Sat.Jul 30, 2011

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Have You Created a Citadel for Your Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

By Bob La Loggia, CEO StormSource Software Business is often compared to war and waging battle with enemies. Indeed, Sun Tzu’s “ The Art of War ” is one of the most popular business books ever written, and it was originally written as a military strategy guide. Battle terminology has been a mainstay in the business lexicon for decades. The list of war references used in business is almost endless, from “gathering the troops” to “losing a battle but winning the war.

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Link Post (weekly)

Venture Chronicles

Number of Corporate Social Media Accounts On Rise: Risk of “Social Media Help Desk” « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing. tags: blog socialCRM. SuperNova Awards | Constellation Research. tags: blog. Designers, apply for a boarding pass — Shipment Beta. tags: blog. Nice timing: Facebook debuts “Facebook for Business” — Tech News and Analysis. tags: blog facebook.

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Plan for your ‘every three million dollar crisis.’

Berkonomics

Here is a phenomenon I discovered over time when dealing with many small start-ups in their early revenue period. A very predictable series of rotating crises seemed to befall most every one of these young companies. These became so predictable that I could accurately label them as occurring about every $3 million in gross profit (or revenue for service companies).

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Reblog – Finance Fridays

ithacaVC

Brad Feld just sent out his first Finance Fridays post called “Getting Started -Allocating Equity and Founder’s Investment” This post is not about financial statement literacy, but is meant to begin setting the stage for the hypothetical company that will be the subject of the Finance Fridays series. In particular, this first post deals with allocating initial equity between 2 founders.

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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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Weekend Favs July Thirty

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs July Thirty This content from: Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr. julien.barrier via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: VideoGenie – tool that simplifies the process of gathering, publishing, managing and a

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The last industrial relic

Start Up Blog

You probably don’t know this but the office is a weird thing that only turned up when factories did. Sure Lawyers and accountants had them, but not in the corporate form they exist in today. The office was an addendum to where stuff got built. It was there by accident, it was there because the tools of the trade (office machinery) had not been democratized to the point where we could own and have them in our home.

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