Sun.Nov 11, 2012

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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

YoungUpstarts

The Ontario, Canada-based Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA) earlier this month launched LMBA Singapore, its new regional chapter focused on promoting and supporting Asian companies working on location-based services (LBS) market through collaboration, education and research. According to a statement from LBMA , Singapore was chosen as its new Asia hub due to the country’s high smartphone penetration and rich cross-section of LBS players from retailers, agencies, advertisers and media b

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The end of vaporware

deal architect

It was a striking sight. It was end of day in last week’s Technology Summit after Workday had showed us countless demos of new functionality, when under non-disclosure they announced plans to develop a Recruiting module.

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5 Entrepreneur Antidotes to Negativity in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Throughout my career in small companies and large, I’ve always been appalled by the number of people who seem to complain all of the time. These people don’t seem to realize that they are hurting themselves, as well as other people’s productivity, and the company they are working for. I’ve always thought that I might be overly sensitive, until I saw an old survey done by badbossoloy.com , which claims that a majority of employees spend 10 hours or more a month complaining or listening to others

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6 Clues That You May Be Cool as an Entrepreneur

Gust

Google's Larry Page image via Coolspotters.com. A while back, when a startup founder mentioned to me that he wasn’t sure he had the personality to be an entrepreneur, I realized how important that insight was. My first thought is that if you are more annoyed than energized by expert advice, team suggestions, and customer input, then you should probably avoid this line of work.

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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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Resetting My Priorities

Feld Thoughts

If you’ve been following along at home, you know I’ve had a tough fall. It started with a bike crash in Slovenia, followed by a few weeks in New York where I physically felt awful. Fortunately I was with Amy for her birthday (we celebrate her birthday for most of September), but I underestimated how long it would take me to recover. I ended the three week trip in San Francisco for my mom ‘s 70th birthday, which was wonderful until I got a terrible stomach virus on Sunday mornin

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Mobile Video is Booming but No One Makes Money- How Orange Intends to Monetize the Very Small Screen

VC Cafe

* This is a guest post by Levi Shapiro. Stephanie Hospital, EVP Digital Audience and Advertising Division at Orange, oversees all digital partnerships, services and advertising related to Orange’s. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How To Get That Darn Article Finished

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of EJ’s most popular guest columnists, Dr. Mani, has popped back in to submit this article. Take it away Dr. Mani… Picture me sitting in front of my computer, writing this article. The phone rings. I answer. It’s my friend. He’s moving, and wants some advice. For 5 minutes, we discuss his plans.

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Social Enterprise Performance Measures

Business Plan Blog

'Measuring the performance of a social enterprise is likely to be one of the biggest challenges an entrepreneur will face. Unlike a non-profit who can measure their performance based on their fulfillment of their mission, or a for profit who can measure their performance based on their profits, a social enterprise must seek to measure both metrics and find a balance between the two.

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Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead

The Startup Toolkit

You know that awesome person you’d love to start a company with? The amazing one, who is super good at what they do? How do you know they’re great? Probably because you’ve seen their work. They done stuff and told people. So flip the question: how you can put them in your current shoes? How can you make yourself so visible and so obviously good that they’re trying to find you?

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Small Business and Startup Tips: Hire and be Human

crowdSPRING Blog

Last week ago I discussed a great yiddish word in one of my posts and today I want to share another. This is a word many of you may already be familiar with, and that may even inspire some of you in how you live your life. The word is mensch and it describes a good person. In German the word means simply “human being,” but in Yiddish it has a subtler shade.