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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

Both Sides of the Table

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and

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Top Entrepreneurs Have Follow-up, Not Ideas Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up. Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software.

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TIME.com Redesign: a Responsive Global News Site | TIME.com

techland.time.com

fixed above the page and still position correctly -->. Skip to Content. TIME. Tech. Sections → NewsFeed U.S. Politics World Business Tech Health Science Entertainment Style Sports Opinion Photos Magazine Video LIFE.com Lists TIME Home. Home. CES 2013. Gadgets. Video Games. Apps & Web. News. Reviews & Features. Videos. Lists. Magazine. Video.

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50 shades of independence

deal architect

I had been at Gartner two years, having moved there from Price Waterhouse. A partner at a Big 5 competitor of PW called “I thought you left PW a while ago” suggesting I was biased towards PW. A year later.

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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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SaaS Metrics 2.0 – A Guide to Measuring and Improving what Matters

For Entrepreneurs

“If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” – Lord Kelvin This article is a comprehensive and detailed look at the key metrics that are needed to understand and optimize a SaaS business. It is a completely updated rewrite of an older post. For this version, I have co-opted two real experts in the [.].

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog Google, Kurzweil and AI frontiers Kinect+Coke+AI+2PM = Japan’s Got Talent Pharma companies and beauty products Here’s looking at you kid Tech leverage of lower limbs 2013 CES Trends to follow Technology and auto accidents The New.

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What does not kill you makes you stronger?

deal architect

I have long been a Quickbooks user. Once you are set up, it is a low maintenance path to keeping books, quarterly and annual reporting. But 2-3 times a year I get irritated with Intuit, the publisher. a) One of.

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Which Color Converts The Best?

ConversionXL

Color is an essential part of how we experience the world. But do colors really matter for conversions? Everything in our world is made up of things that are of various color. Different colors can lift us up, or bring us down. There is also a psychological side to colors – certain colors are said to be associated with different qualities and emotions.

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40 years old today

The Equity Kicker

It’s my 40th birthday today, and I have to say it’s a milestone I’m meeting with mixed emotions. For the last few days I’ve had a nagging sense of disquiet, almost passing to anxiety at times. There was no trigger event or focus that I could pin down, and my best guess is that at a subconscious level I’m finally growing up and starting to grapple with my mortality.

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Startup Summer 2013

David Cohen

Sure, it’s cold right now, but it’s time to start thinking ahead to summer if you want a chance to participate in Startup Summer 2013. A Startup Colorado program, Startup Summer is a great way for aspiring entrepreneurs to gain some real life experience and get plugged into the Boulder-Denver startup community. Startup Summer combines a ten-week paid internship with educational seminars, social events and mentorship opportunities.

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How To Break Free From Business Failure

Mike Michalowicz

Failure is an extraordinary enemy. It plays unfairly. It gets in your mind. Failure is notorious for its stealthy ability to get lock you into a downward death spiral. And your business failure (or success) is a direct result of your failure mindset. How Failure Works. You try something for the first time and fail to succeed. That’s when failure plants a seed in your mind – that little inner voice – telling you it was inevitable.

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10 Good Reasons For Business Planning

Up and Running

Our thanks to Small Business Trends and the Young Entrepreneur Council 10 Reasons Why You Should Write A Business Plan. This is a very good list. The top-level summary: . the fact is that a business plan — even just a one-pager with a few financial projections — can be a valuable internal tool. A roadmap for even the smallest or earliest-stage idea.

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How to Wow Your Employees

OnlyOnce

How to Wow Your Employees. Here at Return Path we like to promote a culture of WOW and a culture of hospitality. Some of you may be asking, Why Wow your employees? The answer is, there is nothing more inspirational than showing an employee that you care about him or her as an individual. The impact a WOW has is tremendous. Being a manger is like being in a fishbowl.

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Scribbles from a note pad

Start Up Blog

Yesterday I was cleaning the remnants of 2012 from my desk when I found an old note pad. I was flicking through and found some thoughts and ideas I had written down during meetings, while listening to some talks and just reading articles. While many of them are ‘oldies’ I still think some are worth sharing and creating a digital foot print for. - Being busy is not the same as being effective. - We should begin every project as if there is no budget. - 1 billion dollars laid flat in $

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The Number One Mistake People Make When It Comes To Referral Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with Bill Cates. Subscribe now via iTunes. Everyone loves referrals, but let’s face it – the real point of a referral is a customer. If you’re getting plenty of referrals, but few are turning into new clients, it’s time to change a few things about your approach to referrals. photo credit: Jeremy Wilburn via photopin cc. The number one mistake people make in the business of referral generation is to ask for leads or referrals when they should be asking for introductions.

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If you like this blog…

Start Up Blog

If you like this blog, and read it and think it’s valuable. Then maybe you can vote for it here. Up to you really. But thanks for reading.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

- select -. Books. eBooks. Job Board. Shop. Books. eBooks. Job Board. Shop. RSS. Facebook. Twitter. Newsletter. Search Go! - select -. Books. eBooks. Job Board. Shop. Coding. Design. Mobile. Graphics. UX Design. WordPress. Coding. CSS. HTML. JavaScript. Techniques. Design. Web Design. Typography. Inspiration. Business. Mobile. Responsive. iPhone & iPad.

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Silvercar Finally Launches at DFW

Austin Startup

Over a year ago we wrote about Silvercar raising $3M of their planned $11M round from Austin Ventures, and nobody commented. It must have been the best kept secret in the Austin technology community, even though they had job openings on Indeed.com at the time. Well, the wait is finally over. CEO Luke Schneider previously worked at Ford, and was the CTO at ZipCar.

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Patents and Software Startups

Andrew Payne

Occasionally, I hear from a software entrepreneur with a “patented” or “patent pending” idea. Many people view patents in a almost glamorous way: ” Get a patent, and you can control your idea “ I’ve done a lot of patent work ( 15 issued , including two of the most cited patents in US history), and it’s never that simple.

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11 Steps to Building Your Startup Business

Business Plan Blog

'Step 1: Determine what kind of business you should start: - A part-time business, a unique business idea (i.e. a complete new product or service that you can obtain idea protection for), a franchise, purchase an existing business, or buy a license to sell an existing product or service. Step 2: Write a business plan. - Research your industry, market and competitors. - Create a sales and marketing plan. - Create a financial model and financial plan.

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Patents and Software Startups

Andrew Payne

Occasionally, I hear from a software entrepreneur with a “patented” or “patent pending” idea. Many people view patents in a almost glamorous way: ” Get a patent, and you can control your idea “ I’ve done a lot of patent work ( 15 issued , including two of the most cited patents in US history), and it’s never that simple.

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What I learned from Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer (via Leadership Atlanta)

Jeff Hilimire

It can’t keep getting better. That’s what I keep telling myself. That my experience with Leadership Atlanta can’t get any better. But it does. From the opening retreat, to the infamous Race Awareness Weekend , to the experiences getting to know my incredible classmates (clearly the best class ever! ), it just keeps getting better with each and every experience.

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How to Choose a Business Plan Writer

Business Plan Blog

'Regardless of whether you are a first time entrepreneur starting a new business or a seasoned entrepreneur seeking capital to leverage your existing business, any investor will require a business plan. Writing a business plan is incredibly daunting for most business owners, whether because of difficulty, lack of time or lack of expertise. As a result, many entrepreneurs turn to professional business plan writers and/or consulting firms to write their business plan for them.

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Finding Companies in the Most Normal Places

Rob Go

About 4 years ago, in Feb 2009, we were having breakfast with one of my neighbors when she mentioned that she had just bought a “groupon” to a local restaurant. At the time, I was thinking generally about the concept of aggregating demand for products and local services, and just hearing the word “Groupon” piqued my interest.

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The Best Approach To A Board Package

Feld Thoughts

I joined my first board of a company other than mine in 1994 (NetGenesis). Since then, I’ve sat on hundreds of boards and been to a zillion board meetings. I crushes my soul a little to think of the number of board meetings I have sat through that were ineffective, poorly run, or just plain boring. I guess that’s part of the motivation I have in writing Startup Boards: Reinventing the Board of Directors to Be Useful to the Entrepreneur (the next book in the Startup Revolution series

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When Men Start Pitching to Women

This is going to be BIG.

I have this vision. Someone gets all of the most powerful and connected women in NYC--Barbara Corcoran, Beth Comstock, and maybe even folks like Lady Gaga--and puts together a Founder Collective--like venture fund. Everyone could toss in 100k and you could definitely find 1:1 matching from various instructions to bring it up to $10mm. Let's bring in both Clinton women, too, while we're at it.

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Executive Hiring

Austin Startup

I have a simple test that I occasionally use to figure out if an executive is a reasonable leader. It’s one that is useful sometimes (organizational situations may make this a difficult test to pass). That test is; do any former employees follow the executive to his/her new company. Now this test is really a single attribute test – it highlights whether employees will follow someone to a different company (hence the ‘leader’ title).

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