Tue.Feb 12, 2013

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT.

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Programming Resources

Spencer Fry

I started learning to program in earnest at the beginning of February 2012. Since then, I've compiled the programming resources that got me to where I am today. Various books, screencasts, online documents, and forums have helped me along the way. I've listed them in the order in which I read them over the course of my development. I hope you find them as useful as I did.

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The Real Deal: Chip Coyle on Rebranding a Software Company

deal architect

This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. The software industry is relatively young and there are few John Deeres which have revised its logo every few decades. So when I.

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How do you tell a non-technical person that they can’t understand?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) questions from readers, like a written version of Smart Bear Live. To get your question answered , email me at asmartbear -at- shortmail -dot- com. Frustrated Engineer writes: I’ve been writing code for ten years, recently promoted to a position where I have to talk to our non-technical customers.

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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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Outsourcing: The Seismic Changes

deal architect

As Nasscom kicks off its flagship Leadership Forum event in Mumbai and seeing the vendors and analysts presenting, I am reminded of a meeting with a group of outsourcing execs last year. I asked them who they thought was their.

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6 Tools To Help Make Inspiring Presentations

YoungUpstarts

By Alexa Garthwaite, Business Development Manager at Executive Offices. Not too long ago fancy clipart and animated text was enough to make your presentation stand out. Nowadays using default Microsoft presentation tools and art often ends with a presentation looking cheap and uninspiring. Here are a number of tools that offer alternative ways to create and share stunning presentations: 1.

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[Infographic] The Future Of The Password

YoungUpstarts

2012 – the year the online password broke. With leaks and dumps become all too common, that string of characters – no matter the combination of numbers, upper or lower case letters – you use as passwords for pretty much all your access to online services simply can’t protect you anymore. We’ve seen how 8.1 million people in the United States fall victim to identity theft every year, and a further 1.6 million households have had their bank accounts compromised.

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5 Successful Entrepreneurs Who Started Late In Life

Mike Michalowicz

Entrepreneurship is for the young. After all you need energy, stamina, relentless focus, and the most important thing, time on your side. B t! The key to successful entrepreneurship is simply doing it. Regardless of age or circumstance, when the opportunity presents itself, you must go for it. Here are the stories of five “golden year entrepreneurs”, who have effectively made the gold for themselves.

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New on TNW Guides – How to Use Sweat Equity to Fund Your Startup [Sale Price]

The Next Web

Chances are, if you’ve not yet been in a position where you have to talk about splitting equity, you will be. For startup founders, there’s hardly any situation that’s less comfortable. How can you look at someone who comes on during year number two and say that they are entitled to anywhere near the same amount of equity as you have, after you’ve put blood, sweat and tears into your company?

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Excited that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures is an Investor in Editorially

This is going to be BIG.

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures became the largest investor in Editorially last fall and I couldn’t be more excited to finally be able to tell you about it. The round includes Lerer Ventures, who participated with the same level of support, Betaworks and a host of experienced angel investors from the design and creative community. When Cameron Koczon introduced me to the company, he said they had the “best starting web team he’s ever seen.

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More musings on passwords–solution needs to be easier as well as more secure

The Equity Kicker

Last week I wrote about my frustration with passwords. A number of you chipped in saying you shared the feeling and a few of you suggested services that can help with the problem. These services break down into two groups. The first group run client software (maybe in the browser) and automatically enter passwords so users don’t have to remember them.

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Strategic Planning Lessons from My Friend, The Highly Paid Dreamer

Growthink Blog

One of my friends works for a multi-billion dollar cable company. And his role is extremely interesting. Specifically, he's charged with figuring out what the company needs do to now so that it will be competitive ten years from now. Imagine that? 10-year planning. For most businesses, it's inconceivable to do this. But for a cable company, it could take years to implement changes such as installing cables to hundreds of thousands of homes.

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The 5 Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur

Mike Michalowicz

The 5 Traits Of A Successful Entrepreneur. That saying, “Every time one door closes, another opens,”? That saying was describing entrepreneurialism. Every year thousands of businesses open their doors. But thousands also close their doors. Estimates are that 50% of those who start a business fail (or succeed) at it. Millions of people have entertained the fantasy of entrepreneurship.

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Turning on 2-factor authentication for gmail

Eric Friedman

I recently turned on 2-factor authentication for my personal Gmail account. I have had it on for my foursquare account for quite some time for security purposes, but I never thought about turning it on for my personal account. After reading this account via Wired of Mat Honan losing almost everything – I decided to take the plunge. Since I already had 2-factor on for work it was not that complicated to make the switch.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: January 28th – February 11th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a blog-related tweet. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Top Legal Concerns for Mobile Application Startups

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally posted on Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP. Ryan Azlein, Partner with Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP, addresses three of the most pressing legal concerns for founders of mobile application companies. Q. What is the easiest way to form a legal entity between two people (51%-49%) who want to build a revenue producing mobile application?

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Sweet, using my iPad Mini as a mouse / touchpad

Jeff Hilimire

For some reason my bluetooth mouse stopped working today. Bluetooth is one of those technologies that either just works, or just doesn’t, and once it doesn’t its really hard to troubleshoot. Then I remembered that I had read about an app that lets you use your iPhone or iPad as a mouse / touchpad. After a little research I found the Logitech Touch Mouse app.

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Women Bring Their Own Style to the Startup World

Startup Professionals Musings

Do you think men make better entrepreneurs than women, and why? I did some research on this subject a while back, and I found some interesting perspectives. Everyone seems to agree that women think differently than men, and run their businesses differently, but there is a lot less agreement on which styles are better or worse. First of all, it is evident that there are far fewer women entrepreneurs today than men.

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PitchCastr, A Virtual Demo Day Platform

YoungUpstarts

Demo Day-type organized pitches in a large conference setting to an audience of investor types are a great way to expose aspiring startups to the world, but it’s still quite limiting – there’s only that many startups that can be showcased in a day, and not every investor will be interested in every single startup especially if they fall outside their preferred areas of interest.

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70 Israeli Companies and 35 Made-In-Israel Mobile Apps Exhibiting at MWC 2013 in Barcelona

VC Cafe

Most of the mobile industry players (hardware, software, networks, etc) converges to Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona once a year to show off their latest innovations, sign deals and set the new horizon in mobile. The Israeli Pavilion has long been one of the top attractions of MWC, drawing [.]. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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Moxtra Organizes Your Digital Content In One Mobile Binder

YoungUpstarts

One of the biggest problems that us mobile warriors, digital natives and the like have is assessing and managing the multitudes of digital content that we’re likely to have scattered all over the place – on our phones, on our desktops, in our public cloud services, etc. But hope may be at hand – at least for iOS users. Moxtra ( www.moxtra.com ) Binder is a social collection and collaboration mobile application for iOS devices that allows users to collect, access, and collaborat

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IVC Report: The most active VC Funds in Israel in 2012

VC Cafe

A new report by IVC Research center, ranks the most active VC funds in Israel according to their first money investments. Carmel Ventures topped the list with 11 new investments followed by Horizons Ventures. In total, 90 VC funds in Israel made first investments in Israeli startups, but only 19 [.]. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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www.netmagazine.com

A Future Site â?¼. Register. Login. Search: Print subscribers can now download.net's March issue (238)! Discover all of our 2012 in review articles! We reveal the top 50 books for web designers and developers. Check out our shop for subscription offers, buy single issues and more! Have you broken our 10 New Year's resolutions for designers yet?

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