Fri.Feb 15, 2013

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

2012 has proved to be a great year for developers – at least as far as financial compensation goes. The continuing tech boom has resulted in strong competition for top engineering talent, resulting in a subsequent upward surge in salary scales as well. But how much has it grown? Despite a year-on-year fall of 3.6-percent in the final quarter of 2012, overall average annual salaries has increased 3.7-percent year-on-year to US$118,900, according to an infographic from Silicon Valley technic

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Twitter Link Roundup #166 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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10 R’s of Motivation Every Entrepreneur Should Know

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the keys to maximizing the productivity of your team, as well as yourself, is motivation. It has been estimated that the average team member at any given time works at less than 50% of his capacity. Thus mastering the art of employee motivation could double your chances of success over the average competitor. While there are many books written on this subject, most entrepreneurs I know simply assume that their own vision, motivation, and drive will be adopted and maintained by partners an

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Equity basics: vesting, cliffs, acceleration, and exits

The Startup Toolkit

false As a cheatsheet, the “normal” equity structure is: Founder terms: 4 year vesting, 1 year cliff, for everyone, including you. Advisor terms ( 0.5–2.0% ) : 4 year vesting, optional cliff, full acceleration on exit. Getting equity structures right. When it comes to equity terms, there are only 3 things to understand: vesting, cliffs, and acceleration.

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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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Are You Guilty of These 7 Press Release Sins?

Rembrandt Communications

Save Money and Get Better Results with your PR Efforts If you look on the Internet, you will see some horrible press releases. And the businesses that distributed them probably thought they would be inundated with media and sales inquiries as soon as the press releases went live. Has this happened to you? If so, [.].

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Engine. Where Startups Come Together

Feld Thoughts

I’ve regularly blog about patent trolls harassing startups and impeding innovation, the experiences of immigrant founders, and the battle for a free internet. While I’m fortunate to have this blog, and other writing opportunities as a platform to give voice to these stories, I also realize that to really have a meaningful impact, we need the startup community to be involved in government.

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The virtuous cycle of transparency

The Equity Kicker

I just read this quote from Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn: I’ve come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation. People have an insatiable curiosity, and if they’re officially denied access to information, they’re going to dig for it on their own. And if they find it, they’ll become resentful and want to leak it.

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Take Risks. It’s Hard To Embarrass Yourself

Mike Michalowicz

It is a shame that so many entrepreneurs are afraid to take risks for the fear of permanent embarrassment. Instead of doing something edgy and new, they sit safely on the sideline. They never get hurt or embarrassed, but they never get into the game either. Here is the thing, no matter how big of a risk you take; no matter how potentially embarrassing it may be; and even if the world does take notice and laughs at you, they will forget by tomorrow.

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Elect Yourself President

Up and Running

This Monday is Presidents’ Day in the U.S. and in the spirit of the holiday we want to celebrate our favorite presidents and leaders. Namely: you! We appreciate Lincoln’s brilliant plans, FDR’s innovative new deals, and entrepreneurs’ dynamic business plans. We appreciate you, who rise every day to place executive orders, create bold new deals, and lead your small business(es) to success.

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The 4 Steps To Negotiating Winning Business Deals

Mike Michalowicz

If you don’t know how to negotiate the right way , you don’t know how to negotiate at all. Are you the person who always gets their way, no matter what? You are a horrible negotiator. Do you offer your best deal right off the bat, only to get cut down even further? You too, are a horrible negotiator. Or are you one of the few who maximize your gains AND maximize the gains for the guy on the other side?

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Game Consoles: The Last Remaining Walled Garden

Andrew Payne

The reddit user kmesithax wrote a brilliant comment yesterday about the realities of game console development, describing the tools and costs: Well, no, there is no OpenGL or any graphics API for that matter, it’s all some stupid low-level hardware API that you have to tickle to get any 3D rendering to work. and. So let’s say you get over your initial API shock, you have a decent handle on what all the little libraries do, and you wanna buy some development hardware now.

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In a Time When Authors Rule the Web

Duct Tape Marketing

About a year and a half ago I warned bloggers and content creators to take author markup and authority and Google+ seriously. Google was making under the hood noise about attaching authority to content published by individuals based on a variety of factors. I advised bloggers to follow Google’s instruction to link their blog posts and about us pages to their Google+ profile in order that Google might start enhancing search results with goodies like profile pictures as below.

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“If You Just Try and Be Stubborn About Trying, You Can Do What You Set Your Mind To” (via Sonia Sotomayor)

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to execute your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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I’m not saying no one is going to the Microsoft stores, but…

Jeff Hilimire

But everytime I see one, its empty. And at the same time, the Apple Store is almost always pretty full. These pictures were taken at 10:30am on a weekday at the same mall.

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Game Consoles: The Last Remaining Walled Garden

Andrew Payne

'The reddit user kmesithax wrote a brilliant comment yesterday about the realities of game console development, describing the tools and costs: Well, no, there is no OpenGL or any graphics API for that matter, it’s all some stupid low-level hardware API that you have to tickle to get any 3D rendering to work. and. So let’s say you get over your initial API shock, you have a decent handle on what all the little libraries do, and you wanna buy some development hardware now.

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The #1 Way to Improve Client Satisfaction

Early Growth Financial Services

The best way to improve your client satisfaction is by providing clients with the exact product or service they want. And how do you do that? By understanding your clients: what do they need and want and, of equal importance, what don’t they need and want. That may sound obvious in theory, but it is sometimes challenging to execute on. I know this from personal experience.

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Game Consoles: The Last Remaining Walled Garden

Andrew Payne

The reddit user kmesithax wrote a brilliant comment yesterday about the realities of game console development, describing the tools and costs: Well, no, there is no OpenGL or any graphics API for that matter, it’s all some stupid low-level hardware API that you have to tickle to get any 3D rendering to work. and. So let’s say you get over your initial API shock, you have a decent handle on what all the little libraries do, and you wanna buy some development hardware now.

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The Good News ? You're Really Successful! The Bad News ? You're Really Successful!

Small Business Force

Most of my blog posts are focused on keeping you out of trouble.This one is focused on that "oh, s**t" moment of extraordinary success that, hopefully, some of you will someday have. Success is often a two-edged sword. With it comes the fruits of your labors.But also, with it comes the necessity to deliver on that success. Every entrepreneur dreams of success.But few truly plan for it.

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Disclosure and Brain Pickings

This is going to be BIG.

Disclosure: I am friends with Maria Popova. Well, we're not great friends. Definitely Facebook friends--and occasionally we'll grab coffee have an in person chat. We should do more of those, since we work next door to each other. In full disclosure, maybe I'm writing this post so we could be better friends. I'm not sure. It seems like it could be a bias.

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Build consensus.

Berkonomics

Surely you’ve been exposed to articles, courses and lectures about various styles of management, and how each is appropriate for some companies and for some levels of organization and at some times. For example, a consensus-building leader works well in that style until someone yells “fire!,” and the emergency requires a dictatorial style of management to act quickly, protecting lives.