Wed.Jan 09, 2013

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Ten Critical Steps To Achieving Magnetic Leadership

YoungUpstarts

by Dianne Durkin, author of “ The Power of Magnetic Leadership “ What do the leaders of top companies do to create an inviting workplace filled with fully engaged and enthusiastic employees? The best leaders are people who know how to listen, can make a promise and deliver on that promise, and have stepped up to the plate and made the necessary investment to successfully engage their employees.

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

Localisation du Maghreb (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. The delegation will be in NYC January 14-15 and is looking for investment professionals to join roundtable discussions as speakers.

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So you want to be a (big) data hero?

deal architect

Listen to tech vendors and the tool – HANA or Hadoop – is guaranteed to make you a data hero. Watch IBM commercials and each of their employees must already be a data hero. Data heroes are elusive, and get.

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Start a Business That Fits Your Idea of Having Fun

Startup Professionals Musings

You are an aspiring entrepreneur, eager to dump the corporate grind, and work to the beat of your own drummer, but you can’t come up with that killer idea to save the world. What are the alternatives that will give you the independence you crave, and challenge your business acumen? Technically, I believe an entrepreneur is anyone who manages his own profit and loss, and doesn’t meet the government tax definition of an employee.

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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 Kaggle’s algorithms Our low-tech cruise Whole Foods Cracked The “Big Data’ of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count Taking embedded technology to new heights The evolution of the video game Whole Genome Sequencing The Digital Dead Sea.

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[Infographic] Workplace Injuries: Costs And Causes

YoungUpstarts

Workplace injuries are more common than we think. In fact, direct worker compensations from workplace injuries cost U.S. businesses around US$1 billion per week. And surprisingly, many of these don’t occur in high-risk environments like construction sites or factories – one out of every four cases of injury at the workplace is caused by overexertion.

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[Infographic] LinkedIn Reaches 200 Million Members

YoungUpstarts

Since its official launch in May 2003, LinkedIn has seen stellar member growth. Today the online professional network announced that it has reached 200 million members, and new members join the community at a rate of two per second. LinkedIn ‘s growth in the past two years has been especially stunning – it reached 100 million members in March 2011, which means it essentially doubled its membership base in just 21 months.

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The Experience vs. Education Curve in Startups

Gust

Years ago I came across the idea that in entrepreneurship, education and experience contribute to likelihood of success roughly like you see in the chart here. The underlying assumption is that a lot of education makes up for very little experience, and vice-versa. And this is in the context of startups, investment, and entrepreneurship. . I’ve drawn it here MBA style, with a line on two axes, pretty much the way I first saw it, with a smooth curve from one extreme to the other.

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Feld / Calacanis Interview on This Week In Startups

Feld Thoughts

I always enjoy hanging out with Jason Calacanis. We first met in the mid-1990s when Jason was hanging out in NY doing Silicon Alley Reporter. I can’t remember who initially introduced us – it was probably Fred Wilson. We covered a lot in the hour+ interview for This Week In Startups. Things like why I didn’t retire at age 30, what Amy’s ring tone is, Startup Communities , Boulder, what motivates me, the different between mentors and advisors, my biggest failures in the In

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Why Fake It ‘Til You Make It Doesn’t Work

Mike Michalowicz

Want to guarantee failure? Do this: fake it ‘til you make it. I bet you didn’t expect to hear that. I mean, how many times have you been told you need to fake it ‘til you make it to be successful? It has become the mantra for success. Unfortunately, its b t. Total complete b t. Fake it ‘til you make it is the insidious mantra of failure. Fake is simply another word for something (or someone) inauthentic.

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Opportunities around the video space

The Equity Kicker

The long heralded shift in viewing away from traditional television towards new services, formats, and devices is now well underway. People are watching the same content via newish services like Netflix and Lovefilm, they are watching new types of content on Youtube and they are increasingly doing all this viewing on mobiles and tablets and on traditional TVs via new delivery devices, particularly games consoles and devices like Apple TV.

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The New College Try for Millenials and Entrepreneurship (Infographic)

Up and Running

Interesting stats, with thanks to Diana Ransom writing for Young Entrepreneur: . 165 million entrepreneurs age 18-25, according to GEM report. There’s a higher percentage in the U.S. than any other country. About three-fourths of millennials tell pollsters they want to start a business. The main reason they don’t (52%) is they don’t have the resources.

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Book Short: Entrepreneurial Lessons

OnlyOnce

Book Short: Entrepreneurial Lessons. The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from 42 Founders , by David Kidder, is the ultimate coffee table book for entrepreneurs and people who are interested in how they think about running their businesses. David is the author of the Intellectual Devotional series (here’s a link to one of the five or six books in the series), he’s a good friend of mine and a member of a CEO Forum that I’m in, and my major disclosure about this blog pos

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The ROI of Relationships

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with Bob Burg. I suspect the title of this post will raise some eyebrows. I mean relationships aren’t about ROI right? They’re about something much deeper. Something you don’t measure in the same way you might, say, the performance of an ad. photo credit: Angela Radulescu via photopin cc. Well, maybe. Relationships in business are more important than ever and why not think about the return on the time and assets you invest in building real ones.

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"There are plenty of us who fund hopes and dreams. And plenty of us willing to fund true success. At."

Bryce Dot VC

“There are plenty of us who fund hopes and dreams. And plenty of us willing to fund true success. At the stage where you are past hopes and dreams, where you have customers, revenue, and a real business, but have not yet reached “true success”, there just aren’t many investors to choose from.

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Content Management in the Social Age

Venture Chronicles

I read this interesting piece on the redesign of the Reuters website , one paragraph jumped out at me as a consequential observation affecting a wide array of companies today: Known internally as “Reuters Next,” the new reuters.com will be a “state of the art” offering with a redesigned front-end and a proprietary content management system built from scratch, said our sources, who described the site as being remodeled into editor-curated, stream-based channels such as wor