Wed.Oct 22, 2014

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Not All Startup and Venture Experience is Equal #getoffmylawn

This is going to be BIG.

'I probably do some kind of speaking event at least every other week. This week, I''ve got three things on the docket. Needless to say, I have a fair amount of startup event experience. What I find a bit frustrating is how easily some people get onto panels and are put up in front of an impressionable crowd of new entrepreneurs as "experts". You''ll get a venture capital analyst from a brand name firm who has just recently taken his job talking about what makes a company successful.

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Ideas Are Only The Beginning Of Startup Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

'Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the execution challenge if they expect their startup to carve out a profitable niche in the marketplace, and keep innovating to build and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Everyone thinks they know how to make innovation happen, but I can’t find much real research on the subject.

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How We Used to Give Startups Very Bad Advice. 2 Minutes to See Why

Steve Blank

'If you can’t see the video click here Filed under: 2 Minute Lessons , Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.

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Top 5 Mistakes Businesses Make When Purchasing Energy

YoungUpstarts

'By Nate Kessman, Vice President of Business Development, Great Eastern Energy. Taking your passion and turning it into a successful business is the gold rush of our generation. Endless opportunities await entrepreneurs and business owners of all sizes who are willing to stake their claim and convert their passion into a virtual goldmine. Whatever your passion is, there are seemingly endless ways to convert that passion into a community either online or in a brick and mortar business.

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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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Microsofts Connected Tissue

deal architect

'Mike Ehrenberg, CTO for Microsoft Business Solutions was describing his new CEO Satya Nadella’s management style – the senior leadership team meets twice a week. “It plays havoc with planning international trips, but allows us to iterate rapidly as a.

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Best Practices For Developing A Mobile App For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

'Okay, so you’ve embodied a bold mindset in your startup. The company has enjoyed its initial success because you have managed to maintain this approach: bold, simple, cost effective and, most of all, humble. It’s time for you to consider taking a leap in your industry by creating a mobile app for your startup. With branded mobile-business apps in today’s marketplace to achieve recognition and customer engagement, some startups might not be able to gain a competitive edge without one.

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The Age Of The Entrepreneur: 5 Current And Future Trends

YoungUpstarts

'By Jenny Q. Ta , entrepreneur, author and CEO of Sqeeqee.com. Today’s entrepreneur operates in a sphere where changes follow each other in rapid succession. In the coming years the interests of the consumer will once again become a focal point in business. Entrepreneurs are advised to seek a personal relationship with their clients by taking account of their individual needs and desires.

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3 Tricks to Provide Valuable Content Fast

Rembrandt Communications

'(That will be a treat for customers!) You know you need to provide valuable content to your customers on a regular basis, but as a small business owner, you’re busy. You give a big sigh just thinking about all of the time it will take to write a new blog, article or Website page. And […]. The post 3 Tricks to Provide Valuable Content Fast appeared first on SEO Content Strategy and BtoB Public Relations.

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2015 Challenge Cup Kicks off: Here are the winners from Washington, D.C.

The Next Web

'The new year came early to 1776 last night. The D.C. incubator – which launched in February 2013 – hosted the first regional pitch of its 2015 Challenge Cup. Founders from four categories – health, education, energy, and cities – competed to represent D.C. at the Challenge Festival in May 2015. After a series of 60-second pitches, judges invited two finalists per category to pitch for five minutes before taking audience questions.

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More big IoT numbers: 33bn connected devices by 2020

The Equity Kicker

'33bn connected devices in the next six years, up from 12bn predicted at the end of this year. That will be four for every person on the planet. As others have said before me, our grandparents could count their electric motors, our parents could count the things they owned with a chip inside, and we can count our connected devices… Here’s a quick list off the top of my head of inventions enabled by integrated circuits and/or electric motors.

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People, Product and Process – Courage b

Eric Friedman

'On the show The Profit the host, Marcus Lemonis, talks about people, product, and process being the most important aspects to any business. So when the 2014 premiere episode actually featured my close friends The Goureau’s and their business Courage b , so it was a great time to write about my thoughts on the show. I am a huge fan of The Profit and have been watching since the beginning.

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How You Can Fix Any Business Problem

Mike Michalowicz

'Most consultants fail. They blow it on a regular basis, not because they are bad or that they have bad systems. Quite to the contrary, most consultants and coaches I have met are darn impressive, very business savvy and brilliant in figuring out where their clients are choking. So why is it they do all this work to help a business, yet none of their ideas work, or even if they work, they don’t stick?

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Cognitive Scale Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

'Cognitive Scale launched Wednesday in Austin. The startup, founded 18 months ago, has created a “cognitive” cloud platform. Cognitive computing is defined as “the simulation of human thought processes in a computerized model. Cognitive computing involves self-learning systems that use data mining, pattern recognition and natural language processing to mimic the way the human brain […] The post Cognitive Scale Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fresh from the SPRING: bokomoslav

crowdSPRING Blog

'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for bokomoslav. Check out more great work on bokomoslav’s profile page. Nicely done, bokomoslav, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: LuW. Fresh from the SPRING: lamosca04.

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Greenling Teams Up with Instacart for Same Day Grocery Delivery

SiliconHills

'Austin-based Greenling Organic has partnered with Instacart for same-day delivery to Greenling’s customers in Austin. Greenling delivers organic fresh and locally grown fruits and vegetables, meats and dairy, meal kits and prepared food to customers in Austin, Houston and San Antonio. Before, it took at least a day to receive an order from Greenling.

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Austin YamJam This Sunday

Austin Startup

'Created by Austin technology veterans, Operation Turkey provides thousands of home cooked meals to the homeless on Thanksgiving day. One of the events that generates funds for that is the Yam Jam, an incredible day of music coming up this Sunday, October 26th at Simphony Square.

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TeVido BioDevices Lands SBIR Grant

SiliconHills

'TeVido BioDevices, a company that prints nipples for breast reconstruction surgery using human cells and 3-D printers, has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will go to fund more pre-clinical development of the company’s novel breast reconstruction program. “The SBIR grant will enable TeVido to […] The post TeVido BioDevices Lands SBIR Grant appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Marketers Must Be More Accountable Than Ever

Duct Tape Marketing

'Marketers Must Be More Accountable Than Ever written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Paul Roetzer. Back in the day all a marketer need do is create a compelling ad, run it in the right place and if sales went up, job well done. Today there are several hundred television options in a local market, countless social channels and a host of web and mobile advertising platforms to choose from.

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There's Something About Ello

Bryce Dot VC

'This Buzzfeed video of Ello in Real Life rolled through my feed yesterday. It is a week old and already feels dated. Even out of touch. Since launch Ello has been everyone’s favorite punching bag. . The value proposition. The manifesto. The business model. The funding. The ToS. Every aspect has been fair game, and, as with the Buzzfeed article, openly mocked. .

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Do This One Thing Before You Write Your Business Plan

Up and Running

'So, you’ve been asked to write a business plan. It’s likely that your mind is filling with images of long documents, bad memories of writing term papers, and worries about doing market research and creating financial forecasts. Take a deep breath. It doesn’t have to be that way. Today, I’m going to walk you through an easier way to get your business plan started, through developing a winning strategy.

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How can Australia kickstart the local startup community?

Gust

'Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin makes some excellent points, most of which are ones that I would have made. In particular, getting to critical mass (of entrepreneurs, angel investors, engineers, et al) is perhaps the most important thing you can do. Whether this is by City (the most useful) or pan-Australian (perhaps a bit easier), it provides a host of benefits both in terms of availability of resources and visible success stories for new entrepreneurs.

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Finding the Signals in the Noise?

Growthink Blog

'Last week, I shared why business intelligence dashboards are now a must have for executives seeking to better understand, leverage, and ultimately profit from the treasure troves of data surrounding their businesses. This data includes insight from their companies’ web and social media traffic, from its e-mail send and open rates, from its lead tracking systems and sales logs, from its product fulfillment records, and from its accounting software as it records revenues, expenses, and cash flows