Sat.Oct 27, 2012 - Fri.Nov 02, 2012

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Today we are announcing the biggest entrepreneurial program ever launched – Startup Weekend Next. A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. Our goal– to inspire, educate and empower hundred’s of thousands of entrepreneurs and help create 10,000 startups.

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Protect Before You Connect! Simple Precautions To Avoid Online Personal Privacy Disaster

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Weinstein, CEO and founder of Sgrouples.com. The Internet is an amazing, fantastic, vibrant place. But there are also evil people out there who steal identities, hack credit card accounts, track personal information, violate privacy, insert malicious programs that can exploit your company or home network, destroy your hard drives and raid your social network.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

The buzz on “growth hacking” has spread all across the world. Classes on growth hacking are being taught in Singapore. Companies from San Francisco to London are recruiting growth hackers. The first Growth Hacking Conference popped up a few weeks ago. This rapid craze beseeches an explanation. Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community?

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 7 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

This is the first week that I’ll be splitting coverage of Shark Tank episodes between this blog and Entrepreneur.com. I’m posting my analysis of the most interesting story of Shark Tank season 4 episode 7 over there, and reviewing the rest of the pitches here. You never get just one offer to invest in your company. You either get zero, or many.

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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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Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data

crowdSPRING Blog

After every quarter I delve into our customer service data to have a look at a few things: first (and foremost) are we effectively meeting out goal of providing world-class customer service to our community? Next, what is the demand on our system and do we have capacity available to meet it? Third, have we improved our performance across the key metrics of speed, quality, and efficiency?

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The Big Data laggards

deal architect

In a panel on Big Data last week at Cognizant Community I cited several examples from the New Florence blog collected over the last few years – National Hurricane Center, Union Pacific, U of Washington’s ENCODE project, Social Media analytics.

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10 Reality Checks for Entrepreneurs From the Master

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the time, I’m all about providing encouragement and inspiration to entrepreneurs. They need it and they deserve it, because entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of our economy. But every so often, I try to give them a reality check, just to keep their feet on the ground and their nose to the grindstone. Many years ago, I enjoyed one of Guy Kawasaki’s first books, “ Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.

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10,000 Startups

Steve Blank

In 24 hours we’ll announce something revolutionary. Moving entrepreneurship forward. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Meg Whitman and Ginni Rometty in 2016

deal architect

We are at a historic point in the industry's evolution. Two strong and accomplished ladies are leading our biggest and most iconic tech companies, HP and IBM. As I read and heard about Meg Whitman at Gartner’s event in Orlando.

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Are These 3 Scary Things on Your Website?

Rembrandt Communications

It’s Halloween, and there is a lot of scary stuff out there. But you may be unaware of some things that are really frightening and happening right in your business. For example, when was the last time you looked at your Website? If you have been busy focusing on your core, business activities as an [.].

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10 Keys to Real Entrepreneur Mentoring Satisfaction

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Even one of the richest, Bill Gates , still values his friend Warren Buffett as his mentor. Yet these relationships require special efforts on both sides to be productive and satisfying. Mentoring is not as simple as one person giving the other all the right answers.

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How To Build Out Your Business To Support Yourself

YoungUpstarts

by Brandon Anderson, founder of Trans Supply. Do you have a small business right now that you wish could support yourself full time? Here are some tips on how to increase the size of your business so you don’t need any side gigs to make ends meet. I started my traffic safety business Trans Supply in high school and ran it through four years of college, so I had plenty of time to grow it to a point where I didn’t need any other job after college. 1.

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More New Renaissance

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on the innovation blog “Truth Goggles” The OOW Hotel Shuttle Software for more precise microsurgery The sociology of Facebook Oracle Open World: a photographic journey Singapore – the overachiever One Man Orchestra Advanced Material Innovations.

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Disaster and Technology Seizure

Venture Chronicles

In watching the coverage of hurricane Sandy’s aftermath on the east coast I am struck by something that is a consequence of our technology driven society… what happens when all that technology becomes disabled because of environmental conditions, otherwise known as water? We depend on electronics in nearly every conceivable object we encounter on a daily basis and the fragility of electronics due to water and power surge is well known.

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8 Questions Investors Use to Bypass Startup Hype

Startup Professionals Musings

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder “vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weaknesses, and current health. Some founders try to deflect these questions by talking incessantly, so you often need to be calm, patient, and persistent to get the answers.

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[Singapore] Boston Consulting Group Opens Center For Business Excellence

YoungUpstarts

Mr S Iswaran, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office & Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade & Industry, Dr. Hans-Paul Bürkner, President and Chief Executive Officer of BCG, and Mr Jeffrey Chua, Partner and Managing Director, BCG Singapore, opens BCG’s Center for Business Excellence in Singapore. Leading global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has announced the opening of its first-ever Center for Business Excellence, right here in Singapore.

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Does anybody have leverage with Apple?

deal architect

responds Dan Hesse of Sprint to Charlie Rose in this interview Wow, I never thought I would hear a telecom CEO say that about any device maker. It is the new reality as I wrote in my recent book: Prior.

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Changing How We Think About Education

Feld Thoughts

On Friday I spent three hours at Tufts University meeting with Chris Rogers and a few of his colleagues at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. We had an awesome, wide ranging conversation about what they are doing, how the accelerator model could apply, and how education, especially around engineering and computer science needs to radically change, as well as some concrete suggestions about how to change it.

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Every Good Startup Practices Constructive Conflict

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death. But the reality is that startups are composed of smart people, with emotions as well as intellects, working in close proximity under much pressure, so conflicts will occur.

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FindersCodes – Recover Lost Items Through QR Codes

YoungUpstarts

We’ve never been really been big fans of QR codes. The cases where technology’s been put to good use have been few and far between (only TESCO Homeplus’ use of QR codes to create an entire virtual subway supermarket store targeted at busy professionals comes to mind). But here’s a startup that aims to use QR codes in a different way.

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Microsofts Martyr Syndrome

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Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research Officer in an interview with Spiegel explaining a major reason why Microsoft is behind in mobile computing “During that time, Windows went through a difficult period where we had to shift a huge amount of.

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Depression and Entrepreneurs

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I wrote a meaningful amount about entrepreneurs and depression in Startup Life. Since we finished the final draft a few weeks ago, I’ve given several talks where depression came up as I’ve woven my own experience with depression into the short (less than 15 minute) version of my story. I’ve received a surprising (to me) number of emails from people thanking me talking about it publicly, along with my discussion of the anxiety disorder (obsessive compulsive disorder) tha

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Startup Execution Transcends the Idea From Day One

Startup Professionals Musings

A startup begins with a great idea, but all too often, that’s where it ends. Ideas have to be implemented well to get the desired results. Good implementation requires a plan, and a good plan and good operational decisions come from good people. That’s why investors invest in entrepreneurs, rather than ideas. People and operational excellence have to converge in every business, large or small.

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[Singapore] Brother’s MFC-J2510 InkBenefit Prints Up To A3… And Does It Sideways

YoungUpstarts

IT peripheral manufacturer Brother International earlier this week launched a new inkjet multifunction printer, the MFC-J2510 InkBenefit. Tailored for personal, SOHO or SMB use, the MFC-J2510 InkBenefit features a 3.7-inch touchscreen interface along with its copy, scan, fax and print capability. What’s distinctive about the multifunction printer is that it can actually print up to A3 size (and on two sides as well), which is extremely uncommon for printers meant for small or home office u

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More New Florence

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on the innovation blog Half and half Cool robots Too young to drive – but not to invent Third Angle Orthographic Projection of iPhone 5 Drones map Peruvian ruins A majestic afternoon on San Francisco Bay Innovating cast iron cookware.

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Strategies for Building Marketplaces

Mucker Lab

This is a follow-up to my last post on the prevailing trends in e-commerce, I touched on marketplace e-commerce business models only briefly because it is a complex topic that require its own post. We, at MuckerLab, love businesses not possible before the “invention” of a particular medium or platform – not only because (superficially) [.

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10 Content Marketing Examples for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 300 million other new websites created last year, and attract the customers you need. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start.

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[Singapore] [Event] UP for PMEs’ Personal Data Protection Act Workshop

YoungUpstarts

Singapore recently passed its Personal Data Protection Act to help safeguard an individual’s personal data against misuse, such as those annoying cold calls from telemarketers touting anything from bank loans to yet another credit card. The bill encompasses the creation of a national Do-Not-Call registry and as well as a new enforcement agency tasked to regulate the management of personal data by businesses and impose financial penalties if they prove miscreant.

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Blog Doping

deal architect

In a recent conversation about performance enhancement in so many sports, a friend said in mock seriousness “Vinnie, your blog needs to be tested for being so prolific.” He is right. New Florence will end October with 600 posts and.

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Ask Yourself These Questions Before You Decide to Become An Entrepreneur (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

Over the last few months many people have asked me for advice regarding their ideas and if they should go ahead and do anything with them. After hearing their ideas I always repeat the same answer. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Entrepreneur Success is Not Enough for Fulfillment

Startup Professionals Musings

Is it possible to be successful in business and not fulfilled? The answer is a resounding yes today, and I’m convinced that it will be even more true tomorrow, as young idealistic entrepreneurs try to adapt to the long-standing business culture where success is only measured in the money you make for yourself and your business. That isn’t very fulfilling to the growing number of entrepreneurs whose vision and satisfaction comes from making the world a better place, and enjoying a leisurely lifes

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Will The Nexus 10 Be The New Small Business Workhorse Device?

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve been catching up on the most recent tech news, the latest gadget just announced is the Nexus 10, a 10-inch Android tablet put together by tech giants Google and Samsung. This powerful device looks to marry Samsung’s best-in-class hardware chops with the best of what Google has to offer, including the latest Android version, 4.2 Jelly Bean.

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3-Minute Ego Test

Life Beyond Code

Do you have an ego problem? Probably not. But, take this 3-minute ego test and find out for yourself. Read each one and give a point for every statement that you agree. If your score is three or more, you need to schedule a “general ego checkup” from someone that you trust soon. 1. By the time you read this sentence, you get a feeling that you pretty much know what this blog post will be all about ( judging very quickly ). 2.

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Yuri Milner Allocates $150 Million in ICQ Ventures to Invest in Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Remember ICQ? The poster-child of Israeli startups which was sold to AOL in 1998 for $287 million (ancient link!) and later on to DST for $187 million in 2010, Yuri Milner's holding corp, is now. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Play Offense When Predicting Revenue

Feld Thoughts

I got an email today from an exec at a company who I was with at a recent board meeting. I thought it was a powerful summary of part of our discussion, specifically around the sales pipeline for Q4 and overall sales execution. I’ve been in something like 91,293 pipeline reviews in my life and it continues to baffle me that experienced sales execs manage to snow the CEO and the board with “probability weighted sales pipeline.” I hung in there in this case and continued to make m

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3 Faux Pas To Avoid With A Potential Employer And How To Get Hired

YoungUpstarts

by Jeanne Wright. There are common boo-boos that job applicants can make, and believe us: These employers notice them. While they may not necessarily make or break your future chances with a business, you want to make the best impression possible, right? Right! Steer clear of these three things: 1. Not Leaving Enough Information in a Voicemail Message.

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