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Dell is in Talks to Buy EMC According to Media Reports

SiliconHills

Several media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and the New York Times are quoting inside sources saying Dell is in talks to buy EMC, a data storage and software development company. In 2013, Dell went private in a $25 billion buyout deal which left its founder Michael Dell with a 75 percent ownership […] The post Dell is in Talks to Buy EMC According to Media Reports appeared first on SiliconHills.

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48in48 in pictures

Jeff Hilimire

Wow. I’m just finally getting my feet back under me after the inaugural 48in48 event last weekend. When I first conceived of this event over a year ago, I never envisioned it would be so successful. The amount of support and passion that people showed was awe-inspiring, and we did it! We built 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours! I’ll be sharing more details soon, but I thought I’d start with sharing the weekend via some pictures I took along the way.

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What Makes a Great Business Partner?

Both Sides of the Table

A while back when I was reading the press I saw a quote from Randy Komisar, a partner at Kleiner Perkins that was simple, yet profound. He was quoted as saying, “Being a great partner is as important as being smart or being right.”. I liked it so much I wrote it down and tried to think about what it meant to me and I promised myself I would write about that one day.

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SaaS: We aint seen nothing yet

deal architect

Every SaaS conference this year – Dreamforce, SuiteWorld, PowerPlex, Rising – has been brimming with confidence and mostly happy customers. Things are going swimmingly well. No surprise – for a decade now, my blogs and books have been celebrating SaaS.

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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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5 Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Designing Their Home Office

YoungUpstarts

Working for yourself from a home office has innumerable benefits. However, as many entrepreneurs quickly discover, the typical home office leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to being productive and maintaining a healthy balance between work and home life. Often home offices are cobbled together from pieces of unused furniture scavenged from other rooms in the house — or worse, little more than a makeshift workspace in the corner of a room or the dining room table.

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6 Tips For Writing Product Descriptions That Work

Brandanew

Copywriters often see product descriptions as uninspiring. They are short. They’re not always about Tom Hanks or your favorite football team. Products can range from pencil sharpeners to the brand new fish catching instrument that’s setting world records ( you can tell we’ve been Shark Tank obsessed). Are you staring at the computer screen?

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What Do You Want Your Legacy To Be?

Feld Thoughts

Yesterday, I gave a talk and then did two breakout Q&A sessions at EO Alchemy 2015. It was a lot of fun and many of the questions were thought provoking to me, which I enjoy greatly. One of them caused me to pause and answer extra deliberately. Near the end of the second breakout session, I was asked “ What Do You Want Your Legacy To Be? ” I don’t think I’ve answered this question before publicly and I realize I never think about it, so I took a few seconds to roll th

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Talk about what you’ve done – pitch advice

The Equity Kicker

This advice is from a 2008 post by Jason Calacanis (hat tip Founders Notebook ): 4. Talk about what you’ve done, not what you’re going to do. ——————————————-. Weak startups and their leaders seem to immediately start talk about “what’s next,” as opposed to focusing on the core product. Anyone can say we’re going to add: a mobile version, collaborative filtering, an advertising network, visualizations, a marketplace, a browser plugin, a browser and a social network to their product.

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The right way to give equity to your employees

The Next Web

As a rule, entrepreneurs are very protective of their equity, and try to keep 100 percent ownership for themselves. Usually this is fine, provided that important key parties (e.g., employees, partners) are appropriately motivated to help you succeed. Sometimes that motivation comes in the form of cash compensation (e.g., lucrative sales commission plan, profit share plan), and sometimes that comes in the form of equity or equity linked incentives (e.g., stock, options, warrants).

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How To Cope With Startup Failure

YFS Magazine

Maybe your first business will be an amazing launch and bring you fame and fortune, but there's every chance that your business will fail.

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Entrepreneurs: Take the time to celebrate your exit.

Berkonomics

We come to the end of this cycle of insights with a thought about how you might view your successful exit from the company you have spent so much effort to build. You’ve worked hard for years to reach the payoff, and the money sure looks good as you contemplate the wire transfer to come, and then watch your bank account fill to a level you only dreamed of during those rough cash flow years.

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Tips on Raising Funds from Angel Investors at CTAN Workshop

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Raising money is really, really hard, said Bob Baughman, co-founder of HUVRData. “I thought it was hard enough just to develop some great new idea and get the business case, but funding is really hard,” Baughman said. HUVRData closed in August on $2 million in a Series […] The post Tips on Raising Funds from Angel Investors at CTAN Workshop appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Smart And Practical Ways To Invest In The Future Of Your Business

YFS Magazine

Here are five practical ways to improve your company’s fiscal outlook in the long-term.

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Kixer and its Austin-based Tech Team Acquired by LAKANA

SiliconHills

Kixer, a mobile advertising platform with its technical team based in Austin, just got acquired by LAKANA. Kixer is based in Los Angeles, but Jake Moilanen, its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, lives in Austin and so does the company’s technology team. LAKANA, based in St. Paul, Minn., did not release the terms of the […] The post Kixer and its Austin-based Tech Team Acquired by LAKANA appeared first on SiliconHills.

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From NFL to Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Entrepreneurial Mind : David Ball TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post From NFL to Entrepreneur appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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HomeAway Buys Dwellable of Seattle

SiliconHills

HomeAway, a vacation rental business, Wednesday announced its acquisition of Dwellable, an online vacation rental search engine and app based in Seattle. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dwellable, founded in 2012, had raised $2 million in one round from three investors, according to its CrunchBase profile. A time of six employees including […] The post HomeAway Buys Dwellable of Seattle appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How Can Social Media and Content Marketing Automation Boost Your Outreach Effort?

Duct Tape Marketing

How Can Social Media and Content Marketing Automation Boost Your Outreach Effort? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: flickr. Opinions on social media automation swing both ways – some would tell you it’s good to use, others would tell you it’s a mistake you’d better avoid. However, if you’ve had any experience managing a few social media pages, you know just how demanding the job can be.

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Mozido and TabbedOut Strike a Partnership

SiliconHills

Mozido, a digital payments company, and TabbedOut, an app that lets people pay tabs at restaurants and bars, are partnering to improve the experience of consumers through a mobile application. Through the partnership, the companies will create a new mobile app that will allow their customers to discover new restaurant locations, join wait-lists, make reservations, […] The post Mozido and TabbedOut Strike a Partnership appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Self-Promotion Done Right: 6 Ways To Show Your Value At Work Without Bragging

YoungUpstarts

By Rick Gillis, author of “ PROMOTE!: It’s Who Knows What You Know That Makes a Career “ Google “self-promotion” and up come the haters. In a flash, you’ll see countless negative articles and posts. From “Why Self-Promotion Is a Terrible Idea” to “The Braggart’s Dilemma” to “Please Shut Up,” there’s no shortage of spewing. Here’s the problem: In today’s intensely competitive, hyper-social work world, self-promotion is no longer just a professional responsibility.

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Equity Crowdfunding: Is it Right for Your Business?

Early Growth Financial Services

Though still not fully phased in, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) which Congress passed in January 2012, kicked off a wave of business and investor interest in (and platforms to facilitate) equity crowdfunding. Geri Stengel, Founder and President of Ventureneer shared her insights and pointers on deciding whether raising funds through equity crowdfunding is right for you as well as what makes for a successful campaign.

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How to Do Market Research

Up and Running

I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my business career. Some mistakes were hard to avoid, but one of the biggest and most expensive ones could have been dodged by simply doing a little homework. I fell victim to a trap that plenty of entrepreneurs fall into every day: I fell in love with a product idea. Back in the late 2000s, my team and I came up with what we thought was a great idea for a product.

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Archiving Test Results: How Effective Organizations Do It

ConversionXL

You’re running lots of tests? Great stuff. Now, here’s a piece of the puzzle you may not have thought about: what is the most appropriate way to archive test results? Surely, any mature organization can use insight from past test results as an indicator of where to go in the future. Trouble is, there is no single correct way to do this, and barely anyone is talking about how to do it well.

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The Problem with Titles

OnlyOnce

The Problem with Titles. This will no doubt be a controversial post, and it’s more of a rant than I usually write. I’ll also admit up front that I always try to present solutions alongside problems…but this is one problem that doesn’t have an obvious and practical solution. I hate titles. My old boss from years ago at MovieFone used to say that nothing good could come from either Titles or Org Charts – both were “the gift that keeps on giving…and not in

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How Scary is Your BtoB Marketing?

Rembrandt Communications

You may be frightening customers away… It’s time for Halloween, and this begs the question… is your business in a frightful state or doing well? If things aren’t looking so good, it’s time to put in that extra effort to make things happen. Here are a few suggestions: Create a special, eReport or Infographic for […]. The post How Scary is Your BtoB Marketing?

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Want To Optimize Your Conversion? Then Break It Down Into These Steps [Infographic]

Duct Tape Marketing

Want To Optimize Your Conversion? Then Break It Down Into These Steps [Infographic] written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: photo from Unsplash (2148) via photopin (license). Quick question: How effective is your website conversion? Maybe it’s not as high as you want it to be. Or maybe you’re scratching your head, unsure.