Fri.Jan 25, 2013

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Entrepreneurs Can’t Win By Pushing Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

True leaders realize that, by definition, the word "leader" places the leader at the front, and not the rear. Yet many, many executives try to lead through fear and intimidation. This isn’t really leading at all. It’s pushing. In startups, leading from the front means that you are not afraid to get your hands dirty, pitching in to get the job done.

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The Forest from the Trees

deal architect

I enjoy Chunka Mui’s work (it helps when you have spent a little time in person with an author) but I was dazzled by his Forbes piece on the broader implications of the Google autonomous car In fact, the driverless.

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Canada’s Start-Up Visa Program

Feld Thoughts

I read the announcement today that Canada has just launched a Start-Up Visa Program. By doing so, they are saying to the world “welcome immigrant entrepreneurs – please come start your business in Canada.” It’s brilliant, well executed, and modeled after the Startup Visa movement that a number of us have been trying to get started in the US since 2009.

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To Inspire Your People – Purpose Must be A Priority

YoungUpstarts

by Jeremy Kingsley, author of “ Inspired People Produce Results: How Great Leaders Use Passion, Purpose and Principles to Unlock Incredible Growth “ As the leader of your team, you must clearly understand and be able to pass on the purpose of your organization and your team’s role within that organization. If you don’t know the purpose of your efforts, you certainly won’t be able to inspire your team to success.

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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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Do You Really Need an SEO Press Release?

Rembrandt Communications

The Top 3 Reasons to Distribute an SEO Press Release Today’s technology allows small businesses to build awareness online cost-effectively. Traditional public relations (PR) activities such as developing story ideas, talking to media members and promoting various events are important. But if you are not combining these activities with technological advancements, you are missing out [.].

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[Infographic] Transforming Big Data Into Actionable Insight

YoungUpstarts

There’s been a lot of talk about big data recently, and with good reason. There’s a huge amount of data being thrown about – 2.7 zettabytes worth in 2012 alone, which included 354 billion corporate emails, 400 million tweets, 1 billion Facebook posts sent per day – that can be harnessed for insight. It’s truly a marketer’s wet dream, but only if they can turn that data into an actionable plan in terms of relevance and timeliness.

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I Am A Failure

Mike Michalowicz

So you are a failure, huh? Let me get one thing off of my virtual chest right now: You’re not. I realize you may be experiencing failure. You may have had a string of failures. You may have been told you are a failure. But it doesn’t mean that is who you are. You are not a failure, except for one caveat. You are a failure if that is who you decided to be.

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Xconomy Is Looking For A Writer In Boulder / Denver

Feld Thoughts

Xconomy is coming to Colorado – specifically Boulder and Denver. They are looking for a writer for the Colorado beat. See the request below. As Xconomy moves forward in Boulder, Denver, and beyond, we’re going to need someone in the Front Range with the right mix of enthusiasm, creativity, versatility, knowledge, and who also happens to be a top-notch writer.

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Kickstarter adds hashtags, making it even easier to discover projects on the site

The Next Web

Kickstarter on Friday announced a small new feature that the company hopes will make it easier to discover projects to back: hashtags. The new way of breaking up submissions was added after the team noticed certain themes and trends running anywhere for a week to several years. Kickstarter already has categories, but tags give it a new way to share the patterns and trends it is seeing.

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Apple’s innovation challenge

The Equity Kicker

This chart from Venturebeat shows how Apple’s first quarter revenues broke down (total $55bn). The amazing thing about it is that 76% of their business now comes from products that are less than six years old. On the one hand it is an incredible testament to the leadership of Jobs, Cook and Ive that they have reinvented themselves so successfully, but on the other hand it highlights the requirement to find new products that will have a comparable impact over the next six years.

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Aspiring entrepreneur? The new edition of The Next Web Magazine is an essential read

The Next Web

If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, the latest edition of The Next Web Magazine is for you. As ever, it’s a beautifully presented (if we do say so ourselves) package all wrapped around a central theme. In the magazine, we hear from experts in the entrepreneurship space like Guy Kawasaki and Jeremiah Owyang and take a deep dive into a number of topics in feature articles from members of our core team: The Entrepreneurial Bug: How a founder decided running a company was better than joi

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “We Are the Lucky Ones”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to execute your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Marketing Is a Habit, Not an Event

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with John Jantsch. photo credit: Russ Neumeier via photopin cc. Business owners often view marketing as something they must finish so they can get back to work. Marketing, as I’ve stated often, is never done, it’s just another system that you must operate at the highest level possible at all times. With that in mind, you must view marketing as a habit.

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10 Cashflow Mistakes to Avoid

Early Growth Financial Services

On the road to “cashflow positive,” there are many obstacles. I see startups sabotaging themselves all the time. By not really understanding and monitoring your cashflow, you may be inadvertently creating serious cashflow problems. And a serious cashflow problem leads to a failed business… Work closely with a trusted financial partner and dig deep into your books to avoid these cashflow mistakes: 1.

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Big Data: Overhyped And Overpaid?

readwrite.com

Sections. Social. Mobile. Enterprise. Cloud. Hack. Play. Small Biz. About. Contact. Advertise. Privacy. Search. Follow us. Share. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter. on Google+. on Linked in. by Email. Social. Mobile. Enterprise. Cloud. Hack. Play. Small Biz. Hot Topics. Microsoft. iPhone 5. Hurricane Sandy. Politics. YouTube. Deathwatch. About. Contact.

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PSA – Reid Hoffman has started blogging

ithacaVC

Worth looking at – Reid Hoffman has started blogging. I understand that his posts will be infrequent and more essay style. Worth the occasional viewing! Subscribe here.

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Twitter Link Roundup #163 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Immediately this is my new favorite website: On Doers

Jeff Hilimire

Love this new site, On Doers. Mostly because its a great idea, but secondarily because the first post is connected to six of my favorite things: 1. Tavani. 2. Cummings. 3. Scoutmob. 4. Atlanta. 5. Dancing Goats. 6. $100 million. What’s not to love? I’ll be following this religiously. Well done, MT.

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Forget Angels, Try Your Parents or Piggy Bank – The Accelerators – WSJ

Campus Entrepreneurship

Nice piece by Vivek Wadwha the echoes Scott Shane’s Illusions of Entrepreneurship. My team at Duke University worked with Raj Aggarwal of University of Akron and Krisztina Holly at the University of Southern California to research the backgrounds of 549 entrepreneurs whose companies had made it past the begging-for-seed-money stage and were generating real revenue.

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Note to Self: If I'm Not Getting Paid, I Really Don't Have a Business!

Small Business Force

So, Mr. Entrepreneur, when's the last time you took a paycheck? Working more hours than you ever have in your life; under more pressure, both from the business and what it is doing to your personal life�and you're not getting paid? Is this what you signed up for?Wasn't this entrepreneur stuff supposed to be your path to riches? Okay, you can all stop nodding your heads now.

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Customer Development Diagram | Steve Blank | #leanstartup

Campus Entrepreneurship

From Steve Blank. Artist is @Agentfin : Customer Development in a Diagram « Steve Blank.