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More New Renaissance

deal architect

on the innovation blog Cloudera: Big Data meets Open Source Honeywell’s ruggedized mobile devices Data Bartering How Black Friday was different this year Made for TV Terrorism MRAPs The Slingshot Water Purification System Internet of Things + Big Data +.

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Let Five-Minute Mentoring Scale Your Productivity

Startup Professionals Musings

I’ve always wondered why every executive meeting has to be one hour in length, or longer. That’s probably a tenth of your day spent on one issue. It better be a critical one, because you have a hundred others waiting. I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes.

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[Singapore] Comparing Foreign Exchange Rates With GET4X

YoungUpstarts

Singaporeans travel overseas like there’s no tomorrow. It’s probably because the country is so tiny that traveling just 40 kilometers in any direction requires you to carry your passport. It’s a good thing that the Singaporean passport lets its holder travel to most countries without fuss, and there’s no lack of innovation when it comes to online travel services – social travel discovery and recommendation sites, for example, or airline comparison and booking engine

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10 Action Items to Keep Angel Investors Hovering

Gust

ABC Shark Tank Angels via Elite Daily. Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network.

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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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Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution

VC Cafe

Make learning and development a key resolution in 2013. If you're a startup, you are by definition competing with the smartest people in the world - either large companies or fellow entrepreneurs who. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Small Business and Startups: Dear Santa

crowdSPRING Blog

Perhaps I am a couple of weeks late with this post, but it just occurred to me that there are some things I would like for Christmas this year and perhaps Santa can find a little spare room on the sleigh. No I am not asking for a new camera or some other gadget-of-the-moment. I have been thinking about some new toys specifically for our office, to help us be more productive, manage our resources, and build a stronger team.

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Homicides vs. Gun Ownership

Diego Basch

I took the data and the script from @mdreid ‘s blog post about Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership , and plotted Total Murder Rates vs. Gun Ownership out of curiosity. The results are interesting, draw your own conclusions. For all countries: For OECD countries: Zoomed in without Mexico and the US: One caveat: the comparison between “countries” is somewhat arbitrary.

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Yeah, I’m biased but this has to be the hottest artwork.

Bryce Dot VC

Yeah, I’m biased but this has to be the hottest artwork accompanying a NYT article in a long time. Related- Timehop in the Sunday Times!

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The art and science of valuing websites

The Next Web

In an online marketplace like Flippa , we’ve seen buyers and sellers try out the full gamut of approaches for valuing websites — some more creative than others. Once you decide to get your site in shape for a sale , it’s important to value it properly. Over the last six years, we’ve sold more than $100 million worth of sites on Flippa. That’s given us insight into which valuation methods are good, helping site owners clinch that all-important deal, and which fall short, leaving sites unsol

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Broken Hearts and Broken Minds

entrepreMusings

I try not to get too political on my blog, but sometimes an event happens like the killing of 20 six and seven year old kids by a mentally unstable individual, who had access to a semi-automatic gun, that compels me to write something. The stories about their bodies riddled with multiple bullets, make me shudder. I can’t imagine the horror and pain those parents must feel.

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13 must-have features for your next mobile app

The Next Web

For small businesses and big corporate companies alike, mobile is the latest frontier. Yet rather than simply developing a mobile-friendly version of your website or adding a cool e-commerce capability to the mobile user experience, more and more entrepreneurs are wisely delving into the mobile market by developing a smartphone app. But not all apps are made equal — scroll through the iOS App Store and you’ll find countless offerings that are useless to users and a waste of money fro

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