Sat.Sep 29, 2012 - Fri.Oct 05, 2012

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Towards An Intel-ligent Future

YoungUpstarts

When we think of chip maker Intel , we tend to think of semiconductor chips or computer processors, those tiny bits of silicon and integrated circuits that are the brains in our computers and mobile devices. Yes, they are bits of technology for sure, but we seldom really look at Intel as a bleeding-edge technology company. Most often, the glory goes to hardware vendors whose products these chips go into – and we think it can be just that little bit unfair.

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How - And Why - Startups Should Hire Millennials

ReadWriteStart

It’s like a harmonic convergence. Startups need workers, and the largest generation ever born in America — the Millennials — is desperately searching for work. But as every startup knows, it's never as easy as all that. According to a new research study from PayScale , the world’s leading provider of on-demand compensation data and software, and Millennial Branding , a Gen Y research and management consulting company, Millennials (ages 18 to 29) are underemployed.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I noticed an eye-catching headline: "Internet Funding Boom Ends as Fast as It Began". It was from the Wall Street Journal--a publication I count on for emphasizing quality journalism over empty linkbaity headlines above hollow stories. Perhaps I need to rethink that. How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation?

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Writing Home Page Headlines For The Modern World (3 Formulas That Work)

ConversionXL

Read any copywriting manual or article and you will learn that the headline is the most important thing in your sales copy. And it’s true. The sad thing is that the advice that follows is often severely outdated and originates from the snail mail sales letter people from the 1950s and beyond. I researched 500 headlines of successful online businesses and figured out which formulas work today. .

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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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[Review] Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done

YoungUpstarts

How do companies like GE, Wal-Mart and Honeywell succeed? What is the secret of Jack Welch, one of the most legendary CEO in the business world today? The secret, according to Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, is “ Execution “ Subtitled The Discipline of Getting Things Done , the New York Times bestseller emphasizes the importance of execution in business, how companies with an execution culture conduct their business affairs, and its three core processes: people, strategy and operations

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. It’s a great learning experience, it’s a vital growth opportunity, etc. But nobody celebrates the actual event. Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. “Every startup has a launch party, but what happens when a startup dies?

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. You make more black socks for more people in the western world than anyone. The next generation isn't interested in socks. One daughter is touring nationally with her punk band. The son is off in Africa combating disease with Doctors without Borders, and the other son. well. remember Woody Harrelson on Cheers?

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Is Your Customer Communication Up to Par?

YoungUpstarts

by David Greer. In every business, communication is imperative. There is a need to communicate with clients, suppliers, partners, investors and most importantly customers. Customer communication is often overlooked in business. While many believe advertising and marketing is all the communication needed, your business could benefit from constant communication with prospective and current customers.If you are looking for a way to increase communication with your customers, you need to know how to

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How - And Why - Startups Should Hire Millennials

ReadWriteStart

It’s like a harmonic convergence. Startups need workers, and the largest generation ever born in America — the Millennials — is desperately searching for work. But as every startup knows, it's never as easy as all that. According to a new research study from PayScale , the world’s leading provider of on-demand compensation data and software, and Millennial Branding , a Gen Y research and management consulting company, Millennials (ages 18 to 29) are underemployed.

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Build a Competitor Profile for Clues to Delivering Better Value

Up and Running

When considering how to position a product in the market place or developing the ideal go-to-market strategy, a small business owner needs to examine a number of market factors. Chief among those factors will be the product’s primary competitors. Understanding them gets you one step closer to knowing how to deliver better value to your customers and defining your niche.

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Product Manager Charm School

SVPG

Recently I wrote about Apprentice Product Manager programs, where companies recruit and groom high-potential product managers. Quite a few people asked me about this program and the type of curriculum that I have provided for my own teams in the past. In this article, I thought I would talk about one of the most basic forms of training I have provided these people, "Product Manager Charm School.".

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Oracle Cloud: A moon shot call

deal architect

I have waited for over a decade to see an enterprise vendor – IBM, HP, SunGard, EMC etc – detail how they would deliver to their promises of on-demand, utility, cloud computing. But they continue to persist with data centers.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. It’s a great learning experience, it’s a vital growth opportunity, etc. But nobody celebrates the actual event. Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. “Every startup has a launch party, but what happens when a startup dies?

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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. That’s not bad, but who wants to be average? Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. How can you improve your odds?

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Are You Raising Your Kids To Make Tomorrow’s Forbes 400 List?

YoungUpstarts

by Gregory Downing, author of “ Entrepreneur Unleashed “ Forbes has just released its list of the 400 Richest People in America. The combined net worth of these men and women clocks in at a staggering $1.7 trillion dollars. And here’s the truly amazing part: Some 70 percent of this year’s 400 built their fortunes from the ground up. If you’re a parent, this statistic may lead you to wonder: Will my kids ever have a shot at this kind of success?

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Pattern Recognition from New Florence

deal architect

My last two books, The New Polymath and The New Technology Elite have come from developing patterns I saw across 50 innovation categories in the 1,500 posts I had on New Florence through 2010. At Tibco’s TUCON event this week.

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How – And Why – Startups Should Hire Millennials

ReadWriteStart

It’s like a harmonic convergence. Startups need workers, and the largest generation ever born in America — the Millennials — is desperately searching for work. But as every startup knows, it’s never as easy as all that. According to a new research study from PayScale , the world’s leading provider of on-demand compensation data and software, and Millennial Branding , a Gen Y research and management consulting company, Millennials (ages 18 to 29) are underemployed.

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Good Entrepreneur Decisions Require a Good Process

Startup Professionals Musings

Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The team is the same. The company's market is the same. The only difference might be the start of another recession like the last one, resulting in lower liquidity and investors with no money, and that makes all the difference.

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[Infographic] What’s Keeping Your Small Business From Succeeding?

YoungUpstarts

We all know that the survival rate for small businesses isn’t very high at all – but the truth is that many entrepreneurs also tend to put the final nail in the coffin of their small business from the many mistakes they make while running it. For example, did you know that small businesses in the U.S. currently owe a total of around US$1 trillion in terms of business loans?

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More New Renaissance

deal architect

on the innovation blog Happy Valley Cities of the future Airport Avatars SlamTracker at the US Open “Dual Citizens” The Economist’s Technology Quarterly Audi’s Digital showroom Air Hillary.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. It’s a great learning experience, it’s a vital growth opportunity, etc. But nobody celebrates the actual event. Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. “Every startup has a launch party, but what happens when a startup dies?

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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day.

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[Infographic] Which Country Uses The Internet Best?

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to using the Internet, one country does it better than the rest. According to the recent Web Index study by The World Wide Web Foundation , that country is Sweden. As part of the study, 61 countries were ranked across seven categories – communications infrastructure, institutional infrastructure, web use, web content, political impact, social impact and economic impact.

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Oracle: A high-octane enterprise apps executive sales team

deal architect

I have always believed well-spoken top executives are as important in enterprise apps sales as a decent product. I have watched Dave Duffield wow HR executives for decades now. Ed McVaney, one of the founders of J.D. Edwards, once threw.

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After the VC Term Sheet is Signed – It’s Not Over Yet

Genuine VC

After completing a long process identifying the right venture firms to pitch, running an exhaustive fundraising process, finding a mutual fit, and successfully negotiating terms… at last, the term sheet is signed. So at this point it’s OK to just hand the process over to your lawyers, sit back, and let them work out the details, right? Wrong. The two- to six- week time between the signing of the term sheet and closing is “venture limbo.

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An IPO Exit Strategy Puts the Entrepreneur at Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.

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VineUp.com – Building An Online Mentoring Community

YoungUpstarts

Mentorship is crucial, but none more so than for many graduates who exit into the real world looking for jobs and need support systems to help them find their calling. The problem is that many existing mentorship networks aren’t geared towards helping graduates. That’s where VineUp.com comes in: it helps organizations build a complete online mentoring community of their own.

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A word about Dennis Howlett

deal architect

Larry Dignan of ZDNet lays out an ugly situation Dennis Howlett finds himself in. Larry is privy to much more of the gory details than I care to want to ever find out. All I want to do is thank.

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Data Beats Math –Why Apple’s Maps Failure is a Big Data Problem

Lightspeed Venture Partners

At Lightspeed, we’ve been investing in the theme of Big Data over the last four years. We like to say that at the core of the theme is the simple idea that “data beats math” or put another way that predictive algorithms working with data samples will never beat analysis where ALL of the data is evaluated. We started by investing in building block companies, DataStax and MapR, two pioneers building enterprise class platforms for “big data” workloads by leveraging Cassandra and Hadoop.

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Angel and VC Investors Won’t Fund Your Research

Startup Professionals Musings

I still get business plans, looking for an investor, that say all too clearly that the primary “use of funds” will be to do research and development (R&D) on some promising new technology, like superconductivity or cancer cures. Investors are looking for commercial products to make money, rather than R&D sunk costs, so your investment hopes are sunk as well.

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The 3 Common Threads Of Young Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

by Emily Cain. Young teens that can dominate the business world often possess character traits that set them apart from other teens, young adults, and even some seasoned business veterans. It isn’t particularly because they are young that they are successful, but rather, the fact that they have developed these traits at all. It is the character traits themselves, coupled with the natural human drive to achieve which drives the successful few.

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More Innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence blog The Bourne Legacy The Russian Internet All Stars Holi-day Innovation is also reinventing the old A fleet of civilian drones NYC’s Domain Awareness System The Kindle Paperwhite Hey, San Diego, match this!

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Shark Tank Season 4 episode 3 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

It was a busy weekend, so I didn’t get to watch Shark Tank until this evening. So here is the breakdown of Season 4 week 3 : LIZ LOVELY COOKIES. The first company makes gluten-free, diary-free gourmet cookies. There was some dispute among the sharks about if they tasted good or not. The company did $1M in sales last year, 90% from wholesale, and had a 10% profit margin.

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Ready for a Big, PR Launch? Don’t Fight Campaign News

Rembrandt Communications

If you are getting ready to launch a new product or Website, it’s probably not the best time to do so. Right now, the media is focused on the elections and campaign news. However, there are still some ways to generate media attention. 1. Work with the election season. Is there any way you can [.].

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The 7 Best Business Books For Young Professionals

YoungUpstarts

. Congratulations, spring chickens! You’re new to the professional world. And the odds are stacked against you. It’s near impossible to get a job. Barriers to entry in the corporate world are many and varied, but — take heart, jobseekers. We’ve got the seven best business books for your set. Read our capsule reviews below: Find Your Perfect Job: The Inside Guide for Young Professionals.

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Startup Accelerators are Entrepreneur Boot Camps

Gust

David Cohen image via Kathleen Lavine, Denver Business Journal. Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). About that time the bubble burst, causing more than 80% of them to disappear. Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates.

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