Wed.Sep 28, 2011

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4 Deadly Legal Mistakes That Startups Make

Scott Edward Walker

Introduction This post was originally part of the “ Ask the Attorney ” series I am writing for VentureBeat (one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs). Below is a longer, more comprehensive version. Question My co-founders and I are working on a cool new site, and we’ll be ready to launch in a few weeks. I’ve been reading a lot on the web about incorporation and other legal stuff.

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Picking Ventures: Part 2 - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Picking Ventures: Part 1 | Main. | » September 28, 2011. Picking Ventures: Part 2. Sometimes the dog really does eat it.  And sometimes it's a big dog.  Tom Perkins, in telling the Tandem Computer story says "when the first product performed as expected, the company went to $100MM very quickly.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

Both Sides of the Table

Email. Ah, email. That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. I’ve taken to saying, “Email is our personal to-do list that anybody adds to – whether they know us or not.” I was lamenting it tonight when I saw the most brilliant response Tweet by Andrew Hyde . “inbox = tetris getting zero lines doesn’t win it just makes the next move easy.” Brilliant!

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Appitalism’s Top Apps For The Busy CEO

YoungUpstarts

The fine guys over at mobile app store Appitalism.com know that, as the busy CEO you are, running a company can get extremely stressful. So they’re suggesting a few mobile applications for you so you can sit back, relax and watch your respected business empire grow, with just touch of your trusted iPhone. So here are Appitalism.com ’s top 5 apps that every CEO should have and utilize on their smartphones.

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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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Joining The Board of Startup Weekend

Feld Thoughts

I spent the day in Kansas City yesterday at the Kauffman Foundation for my first Startup Weekend board meeting. I’m very stingy with my non-profit board activity after deciding in 2005 to get off any non-profit board that wasn’t focused on entrepreneurship and until yesterday the only non-profit board I’m on is the National Center for Women & Information Technology.

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Prevent Your Start-up From Crashing

YoungUpstarts

(Click on picture to enlarge article). The truth is that most tech start-ups will crash and burn. According to research, more than half of small businesses are destined to fail in their first five years. But don’t let that scare you. There are always steps you can take to reduce your risks and give your venture the best opportunity to succeed.

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Woman-Oriented Startup: $4 Million Funding in 4 Weeks, $100 Million Valuation

Up and Running

I was browsing yesterday when I picked up this post by Alyson Shontell of Business Insider on LearnVest, a finance tools and information site for women, founded by a 27-year-old woman and funded very quickly by major venture capital. Here’s Alyson’s quick summary: In July, LearnVest raised a $19 million round, bringing its total funding to $24.5 million.

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Pricing relativity

Start Up Blog

When I buy something via iTunes it doesn’t feel like money. Especially when it is an app that is a few dollars at most. It’s easy to press a button which confirms a purchase at a value which is lower than anything you can buy in the real world. A coffee or coca-cola is $3.50 these days. it doesn’t end there though. When we get the bill on our credit card it’s the smallest number on the page.

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Blog Mastermind Closing Forever This Friday (Plus A Story About Video Games, Magic And Skating)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This is your final warning about the closing of Blog Mastermind. When Friday passes, the end of September 2011, my coaching program will be closed to new members. Only current members and those who join before Friday night will have ongoing access. Make $5,000 to $30,000 A Month From Your Blog Blog Mastermind teaches anyone willing to put in some effort how to make from $5,000 to $30,000 a month from a blog.

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The truth about degrees

Start Up Blog

Education is vital, but the obsession we have with where we get it from is very unhealthy. It’s exclusionary, it’s elitist and it goes against the fundamental reason education should exist: To build collective knowledge for mutual benefit. The truth about most degrees is that we don’t really need them to do the actual work – except for a few, think medicine, dentistry, engineering – the remainder of business, design and economic degree skills can be learned informal

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Customer Engagement is Key for SaaS

Guy Nirpaz

Customer Engagement is key for software-as-a-Service business. A recent post by David Skok explains how and why to measure customer engagement. If you are a SaaS executive and haven’t read it yet, read this first. In this post I’d like to elaborate in what areas customer engagement is critical for SaaS business success. Balancing Customer Acquisition Costs and Lifetime Value.

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Radvertising from Calsberg

Start Up Blog

Here’s the latest piece of radvertising according to Startup Blog. Why is it rad? It’s simple. It reminds us what deserves a Carlsberg – It’s sharable. I like it.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

Education. Blog. About. Investors Companies. Analyzing 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems to Find the 20 Top Reasons that Startups Fail. January 11th, 2011 the Chubby Team 34 Comments. Tweet. We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure.

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One tablet, phone for work and play

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

On 9/26 Monday and 9/27 Tuesday, GigaOM held its Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Over the next couple of posts, I will talk about the trends that were discussed during the conference. One of the hot topics was the disruption of tablets and personal smart phones in the workplace. Tablets and personal smart phones are making their way into the business space whether the company encourages it or not.

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Innovating in a Mature Industry

Duct Tape Marketing

Innovating in a Mature Industry This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. This Local Color video, featuring creative small businesses around the globe, is part of a marketing series sponsored by HP. Sometimes people look at an industry and wonder if there are any innovations left. After all, pretty much everything that can be done in the pizza business has been done, right?

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Education. Blog. About. Investors Companies. 25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. Tweet. Want more entrepreneurial goodness? You should sign up for our newsletter here. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure.

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Impact Investing at Duke’s CASE | #socent

Campus Entrepreneurship

Duke has long been a leader in thought on social entrepreneurship. A recent press release from their Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship announces the creation of their new initiative on impact investment: Case i3. From their press release. “Impact investors seek to generate environmental and social impacts in addition to financial returns,” said Cathy Clark, a professor at Fuqua and director of CASE i3.

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Artists I Like: Mark Levin

Venture Chronicles

I have not written an Artists I Like post in quite a while so I decided the time was right to pen one on someone who exhibits great technical skill with the eye of an artist. Mark Levin has a pretty wide range in his portfolio but the pieces that I gravitate to are in his Leaf Series. These tables and shelves are nothing short of amazing and the process he creates them with combines great technical proficiency in woodworking with the patience and deliberation of an artist who combines chainsaws,

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Quick Tip: CEOs Should Sell The Story

Rob Go

Every now and then, I meet with a company where the CEO does not lead fundraising discussions. Right or wrong, I think this almost never works. We actually just invested in a company where this dynamic existed initially – but because the non-CEO co-founder had become a personal friend, I was able to give that feedback very directly and they took it to heart in future discussions.

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Privacy Obfuscation at the WSJ

Venture Chronicles

The WSJ updated their privacy policy , I read it and read it again and then one more time before admitting defeat… I have no idea what their privacy policy is now. Why can’t companies express privacy policies in plain and simple language that says what they will do and what they won’t do? When it comes to contextual terms like “personally identifiable information” they should spell out what that is.