Sat.Dec 29, 2012 - Fri.Jan 04, 2013

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Startup Mentors

SoCal CTO

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. I suggested that they should look for someone like me, but on the business end. Then we discussed how they could go about finding this startup business advisor. Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup.

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Less Feature. More Cloud.

deal architect

One of my favorite enterprise software executives is Steve Miranda, who heads applications development at Oracle. His title is a bit narrow. He is also a key customer interface and the unofficial CIO at Oracle. This gives him a unique.

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[Review] Mastering Story, Community & Influence

YoungUpstarts

There are those on social media, and then there are those who define how to really use social media. Jay Oatway , former journalist and leading social media authority calls the latter Socialeaders. In fact, the author in his book “ Mastering Story, Community and Influence: How to Use Social Media to Become a Socialeader ” details not only the role of social media plays in modern-day narrative and competitive landscape, but how one can also maximize one’s own digital influence w

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How to pitch to investors in 10 minutes and get funded

Up and Running

I know what it’s like to pitch to investors – both angels and venture capitalists. I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology start-ups. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Below is a format I’ve successfully used, as well as helped many other first-time start-up CEOs raise investment capital.

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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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Google Analytics Tips: 10 Data Analysis Strategies That Pay Off Big!

Occam's Razor

In the coming year, based on current announcements , Google Analytics is set to go through an almost unprecedented amount of evolution. My postulation is that by this time next year the tool will be almost unrecognizable. [My favorite is Visitor Analytics, and visitor level segmentation that will be pervasive throughout the product. This is insanely cool.].

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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

How do you monetize a unique business model based on users rather than selling an actual product? We asked members of the Young Entrepreneurs Council for their thoughts. Giving it away at Contently. “At Contently, our core monetization strategy is through marketplace transactions. We’ve built (and continue to grow) a network of journalists and a corresponding publisher network.

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My favorite apps to keep productive in 2013

Up and Running

I’m a sucker for any app that helps me be more productive. I’ll try any new to-do list and I’m always on the lookout for the next great project management tool. Over the past year, there have been some fantastic new productivity apps as well as some refreshes of a few classics. To help you increase your productivity in 2013, here are my top 12 favorite apps from 2012.

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Find and build recurring revenues.

Berkonomics

Most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. Sometimes, products are designed to make all of their profit upon the recurring revenues from supplies or support. We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release. Xerox in its formative years, even though barely having enough cash to market its then revolutionary copier, elected to lease rather than sell the units.

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The big disruption opportunity in book publishing

deal architect

Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years. While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY Times article.

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My simple ways to be a happier, smarter 30-something

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Do this stuff, and I guarantee you will literally be happier, smarter , more productive, live longer, and most importantly you will not feel like you’re missing out on life. Don’t eat anything that’s nasty at room temperature. It’s OK if it’s not ideal at room temperature, it just needs to be not nasty. Real ice cream is melted at room temperature, but it’s cream and sugar; not gross.

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10 Reasons Your Destiny This Year May be a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Many budding entrepreneurs struggle mightily with that first step – out of their comfort zone and into the unknown. They keep asking people like me whether the time is right, and the truth is that there’s never an ideal time to start your own business. It’s like starting a personal relationship, if you wait for exactly the right time, you’ll never do it.

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New Year’s Data Security Resolutions

YoungUpstarts

by Phillip Alexander, author of “ Home and Small Business Guide to Protecting Your Computer Network, Electronic Assets, and Privacy “ Now that is 2013, here are some New Year’s resolutions to consider, with a data security angle. I’ve always been a firm believer that the best decisions are always well informed ones. So, to better protect your sensitive data, here are some New Year’s resolutions to help you be better informed: Phishing Attacks.

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The Voice of the Enterprise Customer

deal architect

Tim Cook of Apple recently told BusinessWeek “I’ve talked to many other CEOs who look at me like I have three heads when I talk about getting hundreds or thousands of customer e-mails in a day. It’s a privilege. It’s.

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Give Before You Get

Feld Thoughts

This first appeared in my LinkedIn Today column titled Give Before You Get. I post unique content on LinkedIn a few times a month (I ultimately reblog it here) but if you want to get it when I first publish it and you are a LinkedIn member, simply follow me on LinkedIn. As 2013 begins, I encourage you to adopt one of my deeply held beliefs, that of “ give before you get.”.

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13 New Year’s Resolutions to Work Happy in 2013

Startup Professionals Musings

Welcome to the New Year 2013! You’ve probably already made your resolutions, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your work. After all, most of us spend more hours in this role than any other, and life is too short to spend most of your life unhappy. If you haven’t tried it, one way to be happier at work is to be an entrepreneur, according to a recent study by the Wharton School of Business.

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Are We Entering 2013 in Crunch-Mode?

Genuine VC

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. According to all of the blogosphere chatter over the past month, seed-funded internet startups are entering this year gearing up for the now-near-infamous Series A Crunch. The CB Insights report specifically which came out just before the holidays put a bright light on the supply-demand imbalance of the seed-stage companies searching for Series A capital.

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Negotiations 101

deal architect

Like most, I have watched the show on Capitol Hill for the last couple of weeks with amusement, irritation – and yes, some fascination. You see, in my career I have been part of many a technology negotiation. I have.

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Small Experiments, Often

Feld Thoughts

This post first appeared in the WSJ Accelerators series titled The $100,000 Experiment in response to the question “When should you make a substantive change to one or more parts of your business model?” During the past few years, the word “pivot” has become one of the most overused words with regard to startups. For some, it means a tiny incremental change in the business.

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Does Your Startup Work Hard But Not Gain Momentum?

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs confuse motion with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done. Momentum is moving things forward (mass x velocity). Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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Five Career Predictions For 2013

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Vice President and Managing Director of Apollo Research Institute. We at the Apollo Research Institute see job growth ahead in 2013 – and in some surprising places. In addition, we find women are advancing organizations and the economy as they forge innovative career paths and start new businesses. Based on extensive environmental scanning and two years of research for our forthcoming book, “ Women Lead: Career Perspectives from Workplace Leaders “, here

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CES: The trueconsumerization of the enterprise

deal architect

Consumerization is defined narrowly by many to cover trends like BYOD where employees are allowed to bring their own flavor of device to work. To me, this new tech savvy employee is far more interesting as a consumer looking for.

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The Two Words That Determine Your Success In Life

Mike Michalowicz

Determine Your Success In Life With I Am . I promise you this: if you have the discipline to implement what I am about to share with you, your life will be transformed. More than just your business life. Every aspect of your life will change. What you are about to learn is the gateway to all forms of achievement. And, ironically, it’s also the cause of all failure.

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Don’t Delay Your First Startup to Get an MBA Degree

Startup Professionals Musings

I don’t have an MBA. I used to fear that this would put me at a disadvantage in starting my own company, but now I’m convinced that it may be the other way around. In some reputable surveys , as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so a specific education level is at least irrelevant.

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College Grads Can Make The Best Businessmen

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Kaiser of Startup Biz Blog. A lot of business professionals make the mistake of looking at the college crowd and viewing them as young kids who do not have enough knowledge or experience to make it in the real world just yet. The problem here is that they are turning a blind eye to what can be some of their most fierce competition. This is their biggest mistake because these are the people that can be some of the most successful in the business world.

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The year that was and the one that will be

deal architect

On New Florence been running the best of 2012 Best 2012 photos Discover Magazine - Top 2012 Science Stories The Culture Street Journal - WSJ on best of 2012 art, architecture Scientific American’s 2012 “Game changers” Fortune’s Top Businesspersons of.

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How to increase Pinterest traffic and direct it to your site

The Next Web

While its popularity has evened out over the last few months, Pinterest is still carrying a lot of the momentum it gathered at the beginning of the year. Considering that it drives more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined and had 23 million unique visitors to the site in August , its ability to direct more traffic to your site has rightly gotten businesses and brands interested in the service.

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What You Can Learn About Startups From Great Cooks

Startup Professionals Musings

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entree for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Yet you may not be so sure where to start, and how to put it all together. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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[Singapore] Startup Asia Singapore Back For 2013 Edition

YoungUpstarts

After a series of successful startup events in Singapore, and Jakarta and Bandung in Indonesia last year, Asia-based online technology news site TechinAsia will be kicking off Startup Asia Singapore ‘s second edition later in April this year. To be held on 4-5 April, the event will showcase a wide variety of startup-centric activities that will again include the wildly popular Startup Arena , which will see 20 new startups pitch and challenge for US$10,000 in cash.

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More Innovation

deal architect

on the New Florence blog Tim Cook speaks FoxBots The Big Data that is earth at night Curate a TV show of your own “Tis the season The motion-capture technology behind Gollum The real secret behind German engineering Craft distilleries

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The Mess of a Second Edition Book

Feld Thoughts

The Second Edition of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist just started shipping. It’s new and improved, fixes a bunch of little mistakes that we listed on the Ask the VC site , and adds a chapter on Convertible Debt which builds on the posts on Ask the VC. I’m happy it’s out, but really annoyed by the mess that is created by the second edition.

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4 Startup Tenets for Extreme Focus on Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

New product startups rightfully begin with a heads-down focus on creating the ultimate product – whether it’s a new technology, a new look and ease of use, or a new low-cost delivery approach. Most then add customer service at the rollout, but very few really understand what it means to be truly customer centric, and even fewer really achieve it. Customer centricity is far more than providing excellent customer service, although that’s a step in the right direction.

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The Unbundled Mobile Software Stack

Agile VC

I’ve been using Google’s Chrome browser on my iPad Mini for about a month now. There are several things I prefer over Apple’s Safari, including the bookmark and search history sync with my other Chrome usage (on laptop) and some small UI touches. But for now there’s no way to make an OS-level switch to make Chrome my default browser.

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9 Reasons Why Your New Year Resolutions Fail

Life Beyond Code

First of all, why am I even qualified to talk about this topic? I am just like you – lot of my resolutions have failed and lot of my projects have failed but when I have succeeded small number of times, I have done so with flying colors. A couple of examples where I succeeded: 1. Yoga : When I learned yoga, I thought I would do this for the rest of my life.

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Hit Reset, It’s 2013

Feld Thoughts

My long-time friends Fred Wilson and Joanne Wilson each had powerful posts about saying goodbye to 2012 and welcoming in 2013 yesterday. Fred’s is titled Putting 2012 To Bed. I know many people who don’t know Fred other than via his online presence, public actions, and reputations. I expect that 99% of them, when asked if Fred had an awesome 2012, would say ”of course – he has an amazing life.” But my answer would have been more nuanced based on the time Fred and

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VC Cafe’s Top Blog Posts in 2012 and year in Review

VC Cafe

As 2012 comes to an end, I thought I'd put together a 'best of' list of VC Cafe's stories throughout the year. It seems like 2012 was the year of throwing spaghetti on the wall by founders and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. As 2012 comes to an end, I thought I'd put together a 'best of' list of VC Cafe's stories throughout the year.

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19 Things We Can Learn From Numerous Heatmap Tests

ConversionXL

Heatmaps are great for analyzing the behavior of your visitors. They can lead to insights you can’t find using other methods, which can greatly increase your conversion rate. Heatmaps are roughly divided between mousetracking heatmaps and eyetracking heatmaps. The big majority of companies use mousetracking heatmaps because of it’s price effectiveness.