Sun.Feb 26, 2012

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post about negotiating with suppliers called “ The End of the Mexican Road.” The post talked about how to find the lowest acceptable price & terms in a deal through testing. In the post I made clear that I believe that all negotiations should seek to find fair deals where both parties can feel good about the outcomes.

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[Singapore] Newstead’s Second Digital Style Outlet In Jurong Point – A Sign Of Changing Consumer Behavior?

YoungUpstarts

Singaporeans’ love affair with technology continues unabated, judging by the plethora of electronics stores around the island and the massive crowds swarming the four major electronics fairs every year. But if one trend seems to come across strongly in recent years, it’s not just about selling electronics and devices anymore; it’s about selling a lifestyle.

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

If you’re a healthcare-focused VC or angel who has made at least 3 investments in the trailing year, please contact me if you’d like to attend our upcoming Harvard Business School Angels pitch night on February 29, co-hosted with the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association. The evening is sponsored by a Fortune 500 medical technology company. This is the first industry-specific HBS Angels pitch night.

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Entrepreneurs Need Creative Thinking After the Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. There is a tough balance here to achieve, since a large portion of starting and running a business requires analytical, logical thinking.

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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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2/28 Best Practices Event: Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur

David Teten

UPDATE: CANCELED DUE TO MICHAEL YAVONDITTE BEING UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE. I hope you’ll join us Tuesday, February 28, 2012 (6:30pm) at NYU Stern School of Business, 44 West Fourth Street, Kaufman Management Center, Room #2-60, for another in Joe Chin’s Best Practices series on “ Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur “ Joe will be moderating a discussion between our Venture Partner Michael Yavonditte and me.

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Leveraging the Social Media: 5 Ideas For Your Job Search

crowdSPRING Blog

Unemployment rates at 50 year highs. New college graduates moving back in with Mom and Dad. Things are bad out there and jobs are scarce, so where does a savvy job-seeker start? Monster and CarrerBuilder have plenty of listings as does Craigslist, but cruising the job boards is a passive approach: you watch the listings and send in that cover letter and resume when you see one that looks right for you.

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Converse All Star Is Stuff That Works

Duct Tape Marketing

Converse All Star Is Stuff That Works This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. This is a new Sunday series that I’m calling Stuff that Works. Each Sunday I’ll pick an item that is for me a foundation elements in my line up of stuff that matters or as legendary Texas singer songwriter Guy Clark put it – “The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall.” Today I’m going to point out my long standing infatuation with the canvas Converse All-Star shoe, commonly refer

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Personal Reinvention - Lessons From the Kingdoms of Amalur

Seeing Both Sides

I became a venture capitalist over nine years ago, leaving my entrepreneurial career at the ripe age of 32. At the time, I had been an entrepreneur for ten years across three companies , and felt helping start Flybridge Capital represented an exciting opportunity to team with a few friends to create a new kind of venture capital firm. Equally compelling for me was the challenge of personal reinvention - pushing myself out of my comfort zone to learn a completely new operating model and face a

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Walker Twitter Highlights: February 20th – 26th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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