Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2013

'Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who think the most creatively, not only in their initial product or service, but more importantly all through the stages of growth from startup to maturity. But even the best of them can easily slip into some bad decision habits that limit or hurt their business, due to natural human tendencies and the pressures of business challenges.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 27, 2013

'Remember when husky meant fat? If you don’t, you are too young or too old. Husky was the politically correct term in the 70′s and 80′s for overweight people. Then husky became too popular. Too many people exchanged the word husky for fat and fat for husky. The words became synonymous. And that’s when it became uncool to say husky.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

'Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. If you’ve ever been to a big, rowdy concert, you’ve probably witnessed the phenomenon of crowdsurfing. This happens when a musician or fan takes a leap of faith from stage, knowing the crowd will carry them to safety. Using crowdfunding for your startup venture is much like crowdsurfing a rock concert — and also carries the same hazards that, at any moment, someone might dro

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SiliconHills

JULY 27, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Serial entrepreneur Fred Schmidt remembers sitting in his London hotel, getting ready to head to Heathrow and back to Austin with the entourage, including Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell. They’d concluded an official visit to Tech City in the borough of Hackney, the European Union’s fastest-growing tech hub, [.

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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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Life Beyond Code

JULY 27, 2013

'Mini Saga #129 – Calmness. They escaped a nasty accident as the drunk driver cut them off rudely. After shaking his head for a couple of seconds, Jack focused back on his driving. Susan asked, “How can you be so calm?” Jack smiled, “Golden rule – I stopped paying a price for the faults of strangers.” When you start paying a price for the faults of strangers, you will have to say goodbye to calmenss.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

'Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. I think it’s an important read. A chip on one’s shoulder as in, “F**k the system, it’s broken and I want to fix it” is exactly the energy I look for in entrepreneurs. My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2013

'Weekend Favs July Twenty Seven written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JULY 27, 2013

'Emily Lucas of LifeHack.org has a nice post highlighting some of Google’s many initiatives in the education space. From STEM and Social Entrepreneurship to Faculty Research and Marketing Competitions — Google is in the space. (Yes Brin and Page are two of the top 10 student entrepreneurs of all time). The entire post lists a bunch of their programs, below is a snippet and one of their interesting offerings.

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