Fri.Nov 23, 2012

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Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes

Steve Blank

Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who would peel the potatoes, reminded me that most careers start by peeling potatoes. KP – Kitchen Patrol. One of the iconic punishments in basic training in the military was being threatened by our drill instructors of being assigned to KP – Kitchen Patrol – as a penalty for breaking some rule.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Get Early Customer Sales To Validate Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

“Will the dogs eat the dog food?” This rather crude expression weighs heavily on the mind of all good startup founders, no matter how confident they appear. We all know the products they give away, and the ones purchased by family and friends don’t count. The real milestone, proving the business model, is that first product sold for full price to a total stranger, leaving him happy.

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[Infographic] Why You Should Protect Your Online Reputation

YoungUpstarts

Think you can do as you will online without any thought about consequences? Well, think again. You may not realize that there’s a 90-percent chance that recruiters would have Googled your name to check out what kind of shenanigans you’ve been up to, and if they see something they don’t like you’re unlikely to get that phone call you may desperately be waiting for.

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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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Indicators that a startup idea is a good one

The Equity Kicker

I always enjoy reading Paul Graham’s essays and his latest one How to get startup ideas is another great read. If you are an entrepreneur looking for ideas then I highly recommend you read the whole thing, particularly taking note of the common errors (building for a problem nobody has and trying too hard to come up with startup ideas). I’m going to focus on one of the by-products of Paul’s essay which is a list of indicators that an idea might be good or an idea might be bad.

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NoiseStreet Brings Interactivity To OOH Advertising

YoungUpstarts

The problem with most out-of-home (OOH) advertising – billboards, large digital screens, etc – is that marketers have absolutely no idea how to measure its effectiveness. How can advertisers truly be sure that passers-by actually look up at those ads, however large and dynamic they are? Well, you can’t. But a Singapore-based startup, NoiseStreet , has introduced a smartphone-based solution that helps bridge that gap by bringing a level of interactivity, engagement to digital OO

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What’s in it for me? Think like your stakeholders.

Berkonomics

If you want to best describe the motivation behind the action, think “What’s in it for me”? Your employees, your shareholders, your customers, and your suppliers are all driven by this question. So why not put yourself in their shoes and develop your action plan and goals to help each of them to achieve theirs? Employees want to be challenged, appreciated, and rewarded for good work.

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The 3 Jobs Your Startup Should Outsource

Early Growth Financial Services

Article originally posted in Forbes If you’re running an early-stage startup, chances are there are some knowledge gaps in your core team. You may be strong on the technical side or a product whiz, but what about financial strategy, administration, HR? Are you prepared to manage the day-to-day of your startup, from recruiting new talent to bookkeeping to financial planning?

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Some Advice for Celebrities and Startups Seeking Their Endorsements

Both Sides of the Table

I live in LA. And I’m a VC. So you can imagine I see my fair share of celebrities looking to get into the technology industry. And equal numbers of startups seeking celebrity endorsements in exchange for equity. For the most part my advice is simple, “don’t bother.” But as ever I’ve had to have this debate in numerous company pitches and board meetings.

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13 Stealth Ways to Save Money When Starting Up

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally published in Inc. The Young Entrepreneur Council asked 13 successful young entrepreneurs about the unique ways their companies save some extra cash. Here are their best answers. 1. Forget Information Products This is an area not many people talk about because a lot of businesses make their money by selling these items. The problem is that too many entrepreneurs buy into eBooks, courses, group coaching programs, etc., but they don’t spend any time implementing.

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