Sun.Feb 10, 2013

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[Review] Enchantment

YoungUpstarts

Keen to change the world? Want to transform your “caterpillars” into “butterflies”? Well, former Apple chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki’s “ Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions ” may show you a trick or two. Authored by the bestselling author of “ The Art of the Start “, ” Enchantment ” is a multi-layered book.

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Even Virtual Startup Teams Must Work Closely

Startup Professionals Musings

Almost every startup is a virtual team these days, since most don’t start out with dedicated office space, and some or all members of the team work part-time or out of their own home. It’s a small world, so these team members may not even be in the same town, or the same country. Outsourcing is just another extension of the virtual team concept to people you don’t even know.

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Trust Can Scale

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post from Chris Moody. Chris is president and COO of Gnip , one of the silent killers in our portfolio. Once the main stream tech press starts noticing Gnip, they will be blown away at how big they got in such a short period of time by just executing. Chris is a huge part of this – he joined Gnip when they were 10 people and has been instrumental in working with Jud Valeski, Gnip’s founder and CEO, to build a mind blowing team, business, and market leadership pos

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Don’t Let Early Adopters Distract Your Market Focus

Gust

Image via Stock.xcng. For most new high-tech products, the first customers are always “early adopters.” The conventional wisdom is that early adopters are the ideal target for new products, to get business rolling. I see two pitfalls with any concerted focus on early adopters; first, the size of this group may not be as large as you think, and secondly, their feedback may lead you directly away from your real target market of mainstream customers.

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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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Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility

crowdSPRING Blog

I have written often about strategies small business can use to operate modestly, spend wisely, and reduce cost by taking a lean approach to operations, marketing, and production. At crowdSPRING we try hard to manage our business and our team using tactics and strategy that have allowed us to construct a sustainable business, provide value to our users, and build a wonderful team.

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Motivation & Administration

Start Up Blog

A part of life ‘on-line’ is that it requires a certain amount of administration. Stuff needs to be set up, logged in and authorised. It’s also a big part of getting people into a start up. So we most often ensure that the barriers to entry are reduced… we let our new users do the admin later. Maybe, on their next visit. The only problem with this is that administration should always be undertaken when motivation is the highest, and that’s usually at the start of a p

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Balance and StartUp Life

Seeing Both Sides

Living the startup life is a hard roller coaster. One day you think you're on the verge of building a billion-dollar company, the next you wake up in a cold sweat, paranoid that you are about to run out of cash and have to shut the whole thing down. There a lot of good books on how to develop a customer value proposition , rigorously test it and raise money.

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In Business, Your Destination Is Your Reality

Growthink Blog

The last time you needed to drive to a place you had never been before, what did you do? Did you the load the specific address of your destination into your GPS, determine the best route, and then follow the directions? Or, did you print out and follow your directions? Or, did you do the opposite, that is, did you aimlessly follow random roads hoping that eventually you would arrive at your destination?