Fri.Mar 30, 2012

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Epcot Flower and Garden show

deal architect

My wife and daughter are driving to Disney World today to take in the always fabulous Epcot celebration of flowers. If you find yourself in Orlando before May 20, put this on your must-do list.

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The Student’s Playbook for Google+

YoungUpstarts

Google+ has been getting a lot of attention since its launch in 2011, especially as the company has rolled out a variety of new features for the site like Hangouts and brand pages. While Facebook is still decidedly the king of social media, more and more businesses, professionals, and individuals are flocking to Google+ to take advantage of the new and innovative opportunities it offers for everything from marketing to professional development.

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What makes a great marketing plan?

Up and Running

If you’re writing a business plan, you should at least be considering your marketing plan at the same time. A good business plan includes a marketing component, and most successful businesses have entirely separate marketing plans to guide them. So what makes a good marketing plan? Recently on Tim Berry’s AmEx OPEN Forum blog , the Bplans.com founder explained how you can tell the quality of a marketing plan: You can measure it by the decisions that follow, the business it generates

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Let the magic begin…

Life Beyond Code

In the world of some entrepreneurs, the process of making it happen goes like this: They have an idea. They put some time and effort to make it happen. Then the magic happens. They will walk to the bank laughing. This can happen, yes. You might have read a story in the magazines about one such story. But the odds of that happening are the same as you winning the Lotto.

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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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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

Berkonomics

Guest post by Sara Mackey. Dave’s Note: This is the first time we’ve had a guest author on the BERKONOMICS site. Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . So, you’ve been thinking about starting your own firm for the past ten years.

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Some restrictions apply*

Life Beyond Code

A friend on social media posted a photo on Facebook called Why complicate life? It has an uplifting message and knowing my friend, he had noble intentions for posting the same. I have posted the photo here again below: Before you scroll down and read what I have written below think about what has been written on the photo. This space is left blank intentionally.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “Are You Not Entertained?”

Scott Edward Walker

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we post 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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Sht Entrepreneurs Say – YouTube

Campus Entrepreneurship

@Bindlebags just posted this on the StartUp Mason Facebook page. Sht Entrepreneurs Say – YouTube.

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Is ?Data? a Business Model? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Home. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Is “Data” a Business Model? March 30, 2012. Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. The consumer web landscape has changed meaningfully since I wrote that in 2006.

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Why everyone is making such a fuss about Pinterest

The Equity Kicker

Pinterest is the startup that everyone is talking about (this is my second post about them this week) and the data in the infographic below tell you why. Their growth in traffic and time on site over the last ten months are incredible. Opinion is divided as to whether Pinterest will ultimately be a Myspace style fad or Facebook style piece of the furniture but it is easy to see why the bulls are excited and rumours are circulating that Pinterest may soon join AirBnB in the $1bn club.

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Twitter Link Roundup #125 – 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!