Mon.Sep 01, 2014

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Will A Business Incubator Help Hatch Your Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

'One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and even new online versions like Pitchswag springing up here and there. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the loc

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Every Entrepreneur Needs Help In Getting Things Done

Gust

'To Do List Chalkboard by Mufidah Kassalias, on Flickr. The universal challenge of every startup founder is to get everything done that needs to get done, and still have a life. Even outside of business, everyone wants to accomplish more, while working less. I’ve been a student of these techniques for some time, but some time ago I saw a great summary that seems to pull all the key principles together.

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[Competition] Applications For Halal Tech Power Challenge Officially Opens

YoungUpstarts

'Startup competition Halal Tech POWER Challenge , created by Malaysia-based technology startup incubator Halal Tech Venture Builder , has opened for applications. The challenge will take place as one of the events during the four-day entrepreneurial event GREAT2014 - which takes place from September 17-20 – and looks to empower aspiring entrepreneurs to build successful global technology ventures with the aim of positioning Malaysia as a global technology hub.

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How to make a crowdfunding video that sells itself

The Next Web

'Johnathan Leow is the author of “The Crowdfunded Kit.” I’ve had a lot of fun coming up with the video concept for my previous crowdfunding campaign, the PROTAG Duet. That video eventually went viral and received over 9,000 Facebook shares. But the greatest lesson learnt was that in order to make a video go viral, we must intentionally have the mindset to make one that sells by itself from Day One.

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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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12 Ways to Get Your New Product into a Major Retail Chain

Up and Running

'Investing in something new is a gamble, so how do you get stores to begin carrying your product? What is one tip you have for getting a brand-new product into major retail chains? Getting a new, untried product into the market is tough. Major retail chains may not want to gamble on something brand new. To learn how other entrepreneurs managed to get their shiny new products into major chains around the country, we asked 12 founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) their tips for succ

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Latest Google X project – Project Wing: delivery drones

The Equity Kicker

'Delivery drones, aka Project Wing , is the latest project to be announced by Google X , the Google department that houses many of their most exciting projects including self driving cars , Project Loon and Google Glass. As you can see from the video below they are using a hybrid plance/helicopter design that takes off vertically and then rotates to fly like a small plane.

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[SlideShare] A Brief History of Labor Day…

Up and Running

'When was the first Labor Day? When did it become a national holiday? Who “invented” it? Take a light-hearted look back at the origins of Labor Day, a holiday where we can kick our feet up, enjoy a burger or beer, and celebrate our own hard-working awesomeness. A Brief History of Labor Day: How will you be celebrating Labor Day? Are you still working, or do you get the day off?

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"Twitter is addicting in the same way slot machines are. You get small bits of pleasure at random."

Bryce Dot VC

'“Twitter is addicting in the same way slot machines are. You get small bits of pleasure at random intervals, and it doesn’t really change. So you keep pulling the lever or pushing the button.

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