Thu.Dec 13, 2012

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How important is a video pitch to investors for an early stage start-up?

Gust

There is no one thing (aside from integrity) that is an absolute, and what you need to have when fundraising for a startup will depend to some extent on how you are managing your funding process. A good list of just about everything you could possibly want to have in your arsenal is listed in the answer to What materials or software should I use to pitch a VC?

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New study: Britain leads the world in mobile data consumption, m-commerce and internet TV

The Equity Kicker

New research from Ofcom has found that Britain leads the world in usage of several key technologies: Most likely to access TV content over the internet: 23% of us do so every week (USA is second with 17%). Use more mobile data: In Dec 2011 the average mobile connection downloaded 424 megabytes of data (Japan was second with 392 megabytes). Spend more money online: Average per head spending on ecommerce in 2011 was £1,082 (Australia was second with £842).

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Zombie customers, Bad Profits and the "Technology Depression"

deal architect

I was reading Tim Cook of Apple: “It’s interesting to me—and I think this is a privilege for Apple—just like we’re sitting down at this table today, I get e-mails all day long, hundreds, thousands per day from customers who.

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Software Patents Have Become a Startup Nightmare

Startup Professionals Musings

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). The bad news is that patent trolls (non-practicing companies that make their money from licensing patents) can squeeze the lifeblood out of unsuspecting

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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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America’s Farmstand, The Online Farmer’s Market

YoungUpstarts

Many of us love farmers’ markets – it’s often the only way to get access to all those organic, natural, artisanal produce fresh and direct from independently-run family farms. But the trouble is that they don’t get organized often enough, and even if they do, traveling to find them can be quite a hassle. So why not get their produce shipped to you instead?

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Read Startup Communities With Me On BookShout!

Feld Thoughts

I don’t think I’m breaking new ground by saying that book publishing is going through a rapid transformation. I’ve learned a lot about traditional publishing after working with Wiley for the past few years on Do More Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life. I’ve also experimented with self-publishing with HyperInk for the book Burning Entrepreneur.

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The Art of Appreciation

Austin Startup

Something really bad has been going around Austin for a few years now, an approach by local start ups to “get as much as you can for free as long as you can.”.

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[ADV] DesignCrowd Enters Asian Market – Great Opportunity For Singapore Designers

YoungUpstarts

DesignCrowd is a renowned crowdsourcing platform that houses more than 95,000 skilled graphic designers from all over the world. DesignCrowd is the one stop solution for different kinds of graphic designing like website, logo, brochure, flyers, T shirts, business card or even banner advertisement. Instead of persistently searching for an expert designer, post your requirements in this platform and get access to a large number of options to choose from.

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10 Tips To Help You Build A Successful Small Business Brand

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Ross Kimbarovsky – Enjoy! A brand is the sum total of the experiences your customers and potential customers have with your company. A strong brand communicates what your company does, how it does it, and at the same time, establishes trust and credibility. Your brand lives in everyday interactions with your customers, the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing mater

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Remee & The Lucid Dream Of Crowd Funding

ReadWriteStart

It’s time to talk about the downside to these Kickstarter gizmos we keep buying. Do we have any bummed-out Pebble watch buyers in the house? Anybody buy an iPhone dock on Kickstarter only to have it obviated by the Lightning connector before you got it? I suspect there are many different versions of Kickstarter gizmo disappointment. Mine is the Remee lucid dream mask from Bitbanger Labs.

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Hedging against downturns: Remember the GOAL!

Berkonomics

Business cycles are a fact of life, and those of us who have lived through many cycles have gained experience in finding the proper time to step on the gas and when to use the brakes. These next several posts, we will explore a number of ways to build security into your plan, including insights relating to cash management, banker relations, and identifying recurring revenue streams that do not rise and fall with the business cycle… Often we joke together as CEOs that our goal is “world dom

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Global Social Venture Competition Call for Entries | #socent #socinn

Campus Entrepreneurship

The Global Social Venture Competition is calling for entries. Deadline is 30 January 2013. “The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) provides aspiring entrepreneurs with mentoring, exposure, and $50,000 in prizes to transform their ideas into businesses that will have positive real world impact. In 2012, GSVC received over 600 entries from 50 countries.” Here are a few of the eligibility rules.

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If you’re scared of flying, maybe don’t read this

Jeff Hilimire

I had an amazing experience yesterday thanks again to my Leadership Atlanta experience ( here’s a link to some of my other Leadership Atlanta experiences if you’re interested ). One of my classmates works at Delta and offered up a chance to take a tour of their operations center. And since Delta is – and I’m not just saying this – by far my favorite airline, I jumped at the chance.

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13 Effective Traditional Marketing Strategies

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally published in Business on Main Everybody talks about online advertising—but traditional marketing still makes it into most company budgets. So, if companies are still investing in traditional marketing, what are they investing in, and why? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization composed of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs.

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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

One of the aspects of running a venture fund that I am most excited about is turning over rocks that other VCs might not. I'm less likely to get excited about the next big photo sharing app coming out of YC, and more into going "where no VC has gone before.". Whatever I do, it needs to be in big enough spaces. What are the biggest opportunities? To be really basic about it, everyone on the planet eats, sleeps, and poops--so you could start there.