Tue.Dec 04, 2012

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The Real Deal: Chris Jones on the Community Cloud

deal architect

This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. This time it is my former Gartner colleague, Chris Jones, now EVP Marketing & Services at Descartes Systems. He has over 30 years.

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Smart Startups Never Let Negatives Bury Positives

Startup Professionals Musings

Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills. It’s more than providing recognition, tangible incentives, and clear work goals. A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Sometimes you have to manage progress, not people.

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Insight HCL

deal architect

I am spending the day at the HCL Influencer Day in Boston today. I have long been impressed with HCL’s Product Engineering practice, which still has unlimited runway as it goes after the $ 1.4 trillion annual global R&D spend.

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Why a 50/50 Split is Almost Never Right for Co-Founders by @DaveParkerSEA

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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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The Five Ts of Marketing

deal architect

When I went to college I learned from Philip Kotler and the five Ps of marketing – product, promotion etc In recent years, it has evolved to the 5 T’s of Marketing. Marketing is all about technology. If you look.

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Business Plans Are An Historical Artifact

Feld Thoughts

This article ( Business Plans Are An Historical Artifact ) first appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal The Accelerators Column , which I’m contributing to on a regular basis. . In 1987 when I started my first company (Feld Technologies), I wrote a business plan for a course at MIT that I was in called 15.375: New Enterprises. The textbook for the course was Jeffry A.

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Most Overused Buzzword On LinkedIn Profiles? Creative.

YoungUpstarts

If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative. At least, that’s the consensus from professional network LinkedIn, who found that the description topped the list of the most overused words and phrases in its member profiles for 2012. Here’s a quick look at what the 2012 No. 1 buzzwords for countries in which LinkedIn fielded this study: Australia: Creative.

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Lover.ly CEO Kellee Khalil on founding a startup and moving into her first office

The Next Web

Inspired by the difficult process of planning her sister’s wedding, Kellee Khalil ditched her career in finance to found Lover.ly , a service which lets you discover and save wedding ideas in one, easy place. As chronicled by Unpakt ‘s Innovators on the Move series, Khalil shares a brief look at how she started her company and moved into her first office.

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CoatChex – Changing The Bailment Industry With QR Codes

YoungUpstarts

Imagine this scenario – you check in your coat at a bar or restaurant, had a great time until you were about to leave. That’s when you find out your coat has gone missing, most likely stolen, and now you have to endure a freezing walk home. Most of us would be totally upset by this experience. But for 23-year old Derek Pacqué, who went through that exact experience, instead had an “Eureka!

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How Business Huddles Work

Mike Michalowicz

Touchdowns From Business Huddles Not Meetings. I’ve never seen anyone drag a table, chairs and a white board onto the football field or basketball court. Have you? Every successful (and not-so-successful) sports team on the field starts the game with a huddle. It’s all they need. And whether they’re 3-and-goal or getting their butts kicked six ways to Sunday, they still take time in the middle of the game for a quick huddle or two.

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AppDirect’s Developer Incubator aims to help engineers become entrepreneurs through apprenticeship

The Next Web

AppDirect , the cloud-based services marketplace company, has set up a Developer Incubator program in order to help it staff up, but also to give engineers an opportunity to get some entrepreneurial experience without risking their paycheck. This three-year program will result in the top performers receiving seed funding and an opportunity to pitch venture capitalists.

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Silicon Alley meets Tech City–event tonight

The Equity Kicker

My partners at DFJ Gotham have organised an event in Shoreditch this evening to foster collaboration between the London and New York tech scenes. I will be speaking along with representative from the New York startup and venture scene, and government officials will discuss their role in supporting the startup ecosystem. It should be a fun night so please pop in and say ‘hi’.

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Bring Xconomy to Boulder

David Cohen

Xconomy is seeking to open a news bureau in the Boulder/Denver region to spotlight local emerging innovation clusters, raise visibility, and help build the innovation ecosystem through their events. They would cover emerging companies, trends, players, and investments in Denver and Boulder. Having Xconomy here would really enhance our startup community, but in order for it to happen they need to raise $50,000 so they can hire a full time writer to cover the area.

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Tableau Software – a great tool for Data Visualization and Analytics for Startups

Austin Startup

There is a great deal of discussion about the value of analytics and big data management in the technology industry today. Deloitte's Center for the Edge has research called "The Big Shift" that has looked at the changing world of global business. Among the research findings are points that suggest that with increasing globalization, lower barriers to entry, and the speed of communications, companies that can collect information, assess it, and act on it quicker than the competition may have som

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Houses and technology

Start Up Blog

I was discussing with a colleague the inevitability of supermarket retailers being disrupted the same way department stores have been. I contended that in a few short years the technology will arrive that allows a supermarket shopping experience on line that is cheaper and better in every way than entering a store – not even considering the time saved.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Priority Dish

crowdSPRING Blog

There is nothing more satisfying than filling out an anonymous feedback survey at the end of a long semester of some terrible college course, with an equally horrible professor. Your worst grievances get to make their way into the hands of the dean… where nothing will come of it. Because everyone knows the worst professors are always tenured.

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We Are Austin Tech: Andrew Allison

Austin Startup

Andrew Allison is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Main Street Hub, which provides great local businesses around the world with do-it-for-you products that make them stronger, at a price that works for them. Founded in 2010, Main Street Hub serves thousands of local businesses in all fifty states and on three continents. The company moved [.].

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A few months back I wrote a post bemoaning the sad state of the.

Bryce Dot VC

A few months back I wrote a post bemoaning the sad state of the startup pitch. . That post sparked a series of conversations, both online and off, about what makes a pitch great and how to best use the time a founder secures with a potential investor. One point several commenters took issue with was my suggestion that founders ought to have a pitch deck prepared for their first meeting with an investor.

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Likeable Is Not a Department

Duct Tape Marketing

Marketing podcast with Dave Kerpen. photo credit: br1dotcom via photopin cc. Dave Kerpen had the foresight a few years ago to lock up the term Likeable. It’s the name of his business, Likeable Media , the name of his mega selling book Likeable Social Media and it’s been applied to his latest work, Likeable Business. But as Kerpen quickly points out, being likeable in business isn’t about social media or even the marketing department, it’s about a profitable way of doing b

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Houses and technology

Start Up Blog

I was discussing with a colleague the inevitability of supermarket retailers being disrupted the same way department stores have been. I contended that in a few short years the technology will arrive that allows a supermarket shopping experience on line that is cheaper and better in every way than entering a store – not even considering the time saved.

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7 Biggest Tax Mistakes New Startups make

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally published in Forbes. If you don’t think about taxes until your company starts earning revenue, you’ve waited too long. While the IRS may not be especially interested in your company until you’ve been funded and have some capital, you need to think about taxes from the outset—to avoid tax trouble down the line, and to save money through deductions.

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That two letter word…

Jason Ball

[This is a guest post I wrote in 2010 on 24waystostart. It still applies, so I thought I'd repost it here]. “No.” It has to be one of hardest, yet most frequent words an investor says…. It’s not easy for us to say, and many times, not easy for an entrepreneur to hear. You’ve been working hard on your business, you think it’s great, your only friend thinks it’s great (you’ve lost everyone else because you’ve been holed up working on your project), your family parted with their hard-e

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Why Didn’t I Do This?

Ben's Blog

'This is a guest post by our newest board partner, John M. Jack. Is there any question in today’s economic environment that enterprises of all sizes continue to search for solutions that fit the “better, cheaper” mantra? Cloud, as we know, meets the criteria and offers other tremendous benefits to such enterprises. However, there has been a consistent theme causing resistance to the adoption of cloud applications—security.

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Startup Workshops Update

Scalable Startup

This group is 8 months old, 400+ members, gaining nice momentum every week. I see people connecting and getting things done and real relationships building. And I’ve met some amazing people. L.A. is a funny place but I love the startup scene here. For 2013 I’m trying to figure out where to go next. One guiding premise of mine has been to spend minimal time on this; it’s just a meetup group, not a company.

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How to get attention from internet celebrities

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I get a constant stream of requests to look at new startups or to announce something that a startup just did. As you’d guess, I can’t do it, as much as I love to chat about startups, by which I mean swapping wisdom with fellow entrepreneurs, by which I mean stoke my ego by telling strangers what to do with neither repercussion nor responsibility.

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It Takes Balls Of Steel To Cool Your Drinks. Really.

YoungUpstarts

How does one cool down a glass of whiskey or other spirits quickly without the use of ice? The founders of OriginalBOS , Grant Vollmer and Matt Geddie, have more than an idea – they came up with a pair of them to do exactly that. Their product, Balls Of Steel , is a set of two stainless steel balls that is cooled in the freezer and then dropped into your beverage, keeping it at an optimal temperature without affecting its taste.

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Small Business Marketing: Best Times And Days To Send Email For Opens And Click-Throughts

crowdSPRING Blog

Email marketing is one of the most effective ways for small businesses to keep in touch with customers. It is inexpensive and, if done properly, can build brand awareness, loyalty, and increase sales. Email marketing also plays an important role in content marketing. We use several vendors for email marketing, including Campaign Monitor and MailChimp – we recommend both services.

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When Culture Matters…for Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Back in those glory days at the University of Cincinnati, I was assigned a lovely little textbook to read for Freshman English class called “The Elements of Style” (by E.B. White and William Strunk). In a nutshell it’s all about how to write clearly. It provides succinct advice with spot-on examples. It’s a smallish book which easily fits into your jacket pocket.