Wed.Feb 13, 2013

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew.

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The Innovation State of the Union

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Pamela Menges, Phd CEO of Aerospace Research Systems, Inc. President Obama made mention in his state of the union address that he wishes to expand the National Netowrk for Manufacturing Innovation concept. I wholly applaud the idea, AND, there might be a more fundamental challenge that needs addressed first. I’ve made the acquaintance of a thought leader with her finger on the pulse of where the nation sits in terms of technological readiness to innovate.

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How Your Customers Actually Read Your Emails

ConversionXL

This is a guest post by Chris Hexton from Vero. Have you ever thought about how your customers actually read your emails? As in, how they approach them… mentally? How important is the subject line? Do headings in emails matter? Which links are customers most likely to click? Are links in body content distracting? Are images important? By considering questions like these and really investigating how customers actually read emails we naturally put ourselves in a better place to write emails that c

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Government Grants Cost No Equity, But are Not Free

Startup Professionals Musings

In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups.

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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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My New FiberHouse in Kansas City

Feld Thoughts

I bought a house in Kansas City on Monday. It’s next door to the Homes for Hackers and KC Startup Village. It will have Google Fiber in it. I hope it becomes an integral part of the nation’s first Google Fiberhood. I’m not going to be living in it. Instead, I’m going to let entrepreneurs live / work in it. Rent free. As part of helping create the Kansas City startup community.

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How Mobile Phones Can Help Tackle The World’s Literacy Problems

YoungUpstarts

by Louise Miller. Literacy is not an overwhelmingly big issue for Singaporeans. Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6 percent of women are literate, according to the millennial census – though this data is of course nearly 15 years old. In fact, 92.5 percent of Singaporeans over the age of 15 can read and write. Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 per

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Startup Investors: Due Diligence Goes Both Ways

VC Cafe

Ciaran O’leary of Earlybird, a VC fund in Berlin, gives founders a checklist for running due diligence on their potential investors. Due diligence should go both ways: VC check-list for entrepreneurs, suggests three main categories that entrepreneurs should check before accepting to take [.]. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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How To Get Solutions From Employees That Are Better Than Yours

Mike Michalowicz

By Guest Contributor Sabrina Schleicher , PhD, PCC, BCC. No More Distractions. Does it ever feel like you could get more done, if only you had fewer interruptions from employees asking you, “How do I do this?” Do you find yourself muttering under your breath, “Why can’t they just figure things out on their own?” It’s easy to get frustrated and impatient with employees who repeatedly come to you with “How should I do. ?

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Announcing our latest investment: GroupTalent

Version One Ventures

There’s a talent drain facing the tech industry today. We frequently hear about companies that can’t find enough skilled developers and positions are left unfilled for months. That’s why I’m particularly excited to announce Version One ’s investment in GroupTalent , a talent-as-a-service platform that focuses on hard-to-fill software design and development roles.

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People want to make art

The Equity Kicker

I’ve started putting interesting Youtube videos in my ‘watch later’ folder and watching them on my Nexus 7 whilst I stretch and do physio in the mornings. This morning I finished watching a great Seth Godin talk on what’s wrong with our education system (embedded below). There’s lots of very thought provoking content and if education interests you I heartily recommend taking 15 minutes to watch the whole video.

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Do you think a rose is beautiful?

Life Beyond Code

While coming back from his swimming class, I asked Sumukh a simple question – “Do you think a rose is beautiful?” He said “Yes” immediately and looked at me as if I was asking about something super obvious. I followed up with another question – “Sumukh, do you want to think about your answer again? Did you forget about the thorns surrounding the rose?

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Slam Dunk Tips for Attracting and Keeping Fans

Up and Running

Everyone knows the value of word of mouth marketing. It’s a concept as old as dirt, but not something most businesses know how to embrace. The “social web” is a great avenue to allow the people that know and love you (aka, your “Fans”) to promote your business in a fun way. Fans are basically customer evangelists. These are people who will generate media (primarily online) on behalf of products, services, companies, or anything/one who inspires them.

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How Andre Chaperon Developed His Unique “Soap Opera Story” Email Newsletter Formula

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tweet Download the Text Transcript in PDF. Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. Back in 2007 I met Andre Chaperon in Florida at one of the very first Rich Schefren Strategic Profits seminars. Before that Andre was a familiar name to me because I had seen him listed near the top of affiliate leaderboards for some of the product launches … Read the rest of this entry » Download the Text Transcript in PDF Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes Back in 2007 I met Andre Chaperon in Florida at

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When To Forget Your Numbers. And When Not To

Up and Running

Proving, once again, that no generalization holds for long, it is not true in all cases that business owners have to know their numbers. Sometimes they don’t. . For example, when things are going extremely well. You’ve got a good cash balance, no debt, happy customers, healthy growth, and a happy team? Then you’re okay. Focus on doing more of what you do that’s working.

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Running an Antifragile Startup

A Crowded Space

I recently finished reading Antifragile from Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In short - it’s amazing. Easily makes it to my Top 10 Books Ever Read list. Everyone should read it for business and for life. It unifies Wall St bailouts, Silicon Valley’s success, why restaurants are good, and why the Paleo diet is best for your body. . What does antifragile mean?

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4 Signs You’re a Weak Leader #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

This blindpost was suggested to me by @spunstephanie. It’s based on the Inc article, “4 Signs You’re a Weak Leader” I just recently blindposted the 5 characteristics of a great leader , so this one was pretty easy for me to put out. More blindposts here. 4 Signs You’re a Weak Leader. #1 – You freak out. A lot. I’ve beaten this one to death lately, most recently here and here.

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Would Anyone Care If Your Business Disappeared?

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with John Mackey. The title of this blog post is the gut wrenching, eye-opening question that every business must consider if they are to make a difference. photo credit: phill.d via photopin cc. I’ve found over the years that most business owners are motivated by the fact that they can make a difference with their business. It may not always start that way, but over time, and through conscious consideration, a higher purpose often evolves.

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Managing Stress as an Entrepreneur

Business Plan Blog

'If you are trying to launch or run a startup business , chances are you have run into major amounts of stress. You are not alone, stress is a part of every entrepreneur’s life and there is no way around it; every entrepreneur will run into problems and turbulent times in their daily business life. The question is not how to avoid stress but rather how to manage it in a way that will cause you to pay the least expensive price for your success.

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PSA – So God Made a Venture Capitalist

ithacaVC

I just read the lead article from today’s PEHUB Wire. It is so funny that I had to share in case you did not see it. Here it is in its entirety. I can relate to about 85% of this… perfectly. Gospel for the VC ages. So God Made a Venture Capitalist! By Mahendra Ramsinghani. And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker for all those entrepreneurs – the crazy ones!

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Storage worries

TechEmpower

In the 1980s, high-tech companies stored information about their customers on their sophisticated and high-cost computer equipment. Back then such practices were exceptional except at relatively large companies. Thirty years later, it's so commonplace that there are numerous services to store customer data for you "in the cloud.". A layperson would be excused to think that in 2012, questions about how to store data on computers have been worked out.

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Feb. 27: Launch of AIPAC’s Technology Division in NY

David Teten

Over the past year I have become active on the Steering Committee of AIPAC ’s new Technology Division in New York. On February 27 th we are holding our Launch Event at Bloomberg Tower with Dan Senor, co-author of “Start-Up Nation”, as the keynote speaker. This issue is close to my heart and I hope you will join me at this important event. Our growing Steering Committee includes: Alan Patricof, Greycroft Partners; Andrew Perlman, Vringo; Arthur Bierer, AB Dev Labs; Avi Fogel, NY Angels; Bayle