Wed.Dec 28, 2011

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The Kinect Accelerator

Feld Thoughts

As someone obsessed with human computer interaction, the Kinect is an important piece of hardware. Of all the various things Microsoft is working on these days, I find it the most interesting. I’ve seen some awesome things done with it by my friends at Oblong and Organic Motion and saw a ton of neat hacks at last year’s Blur Conference.

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The Boston Consumer Tech Year In Review

Rob Go

I was reflecting on this post last week about the state of consumer web in Boston and shared a few of my thoughts in the comments. It got me thinking about this past year, specifically around consumer tech in Boston. Perhaps it’s been missed by most, but I think it was a remarkable year for this sector within this market. And that’s true pretty much across the board – from exits, late stage financings, scaling companies, and seed activity.

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Uncommon Interview: Finding Fulfillment with Good Company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

(Powered by LaunchBit ). Everyone likes New Year’s Inspiration this time of year; this interview is perfect to scratch that itch. This is the fourth installment in my “Uncommon Interview” series — interviews where we get right into the meat and dispense with pleasantries or “how did you get into this business” sorts of fluff.

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IPOs, M&As, Liquidity, & You. (the entrepreneur)

Gust

In the “good old days,” angels invested in seed-stage startups and teed up promising companies for subsequent venture capital financing. If the company was successful, this quickly led to an IPO – a very happy ending for the entrepreneur, the angels, and the venture capitalists. My, my…how the world has changed. The two major differences in the exit environment in the past decade are (1) the disappearance of the IPO market and (2) the rapidly increasing size of the average VC fund.

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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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Keep a Close Eye on the Competition.

Up and Running

Image via Wikipedia. The sluggish economy continues to be an issue for small business owners. And now it appears competition may be getting tougher too. According to the Guardian Life Small Business Trends Research Report, larger companies will aggressively market to prospects once considered “too small.” That means those of us who own small businesses may find ourselves dealing with new and tougher competitors.

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3 Good Reasons to Recheck Your Profitability Projections

Gust

One of my pet peeves in pitches is the triple whammy of absurdly high profitability projections. I’ve seen entrepreneurs promising 30, 40, even 50 percent profitability in their projections. Why triple whammy? Projecting excess profits, at rates way beyond the normal, are bad for at least three reasons: Kills credibility regarding industry knowledge and realistic projections.

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Use This Dot-Point Easy System To Write Your Killer 2012 Business Plan

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It’s that time again when the old year winds down (toodles, 2011), a new year sparkles before us full of potential, promise, and possibility (hey there, 2012), and savvy entrepreneurs are preparing their 2012 business plans.

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What’s my blogging process?

Jeff Hilimire

I get asked from time to time what process I go through when writing blog posts. I wouldn’t say I have a specific process, but I do have some insights that might help people new to blogging. First off, I’m always thinking of new posts. Once you start blogging and you get into a routine, you start seeing things differently. When I am reading news, in a meeting, struggling with a decision, etc., it’s always top of mind for me whether or not there’s a blog post in there some

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Research Sample: University Knowledge Commercialization Book Chapter

Campus Entrepreneurship

I am finalizing a chapter for an edited volume on Universities and Knowledge Creation that Springer has agreed to publish on some contingency basis. The main thrust of my paper is the disconnect between the organization centric design of most university knowledge commercialization efforts (TTO, patents, science/industrial parks, etc.) and an economy where individuals (entrepreneurs, scientists, creative class, knowledge workers) are key economic assets and levers.

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An update to the Louis C.K. post

Jeff Hilimire

A lot of people have been reading and commenting on the Louis C.K. post I put up yesterday. And Social Fresh also ran the post (great conferences btw, if you haven’t been a highly recommend them) ~ thanks @jasonkeith. I kinda threw it up at first because I’m just such a huge Louis fan that I wanted to talk about this interesting thing he was doing, and I realized along the way, mostly from seeing the discussions going on around it, that this has the chance to be something much large

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First, put some junk up

The Startup Toolkit

Paul Graham knows how to make new things: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly. » 6 Principles for Making New Things by @paulg. My strategy for solving steps D, E & F is simple: First, put some junk up.

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My New Year’s Resolutions

Diego Basch

I never do this, but I thought I’d give it a try. Here are my New Year’s Resolutions for 2012. Because it’s my first time I’ll go easy and see how it turns out. I’m shooting for at least five. Tweet once a week or more. Wait at least a week before buying the new Apple gadget. Solve one interesting differential equation (interesting to me, of course).

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The Greatest Hits of the Entire Year

Duct Tape Marketing

The Greatest Hits of the Entire Year This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. For this year end post I thought I would rummage through the entire stock of posts from the year and pick 11 for 2011. I picked the top 11 that you the readers reacted to most through your tweets, likes, comments and shares. Lists and how to info are still very popular, social media topics still draw lots of links and this year you responded to some of my more personal musings about purpose and meaning in business.