Thu.Aug 15, 2013

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Bridging the gap between tech startups and the Fortune 500

David Teten

'How can a tech startup engage with a Fortune 500 company for mutual benefit? Fortune 500 corporations are stressed about where they can get growth and how to plug into the innovative and nimble entrepreneurial ecosystem. The chasm between the typical Fortune 500 company and a startup is typically too vast for a standard partnership. So the large company needs to build the equivalent of a standard API to handle the significant number of startups with which any given large company can work.

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Create a Powerful Dashboard.

Berkonomics

'From sports car to aircraft to super tanker, successful operation depends upon the pilot’s understanding and urgent timely use of a dashboard. Real time information is critical to real time decision-making, and increasingly in the modern business world, decisions are made by management without extended meetings or discussion with others. And with the rise of modern technology-driven businesses, the same is true of management in the business world.

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5 Problems to Incent Million Dollar Idea Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

'Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great this product an

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Bloggers: Build Your Brand And Make Money With Your Passion

YoungUpstarts

'By Lucy Bartlett, marketing manager at VigLink. For bloggers just starting on the road of content creation the good news is there are easy ways to help fund your passion. The even better news is that you can earn revenue through the content itself using a style of affiliate marketing called native advertising. Rather than having to rely on old fashioned and ugly banner ads that merely act as a distraction for your readers, native advertising encourages your audience to delve deeper into your f

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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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About half a percent of Bitcoin transactions are to buy drugs.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Although many have shown a lot of angst about Bitcoin use on Silk Road , buying drugs is far from a major use of Bitcoin. As the recent Forbes Article about Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road , points out, Silk Road is estimated to be doing about $30-45M in annual revenue. They also report that Atlantis, a newly launched competitor to Silk Road, did around $500k in revenue in the first two months of operation, so annualized to about $6M.

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Say No to A Working Vacation: 9 Ways to Make the Most of Your Time Before You Hit The Beach

YoungUpstarts

'by Brian P. Moran, co-author of “ The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months “ Did you know 61 percent of employed Americans expect to have to do some work while on vacation? According to a recent survey , it’s true. This reality is why so many of us approach vacation with mixed emotions. You’re excited about the quality time with your family and hopeful that this will be the year you’re able to truly unplug.

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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

'Finally! I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. Their goal is to be a brand that parents and teachers trust to produce high-quality, fun, and inspiring mobile products that enable learning and encourage kids to explore the world around them.

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Welcome Zack Shornick to crowdSPRING

crowdSPRING Blog

'Last week, we announced that we were looking to add another person to our customer service team. We described the position and reminded applicants: Oh yea. one more thing? Your assignment is to read this blog post before you apply; believe me, we’ll know if you did! [link]. I stopped reading resumes a long time ago. If you haven’t taken the time to put together a creative cover email/letter, we won’t take the time to consider you for a position at crowdSPRING.

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Thoughts on quant approaches to early stage investing

The Equity Kicker

'‘Quant VC’ is a hot topic at the moment. Techcrunch and VCs have been writing about it, VC funds have been hiring data scientists , and Kleiner Perkins has taken the step of branding its proprietary data mining tool as Dragnet. There is even a company called Mattermark with the tagline ‘Big data meets venture capital’ All of this activity is happening for the same reason as in many other industries: there is now a lot of data that can be used to support decisions.

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Can I Do Better on My Taxes Next Year?

Up and Running

'Every year many small businesses wonder if they got the most back on their taxes that they possibly could have, or if they took every deduction that was available to them. There are some tax mistakes commonly made by small business owners as well as some common deductions that aren’t taken, many of which you want to avoid next spring when doing your company taxes for 2013.

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Reputation Matters

VC Adventure

'Reputation matters. You know that and so do I. But it’s easy to forget that you’re either building or destroying that reputation in every interaction you have. Not to mention widespread reputation travels in our ridiculously connected world. I was reminded (again) of this today from an exchange on our CEO email list (which includes about 75 CEOs of Foundry portfolio companies).

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The Success of Austin Tech Office Expansions

Austin Startup

'AppRiver, a security software company, is the latest to announce an expansion into the Austin market. It seems this headline has been repeated over and over again, and we''re just wondering how well that has been working out. The AppRiver story is not unique.

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Insight from “The Unstoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power”

SiliconHills

'Bill Schley wrote “The Unstoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power” with a foreword by Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston. In the book, they dispel myths and share the keys to entrepreneurship with the goal of doubling the number of people who found companies over the next 10 years. Schley recently spent some time with Silicon Hills News […] The post Insight from “The Unstoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power” appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Dilemma’s Innovators: Day 3 of SXSW V2V

Austin Startup

'The theme that resonated most for me on day 3, the final day, of SXSW V2V came from a phrase turned by Brian Solis during his Customer Experience presentation on Day 2, when he spoke about “the dilemma’s innovators” as a way of standing the book The Innovators’ Dilemma on its head. As wealthy as [.].

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The #1 Reason You Feel Like a Failure and What To Do About It Today

Duct Tape Marketing

'The #1 Reason You Feel Like a Failure and What To Do About It Today written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Noah St. John – Enjoy! Naturally, every business owner wants their business to grow. When you’re trying to change anything about your business, or your life for that matter—whether you want to gain more customers, increase profits, improve your health,

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What keeps the planet spinning; the force from the beginning

Jeff Hilimire

'“What keeps the planet spinning; The force from the beginning” ~ lyrics from this song. I was so fortunate to have amazing partners with me as we created Spunlogic. The photo above is the four of us – myself, Raghu , Danny and Raj – getting pied in the face at one of our company holiday parties. Without this team there is no way we would have grown Spunlogic the way we did and had a successful exit in 2008, selling the company to Engauge.

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Reputation Matters

VC Adventure

Reputation matters. You know that and so do I. But it’s easy to forget that you’re either building or destroying that reputation in every interaction you have. Not to mention widespread reputation travels in our ridiculously connected world. I was reminded (again) of this today from an exchange on our CEO email list (which includes about 75 CEOs of Foundry portfolio companies).

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Pricing Strategies Than Can Improve Sales

Business Plan Blog

'The Right Price Can Make a Big Difference. Using smart pricing strategies can make a big difference to your sales and help you succeed in a competitive marketplace. Each product and service is unique and therefore what works for some companies may not work for others. Nonetheless, the strategies outlined below may be a good solution for your business. 1.

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"Our experience with crowdfunding ‘Citizen Koch’ shows that thousands of small donors, in concert,"

Bryce Dot VC

'“Our experience with crowdfunding ‘Citizen Koch’ shows that thousands of small donors, in concert, can counter the big money deployed by billionaires like the Kochs” - Tia Lessin'

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Top Early-Stage Startup Issues: HR and Finance

Early Growth Financial Services

'by David Ehrenberg, CEO of Early Growth Financial Services, and Paul Finkle, CEO of SharedHR We know startups. From our experience launching our own companies, to now providing outsourced services and support for the next generation of startups, we know the mistakes most organizations make. SharedHR provides HR support, and Early Growth Financial Services provides financial support to early-stage startups.

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6 to 8 weeks for delivery

The Startup Toolkit

'false Why does it take 6 to 8 weeks to deliver late night infomercial products? Consider the Snuggie. Someone on the team has come up with a new product idea. It’s a blanket with arms. A wizard robe for the couch potato. Surely, folk would invest in a novelty blanket with arm holes. It solves any number of first-world problems. But the rest of the team is skeptical.

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via Diego

Bryce Dot VC

'via Diego'

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Twitter Link Roundup #191 – 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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3 Step Content Marketing Audit for Small Business Marketers

Duct Tape Marketing

'3 Step Content Marketing Audit for Small Business Marketers written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Ryan Kettler – Enjoy! photo credit: john.schultz. Use this quick and easy process to improve your website in order to attract more visitors and customers.

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Avoid Envy At All Costs

Mike Michalowicz

'If your customers feel someone or something is superior to them, they will envy it. And if you are that “superior” thing, envy is not good. When customers envy something, they will try to pull it down. They will try to make it an equal. For example, if you envy Donald Trump (you shouldn’t) you may try to pull him down by feeling that he was given his business by his father and couldn’t have done it on his own, or that he doesn’t deserve it and is just lucky, or tha

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Mass Miscommunication: How Misusing Digital Tools Undermines Results

YoungUpstarts

'by Geoffrey Tumlin, author of “ Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life “ You fiddle with your smartphone under the table during an important meeting. You type an (error-ridden) email to a client while talking (distractedly) on the phone. You interrupt a sensitive discussion with your spouse to respond to a trivial text message.