubtedly, the primary culprit is a lack of profitable clients. Jagz Mario via Flickr. I know that should seem obvious, but if more people truly appreciated this fact, they would go about their business in an entirely different manner.

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The Start-up Sprint to $25m in Annual Revenue

Austin Startup

This post originally appeared in Kip McClanahan's (Twitter @kipmcc) blog Re-Overthinking, and with his permission we're re-posting the first part of it here.

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Glue 2012 will be the best Gluecon yet

VC Adventure

As you may know from reading prior posts on the subject the two days that comprise the Glue Conference (May 23rd and 24th, 2012) are some of the most information packed and interesting days of my year. To me what sets Glue apart is that it stands almost alone in the conference circuit as a show that’s neither company specific (Google I/O, Dreamforce, Chirp) or startup celebrity focused (DEMO, TC50, etc.).

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Walker Twitter Highlights: April 2nd – 15th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a few Walker-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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5 tips for emerging women leaders

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

It’s been awhile since I’ve been out and about in the Valley. Last Saturday, I attended Santa Clara University’s Women in Business Conference at eBay’s north campus, aka PayPal. I’m a bit of hard person to please when it comes to talks. I get bored easily if the talk is too high-level, abstract with no takeaways. That Saturday morning, it was far the opposite.

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Early Predictors of Long-Term Survival for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m always looking for evidence of early startup characteristics that might be predictors of long-term success. Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. In that context, I recently came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” a

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