Fri.Nov 30, 2012

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Twitter Link Roundup #156 – 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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It Happened To Me: My Small Business Was Hacked!

ReadWriteStart

Last September, shortly after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, a company tweeted me that they were going to make our site, SmallBizDaily.com , their “small business resource of the day.” My joy was short-lived when the next morning they tweeted that my site had been hacked. I quickly checked (it was still early morning on the West Coast, where we’re located) and sure enough, instead of the usual array of small-business content I was greeted by an unfamiliar image of a Mid

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East Coast Offense

deal architect

In Walter Isaacson?s biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson describes the time that Jobs cold called Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning, Inc., to learn about Gorilla Glass (which is now used in more than 500 devices). Weeks? assistant refused to.

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Seek Real Paradigm Shifts

Startup Professionals Musings

What sparks paradigm-shifting innovation in any business? It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. As an entrepreneur in a startup, how do you know if you have this potential, and what are the steps to get from an innovation to a revolution?

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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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“Un-spoil” Your Kids: A Holiday Message For Parents Of Entitled (And Financially Clueless) Children

YoungUpstarts

by Gregory Downing, author of “ Entrepreneur Unleashed “. The holidays are upon us, and rumor has it we’re supposed to be joyful. But if you’re one of the millions of American families caught in the economic crunch, you’re anything but. Your kids expect the moon for Christmas, and like George Bailey in “ It’s a Wonderful Life “, you’d love to lasso it for them.

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Thanks to BitTorrent, The 4-Hour Chef goes from being boycotted by Barnes and Noble to a bestseller

The Next Web

Self-help guru Tim Ferriss may have had a troubled start with his latest book, The 4-Hour Chef , but now it’s flying off the shelves. The book in question has gone from being boycotted by Barnes and Noble to becoming the first BitTorrent bestseller. Here’s the story. The book is published by Amazon Publishing, which signed the back in August 2011.

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The end of demographics

Start Up Blog

I think demographic segmentation should be added to the bundle of tools from yesteryear. The redundant list. Note just because it is a cold and dehumanizing concept, but because we no longer have to use economic and social indicators to guess who cares about something. In a connected world, where we opt in to tracking our own behaviour guessing is no longer required.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: RIP Zig Ziglar (1926 – 2012)

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur. Today, we pay tribute to Zig Ziglar, the godfather of motivation, who passed away a few days ago. My favorite quote of his: “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

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How to Breathe and Why You Must

Duct Tape Marketing

A few weeks ago I started a series of posts I’m calling Recover You. The series is focused on practices and habits that I believe lead to a healthier mind, body and spirit, a healthier business and ultimately a healthier economy. You can catch the entire Recover You series here. photo credit: shawnzrossi via photopin cc. I’ll admit that some readers may click over to this post because the title seems so odd.

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The maker/manager transition phase

joel.is

Joel Gascoigne. Startups, life, learning and happiness. Im the founder of Buffer. This is where I share all the lessons Im learning. Join 2,164 other hackers & hustlers who read my articles via email. Get updates. Subscribe with RSS 2,164 subscribers. Follow @joelgascoigne. all articles • startup help • speaking. Like how we run Buffer?

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5 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Make the Best Employees

Early Growth Financial Services

Many entrepreneurs balk at the idea of hiring a fellow entrepreneur. In some cases, this may be because they believe that they need more proven experience on their team, the kind of experience that comes from years of working for a big corporation—the kind of proven experience that actually has been shown to have little correlation to future job success… In other cases, the hiring entrepreneur may fear some sort of power struggle with a fellow entrepreneur—or they may be worried that the h

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A maker-manager’s schedule

bjk5.com

About. Twitter. Subscribe. RSS. Ben Kamens. is lead dev at Khan Academy , and has been a proud part of Fog Creek. A maker-manager’s schedule. Paul Graham’s Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule meant a lot to me. It meant a lot to anybody who’s ever been inexplicably frustrated by a kind-hearted coworker interrupting them, or felt like an ass for turning down a request to grab a 20 minute coffee with an acquiantance.

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Conflicting Court Cases Regarding the Nature of Social Networks

Venture Chronicles

I was catching up on news this morning and 2 unrelated stories jumped out at me, the first being a case brought by ad company Sanbreel against Facebook. The issue at hand was whether or not Facebook amounted to a public utility and as such an essential service, and the judge who reviewed the case disagreed : There is no fundamental right to use Facebook ; users may only obtain a Facebook account upon agreement that they will comply with Facebook’s terms, which is unquestionably permissible under

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From Doer to Leader

gtziralis.com

Home. — About — Research — Entrepreneur — Misc — Teaching. Explore. george tziralis log. personal webpage, blog and everything in between. January 16th, 2012. From Doer to Leader. ¶ Getting from a couple of entrepreneurs to a team of 5 or 20 employees is one of the most difficult tasks startup founders are facing. I call this the transition from being a doer to becoming a manager and then, eventually, a leader.

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Micro VC’s and Super Angels Two Years Later – Looking Back and Some Predictions for the Future

Rob Go

I was surprised to find that it has been more than two years since my post summarizing the state of the seed stage market, and trying to bring a balanced view on the rise of Super Angels and Micro-VC’s. See that original post here. The venture capital market continues to be in transition, and a lot of changes have occurred in the early stages of the market.