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The big disruption opportunity in book publishing

deal architect

Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years. While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY Times article.

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My simple ways to be a happier, smarter 30-something

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Do this stuff, and I guarantee you will literally be happier, smarter , more productive, live longer, and most importantly you will not feel like you’re missing out on life. Don’t eat anything that’s nasty at room temperature. It’s OK if it’s not ideal at room temperature, it just needs to be not nasty. Real ice cream is melted at room temperature, but it’s cream and sugar; not gross.

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The Voice of the Enterprise Customer

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Tim Cook of Apple recently told BusinessWeek “I’ve talked to many other CEOs who look at me like I have three heads when I talk about getting hundreds or thousands of customer e-mails in a day. It’s a privilege. It’s.

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13 New Year’s Resolutions to Work Happy in 2013

Startup Professionals Musings

Welcome to the New Year 2013! You’ve probably already made your resolutions, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your work. After all, most of us spend more hours in this role than any other, and life is too short to spend most of your life unhappy. If you haven’t tried it, one way to be happier at work is to be an entrepreneur, according to a recent study by the Wharton School of Business.

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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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Give Before You Get

Feld Thoughts

This first appeared in my LinkedIn Today column titled Give Before You Get. I post unique content on LinkedIn a few times a month (I ultimately reblog it here) but if you want to get it when I first publish it and you are a LinkedIn member, simply follow me on LinkedIn. As 2013 begins, I encourage you to adopt one of my deeply held beliefs, that of “ give before you get.”.

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The Two Words That Determine Your Success In Life

Mike Michalowicz

Determine Your Success In Life With I Am . I promise you this: if you have the discipline to implement what I am about to share with you, your life will be transformed. More than just your business life. Every aspect of your life will change. What you are about to learn is the gateway to all forms of achievement. And, ironically, it’s also the cause of all failure.

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11 Things People Believe – But Shouldn’t

ConversionXL

People often choose to believe in things that are just not true. We just “survived” the Mayan apocalypse some people really thought was going to be real – to give an example. Here are 11 things that a lot of us believe, but really shouldn’t. 1. [Insert celebrity name here] endorses product X, so it must be good. “Research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence.

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Hate the Curves and Bored with Cruise Control

Life Beyond Code

This is the grand dilemma that many people face – when the roads are curvy, they complain what it takes to navigate all these curves. It seems like they have to pay 100% attention or they might drive off the road. On the other end, they are driving in cruise control on a totally empty freeway in Montana and they get bored. Why? There is not much driving required , actually.

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Be a Pioneer not an Opportunist

thebarefootvc

As we turn over to a new year, it seems that everything old is new again. From retro typefonts to Instagram filters to the recent neon craze in the fashion world, it seems we are cycling back in time. And now I can’t open a tech blog without reading about the new bubble or the Series A crunch. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC. I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis.

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Top Ten Posts in 2012

Scott Edward Walker

Happy New Year! Below is a list of my top ten posts in 2012 based on pageviews. You should also check out “ Managing Startups: Best Posts of 2012 ,” a solid compilation by Tom Eisenmann , Professor at the Harvard Business School, of the best startup posts in 2012 (including my posts below addressing convertible notes). Cheers, Scott. 1. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) – Part 1. 2.

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Give Us the Rules and Let Us Go Kick Butt

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch talks Fiscal Cliff on Wall Street Journal Radio. photo credit: Ennor via photopin cc. There’s plenty of talk and a fair amount of angst swirling around the made for reality TV Fiscal Cliff negotiations. I was asked several times last week about the impact these talks and falling over the cliff might have on small business. I appeared briefly on the Daily Wrap show on Wall Street Journal Radio and gave my two cents.

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Combating bank fraud that targets user behavior

Austin Startup

Even with fraud defenses in place, individuals are still the ones who have to ultimately make banking decisions that could put them at risk. In other words, while anti-fraud technologies are designed to provide red flags and help detect fraudulent transactions, they can’t always stop people from being duped by clever social engineering schemes. That risk is often left up to the individual’s discretion, whether it’s a customer or employee.

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2013 Top 10 Storage Trends: Hitachi Data Systems

YoungUpstarts

Big data is coming, but are governments, companies and even individuals prepared for its eventuality? This is one of the questions that was pondered over by Hubert Yoshida, vice president and chief technology officer of Hitachi Data System s, as he shared his top ten predictions on data storage trends for 2013 in a media briefing recently. For certain, big data will provide various challenges and opportunities for businesses and is likely to be a primary concern for the IT industry in general th

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11 Ways To Make Sure 2013 Is Your Year For Big, Positive Change

YoungUpstarts

by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ You’d like to say 2012 was a banner year. That you got that big promotion you’ve been wanting. That you made the career change you’ve been dreaming about. Or that you took a leap of faith and finally opened your own business. But the truth is 2012 was full of the same old disappointments.

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