Thu.Nov 08, 2012

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. Yet amidst all the partisan cheerleading and name-calling, there has been some discussion of substance.

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7 Co-Founder Strategies That Can Be Very Painful

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. This would be a mistake, and could easily cost you your startup. If you think about it, you should realize that not everyone is ‘ideal partner material.

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More New Renaissance

deal architect

on the innovation blog China’s architectural boom Not your parents’ cruise The human face of Big Data Paperless ProcessWorld Software AG innovation awards Pinterest Power You’ve got a Twitter, Pinterest and Gmail mashup The Robo-restaurant.

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5 Tips To Making The Most Out Of Your Small Business Saturday

YoungUpstarts

By Deborah Sweeney, CEO of MyCorporation. Are you ready to shop small? On Saturday November 24 th , Small Business Saturday (SBS) will be making its yearly (since 2010) return in an effort to help drive shoppers to local storefronts and merchants across the United States. Backed by American Express and FedEx this year, promoting the event has never been easier with the free marketing materials available to download on the official SBS website , along with the chance to qualify for free online ad

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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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Don’t Let the Panda Scare You!

Rembrandt Communications

Have you heard? The Panda is coming! The Panda is here! The SEO world is buzzing with the latest news from Google that they are doing yet another Panda update. Google recently stated that about three billion searches go on every day at Google so this latest update to their algorithm could potentially affect over [.].

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4 Ways To Boost Your Resume And Get The Job

YoungUpstarts

by Lorie Knighton. With the workforce as competitive as it is, you need to do something to stand out. There are many ways to raise the bar and prevent your resume from ending up in the trash bin. If you want it to go straight to the top of the pile of all the other applicants, here are a few tips for how you can make a great impression on the companies you’re applying to. 1.

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Table Host – Chicago’s New Premium Dining Concierge Service

YoungUpstarts

Scoring a premium table in a vaunted restaurant in Chicago’s dining scene – one of the most vibrant in the United States – can be a daunting task. One usually needs to score a reservation, often months in advance, for any chance at a leading restaurant. But a new premium dining concierge service, Table Host , has just launched in the Chicago scene to help foodies get round problems with last-minute, spur-of-the-moment reservations at top dining establishments.

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Community is Family

Feld Thoughts

This week’s The Founders is awesome. It reminds us that there are real people and real families behind every startup. I’ve experienced this over and over again in my 17 years in Boulder and it’s reflected in both the Startup Communities book that is out and the Startup Life book that Amy and I are in the final copyedit phase of and will be out by January.

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What is an effective “pre-incorporation-agreement” between possible founders of a startup?

Gust

The bottom line is that the very question you are asking is one of the trickiest things of all when it comes to startup founding. On the one hand, if you DON’T make things explicitly clear up front, you are just begging for a future disaster by ‘kicking the can down the road’ On the other hand, if everything is locked in stone before you even start, you may find yourself with a completely untenable structure even six or twelve months out, when it becomes clear that not everyon

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Google introduces six-month trial for Cloud SQL, ups storage 10x to 100GB, adds EU datacenter

The Next Web

Google today announced a major update to its Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud. The highlights are this: 10 times more storage, faster reads, faster writes, EU datacenter availability, integration with Google Apps Script, and a way to try it all out with a six-month trial. First up is more storage.

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Illegitimi non carborundum

This is going to be BIG.

(Mock Latin for "Don't let the bastards get you.") When you dare to try something big, and put yourself out there, the amount of support you get from others will undoubtedly be matched by the amount of people who secretly, or not so secretly want to take you down. They're either jealous, or they like to be right--so they play the odds that you'll fail.

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The 7 Easiest Ways To Boost Sales & Profits

Growthink Blog

Are you looking to boost your sales and profits? I hope you are, because any business owner or entrepreneur who isn't looking to grow, will surely start to decline. So, since you ARE ready to grow, here are seven easy ways to do so: 1. Find or build the right product or service Without the right product or service, you're going to have a hard time growing your business.

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the big job

Start Up Blog

I was having a discussion with a colleague about staffing at the most senior level of an organization. Non technical, Director and CEO level jobs. In fact the discussion I was having was with a CEO himself. What he said actually surprised me, especially given the level he is at in his personal career. First let me give a brief summary of what transpired.

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Lead by consensus wherever possible.

Berkonomics

Dictators are not great leaders in the long run. People follow such leaders by fear, rarely by devotion. Employees want to have a stake in their own destiny, and above all want to understand why actions are taken which affect them, even if the outcome is not in the employee’s favor. The best leaders are those who share problems and alternative solutions with their direct reports, then seek consensus in decisions as a result.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Ben Silbermann

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Ben Silbermann , the Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest and a very impressive entrepreneur. In this interesting, 11-minute clip from a few weeks ago (courtesy of the Startup School ), Ben shares Pinterest’s story and the following solid nuggets for entrepreneurs: Be g

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Microsoft’s “Skype In The Workspace.” It’s Like A Video-Based Quora

ReadWriteStart

Thursday, Microsoft’s Skype launched Skype In The Workspace , a service that combines elements of Quora and social networking to create an online space where entrepreneurs can seek knowledge from one another. In reality, Skype In The Workspace is a fancy bulletin board designed to help small businesses connect with each other to provide live question-and-answer sessions — via Skype, naturally.

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Analysis of People’s Running Habits Using #nikeplus Tweets

Diego Basch

If you use Twitter or Facebook, you may occasionally see status updates that look like: “I crushed a 7.2 mi run with a pace of 7’24″ with Nike+ Running App. # nikeplus.” About a month ago I started collecting those tweets into a database, to see what interesting stats I could extract. Here are the results. I collected about 300k tweets, of which about 85k had both the distance and the pace of the run.

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People Who Search Convert

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Terry Costa – Enjoy! People who conduct searches on a website convert at a higher rate than people who don’t. So it makes sense to find ways to improve the search on your e-commerce site. There are several ideas for doing this. And the good news is that these ideas – taken from our “Big Book of Site Search Tips,” available at [link] – don’t demand too much from your IT experts when you’re working with a full-service

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