Tue.Aug 23, 2011

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10 Ways Startups Build Highly Responsible Teams

Startup Professionals Musings

Getting things done effectively in a startup requires total individual and team accountability. You can’t afford excuses and multiple people doing the same job. In my view, “taking responsibility” is the core element behind accountability. Many people hear responsibility as an obligation, but I hear it as “the ability to respond.” Unfortunately many people don’t have the ability to respond, because they lack confidence in themselves, or simply don’t have the skills required.

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Q&A Platform Drumo To Drum Up City Discovery In Australia and Asia

YoungUpstarts

Is going hyperlocal the next big thing or the latest hype? Whatever you believe, there are increasingly more mobile location-based services that focuses on providing information and content targeted at specific locales. Take newly announced Drumo ( www.drumo.com ), for example. Drumo is a hyperlocal question-and-answer platform that connects a community of users in a certain area to ask and answer questions about what is happening around them.

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Foundry Group Invests In MakerBot Industries

Feld Thoughts

Today we announced that we’ve led a $10m round for MakerBot Industries and I’ve joined the board. I’m super excited to be working with Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, Zach Smith, and the rest of the MakerBot gang to create consumer-grade 3D printers. When I first met Bre, Adam, and Zach at the Botcave in Brooklyn, it was love at first sight for me.

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[ADV] [Singapore] [Event] Social Media And The Changing Demands of Global Consumers On The Agenda At SMWF Asia

YoungUpstarts

This year’s first Keynote Panel Discussion at Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia will be examining the profile of consumers that can be reached via social media, both regionally and globally and how the social web is changing their attitudes. In recent years Web 2.0 has changed the way people communicate not only with each other but with companies and brands.

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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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How To Become Famous In Your Industry Without Using Television

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Contacting the media with a news story is not the only way to achieve massive exposure for your business and profile. There are tons of other ways to attract media attention and also that of your desired audience directly. Exposure From A Televised Event Over the past weekend, the finale of a popular reality television series went to air and a number of related businesses took the opportunity to take part in exchange for the national coverage they would receive.

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What Drives You to Bring in More Traffic?

Up and Running

As a business with a Web site presence, are you doing everything necessary to drive traffic to your company’s site? It should be a no-brainer that Web site traffic directly correlates with sales, so analyzing the visits on your site is very important as a pre-cursor to how well your company is or will be doing down the road. Get that Engine Running.

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To the man that stood right next to me on the escalator

Jeff Hilimire

Hi there, fella. I was kind extremely humbled that you deciding that we were close enough in our relationship for you to stand right next to me on the escalator at the airport. It’s true, I only just met you as we happened to get to the entrance to the escalator at the same time, with me slightly ahead of you. But still, I can see how you thought that we were close enough in our friendship to take the leap and jump up there with me.

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Getting Creative with Foursquare for Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Getting Creative with Foursquare for Small Business This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Carmine Gallo (Click to play or right click and “Save As&# to download – Subscribe now via iTunes or subscribe via other RSS device (Google Listen) Foursquare boasts over 10 million users and some 400,000 businesses, and even though it’s not this week’s hot topic anymore, it’s ripe to add to your marketing mix.

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Should You Let Your Son Build Legos At The Breakfast Table?

entrepreMusings

My son got a Lego City Helicopter Transporter (Amazon) set for his birthday, and he really got into building it this past weekend. He was so engrossed that he brought all the little pieces to the breakfast table one morning. I told him to wait until we finished breakfast, but he said he simply couldn’t and that he had to finish building this one little section.

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Summer Reading

Seeing Both Sides

One of my favorite parts of summer is having the opportunity to catch up on pleasure reading. Like many, I read so much work-related material that it is refreshing to have the luxury to broaden my thinking and information intake by reading non-work related books. Inspired in part by the Wall Street Journal's recent piece on VC Summer Reading , here are a few of the books that have been capturing my imagination lately, organized by topic.

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Time is Money: There is a multi-billion dollar business to be built around time

This is going to be BIG.

Yesterday, I ran the Battle of Brooklyn 10 miler in Prospect Park. When I got there in the morning, I noticed that Dave Morgan, founder of Tacoda and Simulmedia, had also checked into the park for the run. We met up and, as it turns out, he signed up the day before after noticing my packet pickup checkin at Jackrabbit on Friday. He's training for a marathon and had signed up for a few halves to prepare.

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