Wed.Feb 15, 2012

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How Websites Are Changing And Why This Is Good News For Small Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Jessica Shailes. If you’re a start-up, one of the first things you may be thinking about is getting a website – it can be one of the most confusing and time consuming parts of starting a business. Where do you start? How much should it cost? What functions should your website have? How much information should be on it? Do you need to be involved in social media etc etc etc.

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Twitter Link Roundup #120 – 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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Presenting Your Case to Investors is Rarely Free

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are new to the startup space and Angel investing, you probably don’t realize that some groups of Angel investors charge entrepreneurs a fee to pitch to their groups. This practice has caused a rousing debate among key players, with some calling it a scam, and others defending it as necessary to cover expenses. Jason Calacanis, a well-known entrepreneur and Angel investor, opened the debate a while back in a strongly-worded article on his blog which attacked the practice on ethical grounds

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[Singapore][Event] Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

YoungUpstarts

Startup Weekend Singapore is back! If you’re not familiar with Startup Weekends , it’s a conference- and workshop-type event where a creative and highly motivated bunch of people get together for 54 hours to come up with great startup ideas. First started in July of 2007 in Boulder, Colorado, the movement has since spread across the world.

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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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Startup Summer Colorado

Feld Thoughts

One of the fun projects I am involved with is Startup Colorado, a community focused initiative to spur new company creation in Colorado. One of Startup Colorado’s most promising projects is Startup Summer. Startup Summer is an immersive summer program offering the opportunity to work as a paid intern for a Boulder/Denver startup and attend a variety of evening events, including a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship.

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Are you Really Ready to Use Social Media?

Rembrandt Communications

As a small business owner, you are probably inundated with news about the latest, social media trends. There is facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, and more. Do you have this feeling that you should get involved with it but just aren’t sure? Well, here are… 3 Ways to Know Whether or Not You Should Get [.].

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3 Reasons Why Potential Customers Will Walk Away From Your Online Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Have you ever wondered why it is that some online businesses thrive and continue to do so, while others just fail miserably? It is interesting to observe the differences between successful online businesses and those that, while they have a presence, just are not profitable at all!

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Beware of the overdraft protection

Life Beyond Code

An overdraft protection is a feature of a checking account in a bank. It allows an account holder to withdraw money even if that would mean the balance will go below zero. It is as good as the bank giving you an instant (very high interest) loan. With an overdraft protection, one can not only avoid a bounced-check fee but also the embarrassment of issuing a check that bounced.

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Will a business plan help you raise money?

Up and Running

The necessity of a business plan is a controversial topic. What is the importance of a plan? Do you only need a plan if you’re looking for investment? Or can a plan help your business succeed in the long run? Do you think a business plan will help provide you with a leg up if you’re trying to raise money for your business? Share your thoughts!

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Book Short: Steve Jobs and Lessons for CEOs and Founders

OnlyOnce

Book Short: Steve Jobs and Lessons for CEOs and Founders. First, if you work in the internet, grew up during the rise of the PC, or are an avid consumer of Apple products, read the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs ( book , kindle ). It’s long but well worth it. I know much has been written about the subject and the book, so I won’t be long or formal, but here are the things that struck me from my perspective as a founder and CEO, many taken from specific passages from the book: In the a

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5 Ways to Use Social Media and Your Online Presence to Drive People Offline

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Ways to Use Social Media and Your Online Presence to Drive People Offline This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. No matter what your business sells, how it sells it or how and where people buy you it, people are going online to find it, pure and simple. That’s as true for those one of kind hand made earrings as it is for the spa and auto repair shop in their neighborhood.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Mark Pincus

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Mark Pincus , the founder and CEO of Zynga and a brilliant entrepreneur. In this interesting video (courtesy of Bloomberg ), Mark discusses, among other things: his background and first few ventures; how he came-up with the idea for Zynga; the importance of

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What Makes The Boston Start-Up Scene Special?

Seeing Both Sides

There continues to be great interest around the world regarding how to build innovation clusters. Inspired by a similar presentation that Fred Wilson did on the NYC start-up scene many years ago, I pulled this presentation together. I just updated it for a group of Harvard Business School students and was struck by how much has changed and progressed in a positive way.

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Give it away

The Startup Toolkit

The quickest way to validate your value proposition is to give it away. If they aren’t lining up to take it for free then they aren’t going to buy it. If you want to open a consultancy, try having open office hours. If nobody knows you exist, you’ve got a visibility issue. If people hear about it but nobody shows up, then your value proposition is wrong.

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5 Essential Spreadsheets for Social Media Analytics

mashable.com

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. People Recommended Mashable Staff More people. Jobs Join Mashable on Google+ Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Facebook Mashable Social Media All Social Media How-To Facebook Twitter YouTube Google+ Featured in Social Media Tech All Tech Apps & Software Dev & Design Gadgets Mobile Featured in Tech Business All Business Advertising Marketing Media Small Business Star

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Exits in Israel 2011: IPOs Pool is Dry, Buy M&A Activity up 134%

VC Cafe

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). In the last decade, Israeli high-tech companies raised approximately $15 billion from investors, compared to more than $37 billion received in M&A and IPO exits, according to the latest IVC report. Below are 10 interesting facts from the report: Exits involving Israeli and Israel-related high-tech companies in 2011 totaled $5.23 billion.

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Family Trends in Mobile Media

Austin Startup

The most connected people in family friendly games happen to be right here in Austin, Texas at Famigo. They recently published an infographic describing current trends in mobile as it relates to family gaming activity.

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Exits in Israel 2011: IPOs Pool is Dry, Buy M&A Activity up 134%

VC Cafe

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). In the last decade, Israeli high-tech companies raised approximately $15 billion from investors, compared to more than $37 billion received in M&A and IPO exits, according to the latest IVC report. Below are 10 interesting facts from the report: Exits involving Israeli and Israel-related high-tech companies in 2011 totaled $5.23 billion.

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Hunger Games, check. Now for some more Lincoln.

Jeff Hilimire

Just finished reading the Hunger Games trilogy. My wife is always trying to get me to read more fiction. She says I read way too much business and non-fiction, and since she loved these books so much I thought I’d give them a try. Coincidentally, @drewhawkins thinks that reading fiction is good for your career. So there. Regarding the Hunger Games, loved the fist one, second one was also pretty good though not as good as the first (a little more love story, less badassedness), and the thir

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