Tue.Jul 05, 2011

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

Africa is not known to generate many technology talents – the country is far more prolific in its music, sport and art – but here’s one young African who intends to buck the trend. Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams. Mawuna Koutonin was born in a small village in Togo, West Africa to a father of 36 children.

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Introducing Codespace – shared (free!) office space in Boulder for geeking out

VC Adventure

One of the many things that makes Boulder a great city for start-ups is its incredibly collaborative environment (see posts on my love of Boulder here and here ). From the willingness of mentors to help out TechStars companies, to collaborative efforts around recruiting great talent to our city, I’m constantly amazed at how many people are working to make Boulder an amazing place for businesses to thrive.

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10 Video Introductions and Media Plugs for Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Video is a great way to get your startup some viral visibility. According to Cisco , by 2015, one million minutes of video – the equivalent of 674 days – will cross the internet every second (!) and as the YouTube blog pointed out more than 48 hours of video are uploaded YouTube site every minute. Amazing, no? Below are a few of the better examples of videos produced by Israeli startups and those that managed to get a plug in traditional media, reaching a huge potential audience. 1)

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Introducing Codespace – shared (free!) office space in Boulder for geeking out

VC Adventure

One of the many things that makes Boulder a great city for start-ups is its incredibly collaborative environment (see posts on my love of Boulder here and here ). From the willingness of mentors to help out TechStars companies, to collaborative efforts around recruiting great talent to our city, I’m constantly amazed at how many people are working to make Boulder an amazing place for businesses to thrive.

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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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How These 3 Discounting Strategies Maximize Your Profits

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Hello there! This article is the second in the series on Maximising Profits with good pricing strategies. In the first article, “ What Is The Perfect Price Point To Maximize Profits? “, we talked about the basics of pricing and the ‘sweet spot’ whilst also exploring three of my favored methods for finding a good launch price. The comments I received after the article were very interesting, yes, I read and try to reply to all of them (especially the ones that are thought provoking).

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Version 0.9. What Do You Think?

Both Sides of the Table

I’m excited to announce that we silently launched our new website last week. Like a startup we took a very “version 0.9” approach. What I would love to do with this post is tell you our goals and solicit reactions for what you like and what you don’t like. What you’d like to see added, removed or changed. What text resonates? What do you think of the design elements?

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Real Entrepreneurs Exit If Their Startup Goes Public

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is still extremely rare.

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Tribal Leadership: A Review

ReadWriteStart

Organizational leadership theories too often manifest into tedious memoirs peppered with Sun Tzu and Machiavelli quotes. The frequent outcome is subjecting teams to rewriting job priorities as MBOs , KPIs or another pedantic upper management craze. When a cultural management program breeds further disillusionment, it hardly seems worth it. Naturally, when a free copy of Tribal Leadership crossed my desk I was skeptical.

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The Startup Marriage

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I have just launched a new project we are working on together called Startup Marriage: Balancing Entrepreneurship and Relationship. It includes a blog , a tweet stream , and a book (hopefully by the end of the year.). Since the beginning of 2010 I’ve written two books. The first, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons To Accelerate Your Startup , was with David Cohen, the CEO of TechStars.

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Creating Your Freelance Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

Talent, reputation and strong communication skills go a long way to winning clients, but it’s also important to make sure that your freelancing business reflects a strong brand. Remarkably, many freelancers don’t brand their own freelancing business. This is a mistake because your potential clients will form quick impressions about you and your business.

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Branding and social spaces: Why Google+ misses the mark

This is going to be BIG.

Imagine that one day, Facebook decides to put all its engineering effort into creating the best spreadsheet program you've ever seen--ten times more powerful than Microsoft Excel and way simpler to control and navigate. Can you imagine trying to convince people around the office to use Facebook Spreadsheets? There's no way you could convince anyone that you were actually doing real work because of the Facebook branding.

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Five Simple Ways to Refresh Your Marketing

Up and Running

Is your small business kinda slow these days? Are customers just not calling and coming in like they used to? It’s probably because you’re using the same old marketing and advertising you’ve been using for years. It’s time to change it up a bit. When’s the last time you looked at your messaging and marketing materials and made changes…. I mean really looked???

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Mini Saga #109 – Practice

Life Beyond Code

If it is your passion, it is never too late to start on it! Cindy Chang’s singing and story on America’s Got Talent was inspiring beyond belief. It also matched with Eric Handler’s prompt at #Trust30. So, this mini saga was inspired by both of them. Mini Saga #109 – Practice. Cindy was 42 and this was her first time on the big stage.

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Business trends in 2011

Start Up Blog

A great piece from the Cannes Advertising Festival which is a great summary of key trends in business, more than advertising or marketing. Enjoy!

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Congratulations @BackType!

K9 Ventures

I’m pleased to announce that K9 Ventures’ portfolio company BackType (@ BackType ) has been acquired by Twitter. Huge congratulations to the founding team of Christopher Golda (@ golda ) and Michael Montano (@ michaelmontano )! I was first introduced to Christopher Golda at BackType in 2009 (Thanks @ fbishara ) as a “highly technical team” — something I look for.

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Announcing The Very First cS Award!

crowdSPRING Blog

Last month we announced that we would be issuing a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. The first award was to go the the designer or writer who was awarded at least one project during the month of June, and who had the highest average buyer score for all their entries submitted to projects last month.

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Legal Definitions of Partnership not Enough

The Entrepreneurial Mind

It is very common for entrepreneurs to take on partners. They may be co-founders of the company, key personnel who are given an ownership stake as part of compensation, family and friends who offer some startup support or outside investors. In any of these circumstances, these people become owners of the business. And the foundation of working with a group of owners should be a sound legal agreement among all the owners.

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Are You Committed Enough :: Small Business Marketing Blog from.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Mon – Justin Severidt Tues – Elizabeth Frederick Wed – Denise Sheehan Thurs – Nicholas Hammernik Fri – Jennifer Nagel Books by John Jantsch Duct Tape Marketing: The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide – by John J

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Walker Twitter Highlights: June 27th – July 3rd

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. If you missed this past week’s Twitter updates, below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) and my blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Choosing a Domain Name When YourApp.com is Taken

Software By Rob

Photo by Kevan. A reader recently emailed with the following question: I am working with my business partner on building a web application and the domain name I’m looking for is already registered.I have done a ton of searching on the web, including forums like OnStartups and can’t seem to figure out which way is the best. Everyone seems to have contrasting opinions.

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Oh how the Internet has changed things

Jeff Hilimire