Tue.Mar 20, 2012

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Supply Chain Studs

deal architect

They come in bunches – or LTL as logistics folks call less than a full truck load. This morning I had breakfast with Chris Jones, EVP of Marketing and Services at Descartes and he regaled me with tales of supply.

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Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Erica Douglass bootstrapped her company and sold it for a million dollars while her friends were switching majors for the third time or dicking around at some entry-level job. She’s successful by any measure. But it just a few short months of super-charging our marketing efforts at WP Engine for her to start turning herself inside out about her lack of “success,” and by implication, lack of ability and self-worth: WP Engine is killing it right now.

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Cloud specialization

deal architect

This continues a series of periodic posts to recognize articles, blogs, books, videos interviews I think are worthy of sharing. The category A Rare Medium Well Done says it nicely. Good friend Tim Chou has written this nice column for.

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Conscious Contraceptives – Fighting HIV/AIDS with One-For-One Condoms

YoungUpstarts

We’re all familiar with TOMS , the shoe company that gives away a free pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair consumers buy. Here’s another organization that follows that “one-for-one” charity model – Conscious Contraceptives ( www.concon.org ) is a discreet online store that sells contraceptives and other sexual health related products, and donates proceeds through partner national and international organizations such as Support for International Change t

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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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Apply For The Glue Conference Demo Pod By Friday

Feld Thoughts

The Glue Conference is happening again this year on May 23rd and May 24th in Boulder, CO. This is the awesome conference that Eric Norlin puts on around our Glue theme. 500+ people obsessed about mobile app development, cloud computing, and big data are going to be there this year. As part of the conference, Eric provides 15 early-stage startups with FREE exhibit space.

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Start a Spiral of Positive Creative Words

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Words of wisdom can echo through time. Words of positive creativity creates virtuous circles that can spiral for many years. I’m writing today of the words others have given me, and also, my own words. I occasionally hear from somebody who has read my business novel, Jack’s Notebook. The notes are generally positive. Some have been — inspirational.

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Amazon acquires robotics group Kiva for $775m – trend to vertical integration continues apace

The Equity Kicker

Yesterday Amazon announced the $775m acquisition of robotics group Kiva Systems. These squat orange robots automate part of the shelf picking process for ecommerce companies. Instead of the workers walking to the shelves, the robots bring the shelves to the workers who then stay in the same place. With a robotics system in place one human can do the work that would have taken six previously.

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How I Overcame My Fear Of Public Speaking

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

On Saturday last weekend as I type this article, I was a guest speaker at a live event on the Gold Coast in Australia. I spoke in front of 200 people for about an hour.

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12 Questions: Meet Catherine Faletanoai (New Zeland)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.

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Hard lessons lead to success – the story of RealLead

Up and Running

A few years ago, LivePlan customer Caroline Cummings considered herself an “entrepreneur in recovery.” After her first tech startup dissolved in 2009 (costing her a significant amount of money), she knew she needed some time to figure out what her next venture would be. “I’m an entrepreneur at heart, so I knew I’d eventually jump back onto the start-up saddle, but I needed some time in-between to sort things out.” Two years later, armed with the kind of knowle

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Hiring between portfolio companies – playing nice in the sandbox?

VC Adventure

I put up a post this morning over on the Foundry Group site which I thought I’d repost here with some additional comments. It concerns whether companies in a shared venture portfolio should have any special rules of engagement about hiring from other companies in the portfolio. The question of whether Foundry has a “policy” around this has come up a few times and we wanted to clarify very clearly that we absolutely don’t (nor could we – not only would such a blanke

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Crowdfunding Record Shattered

Growthink Blog

The date was July 6, 2010. That's 623 days ago. That's the day I first started publicly promoting Crowdfunding as a viable funding source for entrepreneurs. At the time, entrepreneurs were raising approximately $1 million each month from Crowdfunding. read more.

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Unwired Nation Locks Down Rackspace as Distribution Partner

Austin Startup

Unwired Nation, the mobile-apps-as-a-service company, today announced it has joined the Rackspace Partner Program to help its SaaS customers deliver native mobile applications. Unwired Nation offers a great value-add to the thousands of SaaS companies who are today faced with the challenge of providing native mobile applications to the hundreds or thousands of customers that leverage their SaaS offering under each customer’s brand.

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Hiring between portfolio companies – playing nice in the sandbox?

VC Adventure

I put up a post this morning over on the Foundry Group site which I thought I’d repost here with some additional comments. It concerns whether companies in a shared venture portfolio should have any special rules of engagement about hiring from other companies in the portfolio. The question of whether Foundry has a “policy” around this has come up a few times and we wanted to clarify very clearly that we absolutely don’t (nor could we – not only would such a blanke

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Startups and Wrestling Part II

ithacaVC

Last year around this time I wrote about startups and wrestling. You can see that post here. I am not going to revisit the company building analogies as the prior post covers them well. Instead, the analogy of winning a national championship and an exit event are on my mind. The NCAA Division I wrestling championships were just held in St. Louis on March 15, 16 and 17th.

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Perspective 2012

entrepreMusings

When I wonder what it’s all about, why I am where I am, and whether all my decisions or in/out-of-control direction changes in life were good ones, I usually need to drink lots of red wine and stay away from the hard liquor! When my 6, soon to be 7, year old daughter tells me to take a break from cooking dinner and see what she made and affixed to my home office desk (photo to left), everything makes sense for a few moments.

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How to Gauge Business Potential for Your Invention

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m often approached by people who claim to have invented the next big thing, and ask me how much it’s worth, or complain that they can’t find an investor who will fund it. The honest answer is that ideas and new technologies are worth nothing, outside the context of a specific entrepreneur and a specific business plan that meets a market need for a fair price.

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What Makes an Exceptional Leader? A Comparison of Historic Antarctic Expedition Commanders.

YoungUpstarts

By Dennis N.T. Perkins, author of “ Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition ” For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton. – Sir Edmund Hillary.

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Digital Coupons as Real Time Conversion Content

Duct Tape Marketing

Digital Coupons as Real Time Conversion Content This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Coupons have been with us for a very long time. In fact, they remain one of the last vestiges of the offline print conversion realm. While many offline lead conversion tactics have been rendered obsolete by inbound methods, print coupons have held up for traditional coupon shoppers.

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Leaders Around The World Fall Short Of Expectations: Ketchum

YoungUpstarts

According to a 12-country survey done by global communications Ketchum , people around the world are suffering a crisis of confidence in their chosen leaders, whether in the business, political or religious arenas. Belief in leadership around the world fallen and is going to get worse. Ketchum’s Leadership Communication Monitor shows that, generally, more people around the world believe leadership will actually get worse in 2012 (31-percent), compared with anticipating better leadership (2

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What the Founder’s Email Address Says About Your Startup

Genuine VC

It always feels anachronistic these days to exchange business cards when you usually have someone’s contact information anyway in an electronic format before (via email introduction) or just after (via LinkedIn connection) you meet. Many people, though, take the opportunity with a physical card to make an impression with a unique spin on their card (size, vertical orientation, etc.).

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What the Founder’s Email Address Says About Your Startup

Genuine VC

It always feels anachronistic these days to exchange business cards when you usually have someone’s contact information anyway in an electronic format before (via email introduction) or just after (via LinkedIn connection) you meet. Many people, though, take the opportunity with a physical card to make an impression with a unique spin on their card (size, vertical orientation, etc.).

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