TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

'July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve just posted Round 6, which includes several more developer community-provided framework test implementations: Beego, Dart, Hapi, Jester, Luminus, Nancy, Yaf, Plack, Play-Slick, and Undertow. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2013

'by Nilesh Bhojani, co-founder of Markitty. You spend a lot of time and effort marketing to your customers and prospects: do you spend any on marketing to your own employees? Internal marketing helps with employee retention and improved hiring: more importantly, it helps your customers and other stakeholders get a consistent brand experience. Employees outside of sales and marketing are usually unaware of your positioning and latest marketing messaging.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2013

'A classical relationship problem is the dichotomy between solving a problem and providing empathy. If you really want to understand this, spend two minutes and watch the awesome “It’s Not About The Nail” video below. Amy and I have figured this out extremely well in our relationship. We talk about it in Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur using the example of the scene from the movie White Men Can’t Jump to frame the situation.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2013

'By Nathan Yau, author of “ Data Points: Visualization That Means Something “ Look up at the night sky, and the stars look like dots on a flat surface. The lack of visual depth makes the translation from sky to paper fairly straightforward, which makes it easier to imagine constellations. Just connect the dots. However, although you perceive stars to be the same distance away from you, they are actually varying light years away.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 2, 2013

'Your immutable laws are what make you (and your business) distinct. They are the rules that you play by. When you fully adhere to your immutable laws, your clients, your vendors, your employees, your website all revolve around that theme. It is the ultimate in consistency, and the world notices. Consider Berkshire Hathaway for a moment. It is the 5th largest company on the Fortune 500 list.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2013

'by Mike Zammuto, President of Brand.com. The Internet has been likened to the Wild West, and it’s not difficult to understand why. On the Web, people can say or do whatever they want, without accountability of any kind; for example, a consumer or a rival company can make all kinds of defamatory remarks about your business, and there is little that you can do to see justice done.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2013

'Do you remember those space trading simulation type video games such as Freelancer , Privateer and Elite , where you can play a space merchant trading between the stars? Well, real life takes a step in that direction with payment provider PayPal ‘s recent launch of PayPal Galactic , an initiative that may see universal space payments become a reality.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 2, 2013

'I’m sat here at the Bitcoin London conference organised by my friends Shakil Khan and Pamir Gelenbe mulling over opportunities in Bitcoin. Here are my thoughts, many of which are inspired by, or re-hashes of, what I’ve heard on stage. Bitcoin’s momentum continues to grow. Regulation is getting clearer, but is still a big issue. Governments are starting to recognise that virtual/crypto currencies will co-exist alongside fiat currencies.

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 2, 2013

'It was great way to start the second half of 2013 with a phone conversation with Richie Norton , the author of The Power of Starting Something Stupid. This is Richie’s second book (after Resumes are Dead and What to Do About It ). Richie shared with me that the book was the result of his quest to find out what makes some people successful. The answer surprisingly was that there was a pattern that was common for most successful people – they all started something stupid (or at least what p

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

'Let’s face it: marketing can be boring. You want to advertise for your business, but you don’t want to do it in the usual way. The usual way has been done a million times, and no one’s going to pay attention to the millionth and first time. To solve this problem, we asked members of the Young Entrepreneur Council —an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising entrepreneurs—a simple yet interesting question: What’s the most creative strategy you’ve e

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Hunter Walker

JULY 2, 2013

'Six months have passed since Instagram turned off their Twitter card support in order to drive clicks back to their website. Since that time both services have continued to grow and launched support for video products. Personally, my Instagram usage has gone down as a result but obviously Facebook is willing to take a short-term hit in order to build longterm brand and native service value.

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SiliconHills

JULY 2, 2013

'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Startups aren’t easy. Even if an entrepreneur has a great idea and business plan, jumping into a full time startup just isn’t viable without some financial cushion to get the company off the ground. This is why Geekdom of San Antonio offers the $25,000 Geekdom Fund, which [.] The post Need Startup Cash?

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

'Rumor has it: Businesses won’t be penalized next year if they don’t provide workers health insurance after the Obama administration decided to delay a key requirement under its health-care law, two administration officials said. via. The official announcement of the delay will be made later this week, according to two White House sources, and the decision is in response to “vehement complaints from employer groups” about the burdens and confusion of the new law, some of which Bplans

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David Cohen

JULY 2, 2013

'At SERGE , I talked with others about the Mentor Manifesto. Ralph Dandrea has this great add to it here where he talks about purpose and beliefs around being a mentor to others. The Mentor Manifesto includes a set of rules that help to describe what a great mentor does, but remembering a set of rules has never been a strength of mine. I’d much prefer to understand the intentions, beliefs, and most importantly the way of being that would help me be successful. more.

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SiliconHills

JULY 2, 2013

'A month ago, Zac Maurais and Ben Doherty launched Favor in the Austin area to deliver food to your home or office. Maurais and Doherty, graduated from California Polytechnic State University or Cal Poly and then went on to the Boost.VC accelerator program in January, and launched a Favor pilot program in San Luis Obispo. [.] The post Favor Moves to Austin and Launches a Food Delivery Service appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2013

'Marketing podcast with Jay Baer – author of Youtility. Integration and convergence are the two concepts I’ve been drilling on most for the past few years. Quite frankly, marketing has always worked better when integration is considered, but today’s markets, buyers, humans want and expect more than consistent messaging across platforms. What’s driving the market today?

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 2, 2013

'Before we go over some tips for narrowing your addressable market into a concise target market, lets first define these terms. Addressable Market. The addressable market is the group of people (or businesses) whom might be interested in what you are selling. It is the broadest umbrella of potential customers that your target or service may be suited for.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2013

'It’s official Google Reader is no more. For those now scrambling to find an alternative I present the crowdsourced List.ly list of Google Reader Alternatives. Still want to access your subscriptions and other Google Reader data? You have until July 15th to do so or it will be deleted as well – Go to Google Takeout and download your Reader data.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 2, 2013

'I find this interview with Jeff Bezos fascinating. In it he talks about how he conducts his top executive meetings: Meetings of his “S-team” of senior executives begin with participants quietly absorbing the written word. Specifically, before any discussion begins, members of the team — including Bezos — consume six-page printed memos in total silence for as long as 30 minutes. “They’re (new hires) just not accustomed to sitting silently in a room and doing

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The Next Web

JULY 2, 2013

'Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti and a a follow-up to Andrew’s earlier article, Why Startups Die. Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He blogs at pixelmonkey.org. You can follow him @amontalenti on Twitter. Paul Graham defined startups as being, essentially, growth machines.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 2, 2013

'By Jennifer Godsey Originally published on SharedHR. As employee-related costs continue to rise, organizations everywhere are looking for ways to minimize the impact of health & welfare premium increases and to more effectively deal with the heightened complexity of HR compliance and administration. This problem is particularly acute for small to mid-sized companies (50-500 employees).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2013

'New entrepreneurs often seem to confuse viability with fundability. Certainly a non-viable business should be not fundable, but many viable businesses are also not fundable. Thus when an investor declines your funding request, you need to curb your anger and understand the real reason for this outcome. In my experience, here are the most common issues that cause funding requests for potentially viable businesses to be rejected, in priority order: Inadequate business plan.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 2, 2013

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

'I thought I was pulling a fast one. I really did. . Before I ever got on the StartupBus I was making conversation over email with Brooklyn Bridge Ventures icon Charlie O’Donnell about his kick-ass blog ThisIsGoingToBeBig.com and how I’m turning blogs-into-books for my DigitalBookNetwork.com. He wished me luck and said to @ him in Austin, Texas, for SXSWi.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

'Why does a person shirk the relative reliability of a job to start a business? (And don’t tell me about how jobs are just as unreliable. Of the 100,000 people who will read this post, how many have made more money, and more consistent money, with less stress, with their startup than with their day jobs?) Common answers: Be my own boss The chance to make lots of money Work my own hours Even if it’s more work, at least it’s mine Change the world It’s not just high-tech s

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