Thu.Jan 17, 2013

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CIOs and social networks

deal architect

Vala Afshar, Chief Customer Officer at Enterasys Networks, a unit of Siemens Enterprise, lists who he considers the 50 most social CIOs on Twitter. In a side conversation, I asked him if tech sector CIOs dominated his list. You would.

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5 Startup Marketing Actions to Impress Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product.

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From Dreamliner to Nightmare

Venture Chronicles

Complex systems fail in complex ways not anticipated by engineers. You can over-engineer the systems, test every imaginable scenario, build redundant system coverage, test again. and you can still fail. Boeing’s nightmare is just beginning, their latest generation airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, has been grounded because of fire danger in the lithium ion batteries used to replace many of the hydraulic systems a plane requires.

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Six Tips For Firing Compassionately

YoungUpstarts

by Rob Wilson, CEO of Employco USA. As many companies slowly recover from the down economy, even large corporations are still being forced to downsize. Most recently, American Express will be cutting their travel business, with thousands of employees being laid off as a result. Since most businesses will face the unpleasant reality of firing an employee at some point, companies can implement measures for handling this dilemma correctly and offer assistance during a difficult time.

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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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What Does Your Website Say?

Rembrandt Communications

Do You have the Right SEO Copy in Place? When new people visit your Website, what’s the first thing they see and click on? If you don’t know, it’s time to find out. Check your Google Analytics and see what is going on. This is important. Why? While you may think you have a great [.].

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“Indecent Proposal” For Startup Founders

VC Cafe

Would you accept an offer of $8000 to build an MVP for that idea you've been toying with and had no balls to act upon. It seems that while the cost of creating a startup has significantly declined, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. Would you accept an offer of $8000 to build an MVP for that idea you've been toying with and had no balls to act upon.

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Gartner has increased their mobile ad projections, display to grow fastest

The Equity Kicker

Gartner have just released revised mobile advertising projections, showing a total market of $11.4bn for 2013, up 19% from last year. The numbers are up from their November forecast due to faster than predicted take up of tablets and smartphones, and the growth has come at the expense of print advertising. Gartner also noted four interesting trends at the next level of detail: display ads will grow faster than mobile search (including augmented reality and map ads). within display web ads will e

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Harvard iLab Entrepreneurship Discussion, Wednesday, Jan. 23, Boston

David Teten

I’ll be at the Harvard iLab for a complimentary discussion and networking event on being an entrepreneur, Wednesday, January 23, from 6-8pm. It’s hosted by: Harvard Alumni Association, Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, Harvard Venture Partners, Social Innovation Collaborative, and Aspiring Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs (AMBLE).

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Why You Need To Systematize Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

Systematizing your business means freedom. Not just one type of freedom, but many. You are freed from doing the work. And systems even give you the choice to simply watch the business run or improve how it runs. You are freed from the limits of your time. And since systems (done right) don’t need you, your business can grow without limit while you do something else.

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Tuesday, Jan. 22: John Frankel presenting at HBS

David Teten

The HBS Entrepreneurship Club is hosting my Partner John Frankel presenting on “How Your Startup Can Exploit the Current Technology Super Cycle” this Tuesday, January 22, 6 pm, at Harvard Business School, Aldrich Hall (Room TBD), Boston, MA. He’ll also join some students for a private dinner afterwards. To see a preview of the slides and a video from a recent similar presentation, visit [link] . and [link] .

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The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time

crowdSPRING Blog

Most successful entrepreneurs and small business owners are highly productive and efficient. Imagine what you can accomplish if you could do more in less time! Did you know there is a science of productivity? Many studies have shown that certain practices substantially increase productivity, while other practices make it more difficult for us to meet our goals.

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Destructive Intelligence Limits Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

My illustrious partner at KILN , the subtly dynamic Mr. Indy Neogy , MBA, has penned a very insightful piece on how research and analytical intelligence actually hoses innovation. Hoses, a term I’ve borrowed from Bob & Doug McKenzie , means “screws up” or “ruined” To read the full piece click here. I did an illustration to go along with the words, which I’m posting below because it’s a bit of fun.* By the way, KILN is an innovation services company

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An Ode To Joy – in the workplace.

Berkonomics

My brother, Barry, passed away recently. A world famous architect, he is credited with the design of over 600,000 homes worldwide. He had been named one of the world’s top 100 architects by Architectural Digest, and one of the ten most significant figures of the 20th century by Residential Architect. He was quite a role model as a big brother, five years my senior.

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The ‘have you seen’ society

Start Up Blog

While the sharing of ideas on the social web has enlightened us all, it has also turned us into a ‘have you seen’ society. A society where people want to be first to know and first to show. A community of finders, fans and agents. To the point where it consumes time we could be putting into our own projects, where we could be the thing being shared.

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YouTubers Break Out Of Virtual World To Sell Out Real Stages

ReadWriteStart

Making a living on YouTube is a tough business. It takes real entrepreneurial spirit. Most YouTubers make money wherever they can: from the ads that run on their mostly homemade videos and merchandise (like bobble head dolls ). The big news is that few of the more intrepid YouTubers are making real money by taking their acts beyond of the virtual world and onto physical stages.

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6 Ways to Uncover Highly Targeted Referral Prospects

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Matt Anderson – Enjoy! One of the most important elements of getting more highly targeted referrals is to make it EASY for others to open the right doors by being crystal clear about what you want. Stop saying “if you can think of anyone else who might benefit from my services, please have them give me a call” because it hardly ever works and, if it does, the referrals will likely be unfocused at best.

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Free Mini-reviews (Part 4)

ConversionXL

Part 4 of my annual free mini-reviews. Disclaimer: I haven’t seen any analytics or survey data for any of these websites, and all my comments are only based on my experience in the field. I’m only spending very little time on each site, so there’s going to be superficiality. Some of my feedback is going to be brilliant, and some of it won’t make any difference.

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See. Click. Fund.

Bryce Dot VC

Yesterday, the City Council in Raleigh North Carolina voted down a proposal to begin testing a new service designed by one of our portfolio companies, SeeClickFix. The idea behind the service won’t sound novel to most readers here, but to non-net natives it may be one that needs to be approached with caution. The opportunity for this new service emerged out of SeeClickFix’s core business- reporting and routing non-emergency problems to city government officials for repair. .

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Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

Jeff Hilimire

“I found Fido! Hey, I found Fido!” Thanks to parislemon for pointing this one out to me.

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