Fri.Nov 02, 2012

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The Big Data laggards

deal architect

In a panel on Big Data last week at Cognizant Community I cited several examples from the New Florence blog collected over the last few years – National Hurricane Center, Union Pacific, U of Washington’s ENCODE project, Social Media analytics.

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8 Questions Investors Use to Bypass Startup Hype

Startup Professionals Musings

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder “vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weaknesses, and current health. Some founders try to deflect these questions by talking incessantly, so you often need to be calm, patient, and persistent to get the answers.

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Screw the world, let’s get rich

The Next Web

Is Twitter making the world a better place? I think it is. You could argue it is just a short messaging service for people who want to share what they are eating, where they a going and what they are doing, but don’t most smart people agree there is something more to it than just that? Isn’t it enabling communication, in a new way, that improves communication in more ways that had ever imagined?

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Defrag and Blur 2012

Feld Thoughts

Defrag and Blur are only two weeks away, and if you’re not yet registered to come, you should find a way. Why? 1. Makerbot will be there with the Replicator 2 in hand. And is there anything cooler than 3D printing right now? 2. The agenda is absolutely incredible — Kevin Kelly, Jeff Ma, Rachel Happe, Paul Kedrosky, Bre Pettis, Andrew Tschesnok. 3.

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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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Venture Capital Must Change to Survive. Starting with Transparency.

VC Cafe

Back in May this year, the Kauffman Foundation published a very interesting paper titled “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY… AND HE IS US” - Lessons from Twenty Years of the Kauffman Foundation’s Investments. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. Back in May this year, the Kauffman Foundation published a very interesting paper titled “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY… AND HE IS US” - Lessons from Twenty Years of the Kauffman Foundation’s Investments in Venture

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Niklas Zennström on Atomico’s investment strategy and Europe’s evolving startup ecosystem [Video]

The Next Web

A few weeks ago at the Dublin Web Summit, we caught up with Niklas Zennström , easily one of Europe’s most accomplished entrepreneurs with companies like Skype, KaZaa and Joost under his belt. He now runs a high-profile, globally active VC firm called Atomico , which has made investments in companies like Rovio, Jawbone, Fab, Klarna, Hailo, Xobni, FON, Jolicloud and Rdio (and then some).

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Now THIS is an eyecatching way to pitch us a product

The Next Web

I remember a few years ago when I was lucky to be pitched one great app, gadget or story per day. Now, as The Next Web has grown, so has the volume of pitches we all receive, to the point where rarely a day goes by when one of us doesn’t complain about the state of our inbox. So, it’s refreshing when someone takes a different approach. Witness this video from the people behind the iMagnet Mount , who sent our CMO Jorg Ruis a personal pitch.

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6 Things That Can Kill Your City’s Startup Community

ReadWriteStart

Not every tech startup enjoys the luxury of launching in Silicon Valley — or Silicon Alley, or Austin, Texas, or another high-tech hotspot. What’s the solution? Instead of waiting for someone to offer a helping hand, or packing up the U-Haul and moving across the counryy, try taking the entrepreneurial approach and turning your home town into a high-tech startup community.

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Axen to Debut New Mobile Product at InnoTech

Austin Startup

AXEN, an Austin based mobile systems developer and integrator, will launch its new “Mobile to Enterprise (M2E)” at InnoTech next Thursday.

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“We’re the Pickle Ladies…and Failure Is Not an Option”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to execute your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the."

Bryce Dot VC

“We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village.

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Startup Weekend NEXT

ithacaVC

Steve Blank is well known and a “master” teacher of the “Lean LaunchPad” among other things. I read recently that he never graduated from college. Very successful entrepreneur as well. Steve recently blogged about a new initiative that deserves our attention. It is called Startup Weekend Next, and it is basically a four-week version of the Lean LaunchPad class with hands-on instructors and mentors.

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Boom, Inbox Zero

Jeff Hilimire

Ah, that’s a nice way to start the day. PS – that’s Sparrow , which I still love using on the Mac.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Startups Start Local But Go Global. Is Europe Included?

VC Cafe

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Cities Summit Tel Aviv, in a session moderated by Mr Yossi Vardi. The topic was the "Innovative code" of cities. My talk focused on London and its. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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