Sun.Nov 18, 2012

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6 Right Times to Be a Ready-Fire-Aim Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

I know entrepreneurs who have suffered from the dreaded premature execution syndrome often associated with the ready-fire-aim approach. Yet I believe that many more have benefited from this approach, especially in early startup stages. If your product is highly innovative, and speed to market is critical, you won’t get it right the first time anyway, no matter how cautiously you plan.

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Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.

Both Sides of the Table

It’s 4.50am. Sunday morning. And I couldn’t sleep. I have much on my mind since I just returned from a week on the road. 5 days. 3 cities. Late night Mexican food. Beers. Airports. Delays. I left on a Sunday. I had to miss a full day with my family, camping in the mountains. I returned home Friday night at 10pm – too late to see my kids.

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More New Renaissance

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on the innovation blog Hotels for the “tech savvy, design forward” The explosion of social analytics The Big Data of Oracle Team USA Google’s $ 249 laptop for everyone Newsweek’s 2012 Green Ratings The iPad Mini Spray Painted Battery Nice.

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Marrying Digital And Analogue With Evernote Smart Notebook By Moleskine

YoungUpstarts

In a day and age where digital is heralded as bringing an end to good old print , perhaps its somewhat surprising that a technology company is looking to buck that trend. Evernote , which makes the note-taking app of the same name, has teamed up with notebook and accessory brand Moleskine to produce the Evernote Smart Notebook. The Evernote Smart Notebook is so named because it can be used like any regular notebook – in both ruled and squared page styles – where you pen down your dee

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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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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

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Image via eHow.com. Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. I’ve written about this before, but it’s a mysterious subject, and I’m always learning more.

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A message for misfits

Start Up Blog

This is a really interesting piece from the late George Carlin – who, despite all his success took the best part of 35 years before he thought he found his place. While all of this 4 minutes is interesting, and it isn’t so much for entertainers, but really appeals to the spirit of any entrepreneur or employee with the entrepreneur wanting to break out.

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Lincoln and Dealing with Change

entrepreMusings

I saw the movie Lincoln last night. It was a very well done and the actors were well cast. I left this comment on Fred Wilson’s post called Lincoln : “ I saw the movie last night and was deeply impressed with how it was done and the actors rendition of all of their parts. Watching a movie like this gives you perspective on what we have to deal with today in most of our (very lucky) daily lives.

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Facebook shares upon IPO March 2012

Scalable Startup

Here’s the stock ownership of principals at Facebook at IPO time earlier this year, interesting to see Mark Zukerberg’s amount vs. others.

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Small Business and Startups: 3 Essentials for Customer Service

crowdSPRING Blog

I had (another) bad customer service experience with an airline last week. I know – a shocker. Sometimes I start to think that poor service and unhappy customers are a requirement for the airline industry. That this is a part of meeting some unwritten baseline needed for any entrant in the space. Then I come to my senses and remember that there are companies like Southwest , jetBlue , and Virgin who are competing in the industry, in part, by providing a high level of service; these compani

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Why Most Entrepreneurs Behave Like Drug Addicts

Growthink Blog

What is the goal of New York Giants or any football team? The answer should be easy. This team's goal each and every year is to win the Super Bowl. There's no question about this. Every player shows up for pre-season training with that goal in mind. Every practice drill is performed with that goal in mind. And every game is played to win, because each win will put the team one step closer to the Super Bowl.