Sat.Dec 08, 2012

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Business Innovation Requires Successful Execution

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the execution challenge if they expect their startup to carve out a profitable niche in the marketplace, and keep innovating to build and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Everyone thinks they know how to make innovation happen, but I can’t find much real research on the subject.

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9 nonprofits and social enterprises creating incredible communities online

The Next Web

Much ink has been spilled about why technology makes it easier than ever to start a business. But connecting with consumers and brand advocates directly, in active online communities, is the real secret sauce, especially for B2C startups with an online presence. On the flipside, social enterprise and non-profits have been particularly hip to this trend.

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5 Suggestions to Escape Linear Startup Thinking

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s time for more entrepreneurs to reset their focus, and shift their thinking to completely different ways of doing things. Everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with improved usability, one more wind-farm energy generator with a few more blades, or one more dating site with a new dimension of compatibility.

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The best new app I’ve seen in a long time

Jeff Hilimire

It takes a lot for a new app to break through the clutter and feel instantly like something I’d use quite a bit. Slice is the app I kinda always new I needed but now that I have it, I can’t think of how I went without it. The premise of Slice is that it is “the simplest way to organize everything you buy online” What it does that is freaking sweet is it combs through your email – after you give it permission – and pulls out all of the purchases that you’

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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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Weekend Favs December Eight

Duct Tape Marketing

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. I spoke at a conference in Bahrain this week and this was the view out my hotel window.

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Delta updates their website and in the process makes me feel kinda inadequate

Jeff Hilimire

Delta made some really nice user interface changes to their website recently. One such change, however, is a big pet peeve of mine. They changed from requiring a 4 digit PIN to requiring a password. But that’s not the peeve, I’m fine with a password. However, the password they require has to have numbers AND letters, and at least one capital letter.