Thu.Jan 03, 2013

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Less Feature. More Cloud.

deal architect

One of my favorite enterprise software executives is Steve Miranda, who heads applications development at Oracle. His title is a bit narrow. He is also a key customer interface and the unofficial CIO at Oracle. This gives him a unique.

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Find and build recurring revenues.

Berkonomics

Most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. Sometimes, products are designed to make all of their profit upon the recurring revenues from supplies or support. We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release. Xerox in its formative years, even though barely having enough cash to market its then revolutionary copier, elected to lease rather than sell the units.

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10 Reasons Your Destiny This Year May be a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Many budding entrepreneurs struggle mightily with that first step – out of their comfort zone and into the unknown. They keep asking people like me whether the time is right, and the truth is that there’s never an ideal time to start your own business. It’s like starting a personal relationship, if you wait for exactly the right time, you’ll never do it.

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CES: The trueconsumerization of the enterprise

deal architect

Consumerization is defined narrowly by many to cover trends like BYOD where employees are allowed to bring their own flavor of device to work. To me, this new tech savvy employee is far more interesting as a consumer looking for.

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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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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

Genuine VC

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. The CB Insights report specifically which came out just before the holidays put a bright light on the supply-demand imbalance of the seed-stage companies searching for Series A capital.

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Small Experiments, Often

Feld Thoughts

This post first appeared in the WSJ Accelerators series titled The $100,000 Experiment in response to the question “When should you make a substantive change to one or more parts of your business model?” During the past few years, the word “pivot” has become one of the most overused words with regard to startups. For some, it means a tiny incremental change in the business.

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The Unbundled Mobile Software Stack

Agile VC

I’ve been using Google’s Chrome browser on my iPad Mini for about a month now. There are several things I prefer over Apple’s Safari, including the bookmark and search history sync with my other Chrome usage (on laptop) and some small UI touches. But for now there’s no way to make an OS-level switch to make Chrome my default browser.

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19 Things We Can Learn From Numerous Heatmap Tests

ConversionXL

Heatmaps are great for analyzing the behavior of your visitors. They can lead to insights you can’t find using other methods, which can greatly increase your conversion rate. Heatmaps are roughly divided between mousetracking heatmaps and eyetracking heatmaps. The big majority of companies use mousetracking heatmaps because of it’s price effectiveness.

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Content is King…Even on Wall Street

VC Cafe

Traditional media companies had an amazing year on Wall Street. While the Dow Jones Index increased a respectable 6.7%, the US Broadcasting and Entertainment Index surged 40%. In fact, other than. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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HBS Alumni Angels Investor Meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 16

David Teten

HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York is holding its next investor evening for our members (angels and VCs) on January 16. Presenting Companies: - CareBooker is the Expedia.com for booking family care services, such as child care, pet care, tutoring/lessons, home care, sports/fitness, and senior care. - Charged.fm offers powerful B2B/B2C ticketing software, challenging the ticketing monopolies. - Democracy.com provides a website for every candidate in every election and gives voters easy on

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Detroit Soup — Serving Hope & Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Amy Kaherl is the Director/Facilitator of Detroit Soup. As a Michigander I’m always looking for some good vibes on the economy. I found it last night on NBC Nightly News, an inspirational story about Detroit Soup. . It’s not a restaurant, but it does serve soup — and something a lot more precious for down-on-its-luck-Motown — hope.

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Do You Wake Up Productive?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tweet I’ve always been of the belief that success begins and ends in the mind. Techniques and systems work, but if the driver is inefficient and ineffective, failure is more likely than success. I consider myself a lifelong student of mindset, in particular my own. Ever since I experienced the raw fear of panic attacks I’ve realised just how powerful my mind is.

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The January cS Award and the December cS Award Winners!

crowdSPRING Blog

Back in 2011, we announced a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. January cS Award. For the New Year, we want to encourage a New You ! For this project we challenge you to find the best way to brand yourself or your company in the open marketplace. Branding is critical in business today, and not just for companies, but also for freelancers and service providers of all stripes.

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How to Create a Total Content System

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with John Jantsch. photo credit: the camera is a toy. via photopin cc. As content becomes increasingly important in the marketing mix, it must take on an elevated place in your strategy and planning. The use of high quality, education based content has become an essential ingredient in creating awareness, building trust, converting leads, serving customers and generating referrals.

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Best Startup Blog Posts of 2012

ithacaVC

I am not a huge fan of all the “Best Of” lists that come out just after Christmas, but I just read one that is absolutely worth a look. It is a full compilation, broken down by practical categories, of the best startup blog posts of 2012. Here it is – Best Startup Blog Posts of 2012. It is like a startup textbook! Enjoy.

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For Entrepreneurs, Successful Selling is as Much Connecting with the Customer as Fulfilling Their Needs!

Small Business Force

To succeed, every entrepreneur knows that his/her product or service has to meet an identified customer need.However, equally important, especially, beyond the initial sale is "connecting" with the customer on a personal and professional level, building a relationship. The use of technology especially through company websites and social media has vastly improved the reach of a small business and the ease with which market awareness can be created.

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Learning with Flippa

The Startup Toolkit

Flippa is a marketplace where small websites are bought and sold, typically for $1k–10k. If you spend some time browsing through recent purchases , you’ll see a few types of sites appearing over and over. In totally non-rigorous order from most to least common: Niche content sites (SEO + adwords/affiliate). Niche community (retention + adwords).

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I love it when developers have a sense of humor

Jeff Hilimire

Nice little fun in the update comments from my new favorite app/game, Letterpress.