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Going Green Is The Next Black

YoungUpstarts

by Quincy Yu, SeaYu Enterprises. According to a recent report , there was a 59-percent jump last year in the number of businesses that have gone green. This is great for the environment, plus nine out of ten of those businesses experienced cost savings by going green. Going green could spell black for your business, and this is especially important for small businesses.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. It is a quick self-assessment that you can apply to calibrate where you are in your business-building process. We have also provided relevant 1M/1M curriculum modules that you can use to bridge the gaps in your knowledge and understanding of a robust entrepreneurship methodology.

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card.io: Like Square, but without the square

K9 Ventures

It’s been a busy week folks! I’m pleased to announce the developer launch of K9 Ventures’ portfolio company, card.io (pronounced card-I-O). As the name suggests, card.io is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in mobile applications. A huge congrats to the founding team of Mike Mettler , Josh Bleecher Snyder and Brent Fitzgerald on the launch!

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Ten Action Items to Reduce Entrepreneur Stress

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. Then there are the additional challenges of balancing the demands of family and friends. Having too much on your plate can turn your dream into a nightmare. Some people will tell you to just get a bigger plate, meaning hire some 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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Time for a Technology Apalachin?

deal architect

We have seen it in the movie Godfather. We have seen it hilariously parodied by Billy Crystal in the movie Analyze This (see clip below). It is a meeting where the Cosa Nostra – the major US Mafia families -.

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BlogFrog – From Blogs To Communities

YoungUpstarts

Being an entrepreneur isn’t exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog ‘s co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one. The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.

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Deal Hunting On The Move With Shooger

YoungUpstarts

It’s got nothing to do with girls with a penchant for shoes. Then again, just maybe. Shooger is a free, community-driven web and mobile deal-hunting application that gives users the ability to find and share deals instantly with other Shooger users. And before you go again with “not another daily deal site&# , Miami, Florida-based Shooger does not operate on the standard tipping point models or advertiser-backed promotions.

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Remake NYC, one app at a time

This is going to be BIG.

One huge inefficiency in the world of entrepreneurship that I see is that the people who are good at identifying problems aren't always the best people at building solutions. That's why NYC is such an interesting innovation ecosystem to me--because there's so much cross polination. Each year, NYC releases a bunch of data in hopes that hackers will build new apps that change the way we live in the Big Apple.

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Camera Geeks

Feld Thoughts

Every now and then my mom sends me a pile of old photos of me and my brother Daniel. Here’s one. Notice all of the cameras. I’ve got two (I’m the shaggy haired guy on the right) and Daniel has one (he’s the short shaggy haired guy on the left.) I have no idea how old I was but I’m going to guess around 11 based on my white knee socks and light blue short shorts.

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Mini Saga #97 – Intuition

Life Beyond Code

Most people need to see it to believe it. Those who believe in intuition, just need to feel it. Mini Saga #96 – Connection. Rob and Chris were at it again – arguing about Intuition. Unlike Chris, Rob thought “Intuition” didn’t make any logical sense. Just then, Rob received a very short phone call from a new prospect. He was grinning after he hung up – “This one is in the bag.

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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

Introduction I love working with startups – and trying to protect founders and watch their backs. Not only are there key contractual issues that must be buttoned-down (like vesting and IP assignment ), but also there is a minefield of laws and regulations that must be complied with. Indeed, in a world of easy access to online documents, it is often this legal compliance which is overlooked by founders, as they attempt to stay “lean” and “scrappy” (and sometimes even handle the legal work thems

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Pop culture knowledge

Start Up Blog

Pop culture knowledge used to be about knowing who was atop of the leader board: the top of the billboard chart. the number 1 movie. the best selling pair of jeans. the best selling athletic shoe. the best picture at the Academy awards. the most popular celebrity endorser. … popularity contest X. This knowledge was a quick reference asset. It was worth keeping tabs on.

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Take Control Of Your Publicity (Or End Up Like Bill Clinton)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

What Is Your ‘Personal Brand’? Your personal brand is what should determine your media activity and the type of presence you seek to obtain publically. In my last post, I debated the topic “ Is All Publicity Good Publicity? &# I looked at a range of factors that would influence this statement, and the main conclusions can be summed up as the following: Publicity stunts can be really fun and serve to get attention in a crowded and noisy world, but be sure that any stunt and expe

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Start-up SpareFoot Makes Self-Storage Fun

Austin Startup

SpareFoot, the online self-storage marketplace, launched a unique project and blog series called Adventures In Storage, designed to familiarize employees with their product in the most entertaining way possible. The new mixed-media “reality series” documents the start-up’s 18 employees as they experience the process of renting and moving into and out of self-storage units.

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Triple Book Short: For Parents

OnlyOnce

Triple Book Short: For Parents. People who know me know that I am a voracious reader. Among other things, I probably read about 25-30 books per year — and I wish I had time for more. I probably read about 50% business books, which I blog about. Most of my other reading is in a couple specific topical areas that interest me like American History and Evolutionary Biology.

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NaturallyCurly.com Raises $1.2M Series C

Austin Startup

The folks at Austin-based NaturallyCurly.com announced today that they’ve raised some additional funding. The news isn’t even warm yet, and the San Francisco Chronicle is already pooping on the news saying that this is a sign that investors will fund anything. They are writing as if two grad students just fleeced some desperate VC out of a check based on a fancy powerpoint deck.

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Staff Leasing Companies

ithacaVC

For small companies (say less than 50 employees), I am a big fan of using staff leasing companies to handle employee administration. In a nut shell, the way it works is that the staff leasing company technically hires your employees and then leases them to your company. Yes, you still make all the hiring, firing, title, salary, etc., decisions. The staff leasing company is purely an administrative agent that brings economies of scale to your employee administration function.

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SolarWinds Agrees to Acquire TriGeo

Austin Startup

SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held TriGeo, a provider of log and event management software, for $35 million cash. The company expects the acquisition to close in the third quarter of 2011. “Upon completion of the acquisition, the addition of TriGeo’s offerings to our portfolio should give SolarWinds the opportunity to respond to our existing network

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Where I get my news

Jeff Hilimire

I’m always curious to see how people consume content on the web. There are so many options out there and so much content to parse through, and new apps being created every day to help us do that. Reeder for iPad. Below is how I consume news and content on the web (in order): Google Reader via the Reeder app on iPhone and iPad. It will definitely make the list of my favorite apps this year.

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The Humility Imperative: CEOs, Keep Your Arrogance in Check

Rob Go

The Humility Imperative: CEOs, Keep Your Arrogance in Check. Wow, what an amazingly insightful and honest post from my friend Dave Balter. .

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Content As a Total Body of Work :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John J