Sun.Feb 19, 2012

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Here is Why You Need a Good Startup Exit Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

If you startup is your dream, why would you want to think about an exit? It’s going to be so successful and so much fun that you don’t need to think about what comes after. Wrong. There are two very real and practical reasons why you need to plan an exit: Outside investors want to collect their return. Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest.

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SocialGoodies.com – Daily Deals For Social Good

YoungUpstarts

There’s a daily deal site for almost everything – from generic ones like Groupon and Living Social , to those that focus on a niche like CouponTrade and DoggyLoot. But here’s one with a heart: Social Goodies ( www.socialgoodies.com ), launched last May, is a daily deal site that aims to benefit non-profit and charitable organizations.

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Spend money on these things:

Start Up Blog

Was thinking about this laying in bed last night. The things we should never think twice about spending investing money on. Mainly because they make us and life better and they build on our entrepreneurial foundations. Here’s my top 10 list. Books. Clothing. Education. Insurance. Medicine. Health Care. Car maintenance. Shouting a friend (Meal or a drink).

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Want To Get In The Game? You’ll Need A Coach.

YoungUpstarts

By Marsha Friedman, CEO of EMSI Public Relations and author of “ Celebritize Yourself ” We recently lost a legend, boxing coach and trainer Angelo Dundee, the cornerman for world heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali. I’m a huge fan of world championship boxing – and boxing doesn’t get huger than Ali! He was one of the great athletes who relied on “Angie” to advise him in the ring.

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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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Hire Only Those Who Want to Work for You

Babbling VC

I know that most managers like to pride themselves on getting things done, basically being "closers" when it comes to sales, hiring and so forth. Nevertheless, when it comes to hiring, one thing to keep in mind is that you don't want anyone working for you who in hindsight regrets the decision. Sure, the job can end up being horrible or you as a boss are a total nightmare.

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Spend money on these things:

Start Up Blog

Was thinking about this laying in bed last night. The things we should never think twice about spending investing money on. Mainly because they make us and life better and they build on our entrepreneurial foundations. Here’s my top 10 list. Books. Clothing. Education. Insurance. Medicine. Health Care. Car maintenance. Shouting a friend (Meal or a drink).

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Time Is The Undeniable Constraint

entrepreMusings

We all have the same amount of time (barring unforeseen, usually dire circumstances) to do what we are meant to do or want to do while here on earth. It doesn’t really matter if we are born knowing what we are supposed to do or we aren’t. In the case of Hugo (movie), he discovered his purpose in life was to fix other people, things, automatons , and clocks.

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Want to Take on Long Odds? Try Introducing A New Product That's "Better" Than an Established Product!

Small Business Force

Would-be entrepreneurs do it every day. They come up with a product concept that is "better" (and better is in quotes because often that is all relative) than an established product or brand already accepted and in use. And without deep pockets and lots of time, it becomes a Sisyphusian (big stone, steep hill) task. This is often where entrepreneurs' passion (and ego) - their belief in their business concept and themselves is their undoing.

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Do You Know How Long It Took to Develop Word for Windows 1.0?

Diego Basch

Those of us who work in software live in a world of lean practices. We are encouraged to prototype, fail fast and iterate. We have seen software-based companies go from an idea in a kid’s brain to a billion dollar business in the time it would have taken him to get a college degree. Of course, those are the outliers on the positive side. For every extremely successful software project there are a large number of failed ones that we’ll never hear about.

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Lead Magnets: Email List Building on Steroids

ConversionXL

More than 95% of your visitors won’t buy anything on their first visit. They’re either just browsing, still in the research phase or not entirely sure yet your offer is what they need. It takes time to build trust, instill confidence and build a relationship. So if we _know_ that the overwhelming majority won’t buy anything on their first visit, why push it?

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