Fri.Feb 08, 2013

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10 Partner Qualities to Test Before Sharing Equity

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One.” The feedback was good, but some readers asked me to be a bit more specific on attributes that might indicate an ideal startup partner. Even if you are looking in all the right places, it helps to know what you are looking for. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.

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Why Business Relationships Take More Than Texting, Friending, And Online “Connecting”

YoungUpstarts

by Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “. It’s official: Email, texting, and social media are no longer just helpful supplemental business tools. They’ve taken over the whole game. Yes, technology has made many aspects of modern living more convenient and “connected,” but the pendulum has swung too far.

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More New Renaissance

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On the Innovation blog Indoor Positioning Technology “Freeloaders” Big Data and Florists The GE Global Innovation Barometer The 787 Turbulence The New England Patriots: Butts in stadium seats House of Moves: Allergy as a video game Samsung in the Enterprise.

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The Winners Of The Startup Life Win A Dinner

Feld Thoughts

As Amy and I sit in the sun at South Beach eating frozen grapes and waiting for the snowpocalypse to hit the east coast, we decided to pick the Startup Life Win a Dinner winners. There are two – one of Amazon orders and one for Barnes & Noble orders. Five times as many people entered on Amazon, so the odds were better for the B&N folks.

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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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The Ultra-short Course on Seduction

Life Beyond Code

How can you seduce someone? Important Note: With the Valentine’s day around, the title can be misleading. No, I am not talking about romantic kind of seduction – I don’t claim to be an expert on that and I am happily married for the last twenty years – so I guess it does not matter either way. I am talking about seduction in business.

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In the ‘shadows’ of big data

The Equity Kicker

I’ve just read Betaworks 2012 Shareholder Letter written by the CEO John Borthwick. At 43 pages its a long read. Its pretty dense too. But there’s an amazing amount of great insight there – from developments in the investment market to interesting startup themes. One of the themes John talks about is drawing value from the ‘shadows’ of big data – i.e. gleaning insights from big data sets that bare little relation to the reason the data was collected in the first place.

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When – And Why – You Should Say “No” To $1 Million

ReadWriteStart

Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com , which backs up emails in the cloud. As a CEO/Founder of a startup, you might very well find yourself seeking to raise $1 million. Imagine your investors say “Yes” and you get the money. Is it really time to celebrate? That depends on the valuation of the deal. Many startups struggle to get the proper valuation with the right amount share dilution with their initial rounds of funding.

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Why I cheer when employees leave #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

This is a blindpost suggested by @gumboshowjoe. He didn’t think I had the b&lls to write it. The original article, written by Chris Seper , can be found here. And as usual, I didn’t read the article before writing this… Let’s start with this fundamental point ~ there are two types of people that leave a company: those that you want to leave and those that you don’t want to leave.

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Gorilla Anti-Trust Posturing

Andrew Payne

As the big four (Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) continue to wield disproportionate influence over the digital ecosystem, these gorillas are having to worry a lot more about anti-trust issues. Nobody wants to be broken up like the Bell System. For example, last month, Liz Gannes wrote about Facebook’s search plans: …the fact that Facebook has finally made its search intentions known could actually be really good for Google.

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The Rolling Close

The Startup Lawyer

Unlike Series A Rounds, most seed rounds of financing don’t have all investors fund their investment on the same date. Sometimes it’s a matter of logistics for investors, but mostly it’s because the startup is continuously identifying and pitching potential angel investors to join in the seed round. The startup can’t afford to wait to [.].

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Gorilla Anti-Trust Posturing

Andrew Payne

As the big four (Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) continue to wield disproportionate influence over the digital ecosystem, these gorillas are having to worry a lot more about anti-trust issues. Nobody wants to be broken up like the Bell System. For example, last month, Liz Gannes wrote about Facebook’s search plans: …the fact that Facebook has finally made its search intentions known could actually be really good for Google.

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If It Weren't for All These Customers We Sure Could Run This Railroad!

Small Business Force

Years ago, when Yoda was just a mere wisp of a lad, I remember hearing this phrase uttered by an official from the old Penn Central Railroad in a television interview in the months just prior to the formation of Amtrak. It was said somewhat in jest, but with enough feeling, that there was more than a little truth to it. They had so many passenger customers that were detracting from their more profitable freight business.

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Gorilla Anti-Trust Posturing

Andrew Payne

'As the big four (Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) continue to wield disproportionate influence over the digital ecosystem, these gorillas are having to worry a lot more about anti-trust issues. Nobody wants to be broken up like the Bell System. For example, last month, Liz Gannes wrote about Facebook’s search plans: …the fact that Facebook has finally made its search intentions known could actually be really good for Google.

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How to Be Quiet and Why You Must

Duct Tape Marketing

A few weeks ago I started a series of posts I’m calling Recover You. The series is focused on practices and habits that I believe lead to a healthier mind, body and spirit, a healthier business and ultimately a healthier economy. You can catch the entire Recover You series here. photo credit: emdot via photopin cc. Business is noisy. A typical day might involve dozens of conversations, meetings, decisions, tasks and insights.

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