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4 things to know about crowdfunding versus raising capital

The Next Web

Crowdfunding is the process of raising capital by offering rewards to ‘backers’ by pre-selling your product or offering equity in exchange. While the latter is not yet legal in the United States, the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012, mandates that the SEC makes it legal by January 1st of 2013. There will inevitably be delays as the SEC works to implement a new framework to support this legislation, but it would be wise for entrepreneurs to start comparing equity crowdfunding wi

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Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability)

crowdSPRING Blog

We write often about ways small business can reduce expense, increase productivity, and operate more efficiently through a lean approach to marketing, technology, and operations. Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. When we hear that word, we typically envision massive call centers or bucket shops filled with developers writing code half-way across the world.

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve started a recent series on PR at startups since I get asked for advice on this topic so often. I will put the full list of posts here. The start of this series was, Should Your Startup Announce Funding ? 6 or 7 years ago when TechCrunch was at its peak market share (they are still strong but many more tech blogs have also popped up) there was a term for getting covered there called “the TechCrunch bounce.” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what peop

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Top Floor Relationships Make For a Top Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, high level relationships are everything. You can’t start a business alone. You need partners, team members, investors, vendors, and customers. But people don’t realize that all relationships are not the same. There are people you only recognize on the street, business friends, and then close friends whom you can always count on to help.

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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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Ten Simple Things You Should Do This Data Privacy Day

YoungUpstarts

Data Privacy Day takes place today, 28 January 2013. It’s a good time for us digital natives to assess how we are sharing and managing our personal information online. For those of us who tend to live our lives almost exclusively online, it should also serve as a reminder for us to protect our privacy and to take charge of our digital footprint, and that keeping personal details safe should be a key priority in our connected world.

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Startup Life – Operation Win A Dinner With Us

Feld Thoughts

My newest book, Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur , that I wrote with my wife Amy Batchelor , is shipping. As a result, I’m activating Operation Win A Dinner With Us today. Between now and Saturday (2/2/13), if you order a copy of Startup Life , you will be entered into a random drawing. I’m going to pick two random winners – one for orders from Amazon and one for orders from BarnesandNoble.com.

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The top 10 elements of a hot office

The Next Web

There comes a time in every employee’s life when they see the light. The light of the soft-bulb, diamond shaped desk lamp that illuminates the sudden realization. It may have happened on the first day of your new job at a start-up, or when you visit a friend at work for lunch, but suddenly the words through widened eyes shine through… “People actually work here?”.

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The 7 Jaw-Dropping Stats That Will Radically Change Your Local Marketing

Mike Michalowicz

Not yet sold on the impact of the Internet on your business? Consider this: Hungry? Restaurants with a 3.5 star rating on Yelp are 63 percent more likely to be full than a restaurant with a 3 star rating. A whopping 88 percent of consumers who search for a business on a mobile device, buy or visit that business within 24 hours. It’s 8 times more cost effective to bring back an existing customer than to find a new one.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Around this time of year I get sentimental and think about my life for once. It’s been slightly over two years since I attended Startup Weekend in September 2010, which literally changed my world for the better. At the time, I was an insecure lad who just came out of university. I was working for a large Dutch bank, and was not liking it very much. I was not very happy with my life, but didn’t really know why.

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A Look Back On VC Cafe’s Journey Since 2005

VC Cafe

VC Cafe turned seven! in this post I cover the journey of starting VC Cafe, the highs and downs along the way, and the path I followed to evolve it from a news reporting blog to a site that provides founders with practical advice. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Maximize Results in the Art of Persuasion

Gust

Howard Gardner photo via TheDish.org. Being a good entrepreneur means being able to effectively convince an investor that you have a great idea, persuade partners that your approach is right, and convince potential customers that the solution is right for them. If all your ideas are intuitively obvious to everyone, you probably aren’t thinking outside the box, or don’t really have the next big thing.

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[Singapore] Networking And Learning New Skills More Important Than Pay Raise: Singaporeans

YoungUpstarts

Money makes the world go round, but it may not be the most important thing when it comes to professional careers. In fact, according to a recent study by online professional network LinkedIn , networking and learning new skills trumped getting a raise for Singaporean professionals when it comes to their career goals. The study surveyed 450 professionals in Singapore in regards to the top professional goals people want to achieve in 2013, and found that 85% of Singaporean professionals surveyed a

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