Wed.Apr 13, 2011

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. I had the chance to sit down with him for an hour and ask him loads of questions that I thought you’d enjoy hearing. If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up.

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Twitter Link Roundup #82 – 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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Five Ways a Business Mentor is More Than a Friend

Startup Professionals Musings

Friends tell you what you want to hear. Mentors tell you what you need to hear. When the message is the same from both, you don’t need the mentor anymore. In that sense, you should think of a mentor more like your advisor who has done all he can. You always need the friend. Also don’t confuse a business mentor with a business coach. A mentor’s aim is to teach you what to do and how, in specific situations, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and how.

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VC Activity In Q1 2011 Back To Pre-Recession Levels

ReadWriteStart

The investment analysts at CB Insights have released their quarterly report on venture capital activity, and in terms of deal-flow and funding levels, the news is good. The first quarter of 2011 saw these return to their pre-recession levels with financing for Internet companies up 83% from the last quarter of 2010. According to the deals tracked by CB Insights, 738 deals were funded in the first quarter, with a total of some $7.5 billion in VC investment.

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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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Top 10 financial hacks

Start Up Blog

There is no point being a successful entrepreneur, or selling a startup if we have no idea how to handle the money we get. So here is my top 10 financial life hacks. Spend less than you earn, no matter what that amount is. The net result is happiness. Allocate cash to savings & investments before anything the day you get your profits, pay or dividends.

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How to Play Tennis With Your Hands Tied: The New Workforce Dilemma

Life Beyond Code

Have you tried playing Tennis with your hands tied? How about trying to play tennis with your hands tied in the back? I have not tried it but it must be pretty hard. Should you still do it? How about if you are forced to do it? Would that make it any easier? Probably not. Then why do we setup an infrastructure that is forcing people to do something similar?

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2 minutes of Screen Culture

Start Up Blog

Our lives are increasingly being influenced by what I like to call ‘Screen Culture’ Which I posted a piece on here. I thought it would be worth showing the idea in action – hence the video I made below. Many of the statistics to support the concept were garnered through ‘ Eye on Australia ‘ which is an annual Grey Advertising study on consumer sentiment.

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Are You Solving A Problem Or Just Spinning Your Wheels?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Tell me how familiar this scenario is. You come up with a great idea. You research it in great depth. You write a fantastic ebook on the topic. You edit, proofread and revise it several times. You even get a designer to create a lovely graphic for the cover. You excitedly set up a website to sell the ebook, looking forward to a flood of sales. And then, nothing happens!

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333 Million Reasons to Have an Exit Strategy Plan

Growthink Blog

Shutterfly Inc. (NASDAQ:SFLY) recently agreed to pay $333 million in cash and stock to acquire Tiny Prints Inc., the online seller of personalized cards, invitations, stationery and photo books. Interestingly, I'm a Tiny Prints customer. I used the company to print my family's Holiday Cards a few months ago. Before I go on with the business lessons, some personal stuff -- on top is my son Max.

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What comes first

Start Up Blog

Making stuff is what we must do. But it isn’t as important as the thoughts that lead to the making process. Thoughts themselves are things. What we must do is ensure we allocate enough time to the thinking, so that we end up making.

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Tomorrows brands can’t succeed with yesterday’s leadership

Jeff Hilimire

Last week I attended the Forrester Marketing Forum in San Francisco. I will be publishing a series of blogs with the insights I was exposed to during this fantastic two day event. If you haven’t been to one of these, I highly recommend it. During Chris Stutzman’s presentation, he laid out this quote: Tomorrows brands can’t succeed with yesterday’s leadership.