Sun.Dec 02, 2012

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Its beginning to look a lot like Enterprise 2.0

deal architect

Cannot be a fluke. He was using the same examples in yet another presentation. I had seen Andrew McAfee present at Cognizant Community on the possibility of the metric system as currently defined running out of definitions for things like.

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More Entrepreneurs Embrace Conscious Capitalism

Startup Professionals Musings

I’ve noticed that most young entrepreneurs are more socially conscious today than ever before, which is a great trend. Unfortunately, some are so focused on this principle that they forget that every business, even non-profits, have to practice the basic principals of capitalism (build a business model to make money) to cover their costs to do good things another day.

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More Innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence blog Ten things you may not know about DST The payback from LEED certification 50 ways to leave your lover – and to communicate with your smartphone Nice memories from Workday Rising The self-made bed Veterans.

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10 Perspective Checks on Your Startup Aspirations

Gust

Image via Facebook.com. Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. For any entrepreneur, even the best business opportunities, if entered for the wrong reasons, will likely fail. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgive me for restating, but I still hear them too often.

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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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[Singapore] Golden Gate Ventures And JFDI Asia Form Strategic Alliance

YoungUpstarts

“*Limpeh gar lu gong…” (* Let me tell you…). Singapore-based technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia) today announced a strategic tie-up with Golden Gate Ventures , another startup accelerator also based in Singapore, that will see Golden Gate Ventures co-founders Vinnie Lauria, Jeff Paine and Paul Bragiel join JFDI.Asia’s “ bootcamp ” accelerator program as mentors with immediate effect.

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How to hire the right developer for your tech startup

The Next Web

I’m currently co-founding ContentForest – a content marketing platform – and we just crossed an exciting line: our private beta is only a few days away and I’m very happy with the way the product is shaping up. Getting to this state has been a process wherein we learned really valuable lessons. How to get the right development talent in place is one of these.

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Small business: The Affordable Care Act, Part II

crowdSPRING Blog

Earlier this year, I wrote a post about ways that Obamacare might help small businesses. At the time, the Supreme Court had just released it’s decision upholding most of the Affordable Care Act’s provisions and the dust was still settling on what it would all mean. Last month, President Obama won re-election, effectively removing the threat that the law would be repealed, and now these provisions are going into full effect, many starting in the next 12 months.

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Tennis on the Red Clay and my visit to Chile

David Cohen

I spent the past few days in Santiago, Chile, playing tennis with an ex-pro, having lunch with Al Gore…you know, the usual grind. Santiago is an amazing place, the people are great and I had super nice treatment the entire time. I was there to take part as a speaker at Common Pitch Chile , where I met a bunch of interesting entrepreneurs who are doing really exciting things.

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Strategies for UT Entrepreneurship Class, “One Semester Startup” BEFORE It Even Starts

Austin Startup

On Sunday night is a special 1 Semester Startup Speed Dating event at UT. Guest Blogger Larry Chiang has some advice on how to succeed at the event. I give special homework that makes people rich. Im hiLarryAss like that. This event/party/mixer is on my radar for December 2 By “speed dating” it means UT undergrads [.].

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Keeping Up-To-Date On Social Enterprises

Business Plan Blog

'As mentioned in the previous blog post on scaling your social enterprise, part of building out your organization is through expanding your network. Similarly, part of staying up to date on the latest information in the social enterprise world is to maintain those network connections and continue to seek out answers to your ongoing questions. We have mentioned many resources for keeping up to date on social enterprises in previous blog posts, but below is a recap of the highlights: NESsT : Hos

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