Tue.Apr 17, 2012

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. I always enjoy spending time with Brad as the antidote to the eco chamber. He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. And I’ve always remembered a quote from high school, “Non Conformity is the Highest Form of Social Attainment.” That always stuck with me.

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business is hard work, but making it successful is a whole other challenge. Some entrepreneurs want to do something that’s never been done before, while others want to build upon existing business niches or ideas and become a strong competitor. Whatever the goal may be, entrepreneurship is a tough undertaking and these risk takers have helped change the world for the better.

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Move Your Startup to Chile-con Valley, Get $40,000!

ReadWriteStart

It's the plight of every startup: mucho trabajo, poco dinero. What to do? Steve Davis packed his laptop and his Spanish phrasebook and moved to Chile. On arrival, a government program called Start-Up Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. He also got a visa, office space, mentoring, help with networking and fundraising, and connections to potential clients.

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14 Fascinating Theories From Leadership Studies

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve never delved into the field of leadership studies as a businessperson or college student , you really should. There are dozens of fascinating theories from the field that can help you become a better leader or at the very least offer insights into the reasons why we act the way we do when leading or being led. While leadership studies is a much broader field than can be addressed in a short article like this one, we’ve pulled together some of the biggest and best theories put forth by

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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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The Magic Moment When You Shift To Executing As Fast As You Can

Feld Thoughts

There is this magical moment that happens when a startup finally puts the key components together to build a successful business. After months or years of iterating and pivoting, they finally have the right product for the right market at the right price. At this point, the company has to shift gears and change their mindset a little. They need to stop looking for gold and start mining as fast as possible.

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[Infographic] The Anti-Aging Empire

YoungUpstarts

It’s probably safe to say that we all want to age gracefully. For many of us, that may include the liberal use of anti-aging products to help fight against the natural process of aging – which is why the anti-aging industry was US$80 billion in size in 2011, and is projected to top US$114 billion by 2015. Here’s an infographic that takes a close look at anti-aging products and the industry surrounding it – it’s startling clear that while anti-aging products and tech

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Getting the most out of an accelerator programme

The Equity Kicker

Garren Givens, founder of social commerce site Dibsie , wrote a great post on Venturebeat explaining how founders should think about accelerator programmes. As the number of programmes mushrooms there is inevitably going to be some bad ones to go with the good ones, and so this is a topic that founders need to think more about. His main point is that at their heart accelerators are venture capital funds.

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Lies Lies Lies: What Internet Marketers Must Learn From The Advertising Industry

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I was really thrilled with how my previous article, Have Internet Marketers Lost The Plot was received. It was controversial, but I was pleased to discover my suspicion was correct – new Internet marketers and the customers and consumers of high profile and established Internet marketers want more !

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Random Notes on Innovation #1.

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Today’s post features Random Notes. Bits and pieces not quite full blog post worthy, but worth telling (hopefully). Random Note #1a. — Scott Anthony is at it again. The Innosight innovation maven has just released The Little Black Book of Innovation, how it works, how to do it. This is not a review — I’ve only gotten to page 53 — but I’m liking the tone.

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More Than Mobile

Rob Go

My friend Greg Bettinelli posed an interesting question on Twitter today about whether the iPad should be considered “mobile” He makes an interesting point. Compared to a phone, consumption of the web on tablets isn’t nearly as mobile. It’s not happening “in car after kid drop off” It’s more often on the couch, at least as far as commerce is concerned.

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2012 Wharton Venture Award Winners | Entrepreneurship Programs

Campus Entrepreneurship

Thomas Baldwin at the Wharton Journal has brief interviews with the 5 recipients of the Wharton Venture Award. After a highly competitive selection process, five student-led ventures were selected to receive the 2012 Wharton Venture Award (WVA). The WVA Program provides selected student entrepreneurs with $10,000 in funding to pursue the development of their ventures during the summer between their first and second years.

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Using Facebook For Small Business

YoungUpstarts

Over 800 million people are currently on Facebook, so it’s no surprise every business wants to use the social networking site to drive their business. But how do you create a community and engage with them effectively? Kirby Koo, Manager of Small and Medium Business Growth at Facebook gives us some top tips that will help you get the most out of your business’ Facebook Page. 1.

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5 Ways to Create Even More Facebook Engagement

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Ways to Create Even More Facebook Engagement This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Search around even casually and it’s likely you will find lots of people talking about how to get more Facebook likes or how to add tabs and pages and apps that go bang. Enable the public subscribe button for some of your posts. However, as is the case with so many things in life, quality over quantity is an important concept.

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Are You Ready to Rally to Fix Young America?

ReadWriteStart

There's a notion, one you're no doubt all too familiar with, that America is in need of an economic refresh. The troubles are likely to intensify as millions of Millennials try to join the workforce, only to be met with what Scott Gerber, the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) , calls, "America's youth unemployment epidemic." So Gerber's trying to get Stephen Colbert to help provide a cure.

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10 Ways That Entrepreneurs Need to be More Open

Startup Professionals Musings

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.” This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back.

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Bureaucrats Gone Wild

Venture Chronicles

Q: Why would there have been no scandal in Columbia if the GSA accompanied the Secret Service? A: The GSA would have never haggled over $47 for a hooker. . Like most Americans I am outraged but not surprised by what is going on in government when it comes to stewardship of taxpayer (and borrowed from China) dollars. Not surprised because this is our expectation of government, wasteful and inefficient with few controls that amount to more than window dressing, and every administration comes in, R