Sat.Dec 22, 2012

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Privacy is a Startup Challenge and an Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

With another list of the Top 10 Internet Scams and more identity theft , there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity, and go the extra mile to make people’s life better, rather than stoke the fires.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Silicon Florist. Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. About. Ads. Archive. Contact. Jobs/Gigs. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors. by Rick Turoczy. 3 Comments. Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boulder Startup Community

Feld Thoughts

David Cohen just put up The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boulder Startup Community. It’s a short presentation that you can look at below and is a great way to get a lay of the land in the Boulder Startup Community. This will be an organic document so if you are doing something that you want us to add, just leave a note in the comments and we’ll update the doc.

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Finding (And Keeping) The Right Advisors For Your Business

99u.com

99U. Its not about ideas. Its about making ideas happen. "Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration." - Thomas Edison. Founded in 2009, the 99U takes its name from Thomas Edisons famous. quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." Through articles, tips, videos, and events, we share best practices that help creative professionals. transform their ideas from vision into reality.

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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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What’s really on entrepreneurs’ 2012 holiday wish list?

The Next Web

From the realistic and pragmatic to the hypothetical, members of the YEC have technology on the brain in 2012 — to improve their lives, make the office a little brighter and update “business as usual” while they’re at it. What is one high tech gadget on your holiday gift wish list that could radically help your biz in 2013? Why?

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Applying Digitial Marketing Techniques To Retail Shopping

crowdSPRING Blog

As consumers, we are constantly interrupted online by all forms of advertising. Many of us have learned to tolerate these interruptions. Some of us completely ignore them. But if you run a business, have you considered how your online marketing activities are impacting your customers and potential customers? Here’s a fun look at how retargeting, uselling, cross-selling, and other marketing techniques would look if done in the real world.

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Weekend Favs December Twenty Two

Duct Tape Marketing

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. Coffee tasting tour with a stop at Oddly Correct Coffee.

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Find and engage great mentors.

www.davidgcohen.com

Hi, I'm David G. Cohen Thoughts from a geeky ex-hacker turned investor and founder of TechStars. Bio TechStars My Investments “Do More Faster” Book Talks Contact Tip #2: Find and engage great mentors. October 31, 2007 By David Cohen Here?s the second of my series of posts on my top twelve startup tips from TechStars this summer. It’s about finding and engaging great mentors.