Mon.Dec 31, 2012

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4 Startup Tenets for Extreme Focus on Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

New product startups rightfully begin with a heads-down focus on creating the ultimate product – whether it’s a new technology, a new look and ease of use, or a new low-cost delivery approach. Most then add customer service at the rollout, but very few really understand what it means to be truly customer centric, and even fewer really achieve it. Customer centricity is far more than providing excellent customer service, although that’s a step in the right direction.

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Book: Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 – 5)

Feld Thoughts

I received a bunch of great scifi suggestions from my post The Best Science Fiction Books of All Time. One of them was Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 – 5) which I gobbled down the past two days. The writer, Hugh Howey , has an inspirational arc which, if I ever get into writing scifi, I hope I follow. I love post-apocalyptical Earth stories that just dump you into the middle, take off like a shot, and leave it to you to catch up as you slowly piece together what is going on.

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How To Recruit Talent Fast, Without The HR Department

Mike Michalowicz

Recruit Talent Fast. What if you could prescreen interviewees for your company when it was convenient for you, like when you’re sitting on the couch during commercial breaks or in the 30-minutes over coffee before you start your day? If you don’t have a human resources person who does nothing but screen applicants for your company, chances are that looking at resumes eats up hours of your time every year.

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2013 Words To Live By

Growthink Blog

The ending of one year and the beginning of another is a natural time to take stock of all that was accomplished in the past 12 months, and usually more excitedly, to dream and to plan on the great promise of the New Year. In this spirit, below are a few of my favorite quotes regarding dreaming, planning, goal-setting, and "going for it." "You see things; and you say, 'Why?

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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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Distinguish Yourself #217 – Harness the Power of Cues

Life Beyond Code

Take something very basic – a bookmark. It provides a quick way to continue reading your favorite book from where you left off. It is very basic but provides great utility. The alternative is to dog ear the book or do memory magic and remember the page numbers of all the books that you are reading in parallel – not very optimal. In other words, bookmark provides a cue to help you out. 1.

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The Most Highly Achievable Business Resolution of All

Duct Tape Marketing

Look, it’s the last day of 2012 and you are likely either thinking about what you’re gonna do to make next year better or you’re sick of hearing people talk about what you should do to make next year better. Either way, the notion of resolutions has surely occurred at some level. But, here’s the deal, and we all know this by now, resolutions are a sucker’s game.

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One Year

Bryce Dot VC

When 2012 began, I had high hopes for the new year. Early on I sketched out a set of goals and objectives I wanted to accomplish. Throughout the course of the year I was able to check off nearly all of those goals: close the new fund, check. replace my wife’s 10 y/o, 150,000 mi car with something new (to us), check. And many other too personal to list here.

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What’s on tap for this week…

Jeff Hilimire

At the end of every year I spend some time looking back at what I posted that year and reflect on how my writing has changed, what blogs were the most popular and which ones I am most proud of writing. So I’ll be doing that over the course of the next week, so this is somewhat of an ahead-of-time apology to those that hate that kind of thing ;).

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Startups are the Place to Find and Use Baby Boomers

Gust

Richard Branson image via Wikipedia. The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. I will argue that times have changed, and you better take another look.