Mon.Dec 03, 2012

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Who are the Good and the Lucky?

Growthink Blog

The saddest lament of entrepreneurs and owners of private companies seeking to sell and exit their companies is that they want their businesses to be valued on their future potential , and not its CURRENT profitability. Given that the typical, offered purchase multiples for smaller businesses – as in those with less than $5 million in EBITDA – can be as low as 1 or 2 times last year’s tax return profits, this is understandable.

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We Are Austin Tech: Mellie Price

Austin Startup

Today on WAAT we caught up with Mellie Price to talk about Entrepreneurship, Austin, and few companies that she started. Mellie founded the recently acquired Front Gate Tickets along with a web development firm called Monsterbit. She believes that the shared resources and collaborative attitude make Austin a uniquely supportive place for an Entrepreneur. “When [.].

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The Future of Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Almost every large company understands it needs to build an organization that deals with the ever-increasing external forces of continuous disruption , the need for continuous innovation , globalization and regulation. But there is no standard strategy and structure for creating corporate innovation. We outline the strategy problem in this post and will propose some specific organizational suggestions in follow-on posts. —-.

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Electricity: The Weak Link for Emergency Services

Venture Chronicles

A few weeks ago I wrote about the consequences of services dependent upon electronic components that have a tendency to become unavailable in an emergency. It’s a fairly simple thesis, we depend on technology in such a broad spectrum of devices and services that when power is unavailable reliance on technology becomes a seizure point. Last night our power went out for a couple of hours, nothing major but right at dinner time so it ended up being more than a minor inconvenience.

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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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Craft Breweries Buck Discount Trend With Seasonal Releases

YoungUpstarts

Shmaltz Brewing Company’s holiday gift pack featuring eight seasonal beers. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Christmas and festive shopping – it’s the season for discounts! But even as retailers and brands cut prices to attract consumers, one industry (to be exact, a segment of that industry) is mostly standing apart. In fact, it’s even introducing products that can be more expensive that usual.

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The Things Successful People Don’t Do

Mike Michalowicz

Excuses are a dime a dozen, and successful people aren’t. Do you see the correlation? Here are the 35 things successful people don’t do (and you better not do, too). 1. Discuss The Struggle… Unless revealed in the media, reality television, online, or similar, many successful entrepreneurs never expose their struggle! Of course, you can read about all their accolades, countless amount of likes, lifestyle change allotted due to their financial gain-maybe even an entourage, HOW

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mHealth is Booming – What to Expect in 2013

VC Cafe

There is no doubt that mobile devices are transforming healthcare. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. There is no doubt that mobile devices are transforming healthcare.

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Wow – That Was Intense

Feld Thoughts

As they wheeled me into surgery, I thought to myself “If this is the end it has been pretty amazing.” This is a photo my brother Daniel took of me just after they wheeled me out of the recovery room and back into my little cubby hole where Amy and Daniel were hanging out. While I don’t remember any of this, probably due to being under the influence of Versed (a truly amazing drug) at least I had the right attitude in response to Daniel saying “take that kidney stone!

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Different ways of looking at investment opportunities

The Equity Kicker

Chris Dixon wrote an interesting post yesterday which described two different ways of thinking about startup opportunities – the finance lens and the product lens. Put simply, his point is that entrepreneurs typically look at opportunities from a product perspective, asking the question ‘is there an opportunity to build something people will really want?

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Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money

readwrite.com

Sections. Social. Mobile. Enterprise. Cloud. Hack. Play. Small Biz. About. Contact. Advertise. Privacy. Search. Follow us. Share. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter. on Google+. on Linked in. by Email. Social. Mobile. Enterprise. Cloud. Hack. Play. Small Biz. Hot Topics. Microsoft. iPhone 5. Hurricane Sandy. Politics. YouTube. Deathwatch. About. Contact.

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When Is Saying No The Right Thing To Do?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Recently Glen Allsopp wrote a follow-up blog post to his announcement that he was writing a “For Dummies” book. His new announcement? He was NOT writing the book anymore. You can read all the reasons why Glen said no to a book deal in his blog post.

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Who do you serve?

Start Up Blog

We can can choose to invent demand for what we make, or or fill supply for what is desirable. The former takes a certain type of creativity and endeavour, it’s been the bellwether of many large industrial stalwarts. Sure they incrementally change the offer – but only to justify making noise as part of the demand generation process. The alternative is to make something people really want.

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One University To Rule Them All: Stanford Tops Startup List

ReadWriteStart

Stanford University has a lot of smart people. But the school’s nickname is dumb: the Stanford Cardinal. As in the color red. How unimaginative. Here’s a better idea: the Stanford Entrepreneurs. Yes, harder to fit on a souvenir coffee mug but a much more accurate handle. A recent study by business research firm CB Insights shows Stanford dominates all other universities in the field of alumni entrepreneurship.

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Man or Machine

Austin Startup

Technologist, I am calling you to the mat. Every profession comes with its own its own language. With the proliferation of human interaction with computers and the rapid adoption of ICT’s over the last 20 years, entirely new industries, new languages and consequently new cultures have been born. Biologist Mark Pagel theorizes that humans evolved [.].

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Using Dashboards to Drive What Matters

Duct Tape Marketing

A dashboard is such an important concept when it comes to easily accessing the health of a business. photo credit: istargazer via photopin cc. Just like a the dashboard on a vehicle, the point of a business dashboard is to give you a quick look at whatever it is that’s important to your business in real-time. The key, of course, to any tool designed to give you data, it’s only as good as what feeds it.

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Who do you serve?

Start Up Blog

We can can choose to invent demand for what we make, or or fill supply for what is desirable. The former takes a certain type of creativity and endeavour, it’s been the bellwether of many large industrial stalwarts. Sure they incrementally change the offer – but only to justify making noise as part of the demand generation process. The alternative is to make something people really want.

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How People Believe in God

entrepreMusings

Buddha Stone Statue in China. A movie and a book intersected in my life recently with stories about how God is experienced and perceived by us humans throughout the ages. Life of Pi (the movie, released in 2012) was made from a book written by Yann Martel in 2001. A book written by Deepak Chopra called God: A Story of Revelation (Amazon link) happened to come to my attention through a marketing email, and I read it on my iPhone Kindle reader over the last couple of months.

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Elon Musk Plans to Colonize Mars at 500K per Pioneer | How Big is Your Vision?

Campus Entrepreneurship

Amazing article about Elon Musk’s plans for colonizing Mars! This guys think HUGE! Are you viewing the world like Musk? I hope so. From Rob Coppinger of Space.com via Yahoo News : “At Mars , you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big,” Musk told an audience at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Friday (Nov. 16).

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Entrepreneurs, Don't Just Create Products or Services?Create a Legacy!

Small Business Force

My Dad was a builder. He designed and built houses, managed the construction of significant office buildings, even built two stadiums. Every project was an example of his pride in delivering excellence that was way beyond expectations and each was an element in the legacy that he will leave behind for generations to come. All entrepreneurs have an opportunity to create something that didn't exist before.

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Is Your Brand Magnificent At Digital Marketing? A Diagnostic Framework.

Occam's Razor

We like to believe that all there is to digital marketing is to do some search engine optimization, send out an email blast every once in a while, get our agency to create a flash-heavy "brand experience" website, or slap together a mobile app in the corporate-approved shade of eggshell white. A small bang here, a big sizzle there, one big paid search campaign and … VICTORY!

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Entrepreneurs, Don't Just Create Products or Services.Create a Legacy!

Small Business Force

My Dad was a builder. He designed and built houses, managed the construction of significant office buildings, even built two stadiums. Every project was an example of his pride in delivering excellence that was way beyond expectations and each was an element in the legacy that he will leave behind for generations to come. All entrepreneurs have an opportunity to create something that didn't exist before.

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Rapportive – ee all info on anyone who emails you

Scalable Startup

Rapportive. via Rapportive.

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10 Course Corrections Every Startup Should Memorize

Startup Professionals Musings

The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. The vision part is fine, but successful entrepreneurs have found that the extreme uncertainty of a new product or service usually requires many course corrections, or “pivots” to find a successful formula.

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How to design a “touching” thank you card…

Life Beyond Code

Question : First of all, what is the need to design a “touching” thank you card? Answer : You will discover the answer as you read along… At Foresight Plus , we have enjoyed working on really cool projects. This time, the project (pro bono project) was to create a Thank You card for one of my favorite charities Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) for their annual outreach to more than 40,000 kind and generous donors.

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Don't blame the game, blame the playas

This is going to be BIG.

Apparently, venture capital is a cruddy asset class where you can't get returns over the long term. Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. And tech journalists talk about these things as if they're some kind of structural problem or at least a trend with the asset class.

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How to Use Behavioral Design for Boosting Conversions (Using The Fogg Behavior Model)

ConversionXL

Design impacts behavior. If you know how to impact behavior, you can design for behavior. Here’s how to do it. Do you know BJ Fogg ? You should. Dr. BJ Fogg founded the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, and has done some amazing research on credibility and behavioral design. Behavioral design is where psychology and technology meet – a systematic way to influence a desired behavior, one step at a time.