Tue.Nov 27, 2012

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Are You In Control Of Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

by Monica Shepherd, TradeGecko. Are you in control of your business? I don’t mean are you the person calling the shots. I mean as in, if you had to make some critical snap decisions, do you know your business well enough that you could you make them with total confidence? In order to be able to make these sound, informed business decisions you need an accurate and efficient operating system.

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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services. After all, without customers, there is no revenue.

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Musings on the tension between trust and anonymity

The Equity Kicker

Google just changed the Google Play store so that reviewers’ Google+ name and profile picture are visible, with no option for anonymity, writes Techcrunch. I think this is a good move because identity engenders trust and the lack of trust on the web relative to offline is one of the things that holds people back from using and enjoying the web more.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. Free: Startup Tools. If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources.

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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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Entrepreneurs Love the Learning and Ramen Noodles

Startup Professionals Musings

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. On the average, the entrepreneurs I know are living on Ramen noodles. But one thing they all seem to have in common is a love for learning and change. They rush in with a passion to better the world, and money is just an indication of their progress.

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[Infographic] [Singapore] Salary Expectations Increase 35% With That First Private Degree: JobsCentral

YoungUpstarts

Sponsoring that employee for a private degree course in the hopes that they’ll return better equipped to deal with their work? It will, but attaining that private degree – if it’s their first formal degree qualifications – also leads the employee expecting a 35% salary raise to commensurate with that extra knowledge. According to the 2012 JobsCentral Learning Rankings And Survey Report , which surveyed 5,476 respondents online from September to October this year, adult le

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Glass, Cars, Fiber: Is Google a Generation Ahead?

This is going to be BIG.

Yesterday, I posted about the Collaborative Web --which I suppose you could call Web 3.0, even though we all agreed that versioning for web software is stupid. But wasn't Web 3.0 supposed to be the "Internet of Things"? Sensors, objects, all sorts of non-desktop computer-like stuff that collected info and connected us to our physical world in a more interactive way was supposed to be the next big thing.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: mor.sl

crowdSPRING Blog

What do you get when you mix Epicurious with Peapod, and throw in a Netflix-like recommendation algorithm for good measure? This week’s Small Business Spotlight, mor.sl. mor.sl solves two problems all of us face at some point: what to eat for dinner and ensuring all the ingredients are in your kitchen. mor.sl’s homepage lists pictures of carefully curated recipes, everything from homemade BBQ sauce, to pad thai, to chicken with curry sauce… and everything in between.

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4 Crucial Presidential Leadership Lessons

Growthink Blog

With the 2012 presidential election wrapped up, and January's inauguration looming on the horizon, life is getting (somewhat) back to normal in the United States. But the past few months have been filled with stories of great presidents, leadership and change, and tales of how those have impacted America's direction over the course of the past few centuries.

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Great Advertising – by Wikipedia

Start Up Blog

While Wikipedia doesn’t run any adverting on it’s, it sure knows how to write a copy line to sell it’s fundraising. If you’re like me, Wikipedia has become an indispensable life resource for self learning and contribution to society. So giving something back is dame fine idea for a non-profit like Wikipedia, but like all things it does take something to get us across the line from intention to action.

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The Enterprise Is Cool Again, and Box CEO Aaron Levie Is Loving It

readwrite.com

There’s a lot of talk in Silicon Valley about the decline of consumer Internet companies and the rising interest in companies that sell software to enterprises. After all, Zynga and Groupon, the darlings of the consumer wave, have tanked. Facebook's stock collapse robbed the company of some of its sparkle. And suddenly all those boring companies that have been toiling away down on the San Francisco Bay peninsula selling boring software to boring enterprises don’t seem quite so boring anymore — e

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How to Get More From Every Piece of Content You Produce

Duct Tape Marketing

This post is sponsored by Viewbix – Easily add apps and calls to action to your video. Content creation must involve strategy. That’s the part that you must understand or its production is little more than a chore. photo credit: markyweiss. For some time now I’ve been preaching the idea of a “total body of work” approach to content for marketing purposes.

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Social Enterprises Globally

Business Plan Blog

'There is a rich social enterprise culture present in the United Kingdom. With the 2010 election of Prime Minister David Cameron, a platform policy of the U.K. Conservative Party known as the “Big Society” has been launched and aims to empower local community entrepreneurs. One of the five main objectives is to support co-ops, mutuals, charities and social enterprises by establishing a Big Society Bank, which will provide financing for social enterprises and other similar ventures.

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Interview With CEO Of Early Growth Financial Services, David Ehrenberg, On Starting Out With The Right Plan

Early Growth Financial Services

Naysayers and market collapse be damned! CEO David Ehrenberg founded Early Growth Financial Services at the end of 2008 when everything except inner belief must’ve told him that he was headed for doom.

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But I know that he knows that I know

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When two people in America need to make a boolean decision and a coin isn’t available, the go-to method of problem resolution is Rock, Paper, Scissors. Generally people feel this game is fair, meaning there’s an equal likelihood of each participant winning, losing, or tying. And of course if you’re an academic who believes Big-Oh embodies everything you need to know about algorithms, you might leave it at that.

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Silicon Valley Tops, Singapore 18th On Startup Genome Ecosystem Ranking

YoungUpstarts

Many startup ecosystems in the world want to be like Silicon Valley. Even New York’s startup scene wants to replicate its West Coast counterpart (and been somewhat successful, earning the term Silicon Alley ), and other countries, including Brazil , clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as hotbed of innovation and technological entrepreneurship.