Thu.Feb 14, 2013

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5 Tips for Writing Survey Questions that Don’t Yield Statistical Garbage

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Josh Pigford – Enjoy! While the end result of a survey might make the conclusions look cut and dry, there are many ways that data can be manipulated or misrepresented to change the truth. However, the sloppiest (and probably most common) method of fumbling the truth is when data is simply misunderstood.

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7 Steps to Achieving Entrepreneurial Lifetime Goals

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs are usually hard-driving, and highly focused on some specific goals, like being the dominant player in a given domain, or the low-priced provider of their product. Yet other entrepreneurs will talk for hours about all their ideas, and how they intend to change the world, but I don’t hear any specific goals or milestones. Many people are very hesitant to set specific goals, due to lack of self-confidence or whatever.

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More Innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence blog The Future of Higher Education The WEF 2013 Technology Pioneers My Micro NY Space Scavenger Hunt Shiver me timbers A scanner for the TSA to consider?

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5 Ways To Save Money When Starting A Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by David Bakke. If you don’t think that saving money is important when you launch a small business, just take a look at the statistics: More than 30% of small businesses fail within the first two years, and insufficient funds is one of the top reasons why. Fortunately, there are ways to save on startup costs when launching your venture, and it’s in your best interests to investigate them.

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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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How To Get Photographic Memory Instantly

Mike Michalowicz

Before you read this post I need you to make me a promise. I need you to promise that you will share this post with at least one friend if you are able to achieve something that you knew (believed) was impossible. Then, I want you to promise me that you will never again believe anything to be impossible, that you will commit to finding a way, no matter what.

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Four Technologies That You Absolutely Need In Your Office

YoungUpstarts

by Halit Bozdogan. Smaller companies who are on the up, or just starting out, usually have a finite amount of resources. So finding ways to ensure that you get the best bang from your buck is crucial. There are things that every office is going to need. Desks, chairs and the like are common sense. From a technology standpoint, what can you afford to leave off the shopping list and what is right up there at the top?

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Five Common Employment Fouls And How To Prevent Them

YoungUpstarts

by Rob Wilson, CEO of Employco USA. When running an office, business owners face a range of challenges, including the risk of a lawsuit when office politics go awry. One way employers can minimize the risk of messy lawsuits is by outsourcing human resources tasks to ensure an established protocol is in place. No matter what size your business is, having a defined human resources department and code of conduct is necessary.

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The makings of a successful subscription ecommerce business

The Equity Kicker

Subscription ecommerce has become quite a hot business model over the past couple of years, perhaps reaching peak hotness 6-12 months ago. Notable examples of companies in this market include our portfolio company Lovefilm (acquired by Amazon for a rumoured £200m ), our portfolio company Graze that sells healthy snacks, shoe subscription businesses ShoeDazzle and StylistPick , and startup coffee subscription business Kopi.

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 13-fold over the next five years and reach some 11.2 exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. “How much is 134 exabytes, exactly?”, you ask. That’s almost three million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written.

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Everybody loves a story. What’s yours?

The Next Web

(Disclaimer: I wrote this story because I’m excited about a class we are offering through TNW Academy. Nobody asked me to write it and I don’t usually write these kinds of posts but I did sign up for the class, thought about the subject a bit and that inspired me to write this post.). I love a good story. In fact, I think stories make life worth living.

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Charity Auction: Pitch Your Business to NY Angels and Golden Seeds

David Teten

Would you like to have a private lunch with Brian Cohen, Chairman of New York Angels, and Deborah Jackson, Managing Director of Golden Seeds (and me)? I’m not eligible anymore for bachelor auctions (actually, my price would have been pretty low if I ever even had tried), but I have hit the auction block to help raise funds for a great charity.

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A Love Note to Entrepreneurs (#bizcrush2013)

Up and Running

It’s Valentine’s Day and who can resist the chance to wax poetic about well….love. Our team has spent a lot of time (definitely not surfing the internet) on market research (definitely not looking at your Facebook pictures) to figure out how to capture your attention in today’s culturally sanctioned sea of squishy, kissy, chocolate-covered digital affection.

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Love Your Customers More Than They Love Themselves

Mike Michalowicz

Quick. Think of the plumbing business. What comes to mind? Exposed butt cracks or a company doing some twenty-odd million dollars in business. There is a reason “plumber-crack” comes to mind first. Everyone knows its kinda an ugly business. Plumbers are known for getting the work done, but not without leaving their business card – muddy footprints and greasy finger smudges.

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More Words of Wisdom from Jeff Bezos

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Jeff Bezos , the founder and CEO of Amazon.com and a truly extraordinary entrepreneur. In this solid 17-minute clip, Jeff shares some words of wisdom for entrepreneurs, including the following: “One of the things that is very hard to believe when you’re 2

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The 5 Small Business Marketing Pillars

Duct Tape Marketing

Enjoy this guest post from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Patrick Giammarco. photo credit: Sam Beebe, Ecotrust via photopin cc. It’s no secret. These are challenging times for small businesses. We’re all searching for the answer to the question: “What can we do to win our share of business and escape the struggle?”. This time around branding seems to be the latest marketing trend small businesses are looking to for relief and to help ease their pain.

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Starting a blog again

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I have had personal websites since I was a student (around year 2000) and yet I am now having to restart from scratch again. I lost my last blog’s content (entirely my fault), several years of writing about.net, facebook development, outsourcing and startups gone. To give you an idea of the type of things I write about, my top blog posts were: “I am a developer yet I outsource the development of my startup” “How to test the viability of your online business idea” &#

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Get Good at What You Love and the Money Will Follow

Duct Tape Marketing

You’ve certainly heard all the talk about the need for passion in your work. There’s no doubt that doing what you love is essential, but getting really good at what you love is how you turn it into a profession. Passion alone isn’t always enough when it comes to creating a mutual exchange of value. So here’s my love note to all the business owners, entrepreneurs and would be cubicle escapees.

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