Mon.Nov 12, 2012

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[Infographic] 2012 Q3: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley

YoungUpstarts

Software engineers are extremely high in demand, and over the past few years the growth in their salaries has shown exactly how much in demand they are. California-based executive search and technical recruiting firm Riviera Partners recently crunched some numbers by aggregating salary figures from the highest paying tech companies and from a recent report covering the correlation of tech skills in demand and expected salary ranges.

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How Do I Get In Touch With a VC?

Rob Go

I got this question on a panel last week, and coincidentally, I had a couple folks on Twitter tweet out the same question. Generically speaking, the question is “how do I get in touch with a potential investor about my company?” I don’t know for sure if this is true, but I have the impression that early stage VC’s as a whole have gotten more accessible than probably any time in the past.

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Weapons of mass creativity

deal architect

Dennis Howlett has a nice quote from Vishal Sikka of SAP in this blog post. During a recent conversation with Vishal Sikka, exec board member SAP on what might happen as a result of being able to cost effectively mashup.

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7 Keys to Positioning Your Competitors to Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. What you say speaks volumes about how you think about your startup, how smart you are, and your personal integrity. I’ve spent hours talking to startup founders, and heard a thousand startup pitches, and I always listen carefully to what is said (or not said) about compet

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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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More Innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence blog Do you see the irony in this? K-Pop The awesome slate at Cognizant Community The journey of an email message The Arctic gold, oil, tourist, shipping, fishing rush Aviation Jet Biofuel The glorious desert Thwarting.

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How To Be Successful By Turning Away Customers

YoungUpstarts

by Fred Perrotta , freelance marketer and co-founder of Tortuga Backpacks. Being just be another widget maker won’t get you anywhere. Most market segments can only support one, maybe two, companies. Just being a better version of a competitor isn’t enough. Not everyone will agree that you’re “better.” Others will dismiss you as a lesser or me-too version of the more popular product before learning what makes you different.

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The smart way to expand software companies to the US

The Equity Kicker

Investing in a European company and successfully expanding to the US is a great way to grow shareholder value at a startup, but getting it wrong is also one of the easiest ways to lose your shirt. A number of our portfolio companies at DFJ Esprit have had great success launching in the US, including at KVS, Zeus Technology and buy.at – three of our most profitable exits in recent years, and we’re starting to get a good idea of best practice.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 9 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Season 4 week 9 of Sharktank was another fun episode, showing the importance of failing fast, being prepared for your pitch and how selecting an investor is about more than just optimizing valuation. Drive Suits. The first company to pitch wasn’t really a company, but really a collection of prototypes for wearable Transformer-type costumes that let a person move like a car or bike.

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The Leadership Opportunity in the NYC Innovation Community: Quantitatively Proven

This is going to be BIG.

When I was in high school, I got pretty intimidated right off the bat. I went to a scholarship school and I felt like I was the last guy they let in. As early as freshman year, everyone seemed to know what they were good at and had already found lots of interests. The best and brightest rose to the top quickly and I didn't believe I would ever break into that crowd.

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49 Days and Counting

Growthink Blog

If you haven’t yet registered for my Wednesday webinar, this is your last chance. Webinar: “How to Make 2013 Your Best Business Year Ever!” Date: Wednesday, November 14th Time: 8 pm EST / 5 pm PST Registration Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/459943082 The fact is this: successful people figure out what they need to do BEFORE they do it. For example, a winning football coach always comes up with a game plan BEFORE the game.

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What Do Startups Need Most Right Now?

ReadWriteStart

For startups, it is the best of times and it is the worst of times. It’s easier than ever to launch a company these days. But because there are so many new companies, it’s harder than ever for startups to survive. There just aren’t enough resources to support them all. To stay in the game, startups need three things: Money. Talent.

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The Three P’s of Venture Capital

Jason Ball

I’ve written many times about what VCs are looking for and what I’m looking for in particular. I sent out a tweet recently about my 3 P’s of investing and thought I’d elaborate briefly. 1) People. I have to like you. I have to think we can work together. That you’re smart. Opinionated. Informed. That you listen, ask questions, ask for help.

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"Convincing yourself that what you did was good enough, when you could have tried harder. Pushing at."

Bryce Dot VC

“Convincing yourself that what you did was good enough, when you could have tried harder. Pushing at what I’d call the “molecular level” – that last microscopic bit of effort, trying so hard to make your fingers stay on a hold that if you fail it is for absolutely mechanical reasons. Giving up at the finer level is still giving up. It keeps us from reaching our highest potential.” - Kelly Cordes.

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What you can learn from a symphony conductor

Jeff Hilimire

Nice article passed to me by the insufferable @gumboshowjoe (insufferable today because the Saints beat the Falcons yesterday and he’s tragically a Saints fan). Love the comparison of a symphony conductor to a leader. And there are several references to things I’ve talked about before, such as not hiding in an office and the importance of passion. 8 Leadership Lessons from a Symphony Conductor.

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via @cshapiro

Bryce Dot VC

via @cshapiro

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Beginner’s luck is real, sort of

The Startup Toolkit

A huge percentage of the gamblers you talk to will swear by beginner’s luck. Their first time at the tables, they’ll have gone on dominating runs and wake up with $100k stashed in the fridge[1]. Beginner’s luck looks real because the only people who stick around in the gambling game are the ones who had a lucky first experience. The folks who get beat up (or just break even) the first time they play tend to walk away.

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How To Discover Your Perfect Value Proposition

Duct Tape Marketing

This is part two of a three-part series on Finding Strategy. Each post includes a free template. So, I’ve been preaching this one pretty hard for a bunch of years and see no end in sight, because it’s just that important. Find a way to differentiate your business, one that matters to somebody, or you’ll be forever doomed to compete on price.

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Run to the Innovation Jungle

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Wally Amos started with a simple idea, great cookies. Guerilla Innovation. Chapter Fourteen. Run to the Jungle. I’ve written what amounts to a short book on innovation for small business these last couple months. I’ve called it Guerilla Innovation (the starting post is here ) and I’ve targeted those who want to create a start-up, or, are internal innovators at companies who have little experience with innovation (and innovation-speak).