Fri.Sep 20, 2013

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Oracle OpenWorld Some Amazing Facts and Figures

deal architect

'Oracle has shared some of the factoids behind the giant event which starts Sunday. What a logistical feat! Expecting 60,000 attendees and more than 2.1 million viewers online ( btw, they are showcasing a People Counter at the event -.

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Hyperlocal Has Great Potential And Real Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

'Even though the world is getting smaller, due to easy global connectivity, people still feel alone if not well-connected locally. There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” The term first appeared at least five years ago, but the model is now very common.

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Not your dads outsourcer

deal architect

'Readers of this blog know I have been cataloging massive changes in outsourcing for the last few years – many new entrants driven by mobile, social, cloud technologies; changing business models to non-linear, usage and outcome based; changes in delivery.

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Legal Issues Behind Running A Small Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Melissa Page. If you’re running a small business, you need to be on top of legal basics to make your business successful. To make sure you don’t encounter any nasty surprises, here are the common legal issues behind running a small business you should be familiar with: Contracts. A business operation entails many transactions and agreements that should be recorded in written form.

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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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Why Twitter’s Confidential S-1 Filing Is A Good Thing

Feld Thoughts

'Did you know Twitter is going public? Of course you did – it’s all the mainstream media could seem to write about last week after the now infamous twitter tweet about it. We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. — Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013.

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The Entrepreneurs’s Distorted View Of The Financials

Mike Michalowicz

'Ask any small business owner how business is going and they will tell you how it has been the last week or two. Maybe even the last month. Business will either “suck” or be “awesome,” based on what happened yesterday. Small business owners suffer from the influence of recency. In short, humans (you are one of them, Bucko) put a disproportionate significance on the most recent events.

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Defining Moments and Talk at SF on September 24

Life Beyond Code

'If you are reading this, you are old enough to have had several defining moments in your life. A defining moment in your life is very simply an event, an experience, a conversation or a realization that something needs to shift in your life for the better. A trigger that will lead to a change in the trajectory of your life for good. I am fortunate to have a number of defining moments in my life that have shaped my life so far.

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SXSW Eco to Feature Startup Central

SiliconHills

'South by Southwest is best known for its annual “spring break for techies” festival in March. But SXSW also produces SXSW Eco, which takes place Oct. 7 through Oct 9th at the Austin Convention Center. The Austin Technology Incubator and Austin Energy are partners in producing the event. This year SXSW Eco features Startup Central […] The post SXSW Eco to Feature Startup Central appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Proven value-add characteristics for physical products

The Equity Kicker

'Alan Patrick just wrote a post about London’s prospects as a centre for manufacturing. Along the way he wrote about the characteristics that are proven to add value to physical products: Short Lead Times/Available now. High Design Input to create differentiation. Fast change/Fashion – make things that are hard for long lead time supply chains to replicate quickly.

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Twitter Link Roundup #196 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Does failing fast really work in the mobile gaming space?

Jeff Hilimire

'Failing fast is an almost universally accepted mantra in startup world. We talk about failing fast and failing often. And I’m one of the biggest cheerleaders of this concept (case in point: searching “fail fast” on this blog produces a ton of results ). The concept is simple enough. If you spend a massive amount of time building something before you get any user feedback, you won’t have time to either change direction or pull the plug if your idea isn’t going to wo

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Training Wheels

aweissman.com

'With every mistake we must surely be learning I was having breakfast this morning with a new friend who happened to come of Internet age when I did with a similar set of experiences (he was one of the first 50 employees of Yahoo). As we started to wax nostalgic over the good old days, oh around 1995 or 1996, I felt like maybe we were dipping into sentimental garbage.

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Is NeonMob going to make it big? A very interesting, fresh social site for digital art collecting, but can it hold the users interest for…

Scalable Startup

'… View Question on Quora.

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