Thu.Nov 29, 2012

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The worlds largest outsourcer you never heard of

deal architect

Quick, name the outsourcer which comes to market with A $ 140 billion services backlog. A relentless focus on guaranteed performance and improved outcomes for customers, not just standard SLAs or fixed price contracts Deep vertical knowledge in oil and.

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6 Ways Startups Must Match the Pace of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone. The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness.

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Build Entrepreneurship Communities With Crowd Valley

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurship communities and crowdfunding platforms designed to support entrepreneurs are popping up left, right, and center all around the world. This is a good sign. What may not be ideal, however, is that there’s much diffusion in the tools and platforms being used to connect entrepreneurs and that can create separate ecosystems that don’t talk to one another.

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Snapchat posts more photos than Instagram

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We seed funded Snapchat , a terrific mobile photo sharing app, back in April when it had less than 200,000 installs. My partner Barry Eggers came across the app when his daughter told him it was one of the three most popular apps at her highschool. The other two were Instagram and Angry Birds. When we met the team and heard their vision and saw how much users loved using the app, we were hooked.

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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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[Infographic] The Decline of American Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

We often hear that entrepreneurship in America is alive and well, thanks to the amazing growth in the Valley’s startup scene and (no thanks) to the flagging economy that’s forced many to take up entrepreneurship as a last recourse. But the numbers don’t lie – entrepreneurship in America has actually declined over the decades.

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Jeff Bezos attended 60 investor meetings to raise $1m from 22 people, just to get Amazon started

The Next Web

If you think startups have a tough time today, making ends meet and raising the necessary capital to take things to the next level, here’s an interesting little nugget courtesy of “Mr. Amazon” himself, Jeff Bezos. Speaking to US talk-show host Charlie Rose , Bezos delved deep into everything from the Kindle and industry disruption, to the early days of his e-commerce empire.

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Dec. 4 TAAAPS Alternative Asset Summit and Boot Camp, NY

David Teten

TAAAPS, the Alliance of Alternative Asset Professionals, is holding a boot camp in New York for investment managers focused on the capital-raising process. If you’re a manager and interested in taking part, contact mkosara@taaaps.org. The event will start with a 1 hour one-on-one round robin session from 5 pm – 6 pm for Investors and Managers to meet and get directly introduced to each other.

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Some things that make mobile user acquisition difficult

The Equity Kicker

Vibhu Norby, founder of YC backed Everyme and Origami has a good post up explaining why his company is pivoting from mobile-first to web-first. At the highest level they are pivoting because they were unable to acquire and retain users profitably. The interesting thing is why. Nibhu has a good list of the things that make acquiring and retaining users tougher on mobile than it is on the web: iteration cycles are slow making it hard to react fast to user behaviour and test lots of things. non-act

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Give

This is going to be BIG.

Yesterday, I sat in a conversation with a potential investor in Brooklyn Bridge Ventures and he asked me "How do you get dealflow?". I know I've gotten asked this question a million times over during this process, but for some reason, it just sounded different this time. I usually talk about being visable, knowing a lot of folks, etc. but in a moment of clarity, I realized that everything I get--dealflow, fund investors, opportunities to hire people, etc.

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How microeconomists can improve online marketplaces

Lightspeed Venture Partners

My partner Justin Caldbeck has made a number of investments in two-sided marketplaces, including Sidecar , Grub Hub and Task Rabbit. Living Social has some aspects to this as well. The Economist has a great story on how micro economists are making small changes that improve the functioning and liquidity of online markets. One example is the question of how much detail an online car auctioneer should reveal about the condition of the vehicles on offer.

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Act like an Eagle Scout.

Berkonomics

You may have been a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout in your youth. Certainly you are aware of the top rank in each – the Gold Award for girls and the Eagle badge for boys. Scouting teaches leadership and even if we were not members in our youth, there are lessons for us all. For example, the Boy Scouts of America motto is “Be prepared.” And from that comes training in first aid, disaster preparation, and outdoor skills, planning for events and outings, and any number of simulations or practice runs

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There’s No Such Thing As A New Idea And My New Social Page Proves It

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

A few months ago, Walter and Mick, my co-founders in CrankyAds.com , and I were having a brainstorming session to come up with App ideas. Since both these guys are entrepreneurial we tend to go on these long tangents sometimes, thinking of cool ideas that just spring forth as we browse around the internet.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Ron Conway

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Ron Conway , the founder of SV Angel and a brilliant investor, who is commonly referred to as the “ Godfather of Silicon Valley ”.

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The Only Path to Sustainable Growth

Duct Tape Marketing

This post is one in a series of tips for making your small business run better and is sponsored by UPS. UPS is all about logistics — the logistics that makes your business run better and faster. Sustainable growth comes from doing more of what really creates growth and less of what you get pulled into in the name of growth. photo credit: swisscan via photopin cc.

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Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

136 CMOs were recently asked “What do you see as your biggest opportunity for revenue generation in early 2013?” 46% of them said “improving conversions” Excellent. Now that we know where the opportunity lies, how do we go about doing it? We had two prospective clients this past week where their overall site design was good enough that they didn’t need a full redesign.

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Solving the Pipeline Problem

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, co-hosts of The LeanStartup Conference. It’s well-known—and we ourselves have been publicly frustrated —that white men tend to dominate the speaker rosters for tech and entrepreneurship conferences, not to mention the portfolios of many entrepreneurship programs. Conference hosts, VC’s, and others often attribute this to a "pipeline problem," the idea that there simply aren’t enough qualified women or people of color who wanted to or were

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How To Use Power Questions To Turn Your Office Holiday Party Into A Career-Boosting Event

YoungUpstarts

by Andrew Sobel, author of “ Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others ”. It’s that very special time of the year when many of us are receiving invitations to our annual office holiday party. If you’re one of them, you’ll probably look forward to the event with great excitement — until you start to recall the blunders of years past.

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5 Simple Steps for Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization

Duct Tape Marketing

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Aaron Houghton – Enjoy! Image Credit: Qole Pejorian Flickr CC. Throughout my career I’ve run my own small businesses, consulted with small business owners, and built software for small business users. I’m one of the biggest small business advocates you’ll ever meet. The passionate entrepreneurs who decide to launch and run their own businesses are the force that drives this world forward.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. Video. PandoDigest. About. Search. Share on Twitter. Share on Facebook. Share on LinkedIn. The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? By Sarah Lacy. On November 28, 2012. I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it.