Thu.Dec 20, 2012

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The New Breed of Startups Master These 5 Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Maybe it’s time to look harder at the mantra of a new breed of gurus and successful entrepreneurs, including Steve Blank and Eric Ries , called “nail it then scale it” (NISI).

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Top Things To Consider When Buying New Technology

YoungUpstarts

With the rapid rate of development in new technology there is no surprise that this is the fastest growing sector of the market. Whether it is the latest smartphone, or a digital camera that also makes toast, pretty much everybody has enjoyed the guilty pleasure of indulging in a new gadget of some kind, shape, or description. As a result of the high levels of productivity this is a very crowded market place, which really plays into the hands of the shopper.

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2012 what a year!

deal architect

The New Florence blog set a blistering pace during 2012 – it will end year with 750+ posts. Each one of the posts makes you go “wow”, and very tough to play favorites but I scanned the titles to come.

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[Infographic] Wasting Away – The State Of Workplace Productivity

YoungUpstarts

Workplace productivity isn’t as high as it can be, many managers complain. The culprit they usually point to? The Internet and social media. But they’re wrong. Every year, some $134 billion is lost by employees spending time on tasks that are not work-related. The biggest time-wasting culprit is actually meetings, followed by office politics and annoying colleagues.

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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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What is the ratio of equity received for sweat equity vs. cash investment in a new venture?

Gust

There is no specific ratio between “sweat equity” and cash in a venture, and that’s actually not a good way to think about the issue. The bottom line is that cash is cash is cash, and everything else is “not cash” The reason is that cash is fungible, which means it can be interchanged for everything else, from programming skills to vacations on the Riviera.

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Nine Strategies To Help You Stop Enduring And Start Creating A Life That Really Works

YoungUpstarts

by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ The year 2012 is drawing to a close and, for many recession-wracked American women, it feels like just another mile marker in an endurance race going nowhere. Depressing, but true. We trudge through the week at a dreary job, drive home fretting about money, and spend our evenings robot-walking through the usual haze of homework battles and half-finished chores.

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Raising Funds For A Traditional F&B Or Retail Startup

YoungUpstarts

Over the past two weeks I’ve received at least five emails asking for startup advice. Most of them merely had ideas but no clue how to start in their industry, three of them needed advice on fundraising, and just one asked recommendations for a mentor (no prizes for guessing which impressed me most). But one of the greatest challenges faced by aspiring entrepreneurs is to raise sufficient funds to start their business.

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2012 – The Year in Apps

VC Cafe

Nearly 100,000 new developers created applications this year for the App Store, which rakes in 4x more revenue than Google Play. With the number of App Store applications now topping 1 million, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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ConversionXL’s Top 10 Posts of 2012

ConversionXL

Which posts published in 2012 proved to be most popular? These 10 blog posts got the most attention this year. If you haven’t read some of them, make sure to check them out: Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels, Ignore the Fad. Controversy and challenging the status quo made this post the winner. With over 100 comments and close to 2000 tweets, it was by far the most shared and discussed.

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I Have Been Seduced By Online Video

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tweet Every year I attend a massive sci-fi and pop culture expo called Supanova. There are events all around Australia and for anyone who is even slightly geeky, such as myself (well maybe more than slightly), they are awesome.

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Which Techie Stereotype Are You? [Check One]

ReadWriteStart

If you live and breathe technology startup culture, you know that there are definitely some distinctive personality types that permeate the industry. You have the heady and sometimes arrogant but passionate founder. The uber-connected and overly caffeinated social media manger. The hipster designer who may or may not have tried to become a stand-up comedian.

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Answering the debate: The iPad vs. the iPad Mini

Jeff Hilimire

What is your current impression of the iPad Mini vs. the regular size iPad? Mine was, before Tuesday, that for an uber-user like myself the iPad Mini was too small and too “not-retina” to replace the regular size iPad (I’m just calling it the “iPad” going forward in this post). But after using the iPad Mini all day Tuesday, my impression has changed dramatically.

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How to Get More Social Mileage Out of Video

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Dr. Melody King – Enjoy! photo credit: MoneyBlogNewz. No doubt you’re knee-deep in social media marketing these days, spending a good chunk of time engaging with customers within social networks and creating compelling content that attracts followers. Pat yourself on the back for your hard work – and now, get ready for a social networking exercise you may not have come across before.

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The Best Stuff on the Internet This Year

Rob Go

We all read tons of stuff on the internet to give us a better perspective on the world we traverse. I find that the vast majority of links that fly across my streams are “pop technology” They might be mildly interesting or even momentarily thought provoking. But most are really snowflakes in your hand – they melt pretty quick, and you move on pretty quickly too.

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Finding "Investor-Entrepreneur" Fit (aka Avoiding the Series A Crunch)

Seeing Both Sides

A question I often get asked by entrepreneurs is what is Flybridge’s investment philosophy – do we make our investment decisions based on people or on themes? The glib answer is both, but as I’ve thought more about this question I wanted to expand the answer a bit to help entrepreneurs understand how investors approach this issue in more detail. I think this question has become more acute as the much-discussed shortage of Series A capital (the so-called "Series A Crunch" ) means that, going fo

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7 Ways to Be a Great Mentor

Early Growth Financial Services

At this time of year, when there is a whole lot of talk about giving and receiving, I thought it seemed timely to discuss mentorship. I have many mentors whom I constantly utilize as resources. These mentors have been incredibly important to me, an integral part of my success. On the flip side, as a CEO, I consider being a mentor to be one of my most important responsibilities; mentoring is an obligation to my company and to my ecosystem community.

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The power of Youtube

The Equity Kicker

The stats for Youtube are impressive – 4bn hours viewed per month, growing at an annualised rate of 50% – but probably more exciting right now is the way they are re-imagining the television experience for both viewers and advertisers. Elizabeth Murdoch , founder and CEO of ‘traditional’ TV production company Shine , now part of the News Corporation empire made the following points in her MacTaggart lecture to the Edinburgh International Television Festival earlier this year: 1.

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I'm Going To Be The Richest Black Woman In America

Growthink Blog

"I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America." Oprah Winfrey said this in 1987. And then it took her 19 years to accomplish this goal. So, how did Oprah achieve this incredible feat and become one of the richest and most successful people in the world. Well, the first thing she did is set her goal.

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