Wed.Mar 26, 2014

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Can Project Management Support High Growth Companies?

YoungUpstarts

'By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. There is some thinking that equates project management with being a roadblock to speedy delivery of critical projects. This is reinforced by the number of processes and documentation that can be involved in a project. After all, when a company is trying to meet market needs or break into trends, the last thing it needs is a project manager/PMO saying, ‘We need to have all this documentation before we can start working on this

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How To Kick Your Business Legacy Up A Notch

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every entrepreneur and business leader waits too long before really working on the legacy that he wants to leave to society and his family. They realize too late that they don’t really want to be remembered for how many hours they spent on airplanes, how many emails they produced, or even how much money they made for the business. If you disappeared today, what would your legacy show?

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In pursuit of truth: A brand’s guide to managing misinformation online

The Next Web

'Patrice Francois is co-founder and associate director at Digimind, one of the fastest growing companies in the field of social media monitoring software. The Internet has rewritten the rules for what can be viewed as fact versus fiction. From fake online reviews to inaccurate media articles, it’s impossible to truly know what online information is real and what is fabricated.

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4 Steps to Find the Right Accountant for Your Business

Up and Running

'You might not have a full list of employees on the payroll yet, but many small business owners find they have a need to turn to an accountant for financial help from their very beginning of their new venture. Whether you need assistance filing taxes, want someone to act as a financial advisor, or need help compiling your financial statements , finding the right accountant can be a huge advantage to your business.

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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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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

'The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. It was a cold winter day on a hipster cloud conference.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

'Henry Chesbrough is known as the father of Open Innovation and wrote the book that defined the practice. Henry is the Faculty Director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation , at U.C. Berkeley in the Haas Business School. Henry and I teach a corporate innovation class together. —— Thanks to Steve for the opportunity to share my thoughts with you all.

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Innovation and Enterprise In e-Commerce Websites

YoungUpstarts

'There have been dramatic strides in the way that e-commerce websites tackle customer service. Gone are the days when customers were required to submit e-mails and wait inordinate amounts of time for customer service agents to respond to them. The long queues at customer call centres have largely been obviated by way of new age customer self-service.

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That’s a nice little $40M ecommerce company you have there. Call me when it scales

For Entrepreneurs

'It will surprise a lot of entrepreneurs to learn that building an e-commerce business with $10 million to $20 million in revenues is not that hard. It also surprises many to learn that it’s not actually that valuable. This is in stark contrast to, say, a SaaS business, which is very difficult to build to […].

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[Infographic] Women In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

'While gender equality at the workplace is still nowhere near an acceptable level, it’s at its best it’s ever been. But there are still many barriers that restrict a woman’s advancement, especially at the upper reaches of management where it’s still largely dominated by men. For example, while women make up 53% of entry-level positions, only 19% of top C-level executive positions are filled by women.

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Need a business idea? This is where you should be looking

The Next Web

'Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea Technologies and a mobile strategy advisor. He can be contacted via Twitter @rahulvarshneya. If you’re looking for a startup idea, most entrepreneurs will advise you to look at problems – ones that you can solve creatively and most effectively. A problem so pressing that people would give an arm and a leg to use your solution.

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Taking Out The Garbage – A Look At Waste Disposal For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

'Rubbish disposal – do you ever think about it? Probably not, really. Chances are, you shove your rubbish in the bin outside your business and let those mysterious figures who show up at the crack of dawn deal with it. For all you know, that waste could be taken to Narnia or rocketed up to Mars. But as environmental changes become a prime concern for the populace, knowing where your waste is going, as well as how to minimise it, can make your company look more ecologically responsible.

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Know your clients: How to create an accurate customer profile

The Next Web

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and a freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the SumAll blog. One of the most important parts of your business is understanding who your customer is. This helps define what makes your company unique as compared to other businesses in your industry. The notion of a brand is created around these differentiators helping define what makes one company that different than the next.

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How does one go about becoming a Venture Capitalist?

Gust

'As Ryan Lackey noted, having a lot of money is essentially irrelevant in this context, because that is not the way venture capital works. A venture capitalist (colloquially known as a VC) is a professional money manager who gets paid to manage *other* people’s money, not his or her own. [Typically, only 1% or so of the money in a VC fund would come from the general partners themselves.].

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The Sun Is Always Shining Above The Clouds

Mike Michalowicz

'I was flying out of Newark Airport. The weather was miserable. It was wet and cold. The ground had puddles and the grass was covered in mud. The clouds were dark. As the flight took off, the plane shuddered like it too was chilled to the bone. A few moments later it burst through the clouds. The sun was beaming brightly. The clouds were a beautiful puffy white.

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Google slashes cloud prices

The Equity Kicker

'I love Amazon and AWS for the way they keep cutting their prices and for the way they support the startup ecosystem. As an example they offer Forward Partners companies, and the companies from many accelerator programmes $10,000 of AWS credits, effectively making it free to get started on their platform. For these reasons Amazon is the first choice for most startups.

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Joi Ito Nails it on Business Planning in this TED Talk

Up and Running

'Here’s some great insight on the evolution of business plans and business planning, from Joi Ito , Director of MIT’s MediaLabs: Ito urges us to follow a compass rather than a map. Instead of planning out every exact points before you start, allow yourself to make the decisions you need as you go in the general direction of where you need to be. I don’t see that as not planning, but rather better planning, active planning, planning that includes regular course review and course corrections, exac

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Wait, How Are Millennials Sparking Change Again?

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The topic was supposed to be How Millennials are Sparking Change, but while the panels addressed the challenges of entrepreneurship, the dearth of STEM in the education system, the growing Hispanic population and the Austin startup culture, little was said about how millennials are sparking change until […] The post Wait, How Are Millennials Sparking Change Again?

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Spanning Automates Daily Backup of Data Within Salesforce.com

Austin Startup

'Spanning Cloud Apps, the most trusted provider of data backup and recovery for cloud applications, today announced the general availability of Spanning Backup for Salesforce in the Salesforce AppExchange. Enterprise Salesforce.

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The community effect at the Atlanta Tech Village

Jeff Hilimire

'For those that haven’t visited the Atlanta Tech Village – David Cummings ‘ tech/startup building in Buckhead – you’re really missing out. It’s incredible (here’s a look at the new first floor via David’s blog ) and it just keeps getting better as more floors are completed. I set up shop in the Village back in September and quickly fell in love with it, blogging about the 10 things I loved the most.

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This Entrepreneur’s Path to Success Included U2 and Alan Jackson

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Scott Scovill. A Nashville entrepreneur’s story that includes U2, technology and success. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post This Entrepreneur’s Path to Success Included U2 and Alan Jackson appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Are You an Instant Authority?

Duct Tape Marketing

'Are You an Instant Authority? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Paul Evans. photo credit: cafemama via photopin cc. We live in an age where it seems everyone is an author, speaker, consultant and, yes, authority on something. Now, having said that I am fully aware that I happen to be an author, speaker, consultant and self anointed authority.

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Guest Post: What Boston’s First VC Platform Role Means to Me

Rob Go

'(This is a guest post from Jay Acunzo , NextView’s director of platform and community and our newest team member.). This post is about new beginnings, specifically mine as director of platform at NextView (about which I’m unbelievably excited). But I want to focus on goodbyes for a second. Have you ever received a farewell note, whether you’re ending a project or a job, that makes you step back and appreciate the other person on a deeper level?

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Innovation Checklist

Scalable Startup

'Make it different and better on one move. I.e apple monitors, iPad, laptops, … Bmw, Mercedes, google search. It’s al about PRODUCT.

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6 Texas-Style Business Lessons That Every Entrepreneur Can Take To The Bank

YoungUpstarts

'By Theresa Roemer, CEO of Theresa Roemer , LLC. As author John Steinbeck said “Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.” And when it comes to business in Texas, you don’t mess about. Here are 6 unmistakably Texas-style business lessons – unwritten codes of behavior that everyone notices and no one forgets – to stand the test of time: 1.

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7+ Under-Utilized Google Analytics Reports for Conversion Insights

ConversionXL

'While Google Analytics is so widely used, most marketers only scratch the surface when it comes to the reports they use. You can find insights for conversion optimization from lots of different reports & some of the juicier reports are lesser known. I asked some of my friends in the industry to share under-utilized reports they often turn to when looking for insights. #1: Advanced Segments Based On Buyer Personas.

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