Sat.Sep 14, 2013

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Why outsourcing innovation is going to be big for the tech industry and beyond

The Next Web

'Paul Jozefak, co-founder and managing director of innovation laboratory Liquid Labs , argues that outsourcing innovation will become a mainstream business practice and a key driver of growth, specifically in the tech sector. While he clearly has a business interest in companies outsourcing their innovation, we feel it’s an argument worth noting. Innovation within large corporations is often slow and ineffective.

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Avoid Most

Mike Michalowicz

'When you hear “most,” you are being told exactly what not to do. Most people have a one hour commute. The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla. The most common password is password. Avoid most. Most Means Common. Most is common. Most is boring or ignored or forgotten. Usually all three. Avoid most. If you want to break into the ice cream industry, vanilla isn’t the way to go.

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My Week Spent Shopping And A Sunday Study Session

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'My Week Spent Shopping And It's Time For A Sunday Study Session… I just had one of the most productive weeks of my life. However, it wasn't so much business productivity, I was shopping for stuff to put into my new house in Melbourne (it still counts!). You see for my new place I went in empty. The landlords left … Read the rest of this entry » The post My Week Spent Shopping And A Sunday Study Session appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Adometry Expands into New Headquarters

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Adometry, the Austin Ventures startup that aggregates and analyzes data from multiple advertising streams, is growing like gangbusters and Thursday had an open house to celebrate its new space in the Lakewood Center Building II on Capital of Texas Highway. “We have 110 people,” said Casey Carey, […] The post Adometry Expands into New Headquarters appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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Weekend Favs September Fourteen

Duct Tape Marketing

'Weekend Favs September Fourteen written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. photo credit: Al_HikesAZ via photopin cc.

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Really care about your customers

Guy Nirpaz

'I came across this great video. It’s a bit long – over an hour but genuinely make great points on the importance of caring about your customers, something I believe in with all of my heart. Enjoy!

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Next Bangkok.NET User Group session (#3): Tools of the Trade

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

'Last session, we were 12 people for the WPF presentation. Hopefully, we will be able to grow this number even more. Next session, I will be talking about some nifty tools I use and make my life easier. Tools like MvcMailer, NCrunch, MiniProfiler, Gyazo, etc…. This session will be interactive, everyone is welcome to share their own exotic tools. Sign up here: [link].

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8 Intellectual Property Items Every Startup Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

'A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding.