Thu.Apr 05, 2012

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Four Ways To Create A Positive Team Culture

YoungUpstarts

by J. Clint Anderson Ph.D., founder and president of J. Clint Anderson Company. Between increased diversity, growing workload, geographic dispersion, and organizational changes, who has time to worry about a corporate culture? Research shows that when people connect well, organizations succeed. So, the real question is: Can you afford not to invest in your team culture?

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. Capital Innovators put on the event, called Demo Day, at the cherished Pageant Theater, which normally is a concert venue.

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CIO Do over wishlist

deal architect

Chris Murphy at InformationWeek is one of my favorite technology editors ( He also kindly wrote a blurb for the back cover of my new book.) He has a nice gallery of CIOs each expressing something in their career they.

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Random Thoughts And Printers

entrepreMusings

For some reason today was a weird day. It started out with me dragging myself onto the treadmill at 6:00 a.m. Then I sorted through a bunch of email and set up some meetings. I had a good meeting with one of my clients. I even had a good lunch with a potential client. Then it got mixed up in a few ways that illustrate the complexity of us humans and machines as follows: I called my insurance agent to discuss car and homeowners premiums.

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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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A Great American Experience

OnlyOnce

A Great American Experience. President Obama signed into law today a bill called the JOBS Act. I haven’t read the full text of the law, but based on abstracts, my opinion of the JOBS Act is that it’s great for the startup community, but even greater for growth companies. I am less familiar with the Crowdsourcing components of the bill, but certainly that will make it easier for pure startups to attract micro capital.

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Change your words to change your world…

Life Beyond Code

Imagine these scenarios and may be you can relate to some of them. Scenario #1: Jill is wearing a new dress. Jill: Hey Jack, how do I look in this new dress? Jack: Why, you look just great…. Jill: What.you mean to say I don’t look great in other dresses? Busted. Scenario #2: Jill is wearing a blue dress. Jill: I think this blue dress is lovely.

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How to create a niche – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

How many times have you thought “somebody should make…” or “why doesn’t anybody sell…”? Palo Alto Software customer Kelly Chaney had a moment like that, but instead of just wondering why nobody was making cake mix for dogs, she decided to solve the problem by becoming the somebody who does. And so Puppy Cake , innovative and gourmet treats for dogs, was born. “People, myself included, love their dogs.

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Scaling Me

OnlyOnce

Scaling Me. Two things have come up over the last couple years for me that are frustrations for me as a CEO of a high growth company. These are both people related — an area that’s always been the cornerstone of my leadership patterns. That probably makes them even more frustrating. Frustration 1: Not knowing if I can completely trust the feedback I get from deep in the organization.

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Why are local businesses so good for the economy?

Up and Running

Congressman Peter DeFazio (Oregon, D) stopped by the Palo Alto Software office yesterday and discussed the important role small businesses play in their local economies. While many cities and regions spend time and resources trying to attract and convince large corporations to relocate to their area, DeFazio says a focus on the local businesses can be a better fit.

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5-Star Feedback Systems are Broken

A Crowded Space

In the early days of 2004 at oDesk, we had no feedback system. I answered hundreds of phone calls from customers. I would always ask for their feedback on what we could do better. Almost all of them told me their great idea - “You should launch a feedback system! Like eBay!” . So, we got it. We desperately needed a feedback system. We had Mary Lou Song (1st eBay employee) as an advisor.

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Inventors and Entrepreneurs

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Apr 5, 2012. Inventors and Entrepreneurs. My grandfather Nick lived what looks in hindsight like a cliched life. Born in "Turkey" in the 19th century, as he told us (we only later learned he grew up in Jerusalem, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire, ie, Turkey), steamship through various ports ending up in Ellis Island in the early 20th century, immediately shuffled off to a tenement house on St Marks and

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5-Star Feedback Systems are Broken - A Crowded Space

A Crowded Space

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If you’re looking for a fun iPad game…

Jeff Hilimire

Super light on posts this week as I’m “off” this week (spring break with the kids). Back in full force next week. What I DID do this week is download a couple of games for the iPad and now I’m completely addicted to Kingdom Rush. It’s a tower defense game, which are my favorite, and its really hard to beat the levels (which I also love).

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Innovating in the wrong direction for brilliant products

The Startup Toolkit

What’s the problem with greeting cards? They take too dang long! And they’re a meaningless gesture anyway, so why not make them easy? That’s the approach all the e-cards have taken. These companies have looked at the lay of the land and declared: “The problem is convenience.” Moleskine looked at the same territory and instead opined, “The problem is that cards are a meaningless, tacky gesture.” Convenience is hardly the top concern when people we care ab

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IPO Task Force Leader: JOBS Act a Wake-up Call for Startups

ReadWriteStart

"A lot of the noise in the market right now is about bringing back irresponsible IPOs. That is a short-lived strategy, and a wrong-headed strategy." This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. "Our objective is to bring back quality IPOs, the kind that we had in the late '80s and the early '90s.".

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Best Part of New Facebook Design Has Nothing to Do With Design

Duct Tape Marketing

Best Part of New Facebook Design Has Nothing to Do With Design This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. I know there’s still plenty of talk this week surrounding the new Facebook Timeline design and the various changes in the look and feel. But as I pointed out earlier this week, it’s still all about engagement. To that point there were some very minor sounding changes that accompanied the design change and one of those is worthy of your attention.

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Cancer

Feld Thoughts

I was going to write something about a new book I’ve just published but I woke up this morning and that felt trivial so I’m going to save it for next week. Instead, I’m going to talk about my day yesterday. My long time friend (dating back to the mid-1990′s) Andy Sack has testicular cancer. Before I get into things, he’s in the middle of chemo, has a 95%+ cure rate, is open and public about what he’s going through, and has an incredibly positive attitude.

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