The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'Toying around with the idea of starting a company? Worried about things that may go wrong or making the wrong decisions? Did you just start a company but are concerned about how you are doing things? You are not alone, and you definitely are not in unchartered waters. There are not only many thousands of people just like you who are working on starting their own company or have just launched their company, but there have been thousands of people who were once in your shoes who’ve gone on to gro

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'by Kurt Smith, digital marketing consultant for NextDayLenses.com. A study on human psychology published by Notre Dame University has found that more than 90% of people look to the people around them to make many everyday decisions. Whether people need to pick a new movie to watch, shop at a store or find books to buy, they prefer to make choices that people around them have already approved of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling your funds with other investors who claim to have a great track record. My advice is to leave the investing in startups to the professionals (or friends and fools). First of all, despite a few visible blowout successes, the odds of a payback from investing in startups is very low (that’s why VCs look for 10X returns to cover failures).

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'Time and money. Both are scarce resources. Money depletes quickly. Time depletes, comparatively, more slowly. Before you spend your money, spend your time. Determine if your time is resulting in a loss or a gain. Then, when you discover where time is well spent, spend money on it, so that you don’t need to spend more time on it but other people or resources can.

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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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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'I’ve been saying for years that I hate the phone. I keep wondering why people keep calling me on my mobile computer (which for some reason they still insist on calling a phone even though that is by far the most poorly executed capability it has). Lately, I’ve made good progress on cutting down on phone calls, so I thought I’d share so that together we can eventually eliminate most phone calls.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'When my kids were younger, I recall one night when we were eating dinner. My kids were saying "I want this" and "I want that." And then I said something that I immediately realized I should never tell my kids, or any entrepreneur for that matter. What I said was this: "you know, money doesn''t grow on trees." Now, you may not think saying this is so bad.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'With the red-hot temperature around the crisis in Syria reduced to a mere boil, and the government in North Korea backing away from the brink I gave some thought this week to what entrepreneurs could learn from global leaders and diplomats in general. From Wikipedia we learn that Diplomacy comes from the greek word “???????,” defined as a folded paper or document.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

'Startup Grind San Antonio features an interview with Bob Metcalfe Tuesday at Geekdom in downtown San Antonio. Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, has had five careers so far and currently serves as professor of innovation at the University of Texas at Austin. Bob metcalfestartupgrindslides from Laura Lorek The post Bob Metcalfe at Startup Grind San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

It happens every day. An entrepreneur learns that a former key employee, who left under good terms, has solicited your suppliers and customers with a competitive offering. This was a trusted employee who learned the business at your side; with whom you shared much of the inner workings of the business. And, because you were just starting out and the thought of a non-compete agreement was probably not even on your radar.

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