Wed.Dec 26, 2012

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?????????? – Tenacity: How I Spent A Year One Night in Kiev

Steve Blank

This July I thought I had set the record for tenacity in my age group. Go ahead and take a moment to read the post , it’s short. I reminded my Startup Owners Manual co-author Bob Dorf this is how entrepreneurs played the game, blah, blah, blah. As usual Bob did one better. Here’s a guest post on what happened to him in the Ukraine. —– Usually when you teach entrepreneurship, one of the key things you teach is tenacity , a vital characteristic of great entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs Learn New Rules for Real Influence

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs, like Tony Hsieh of Zappos and Casey Sheahan of Patagonia , have long since realized that influence is no longer something that you do to someone to get what you want, but requires listening and relationship building to do what they want, with a win-win outcome. We now live in a world where even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect.

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Call me Ishmael

deal architect

My friend Michael Krigsman has been running a series on "Industry Influencers". Personally, I cringe when I hear the term – I know it sounds ungrateful since many include me in the lists of influencers they compile. Trust me, I.

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7 Necessary Components For Your New Business Plan

YoungUpstarts

by Lyndsey Freeman. If you’re starting a new business, do not take one more sip of coffee, one more step and spend one penny before you write your business plan. Here are 7 things you need to include: 1. Executive Summary. The executive summary is the first and most important part of your business plan. If the project is not clear or compelling enough in this section, often your investors won’t waste their time reading the rest, so you’ve got to get this part right.

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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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More New Renaissance

deal architect

On the innovation blog The technology skills shortfall Earth as art Eco-warriors Santa’s sleigh Simulate controllers at London airports For your car’s midlife crisis Megapixel surveillance Energy efficiency apps marketplace.

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Four Apps For SMBs For A Less Stressful 2013

YoungUpstarts

by Xenia von Wedel, VP at SocialRadius. In case you are thinking about New Year’s resolutions, here some new tech solutions for SMBs that would definitely help to make 2013 more efficient, time saving and altogether less stressful. 1. Voxeet. My personal top favorite No 1 is Voxeet , because I spend way too many hours on terrible conference calls, where I don’t even understand half of what the others say and it really aggravates me: After online phone services with peer-to-peer architecture like

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6 Trends Startups Must Cope With In 2013 – From Paul Kedrosky

ReadWriteStart

Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, and the volatile world of high-tech startups don’t make things any easier. That’s why ReadWrite turned to famous and fearless tech prognosticator Paul Kedrosky , a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation , focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and the future of risk capital, to ask him his predictions for the startup world in 2013.

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We Are All Artists Now

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with Seth Godin. Few people have captured the post industrial world of work like Seth Godin. Now, you may think of him as a marketer – and he is a brilliant one indeed. I believe, however, his greatest contribution to business is the very clear message about how work has evolved from one of factories and rules to one of making ideas and art.

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Series A Crunch.just Darwin at work

Professor VC

As December and 2012 draws to a close, I've decided to weigh in with my thoughts on the impending (or not depending on which blogs you read) Series A Crunch. It seems that The Series A Crunch has been discussed almost as much as the Mayan calendar this month and I've mostly sat on the sidelines figuring that if the world were really going to end, I had better things to do than write a blog post.

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New Business Idea? 13 Easy and Cheap Ways to Collect Feedback

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally published in Noobpreneur What’s a cheap, fast way to get feedback on a new business idea? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. 1. Test the Marketplace Whenever I come up with a new idea, I often try a less expensive option to see how the idea will hit my target market.

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Christmas Isn’t Awesome For Everyone

Feld Thoughts

This is a tough time of year for a lot of people. I used to be one of them. And I’ve gotten over it, and myself, which I attribute 100% to Amy helping me figure it out and not being willing to put up with my nonsense. But it’s a useful reminder for those who think it’s awesome for everyone. While the Christmas and New Year’s holidays can be a restful, restorative, wonderful family time, it can be excruciating for those who are depressed.

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Favorite Longreads of 2012

abovethecrowd.com

Over the past several years, I have become a huge fan of Mark Armstrong’s web service, Longreads. For those of you that don’t know, Longreads is a Twitter handle ( @longreads ), and a web service ( www.longreads.com ) that points to the best long form content on the Internet. At its core, it’s an amazingly effective editorial and discovery engine. Combined with a product like Instapaper, it creates an online/offline reading experience that feels purpose-built for a tablet world.