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10 Top Traits Of The Boss You Always Wanted

Startup Professionals Musings

'Everyone can recognize a great manager a mile away, so why is it so hard to find one? We all remember a few that are “legends in their own mind”, but that doesn’t do it. In fact, the clue here is that the view in your mind is the only one that matters, rather than the other way around. Almost every one of us in business can remember that one special manager in their career who exemplifies the norm, who commanded our respect, and treated us like a friend, even in the toughest of personal or busi

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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

'by Scott Hirsch, f ounder and CEO of Appsbar. It wasn’t that long ago that web-savvy marketers were touting the advances in technology that allowed anyone to build a website, publish a blog, or embark on a social media campaign. The advent of mobile platforms has rendered all of those tools passé. We are now a mobile society and the proliferation of smartphones and tablets has given rise to a new paradigm in digital marketing: the mobile app.

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Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Feld Thoughts

'If you haven’t yet bought Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers , go get it right now. It’s one of the best books you’ll ever read on entrepreneurship and being a CEO. If you are a CEO, read this book. If you aspire to be a CEO read this book. If you are on a management team and want to understand what a CEO goes through, read this book.

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[Infographic] Do Interns Secretly Run The World’s Largest Tech Companies?

YoungUpstarts

'Of course we don’t mean that the world’s top technology businesses are being run by their interns, but what many of us may not realize is that most CEOs of the world’s largest companies have actually spent time as interns before. Did you know, for example, that a 17-year old Bill Gates, today the world’s richest man, once spent a summer running around as a page for the US House of Representatives?

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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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European seed fund explosion – what does it mean?

The Equity Kicker

'BrightSun have just published research on the number of seed funds in Europe. As you can see from the graphs below the number of seed funds is growing very fast whilst the number of later stage funds is flat. Chart 1: number of European funds investing in rounds of $1m and less (blue line) and number of countries receiving investment (green bars).

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What to See in Silicon Valley – Tech and non-Tech

Scalable Startup

'Let’s start with the Non-Tech – Here’s a small piece I just wrote on the subject of how to visit the Bay Area and not be totally focused on techno-nerd things: You should also expand your horizons beyond the techy stuff. I’ve worked and lived in Silicon Valley off and on for over 30 years (really!) and always enjoy the escapes from my techno-binary lifestyle there.

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Muhammad Noer: How This Indonesian Entrepreneur Attracted 20,000 Subscribers And 1,000 Paying Members To His “How To Speed Read” Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Muhammad Noer , or Noer as he likes to be called, was born in Sumatra Indonesia. As a side project while working his full time job, he started a personal blog because he wanted to get back into writing. His topics were speed reading and slide presentations , two subjects he is passionate about. [ Download MP3 | Transcript | … Read the rest of this entry » The post Muhammad Noer: How This Indonesian Entrepreneur Attracted 20,000 Subscribers And 1,000 Paying Members To His &#

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Profit First, Expenses Last

Mike Michalowicz

'Tax season always seemed a little bit like Christmas morning to me. Not! I hated the tax season surprises. Additional taxes due. Surprise. No refund. Surprise. And the worst of all? When my accountant would congratulate me on posting a profit in my business… yet there was no money in the bank. Surprise! Enjoy your lump of coal, Mike. Then one day it hit me like a ton of bricks.

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Enterprise IT in 2014: Follow the Money

VC Cafe

'Readers of this column, exposed to heavy coverage of consumer tech conferences like CES, Mobile World Congress and SXSW, might mistake IT as consumer driven. The reality is quite different. Enterprise IT accounts for nearly 90% of annual technology spend. As the Bull Market on Wall Street marks its fifth anniversary and the US economy is projected to grow at its fastest pace since 2005, Enterprise IT budgets are soaring.

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How to Create a Successful Etsy Shop

Up and Running

'With more than one million active shops on Etsy, plenty of people are making a living selling handmade goods, vintage items, and craft supplies—Etsy brought in at total of $1 billion in sales in 2013. Statistics like that make it no small wonder why so many people are considering an Etsy shop as a viable business venture. Stephanie Maslow, a seven-year Etsy seller, offers tips to help others be successful on the popular marketplace.

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“When is the best time to raise money for my new business?”

Hunter Walker

'Fast Company asked me to answer the following reader question: Hello, I’m building a social media site. It’s a big project, but I’m holding my own. I’m leaving my full-time job next month to work on it full time. Should I wait until I get a sizable amount of users and wait until I’m pushed for growth and then raise funding, or should I play it safe and raise some beforehand?

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Top CEOs Reveal Their Secrets to Innovation and Growth [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

'Whether you’re running an ice cream shop or building the next great startup in Silicon Valley, you’re always looking for ways to innovate and grow your business. The economy is constantly changing and new challenges arise every day, so figuring out how to move your company faster—how to be “quick and nimble”—is imperative to growth.

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So How Did YOU Get Picked for Accelerator?

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News So how out of 500 applicants for Accelerator, does Chris Valentine of SXSW choose the 48 companies (and their alternates) who will have the chance to pitch? This year, for example, contestants came from Ireland and Slovenia, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, London, Tel Aviv and all over […] The post So How Did YOU Get Picked for Accelerator?

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How to Create a Successful Etsy Shop

Up and Running

'With more than one million active shops on Etsy, plenty of people are making a living selling handmade goods, vintage items, and craft supplies—Etsy brought in at total of $1 billion in sales in 2013. Statistics like that make it no small wonder why so many people are considering an Etsy shop as a viable business venture. Stephanie Maslow, a seven-year Etsy seller, offers tips to help others be successful on the popular marketplace.

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Two Pocket features I’m really digging

Jeff Hilimire

'I continue to love the app Pocket for reading articles and blog posts. I think I’m like most people where there are times that I am skimming news sites or blogs/articles/etc. to see what’s happening but I’m not ready at that moment to stop and read a lengthy piece. Saving those longer reads for later is a key to how I like to consume content and Pocket let’s me do this with ease.

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Top CEOs Reveal Their Secrets to Innovation and Growth [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

'Whether you’re running an ice cream shop or building the next great startup in Silicon Valley, you’re always looking for ways to innovate and grow your business. The economy is constantly changing and new challenges arise every day, so figuring out how to move your company faster—how to be “quick and nimble”—is imperative to growth.

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A Deeper Look at Uber’s Dynamic Pricing Model

abovethecrowd.com

'Over the course of the past year, many writers have offered their perspectives on Uber’s dynamic pricing strategy. Perhaps the only consistency is that people have deeply passionate views on this topic. However, there are still many misperceptions about how the model works, and the purpose of this post is to clarify some of those misperceptions. I am an Uber investor and board member, and therefore expect that many will dismiss these thoughts as naked bias.

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Flavors of Analytics

SVPG

'In an earlier article ( Flavors of Prototypes ) I heard from many people about how it helped them to see prototypes in a new and more powerful light. Even though I had written previously about each separately, putting them together can help people get the big picture. So in this article I thought I would do the same thing by highlighting the main flavors of analytics.

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How to Set Social Media Up from Scratch

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Set Social Media Up from Scratch written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing We just started working with a mid-size software company and, in digging in to build their marketing system, it quickly became clear they had no real social media integration. photo credit: Jason A. Howie via photopin cc.

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Winners of the 2014 SXSW Accelerator Competition

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The huge ballroom that hosted the SXSW Accelerator Awards Sunday night was packed and the mood was warm and festive as emcee Francisco Dao, founder of 50 Kings suggested a giant selfie, Oscars-style, and winner Barak Hachamov of Israel took a video of the group clapping for […] The post Winners of the 2014 SXSW Accelerator Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Relaunching Both Sides of the Table

Both Sides of the Table

'My blog had been looking tired for a year or two. The problem is that with WordPress I just found it a bit too cumbersome to change the design on my own. I’m more of a verbal content guy. I like to get what is in my brain out into words and as you probably know I worry less about typos, grammar or – generally – visual design. I appreciate beautiful design – I just wasn’t blessed with the skill of producing it.