Tue.Oct 30, 2012

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched – Startup Weekend Next. A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. Our goal– to inspire, educate and empower hundred’s of thousands of entrepreneurs and help create 10,000 startups.

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Protect Before You Connect! Simple Precautions To Avoid Online Personal Privacy Disaster

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Weinstein, CEO and founder of Sgrouples.com. The Internet is an amazing, fantastic, vibrant place. But there are also evil people out there who steal identities, hack credit card accounts, track personal information, violate privacy, insert malicious programs that can exploit your company or home network, destroy your hard drives and raid your social network.

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10 Keys to Real Entrepreneur Mentoring Satisfaction

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Even one of the richest, Bill Gates , still values his friend Warren Buffett as his mentor. Yet these relationships require special efforts on both sides to be productive and satisfying. Mentoring is not as simple as one person giving the other all the right answers.

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Does anybody have leverage with Apple?

deal architect

responds Dan Hesse of Sprint to Charlie Rose in this interview Wow, I never thought I would hear a telecom CEO say that about any device maker. It is the new reality as I wrote in my recent book: Prior.

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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] Boston Consulting Group Opens Center For Business Excellence

YoungUpstarts

Mr S Iswaran, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office & Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade & Industry, Dr. Hans-Paul Bürkner, President and Chief Executive Officer of BCG, and Mr Jeffrey Chua, Partner and Managing Director, BCG Singapore, opens BCG’s Center for Business Excellence in Singapore. Leading global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has announced the opening of its first-ever Center for Business Excellence, right here in Singapore.

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Strategies for Building Marketplaces

Mucker Lab

This is a follow-up to my last post on the prevailing trends in e-commerce, I touched on marketplace e-commerce business models only briefly because it is a complex topic that require its own post. We, at MuckerLab, love businesses not possible before the “invention” of a particular medium or platform – not only because (superficially) [.

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Yuri Milner Allocates $150 Million in ICQ Ventures to Invest in Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Remember ICQ? The poster-child of Israeli startups which was sold to AOL in 1998 for $287 million (ancient link!) and later on to DST for $187 million in 2010, Yuri Milner's holding corp, is now. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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[Singapore] Will Number 8 Prove Auspicious For Microsoft?

YoungUpstarts

Microsoft today debuted the Windows Phone 8, its highly anticipated smartphone operating system, in Singapore, showing off a slew of Windows Phone 8 phones from smartphone vendors Samsung, Nokia and HTC. The new range of Windows Phone 8 devices will go on sale from November islandwide, but may find it an uphill task challenging the dominance of Apple’s iOS and the upstart GOogle Android.

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Looking For A Design HackStar for Startup Revolution

Feld Thoughts

I’m starting to integrate a bunch of new stuff into the Startup Revolution site now that I’ve finished book #2: Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur. I’m looking for someone with web design chops who has experience with WordPress to work with me on some stuff. I’m using the TechStars HackStar model - I’ll pay a modest amount of money for a full-time or part-time and will plug you in aggressively to the TechStars and Foundry Gr

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Globes Ranked Top 10 Israeli startups

VC Cafe

Globes ranked the top 10 Israeli startups for 2012, and social marketplace Fiverr has taken the top spot. Fiverr has not only created a new marketplace, but also established a whole category, which. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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As promised, Bootstrap creators release first update since leaving Twitter

The Next Web

When Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, the creators of the Bootstrap toolkit, announced they were leaving Twitter last month, they promised to continue working on the project, even though it was launched in August 2011 while they were employed at the social networking giant. Today, they have delivered on that promise with Bootstrap 2.2.0. If you follow Bootstrap closely, you’ll notice that the next release was supposed to be 2.1.2, but the creators say they bumped the version number due to tim

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ConversionXL is now 1 year old

ConversionXL

Happy birthday to us. It’s been a wonderful journey. Even though it’s just 1 year, it feels like ConversionXL has been around for much longer than a year. It was one year ago when I posted the first article on pricing experiments. There’s now a total of 76 posts – that’s one post per 4.8 days. Traffic stats. Since that very first post over 300 000 people have passed through ( click to enlarge the image ): You can see the traffic pattern here.

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We Are Austin Tech: Lloyd Armbrust

Austin Startup

Lloyd Armbrust has been working in and around newspapers for over 15 years when he started as a circulation call-center manager for the Duluth News-Tribune. In 2001 he moved into online sales and then worked to built several newspaper websites from the ground up. In 2008, he started OwnLocal and in 2010 received funding from [.].

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7 Pay-Per-Click Advertising Options That Are Not Google or Bing

Duct Tape Marketing

Pay-per-click advertising (PPC), when used correctly, is a very powerful way to drive traffic and conversions. photo credit: alles-schlumpf via photopin cc. The used correctly part includes effective targeting and testing, writing compelling ads, creating compelling offers and managing the bid and budget process in the most cost effective manner. While the Google and Bing PPC ad networks are the most popular options, smart advertisers also choose to round out their offerings with other options t

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Smooth Seas Never Made a Skillful Sailor

Bryce Dot VC

Yesterday was a tough one all around for many people that I care deeply about. Some are displaced, some are without necessities many of us have come to take for granted, and many are preparing for months (years?) of rebuilding themselves and the city they love. . As I took inventory this morning of all our NYC portfolio company founders and employees, I was relieved to find mainly inconveniences, rather than tragedies.

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Art of the Start

ithacaVC

I was supposed to have a guest lecturer in my class talking about the new crowd funding act (which is not yet legal), but he was coming from NYC and Sandy messed up the travel plans. BTW, in Ithaca, Sandy was basically a drizzly rain. No damage up here. So, I covered crowd funding (thanks to Doug Gorman for giving me a good deck to teach from) and then showed one of my favorite Guy Kawasaki videos – he classic Art of the Start.

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Writing a Social Enterprise Business Plan

Business Plan Blog

'Writing a business plan serves two main purposes: providing the guide for your business internally and communicating the value of your business externally. The more detail and thought that is put into the business plan, the more it will help your business navigate the start up and expansion stages. Consequently, the more your business plan thoroughly addresses all the issues that will come up internally as you grow your company, the more power it will have in convincing an external audience t

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Yes, please

Jeff Hilimire

If you were confused, I love Evernote. A lot. And this update looks fantastic.

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Here are the 8 startups graduating from Chinaccelerator’s third class

The Next Web

Chinaccelerator , the only accelerator of its kind in China, hosted a demo day on Tuesday for its third batch of startups. The 8 companies each got 8 minutes to pitch their projects to a room full of investors, media and fellow entrepreneurs in Beijing. The accelerator, founded by Cyril Ebersweiler and Sean O’Sullivan and now part of the Global Accelerator Network , got its start two years ago, graduating 6 startups in its first class and 9 in its second.

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PWC MoneyTree Report Q3 2012: Israeli VC Investments Down 33%

VC Cafe

Last week PWC released its quarterly moneytree report on the state of the venture capital industry in Israel. The top line figures indicate a 33% decline in VC investments in Q3, reaching $171. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. Last week PWC released its quarterly moneytree report on the state of the venture capital industry in Israel.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: October 23rd – 30th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Email: Friend or Foe?

Up and Running

Like many people, I enjoy the conveniences that email affords me on a daily basis. It’s hard to even imagine what professional life would be like without constant notifications and helpful meeting reminders throughout the work day. And let’s face it, email has certainly earned it’s preference over unexpected phone calls and has quickly become the accepted and expected method for making an initial professional contact.

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