Sat.Oct 13, 2012 - Fri.Oct 19, 2012

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Better Than Getting Rich Quick: Startup Geoloqi Gets A Deal For The Long Haul

ReadWriteStart

Geoloqi was a smart little startup from Portland, Ore., that made software for telling a smartphone where in the world it is. All kinds of investors wanted a piece of the action, but Geoloqi said no, no, no. Its founders wanted to find a fit , not an “exit,” a place where they could keep building the apps and maps thy love. Now they have. Geoloqi has been acquired by Esri.

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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. Barriers to entry are no longer created by patents or by tech differentiation alone, but by superior traction in the marketplace. In today’s web landscape, word of mouth drives adoption and can lead to “winner takes all” (or almost all) in both B2C and B2B markets.

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[Review] Innovate The Pixar Way

YoungUpstarts

From its first animated feature Toy Story to Finding Nemo , Up , and Cars , Pixar Animation Studios is probably the world’s leading producer of animated features. Renowned for producing cartoon movies that stir the imagination and touch the heart, Pixar’s ability to allow “artists and geeks” to flourish makes it one of the world’s most innovative organizations.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Color Labs, the photo-and-video-sharing social network that received much criticism over its pre-launch $41 million funding round, is about to be acquired by Apple. We’ve heard through trusted sources that the startup was nabbed for a price that is in the ‘high double digits’, as in millions, and that the deal is ‘done’, though papers have yet to be signed.

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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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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

September’s Startup Map showcases the latest trends in startup profiles created on Gust between September 1 st and September 30 th. Some of the entrepreneurs chose to keep their startup profiles private and therefore are labeled as unpublished in this month’s map, and were not included in the trends analysis. In September the US has once again shown the highest concentration of startups, even though there was a decline when compared to the month of August.

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Better Than Getting Rich Quick: Startup Geoloqi Gets A Deal For The Long Haul

ReadWriteStart

Geoloqi was a smart little startup from Portland, Ore., that made software for telling a smartphone where in the world it is. All kinds of investors wanted a piece of the action, but Geoloqi said no, no, no. Its founders wanted to find a fit , not an “exit,” a place where they could keep building the apps and maps they love. Now they have. Geoloqi has been acquired by Esri.

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

As my focus has evolved to getting companies to imagine and execute incredible digital marketing initiatives, I've discovered that my passion for the medium, my experience in creating innovative solutions, and — yes — my charm are sometimes insufficient to convince some CxOs to take their digital marketing opportunities seriously. Rather I've had to fall back on my trusty steed: data. :).

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Maximize Profits By Manipulating Your Break-Even Point

Growthink Blog

Every business has a break-even point, which represents the minimum amount of cash to bring into the business on a given month in order to at least be able to cover your cash expenses for the month, or larger profit goals. The reason the media call the Friday after Thanksgiving Black Friday is that many businesses do not reach their break-even point for the whole year until that day, due to the tremendous volume of sales.

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Clarity releases scheduling feature to replace Tungle.me, aims to connect 10 million entrepreneurs

The Next Web

It’s inevitable that entrepreneurs run into problems every once in a while as they pursue their dreams. Often, they might be wondering where they can turn for help and advice on what to do. Serial entrepreneur and investor, Dan Martell, has set out to create that solution for troubled founders. It’s called Clarity and connects you with an experienced advisor so you can ask all the questions you want to help you get on your way.

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Better Than Getting Rich Quick: Startup Geoloqi Gets A Deal For The Long Haul

ReadWriteStart

Geoloqi was a smart little startup from Portland, Ore., that made software for telling a smartphone where in the world it is. All kinds of investors wanted a piece of the action, but Geoloqi said no, no, no. Its founders wanted to find a fit , not an “exit,” a place where they could keep building the apps and maps they love. Now they have. Geoloqi has been acquired by Esri.

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Book Short: the Garage Workbench of the Future

OnlyOnce

Book Short: the Garage Workbench of the Future. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, by Wired Magazine’s Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail ( review , buy ) and Free ( review, buy ) is just as mind expanding as his prior two books were at the time they were published. I had the pleasure of talking with Chris for a few minutes after he finished his keynote address at DMA2012 in Las Vegas this week, and I was inspired to read the book, which I did on the flight home.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. We talked about the tactics and strategy for our firm, but also about the ethos we hoped to create, and our motivations and goals for this part of our careers.

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How to Get a VC Meeting – the flowchart

Steve Blank

I often get asked, “how do I get a meeting with a VC?” Here is my slightly tongue-in-cheek view. Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital.

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SAPs rollout malaise

deal architect

Reading Dennis Howlett’s update on HANA, you get the sense it is the first time SAP has had rollout issues I can point to several more lethargic product rollouts in the last few years ECC 6.0 available since 2005 is.

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7 Facts of Business Life For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” I find that the basics are actually the hardest to answer, just like your parents found out when they first tried to fill you in on the “facts of life” a long time ago.

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Eleven Tips For A Start-up Business With Very Little Cash (And A Great Idea)

YoungUpstarts

by Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “ You have a new start-up and you couldn’t be more excited. You know you’ve got a winning idea and you’re certain customers will love it. There’s just one problem, and it’s a doozie: lack of funding. Yes, even in the best of times it can be hard for cash-strapped entrepreneurs to pay for what they need.

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10 Entrepreneur Tips Dodge Million-Dollar Mistakes

Gust

Ryan Blair book image via Amazon. It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learn more from their failures than their successes. Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Yet, there is no doubt that the best strategy is to learn from someone else’s mistakes, so you can enjoy the millions that someone else lost in learning.

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Hotels and industry events

deal architect

I generally prefer industry events at hotels/resorts over those at convention centers. It means less wasted time on shuttle buses, and it usually means a somewhat manageable audience size. But it is also showing up in some hotel negatives I.

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Every Entrepreneur Needs to Master Key Disciplines

Startup Professionals Musings

I have met several young people in business recently who believe that they are natural born entrepreneurs, and actually seem to feel that traditional training and experience may be a detriment to their success in this new world. I concede that natural born components do exist, but more often I tend to agree with Peter Drucker , who said “It’s not magic, it’s not mysterious, and it has nothing to do with genes.

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Inventory And Sales Management App TradeGecko Enters Public Beta

YoungUpstarts

Earlier this year, we witnessed the founders of cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS (software-as-a-service) application TradeGecko pitch their product at JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day. Last week, the startup finally announced its public beta launch. Targeted for small- to medium-sized enterprises, TradeGecko is designed to simplify the tasks of running a wholesale business and making it more social and engaging.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

Gust

This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. We received data from thirty groups of the fifty angel groups from whom we requested data.

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The Roger Eberts of Technology

deal architect

My wife and I enjoyed The Bourne Legacy. In my case, it was after I saw it the second time. The first time I missed many of the nuances behind the spyware and pharmacology that define the movie (as I.

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10 Tips to the Simplest But Effective Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. Don't confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. Keep the wording and formatting straightforward, and keep the plan short. For minimum content, see my article “ These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable.

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Project Management For High Performing Lazy People

YoungUpstarts

by Wil Schroter, founder of Fundable.com. Project management sucks. Yet without it, we fall apart. Dealing with it has historically been an absolute nightmare for me, and my guess is it is for you too. Prior to launching our latest crowdfunding startup Fundable.com , we had launched 8 Web companies over the past two decades. This gave us tons of opportunities to test project management systems.

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Random Act of Kindness – Jedi Max

Feld Thoughts

On Sunday I’ll be running the Detroit Marathon with a bunch of friends including my partner Jason Mendelson who is running his first marathon. Becky Cooper, our CFO, and Jill Spruiell (Jason’s EA) are also running their first marathon, as is Andrew Tschesnok, the CEO of Organic Motion. As this is my second marathon in my Random Act of Kindness series, Amy and I are again raising $10,000 for someone on GiveForward.

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Halftime in Enterprise Tech

deal architect

Friday morning, Workday executives opened the NYSE and their market valuation quickly rose to a staggering $ 8 billion. To me, it was a fitting cap to a fascinating month in enterprise technology punctuated by Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld and several.

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Why Some Entrepreneurs Undermine Their Own Success

Startup Professionals Musings

In working with entrepreneurs and other business people over the years, I often hear stories of entrepreneurs who were so close to success, but somehow let it slip through their fingers. They could always give a rational excuse, like the market changed, but somehow it seemed that they were actually afraid of success, so they subtly undermined their own efforts.

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Proof Positive: Seven Facts To Breathe Life Into Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Bill McBean, author of “ The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don’t “ Doomed from the start. If you’re an entrepreneur or an entrepreneur-hopeful, it’s probably difficult to keep those four words from causing you to second guess your every move as you plan and run your business. They become especially hard to ignore when you consider the fact that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures happen w

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Fatherpreneurship: Tips on how to be a successful father and entrepreneur

The Next Web

I’m not going to pretend I know a lot about parenting. When my first daughter (Loïs, now 10) was born and the nurse led us out of the hospital I looked at my girlfriend and said “How can they just let us go? Do they know we don’t have a clue how to do this?” It felt totally weird, and irresponsible, to leave such a small and vulnerable creature in the hands of amateurs like us.

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Software AGs Agility Layer

deal architect

I spent some time at ProcessWorld, Software AG’s annual event. I very much enjoyed TUCON, Tibco’s event, and I wanted to hear about AG’s own events processing, SOA, collaboration and other initiatives. The conference started off with a very promising.

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. I believe stealth makes sense for large companies who can be sued for “pre-announcing” a new product to stall the market or kill a competitor.

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[Review] HBR’s 10 Must Reads: On Change

YoungUpstarts

Harvard Business Review or HBR has always been one of the mainstays of my reading list. I love how its editors sieve out business and leadership articles which are meaty enough to provide a good intellectual workout without unnecessary ‘academese’ Its latest compilation “ HBR’s 10 Must Reads ” is a selection of carefully selected journal articles centered on the most pressing issues of management. “ HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Change ” features articles

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When Is It Time To Pivot? 8 Startups On How They Knew They Had To Change

ReadWriteStart

There comes in a time the life of many startups when it starts to become clear that everything is not going according to plan. But how do entrepreneurs tell if they need to keep going all in on the original plan, or pivot to something new? To find out how real-world companies deal with that decision, we asked eight successful young entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) when they realized they had to let go of the products, plans and strategies that they worked so hard to develo

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog Not your parent’s Greyhound “Fast Fashion” WellPoint: Big Industry Changes, Big Data Microsoft Data Center evolution The 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft) Augmented Reality Kitchens Marc Benioff as Charlie Rose StayFit program for Truckers.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 5 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Time for a breakdown of week 5 of season 4 of Shark Tank ! I’ve been getting good feedback from people who enjoy getting an insight into how a VC thinks about an investment opportunity, and being able to actually see the pitch that generated the response. COZY BUG. The first company makes girls clothes, primarily pillow case dresses and hair bows, but also jackets, jeggings, tutus and other items, and sells them online.

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[Infographic] World Economic Freedom: Which Countries Rank The Highest?

YoungUpstarts

Economic freedom – loosely defined by as the freedom to choose how to produce, sell, and use your own resources, while respecting others’ rights to do the same – is the key to greater opportunity and an improved quality of life. But economic liberty can vary wildly from country to country, and the Heritage Foundation , together with the Wall Street Journal, ranks countries every year with its Index of Economic Freedom.

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