YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2012

When we think of chip maker Intel , we tend to think of semiconductor chips or computer processors, those tiny bits of silicon and integrated circuits that are the brains in our computers and mobile devices. Yes, they are bits of technology for sure, but we seldom really look at Intel as a bleeding-edge technology company. Most often, the glory goes to hardware vendors whose products these chips go into – and we think it can be just that little bit unfair.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti. Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He blogs at pixelmonkey.org , where this post originally appeared. You can follow him @amontalenti on Twitter. Startups die due to a variety of causes. Over the course of the last three years, I’ve watched many of my friends pour their hearts and souls into companies that, for one reason or another,

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It’s like a harmonic convergence. Startups need workers, and the largest generation ever born in America — the Millennials — is desperately searching for work. But as every startup knows, it's never as easy as all that. According to a new research study from PayScale , the world’s leading provider of on-demand compensation data and software, and Millennial Branding , a Gen Y research and management consulting company, Millennials (ages 18 to 29) are underemployed.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The other day, I noticed an eye-catching headline: "Internet Funding Boom Ends as Fast as It Began". It was from the Wall Street Journal--a publication I count on for emphasizing quality journalism over empty linkbaity headlines above hollow stories. Perhaps I need to rethink that. How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation?

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How do companies like GE, Wal-Mart and Honeywell succeed? What is the secret of Jack Welch, one of the most legendary CEO in the business world today? The secret, according to Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, is “ Execution “ Subtitled The Discipline of Getting Things Done , the New York Times bestseller emphasizes the importance of execution in business, how companies with an execution culture conduct their business affairs, and its three core processes: people, strategy and operations

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Read any copywriting manual or article and you will learn that the headline is the most important thing in your sales copy. And it’s true. The sad thing is that the advice that follows is often severely outdated and originates from the snail mail sales letter people from the 1950s and beyond. I researched 500 headlines of successful online businesses and figured out which formulas work today. .

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. People Recommended Mashable Staff More people. Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Facebook Mashable Social Media All Social Media How-To Facebook Twitter YouTube Google+ mRank Tech All Tech Apps & Software Dev & Design Gadgets Mobile Business All Business Advertising Marketing Media Small Business Startups Jobs Lifestyle All Li

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2012

by David Greer. In every business, communication is imperative. There is a need to communicate with clients, suppliers, partners, investors and most importantly customers. Customer communication is often overlooked in business. While many believe advertising and marketing is all the communication needed, your business could benefit from constant communication with prospective and current customers.If you are looking for a way to increase communication with your customers, you need to know how to

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It’s like a harmonic convergence. Startups need workers, and the largest generation ever born in America — the Millennials — is desperately searching for work. But as every startup knows, it's never as easy as all that. According to a new research study from PayScale , the world’s leading provider of on-demand compensation data and software, and Millennial Branding , a Gen Y research and management consulting company, Millennials (ages 18 to 29) are underemployed.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. People Recommended Mashable Staff More people. Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Facebook Mashable Social Media All Social Media How-To Facebook Twitter YouTube Google+ mRank Tech All Tech Apps & Software Dev & Design Gadgets Mobile Business All Business Advertising Marketing Media Small Business Startups Jobs Lifestyle All Li

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Holding constant for socioeconomic factors, the typical entrepreneur makes less money, work more hours and suffers more work-related stress than their employed counterparts. And when we combine these statistics with those that show a very incredibly low percentage of startups and small businesses ever attaining meaningful profitability, it is remarkable that people ever even dream to be entrepreneurs and start businesses at all.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. You make more black socks for more people in the western world than anyone. The next generation isn't interested in socks. One daughter is touring nationally with her punk band. The son is off in Africa combating disease with Doctors without Borders, and the other son. well. remember Woody Harrelson on Cheers?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. It’s a great learning experience, it’s a vital growth opportunity, etc. But nobody celebrates the actual event. Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. “Every startup has a launch party, but what happens when a startup dies?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When considering how to position a product in the market place or developing the ideal go-to-market strategy, a small business owner needs to examine a number of market factors. Chief among those factors will be the product’s primary competitors. Understanding them gets you one step closer to knowing how to deliver better value to your customers and defining your niche.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently I wrote about Apprentice Product Manager programs, where companies recruit and groom high-potential product managers. Quite a few people asked me about this program and the type of curriculum that I have provided for my own teams in the past. In this article, I thought I would talk about one of the most basic forms of training I have provided these people, "Product Manager Charm School.".

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deal architect

OCTOBER 4, 2012

I have waited for over a decade to see an enterprise vendor – IBM, HP, SunGard, EMC etc – detail how they would deliver to their promises of on-demand, utility, cloud computing. But they continue to persist with data centers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2012

It’s like a harmonic convergence. Startups need workers, and the largest generation ever born in America — the Millennials — is desperately searching for work. But as every startup knows, it’s never as easy as all that. According to a new research study from PayScale , the world’s leading provider of on-demand compensation data and software, and Millennial Branding , a Gen Y research and management consulting company, Millennials (ages 18 to 29) are underemployed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. That’s not bad, but who wants to be average? Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. How can you improve your odds?

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I had the pleasure of giving a talk on entrepreneurship at UPenn last week, which happens to be my alma mater. I’m always thrilled to speak with undergraduates who are interested in startups. One of the most common questions I get is “What’s the best career path to becoming a founder someday?” The very short answer is that most people who are ultimately founders (or usually co-founders ) of a company “tack” towards that goal in a series of career steps.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

My last two books, The New Polymath and The New Technology Elite have come from developing patterns I saw across 50 innovation categories in the 1,500 posts I had on New Florence through 2010. At Tibco’s TUCON event this week.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. It’s a great learning experience, it’s a vital growth opportunity, etc. But nobody celebrates the actual event. Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. “Every startup has a launch party, but what happens when a startup dies?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Most entrepreneurs think that risk is just an “occupational hazard” that can be minimized or eliminated by a smart businessman. That way of thinking is simplistic and wrong. In reality, some risks are good and should be embraced for growth and a competitive edge, while others are bad and should be avoided completely. Traditional risk management focuses only on bad risks, and seeks to contain losses.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2012

by Gregory Downing, author of “ Entrepreneur Unleashed “ Forbes has just released its list of the 400 Richest People in America. The combined net worth of these men and women clocks in at a staggering $1.7 trillion dollars. And here’s the truly amazing part: Some 70 percent of this year’s 400 built their fortunes from the ground up. If you’re a parent, this statistic may lead you to wonder: Will my kids ever have a shot at this kind of success?

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

on the innovation blog Happy Valley Cities of the future Airport Avatars SlamTracker at the US Open “Dual Citizens” The Economist’s Technology Quarterly Audi’s Digital showroom Air Hillary.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 2, 2012

After completing a long process identifying the right venture firms to pitch, running an exhaustive fundraising process, finding a mutual fit, and successfully negotiating terms… at last, the term sheet is signed. So at this point it’s OK to just hand the process over to your lawyers, sit back, and let them work out the details, right? Wrong. The two- to six- week time between the signing of the term sheet and closing is “venture limbo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The team is the same. The company's market is the same. The only difference might be the start of another recession like the last one, resulting in lower liquidity and investors with no money, and that makes all the difference.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2012

We all know that the survival rate for small businesses isn’t very high at all – but the truth is that many entrepreneurs also tend to put the final nail in the coffin of their small business from the many mistakes they make while running it. For example, did you know that small businesses in the U.S. currently owe a total of around US$1 trillion in terms of business loans?

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deal architect

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I have always believed well-spoken top executives are as important in enterprise apps sales as a decent product. I have watched Dave Duffield wow HR executives for decades now. Ed McVaney, one of the founders of J.D. Edwards, once threw.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 4, 2012

At Lightspeed, we’ve been investing in the theme of Big Data over the last four years. We like to say that at the core of the theme is the simple idea that “data beats math” or put another way that predictive algorithms working with data samples will never beat analysis where ALL of the data is evaluated. We started by investing in building block companies, DataStax and MapR, two pioneers building enterprise class platforms for “big data” workloads by leveraging Cassandra and Hadoop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2012

When it comes to using the Internet, one country does it better than the rest. According to the recent Web Index study by The World Wide Web Foundation , that country is Sweden. As part of the study, 61 countries were ranked across seven categories – communications infrastructure, institutional infrastructure, web use, web content, political impact, social impact and economic impact.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Larry Dignan of ZDNet lays out an ugly situation Dennis Howlett finds himself in. Larry is privy to much more of the gory details than I care to want to ever find out. All I want to do is thank.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Boston Marathon, mile 25, Beacon St., 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia). “Success rests in having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you were destined to be.” - Dr. George Sheehan. When I heard that presidential VP candidate Paul Ryan said something like he had run a “2-hour-and-50-something” marathon, I knew immediately he was lying.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Mentorship is crucial, but none more so than for many graduates who exit into the real world looking for jobs and need support systems to help them find their calling. The problem is that many existing mentorship networks aren’t geared towards helping graduates. That’s where VineUp.com comes in: it helps organizations build a complete online mentoring community of their own.

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