Wed.Jan 30, 2013

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is part 2 of Ricardo’s “post mortem” of the life and death of Qualcomm’s corporate entrepreneurship program.

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How to Use Social Media To Drive Sales

ConversionXL

According to a report by Nielsen on social media Americans spend three times more time on social media than reading their e-mail. 7.6% of online time is spent reading e-mail and 23% on social. The juicy bit of the study is that more than 70% of social networks users shop online. That’s ~12% more than the average person. These stats make a good case that if you and your brand is active on social networks, you can get rewarded – if you do it right.

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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz

Andrew Payne

Stepping off my usual entrepreneurship topics, here’s a letter I sent to Carmen Ortiz, Stephen Heymann, and Scott Garland (the prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case) earlier this week. I’m expecting precisely zero effect on anything here, but it captures my analysis of what happened. Apart from the sadness and tragedy, I think we all need to be very mindful of the growing gaps between technology and our laws.

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We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness

Both Sides of the Table

Somebody commented that in 2013 I have done a lot more personal posts than usual. I didn’t set out that way. It just happened. Lots of tragedies in the past couple of months. Aaron Schwartz. Sandy Hook. Now Jody Sherman. And my friend Brad Feld & his wife had written a book on the importance of personal relationships which made me want to weigh in on that.

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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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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz

Andrew Payne

Stepping off my usual entrepreneurship topics, here’s a letter I sent to Carmen Ortiz, Stephen Heymann, and Scott Garland (the prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case) earlier this week. I’m expecting precisely zero effect on anything here, but it captures my analysis of what happened. Apart from the sadness and tragedy, I think we all need to be very mindful of the growing gaps between technology and our laws.

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Blackberry: Ring in the Old?

deal architect

It is a new day for Blackberry – the rebranding of RIM, the new 10 Smartphones But I am more struck by the management team that CEO (since last January) Thorsten Heins has been building.

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Companies do not innovate. People do.

deal architect

Rob Preston at InformationWeek picks on an annual list of innovative companies from Boston Consulting Group: “Meantime, show us the seminal innovations in 2012 from the likes of No. 17 Coca-Cola (caffeine-free Diet Cherry Coke?), No. 18 Dell (a nice.

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The Colorado PUC Trying to Shut Down UberDenver

Feld Thoughts

In yet another insane move by government against entrepreneurs and job creators, the Colorado PUC is proposing a new set of rules that would shut down Uber in Colorado. This is protectionism and misuse of power in an egregious form. Government supporting powerful incubants (the taxi industry) that are threatened by disruptive innovators through regulation.

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[Infographic] How Apple Spends Its Money

YoungUpstarts

Technology giant Apple may have recently gotten into the news for almost losing its crown as the most valuable company in the world in terms of market capitalization after ascending to that throne back in August 2012. But what most of us continue to wonder is how the iPhone and iPad maker continues to maintain a fat profit margin on its products even as it keeps R&D costs low.

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Startup Visa Act 2013 Introduced By Udall (D-Colo) and Flake (R-Ariz)

Feld Thoughts

Today appears to be government day on Feld Thoughts. This morning I wrote about the Colorado PUC trying to shut down Uber in Colorado (bad). Now I get to write about Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) re-introducing the Startup Visa Act of 2013 (good). Mark – thank you – you’ve been an awesome supporter of this and leader of the effort since the first day we discussed it in 2009.

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The end of privacy by obscurity

The Equity Kicker

A penny dropped for me when I read Facebook’s graph search and the end of privacy by obscurity on GigaOM recently. Regular readers will know that I’m of the opinion that we have more to gain than to lose by sharing our information, and that I hope that people with privacy concerns will slowly get over them as the benefits of sharing become clearer.

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Passion For What You Do

Mike Michalowicz

My friend was the second child born to his parents. When he was about to have his own second child, his mother shared a story with him. She explained that when she was pregnant with him, she feared how she would share her love. She loved her first child so much that she didn’t know how it would be possible to spread the love equally to them both.

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The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America

crowdSPRING Blog

MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute recently released a report on 2013 Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends for North America. It’s a fascinating report with insights into the challenges faced by B2B marketers and how they are leveraging content marketing to promote their businesses. Although the sample size (1,416 respondents) wasn’t huge, it represented respondents from a range of industries, functional areas and company sizes.

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Growth Recipe: Track, React, Repeat until Done.

Up and Running

So here’s an interesting quote: . Growth is at least as much discipline and execution as creativity. That’s from Mike Greenfield , in Six Steps to Growth: What I Learned as 500 Startups’ Growth Hacker In Residence , on Numerate Choir. . Interesting concept. It should be obvious. But there it is, standing out, and worth stopping and quoting, precisely because it should be obvious but isn’t.

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Toopher Closes $2M in Funding

Austin Startup

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), in the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), is pleased today to announce that Toopher has officially graduated into the Incubator as an IT portfolio company.

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From Radio Shack, to Self-Taught SEO Expert, Court Tuttle Reveals How He Always Knows Which Keywords Are Profitable Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tweet [powerpress]. Download the Text Transcript in PDF. Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. How is this for a claim to fame – earning at least $200,000 a year for the last four years straight online. That’s what Courtney Tuttle has achieved. A long time ago I was researching what top level keyword phrase I wanted EJ to rank for in search engines.

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A Little Quieter Than Usual, For Now

OnlyOnce

A Little Quieter Than Usual, For Now. As many of you know, I’m writing a book called Startup CEO: a Field Guide to Building and Running Your Company , which is due to the publisher in a few weeks. I’d originally thought the book would be an easy project since the idea was to “turn my blog into a book.” But then it turned out that for the book I wanted to write, I’d only written about 1/3 of the content on the blog already!

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5 Things Your Referral Sources Desperately Want to Know

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with Michael Port. photo credit: Kalexanderson via photopin cc. Most marketers are clear about targeting their marketing and advertising messages. but when it comes to referrals it seems that notion is no longer valid. The thing is, we all want referrals, but what we really want are referrals and introductions that fit, that match what we consider our ideal client profile.

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Beaches to Business Plans: A Market Pulse Interview with CEO Tyler Jensen

Business Plan Blog

'Serial Entrepreneur and CEO of The Startup Garage Tyler Jensen speaks with Market Pulse on ESPN 1700 in San Diego. Tyler was invited to talk with Market Pulse for their weekly “Words of the Wise” segment. In this hour long interview Tyler talks about his first business , his journey in the launch , growth and sale of VaVi Sports and Social club, and how to avoid the mistakes he made as a first time entrepreneur.

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Sessions @ The Leonardo with Fred Wilson, Brad Burnham, Albert Wenger, John Buttrick and Andy Weissman

Bryce Dot VC

Details on the next Session @ The Leonardo are now live. This is going to be a fun one. runslc : On Thursday February 14th we’ll be hosting a “fireside” chat with the entire Union Square Ventures partnership at The Leonardo (in downtown SLC) from 4pm to 6pm. In 2005, I made my first trip to NYC as a newly minted co-founder of OATV. The second meeting I had on that trip was a lunch with Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham. .

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Please tell me this isn’t Blackberry’s strategy to get back in the game…

Jeff Hilimire

Apparently, Alicia Keys is now the Global Creative Director of Blackberry. I assure you, this is not an article from The Onion…though wouldn’t it be funny if they just ran the exact same story? People are losing their damn minds… UPDATE – after thinking long and hard about why they’d make this move, I figured it out. Think about it, what’s the one differentiator that Blackberry has over everyone else?

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I’ve changed my RSS link…

Jeff Hilimire

If you are following this blog via RSS*, I’ve updated the link to a Feedburner feed, so please re-subscribe here. Personally I’m an RSS nut, using the apps Reeder and Feedly on my iDevices. Or you can sign up to receive updates via email. * Not sure what RSS is? Here’s a blog that does a nice job explaining RSS and how to use it.

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The Startups Weekend Phenomenon and Angel Investors

Gust

Actual, fundable, serious startups in a single weekend? No. Real? Great learning experience? And worth doing? Yes. . Last Sunday night I judged nine pitches from nine groups that started from scratch just two days before, late Friday afternoon. They had some good ideas, good pictures, a prototype or two, some good video … and an entertaining event. .

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Invest In Israel Newsletter – January 2013 Edition

VC Cafe

As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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Top Five Digital Health Trends For 2013

YoungUpstarts

By Melissa Thompson, CEO of Talk Session. Healthcare needs fixing. Regulations stunt innovation, people are uninsured or under-insured, physicians’ are mired in red tape, and politically driven laws have unintended effects on the healthcare system. Despite the regulatory difficulties, 2013 will surely be an exciting year for healthcare. We will see an increase in self-management and collaboration.