Wed.Sep 21, 2011

article thumbnail

15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

YoungUpstarts

by Don DeBolt, Total Defense, Inc. It’s hardly a stretch in this day and age to say that everyone in the corporate workforce has a mobile device, whether it is company issued or personal. Mobile devices have helped revolutionize the way people do business by facilitating instant communication and enabling us to store, send and receive documents right from our smartphones, anytime, anywhere.

Security 160
article thumbnail

Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. It’s all told through a graphic & very short so worth your having a quick read. It’s a powerful concept. The idea of not using one’s real name is something I’ve had to come to understand better through other people providing context.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Entrepreneur Success: It’s Not Always About You

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs forget that their success is more about helping other people than about personally becoming famous, or overcoming the odds and getting rich. A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. That means more focus on helping others achieve their goals.

article thumbnail

Line2 Adds A Phone Line To Your Tablet Device

YoungUpstarts

If the land-line isn’t dead yet, here’s yet another reason why it should be – San Francisco-based mobile communications technology company Line2 is transforming your handy tablet device into a powerful mobile communications hub by, yes, adding a phone line. Line2 ‘s iOS and Android applications adds a full featured phone line that can place and receive calls and carrier-grade text messages over the device’s Wi-Fi or 3G connections, turning these devices – such as th

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Another $100,000 For Every TechStars Company

Feld Thoughts

Today, TechStars announced that they’ve raised $24 million from a broad syndicate of investors to fund an additional $100,000 for every TechStars company going forward. The investors include Foundry Group, IA Ventures, Avalon Ventures, DFJ Mercury, SoftBank Capital, SVB Financial Group, RRE Ventures, Right Side Capital Management and TechStars alumni.

Seattle 137
article thumbnail

How To Create A Product That Sells

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This four part series on creating your own information product will start with addressing a vital starting point with product creation: creating a product that will sell. In other words, creating a product that has a hungry audience. You can have the best quality information product in the world, but if you are the only one interested in “Advanced Cardio Training for Mexican Walking Fish” then your product won’t sell.

Product 109

More Trending

article thumbnail

If You’re Not Excited About The Clean Energy Venture Summit, You Should Be.

Austin Startup

Talk about timing. When a reminder about the upcoming Clean Energy Summit hit my inbox, I jumped at the chance to make the case for why Austin should be excited about this event. And while I’d be the first to advocate the benefits of a clean energy community, this isn’t a rah-rah session. Let’s look at what’s happening in clean energy to see why this year’s gathering should accelerate Austin’s clean energy future.

Austin 87
article thumbnail

Teaching Entrepreneurs to Fish

Up and Running

Give people fish, and you feed them once. Teach them to fish, and you feed them forever. I’m paraphrasing an old saying. Here’s my updated version: Give one person a business loan and you help start a business. Teach starting a business, and you help a whole community. That comes up because I’m doing a training tomorrow for the Small Business Administration’s ( SBA ) Women’s Business Centers ( WBC ).

SBA 74
article thumbnail

12 years of ebay

Eric Friedman

I was recently thinking about the sheer number of services I have signed up for, certainly increasing in the past 5 years, and thinking back on some of the old services I don’t use anymore. I would ventures to say that my time on the VC side of things yielded probably 10 signups a week on the low side and 100 per week on the high side. What prompted this post however was this congratulatory email from eBay celebrating 12 YEARS using the service.

Email 68
article thumbnail

Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Creative Semiotics

crowdSPRING Blog

Every piece of advertising or design has a root in cultural symbolism, otherwise, nobody would understand what it’s trying to say. For example, most people brought up in a Judeo-Christian society recognize an apple as a symbol for knowledge. Every culture has symbols like this. The study of cultural signs is known as semiotics. One of the first classes I had to take as a marketing student was “Semiotics for Creators of Pop Culture” because understanding this concept is that important.

article thumbnail

Four Stories Every Business Must Build

Duct Tape Marketing

Four Stories Every Business Must Build This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Stories build commitment. They allow us to go on journeys in search of our best self. They entertain, simplify, and inspire. They are easy to share. Great leaders are often great storytellers. Sugar Pond via Flickr The power of story as a business building and marketing tool is undeniable.

article thumbnail

The Coming Bits and Atoms Disruption

Andrew Payne

I’ve written recently about the entrepreneurial lottery , and the long odds for many pure-software Internet/consumer/mobile projects. For the reasons outlined, I’ve been shifting my entrepreneurial energy away from these projects. Instead, I’ve been working on “bits and atoms”, or as I think about it: the intersection of mechanical design/fabrication with the Internet ecosystem and Moore’s Law advances.

article thumbnail

Raising Capital? 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs – Part 2

Scott Edward Walker

I’ve been helping entrepreneurs raise capital as a securities lawyer for 17+ years, and there are certain fundamental mistakes that I’ve seen entrepreneurs repeatedly make. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to share three basic tips for entrepreneurs in connection with raising capital. This is part two of a three-part series, which was originally published on The Huffington Post.

article thumbnail

Features: simplicity versus completeness

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I am tired of all the “simplest [Application Type] of the world” I wrote about it before. A simple application is not useful if it is incomplete. Would Excel be so successful if it was limited to editing a grid? On the other hand, people like the feeling of simplicity and despise being overwhelmed by [.].

35
article thumbnail

Jeff’s New Blog

Ben's Blog

My partner Jeff Jordan has a new blog and he just wrote a great post about our newest investment, Lookout.

Jordan 42
article thumbnail

Babbaco – For the Great Parent We All Want to Be

Rob Go

I’m excited to announce today that NextView Ventures has become an investor in Babbaco along with our friends at Lightbank and SV Angel. We first heard about Babbaco from my friend Sam Yagan – the founder of OkCupid and Excelerate Labs , an incubator in Chicago. Sam has been a friend of the firm for a long time, and as an excellent serial entrepreneur, I really pay attention when he sends founders our way.

Chicago 47