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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

How do you monetize a unique business model based on users rather than selling an actual product? We asked members of the Young Entrepreneurs Council for their thoughts. Giving it away at Contently. “At Contently, our core monetization strategy is through marketplace transactions. We’ve built (and continue to grow) a network of journalists and a corresponding publisher network.

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What You Can Learn About Startups From Great Cooks

Startup Professionals Musings

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entree for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Yet you may not be so sure where to start, and how to put it all together. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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The year that was and the one that will be

deal architect

On New Florence been running the best of 2012 Best 2012 photos Discover Magazine - Top 2012 Science Stories The Culture Street Journal - WSJ on best of 2012 art, architecture Scientific American’s 2012 “Game changers” Fortune’s Top Businesspersons of.

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9 Reasons Why Your New Year Resolutions Fail

Life Beyond Code

First of all, why am I even qualified to talk about this topic? I am just like you – lot of my resolutions have failed and lot of my projects have failed but when I have succeeded small number of times, I have done so with flying colors. A couple of examples where I succeeded: 1. Yoga : When I learned yoga, I thought I would do this for the rest of my life.

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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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VC Cafe’s Top Blog Posts in 2012 and year in Review

VC Cafe

As 2012 comes to an end, I thought I'd put together a 'best of' list of VC Cafe's stories throughout the year. It seems like 2012 was the year of throwing spaghetti on the wall by founders and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. As 2012 comes to an end, I thought I'd put together a 'best of' list of VC Cafe's stories throughout the year.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: December 17th – 30th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past 10 days and a few blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

As we get closer to the New Year, the ritual of making resolutions begins and we all flock to the usual patterns: we want to to eat healthier, work out more, get promoted, or spend more time with our kids and family. These are with no doubt worthwhile goals, but I’d like to pose an important challenge for founders: Make learning and development your key resolution in 2013.

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Ignore Trends and Predictions

Feld Thoughts

This first appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Accelerator series last week under the title Don’t Believe the Hype. Every year, at this time, I get a flurry of requests for my “predictions for 2013” or “exciting, hot, new trends for 2013 that I’m looking at.”. I respond with “I don’t care about trends and my only prediction is that one day I will die.”.