Fri.Jan 18, 2013

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – 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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May the math and stat majors inherit the tech world

deal architect

I started my career at PW as an accountant. I have a long since expired CPA certificate as memory. It was good business grounding for an MBA and required experience back then before you could move into PW’s consulting arm.

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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

Startup Professionals Musings

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. “Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 million) made by either Angels or venture capitalists, or both. This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.

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Elephanti – Stomping Into The Mobile Marketing Space

YoungUpstarts

Brick-and-mortar businesses – large and small – are increasingly looking towards the online and mobile spaces to boost flagging retail sales. The problem, of course, is that many of them are traditional outfits with nary an idea of how to approach this challenge. This trend has also sparked the onrush of online and mobile marketing startups eager to answer this need.

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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 Early Stage VC Decision Making Process Infographic

VC Cafe

Interesting infographic from Anna Vital in San Francisco, from the Kickstarter campaign "Becoming an Entrepreneur" Kickstarter campaign. Trying to get inside the mind of an early stage VC investor. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Top five typical frustrations and confusions in the fundraising process

The Equity Kicker

If you’ve been paying attention you will know that Nicholas Lovell and I are writing a book for entrepreneurs who want to raise venture capital. It’s tentatively titled Get Funded. We are now preparing to shoot a promotional video which opens with five frustrations that entrepreneurs frequently encounter when they embark on the fundraising process, expressed as questions.

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Seth Godin on The Icarus Deception, risk-taking and why it’s better to be sorry than safe [Video]

The Next Web

As the founder of one of the earliest online marketing companies, creator of Squidoo , and author of multiple best-selling books , American entrepreneur Seth Godin needs little introduction. Godin launched Yoyodyne way back in 1995, a company which used contests, online games, and scavenger hunts to help market companies, with the likes of AOL (America Online), American Express, Microsoft, Sony Music and Sprint using its services.

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“The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get”

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 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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Should I Have A Plan B?

Mike Michalowicz

Should you have a Plan B? The answer seems obvious: Hell yes! But it isn’t that cut and dry. The real answer, the right answer is “sort of.”. Just so we are on the same page, Plan B is the action you intend to take should Plan A (what you are doing now) doesn’t work out as you intend. But there is a problem with having a Plan B. Plan B corners us into one solution based upon the occurrence of one negative event.

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Why Free Is Bad: Businesses Should Be Happy To Pay For Key Services

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Mike McDerment is co-founder and CEO of cloud-based small business accounting provider FreshBooks. Late last year Google Apps for Business eliminated its free version (see Google Dares Businesses To Switch To Microsoft Office ). You might think this is a bad thing for small business owners. Everything free is good, right? Wrong. There are big downsides to getting things for free that are poorly understood and rarely considered, and upsides to paying for the things that really matter

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Free Mini-reviews (Part 5)

ConversionXL

Part 5 of my annual free mini-reviews. Disclaimer: I haven’t seen any analytics or survey data for any of these websites, and all my comments are only based on my experience in the field. I’m only spending very little time on each site, so there’s going to be superficiality. Some of my feedback is going to be brilliant, and some of it won’t make any difference.

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A new use for Evernote – store your greeting cards

Jeff Hilimire

I’m maybe the biggest Evernote fan out there. I have (and love) the Evernote Moleskine notebook. I use the Google Chrome Evernote app. I’ve blogged about Evernote dozens of times. And yet, I keep finding new ways to use this amazing software! This morning I saw the pile of holiday cards on the desk in my cube* and I wanted to clean up my desk but I didn’t want to throw away those cards.

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Winning over the crowd | The Economist | Crowdfunding

Campus Entrepreneurship

Efficient piece from the Economist with visuals of Kickstarter’s crowdfunding projects during 2012. Good insight into crowdfunding. BTW, Virginia has a petition calling for tax credits for crowdfunding investors. From the Economist : LAST year more than 18,000 projects were successfully funded on Kickstarter, the largest crowdfunding website.

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"I never could have imagined that my life would end up this way. I didn’t think I’d end."

Bryce Dot VC

“I never could have imagined that my life would end up this way. I didn’t think I’d end up having my own show, I didn’t think I’d end up being in movies, I didn’t think I’d have a talk show, I didn’t think that I would be a CoverGirl. I just thought I’d be a closeted gay comedian wearing parachute pants. I guess what I’m saying is- aim low.” - Ellen DeGeneres.

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7 Things Investors Use To Determine Valuation

Early Growth Financial Services

I’ve already addressed formal valuation for startups in previous posts: Generating Your 409A Valuation and Calculating Your Equity Valuation. Now I’d like to look at how a potential investor determines your company valuation. In other words, how can you figure out how much an investor will be willing to pay for your company? Of course, value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, so it’s kind of tricky to pin down a definitive number.

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An Entrepreneur's First Hire Can be the Foundation of Future Success!

Small Business Force

Hiring the first employees in a start-up is an epochal event in an entrepreneur's and a business' life cycle. Like getting your first customer and revenue made you a real business, having employees now makes you a real company. Merriam-Webster defines company as "an association of persons for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise." XYZ, LLC ain't just the name on your website or your business card, anymore.

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Stripe launches Checkout with overlay payment form and mobile support optimized for Android and iOS

The Next Web

Stripe on Friday released the first version of Stripe Checkout, its attempt to make “something that looks great, makes Stripe easier to integrate, improves with time, and results in a better payment experience for users.” The company says it has achieved this thanks to even simpler integration via an overlay form, support for all major browsers (even IE6, eugh) as well as mobile.

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