Mon.Jan 14, 2013

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Sandy Hook Promise and Tech Activism

Both Sides of the Table

The tech community has become more politically active over the past 5 years and this is a good thing. We live in a representative democracy and organizing, having a voice and expressing views is critical to our functioning democracy. One of the most visible, active and admirable leaders of this movement is Ron Conway and he describes this in this post on TechCrunch.

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Do Job Specs Matter?

Seeing Both Sides

Today's post is brought to you by my friend, Paul Blumenfeld , a recruiter who is one of the most thoughtful people I know when it comes to hiring processes. Since the topic is so fundamental to the company-building process, I am pleased Paul agreed to share his thoughts. When my wife and I got engaged, we had barely clinked champagne glasses when a friend asked when we would be visiting Crate and Barrel to register for wedding gifts.

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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising. Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley.

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The Biggest Facebook Mistakes To Avoid

Mike Michalowicz

We are far past the wild west days of Facebook, yet many users continue to treat it arbitrarily making faux pas after faux pas. Just like you wouldn’t go to a networking event with horrible b.o. and shoving your cards in peoples face, you need to stop doing the virtual equivalent on Facebook. Now that I think about it, people do go to networking events and try to push their businesses on you – and not surprisingly they fail to connect with anyone or persuade anyone.

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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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[Singapore][Event] Echelon 2013

YoungUpstarts

Echelon is back for its 2013 edition – it takes place on 17 and 18 June this year – and it’s currently on the hunt for more of Asia’s most promising startups. If you’re an Asia-based startup looking for an opportunity to showcase your product and would like to pitch to Asia’s top investors, industry thought leaders and the media, you need to be at Echelon.

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Last Chance to Apply to TechStars in NYC

Feld Thoughts

Techstars (Photo credit: Wikipedia). TechStars New York City has just been a great program. With close to 200 awesome mentors , investors, and seasoned entrepreneurs that roll up their sleeves and dive in, it’s no surprise that we’ve already seen an exit from the 2011 class , and the average company raises over $1.5M after the program.

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Life is hard. Go help someone (or ask for help)

This is going to be BIG.

I wrote this in my newsletter this morning. Honestly, I’m feeling kind of conflicted on what to write this week… It doesn’t feel right for me to comment on Aaron Swartz—I didn’t know him and I don’t know enough about the details of his case to go around placing blame. So instead, I’ll just say this… Life can be extremely trying sometimes.

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How to Be Decisive and Lead without Regrets in 2013

Up and Running

This post was previously published on Forbes.com. . As entrepreneurs, we know that running a business brings a lot of headaches and worries along with the more positive experiences of leadership. Every day seems to be filled with decisions that affect your success and the success of your employees. Should you buy that new truck? Should you hire another employee?

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In search of common standards for text input

The Equity Kicker

Like many people these days and, I suspect just about everybody in the future, I now use a range of computing devices to do email, browse the web, and access the various web services I use. I’m typing this post on my laptop (still far and away the best device for blogging), I do email (and most anything else now) on the move on my Nexus 4, and I have an Android tab in my bedroom and iPads in my kitchen and living room which I use when I’m in those rooms.

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How To Ask For Help, In Seven Steps

Mike Michalowicz

How To Ask For Help, In Seven Steps. Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones said it best, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” Mick’s still right about that. At one point or another, we all need some form of help, usually from our friends, but not always. Friend or not, very few of us really know how to ask for help , or respond to a denial of help, in the right way.

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Ray Lewis and Neil Saban: Effort is Eternal

Growthink Blog

I usually hesitate to analogize from the world of sports that of business. In contrary to many motivational videos, these are two very different realms of human endeavor and there is not a clear line between the attributes and mindsets that drive success in one as compared to the other. This past week, however, I was moved by the stories and coverage of Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis’ retirement after 17 seasons of professional football, and those of Alabama head football coach Nick Sabin

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The best deal is not the best deal

Start Up Blog

When negotiating with a supplier in business, it’s a natural desire to want to get the best deal. And when we think of deals, we think of the value equation: The product or service as a function of price. If we take this approach and succeed the net result is this: The party we are dealing with gets their margin squeezed and they make less money from dealing with us.

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12 Month Total Online Presence Blueprint

Duct Tape Marketing

I’ve been taking business owners through the beta of my Total Online Presence Program of late and the comprehensive nature of this mindset is certainly reinforcing the overwhelming amount of stuff there is to do online if you are to tap the full potential of building a Total Online Presence. photo credit: someToast via photopin cc. That was a really long sentence to say – “Dang, there’s a lot you have to do to get this right.”.

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Ultra-Big, Ultra-Cheap Monitors Emerge From The Gray Market

ReadWriteStart

For all our brand loyalty, consumer electronics are commodities. A very small number of suppliers produce the guts of most electronic devices, and competing brands are often assembled in the same factories (we’re looking at you, Foxconn ). Assuming the same components, the only major differences among many products are fit-and-finish standards and customer support.

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. Post WWII the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on weapons development and space exploration (being completely customer-driven) and other agencies charted to fund basic and applied research in science and medicine (being driven

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Move Over, Fast Food – Here Comes Accelerator Food

ReadWriteStart

With thousands of gastropreneurs launching local food businesses around the U.S. – cupcake trucks and boutique farms, gourmet this and sous vide that – “food accelerators” are setting up to put them through tech-style incubator programs and turn their early-stage ideas into fully baked businesses. It’s one part Y Combinator , one part “ Hell’s Kitchen.”.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: December 31st – January 13th

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 blog-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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Dear Disney…have you been reading my diary?

Jeff Hilimire

So. Freaking. Cool. Disney in the coming months plans to begin introducing a vacation management system called MyMagic+ that will drastically change the way Disney World visitors — some 30 million people a year — do just about everything. In contrast, MyMagic+ will allow users of a new Web site and app — called My Disney Experience — to preselect three FastPasses before they leave home for rides or V.I.P. seating for parades, fireworks and character meet-and-greets.

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7 Startup High Risk Factors That Scare Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

We all know that every startup is risky. No risk means no reward. Yet every investor has his own “rules of thumb” on what makes a specific startup too high a risk for his investment taste. You need to know these guidelines to set your expectations on funding. Of course, if you intend to fund the business yourself, or have a rich uncle, external investment funding concerns are not a problem.

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Blog Content 2.0: How To Create Pillar Articles In Today’s New Media Obsessed World

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tweet. Many years ago I coined the phrase “ Pillar Article ” or sometimes called, “ Pillar Content “, to describe how to create great blog content. To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is. If you have never heard of this concept before, you can read the original article here – How To Write Great Blog Content – The Pillar Article.

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Every Young Person is Screwed | How to Survive | #students

Campus Entrepreneurship

Interesting piece by Bryan Goldberg, founder of Bleacher Report on how young people are screwed and how to fight it. Some interesting thoughts in this piece at Pando Daily. Every young person is an entrepreneur now, in one way or another — they must forge their own unique career path, and they need to think five or 10 years ahead. There is no rulebook anymore for how to build a career.

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