Fri.Aug 02, 2013

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Startups Lessons: Product First

Venture Chronicles

'I have covered a couple of topics in this series, the first being hiring the best people and the second organizing for success based on the attributes of the people you are hiring. Today I want to go into territory less obvious because let’s face it, hiring the best people and creating conditions where they can succeed is the kind of startup advice that is squarely in the “stating the obvious” category.

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5 Key Solution Attributes Investors Love to Fund

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and secondly the business plan. I define these products and services as “solutions” (customers buy solutions to a problem), but Guy Kawasaki more generically calls them causes, meaning any new idea, comp

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5 e-Commerce Tips To Attract Back-to-School Shoppers

YoungUpstarts

'by Alessandra Colaci, marketing manager of Auctiva. With summer winding down to its final blissful weeks, a new school year is soon to begin, and that means shoppers will be on the hunt for essential study supplies, clothing and gear for their school-age kids. Back-to-school promotions are well underway at major retailers, but there’s still ample opportunity for small and midsize merchants to succeed in this competitive market.

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Random Acts of Kindness – Wish of a Lifetime

Feld Thoughts

'I adore Jeremy Bloom. He co-founded Integrate , which we are investors in. I’ve interviewed him for the Entrepreneurs Unplugged series I do at CU Boulder. We’ve been part of a few events together. He’s got an enormous heart, soul, and brain. A while ago he created a foundation called Wish of a Lifetime. It’s a magnificent example of what I call “ Random Acts of Kindness ” and is a deep part of my value system.

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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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[Singapore] SMB Tech This Week

YoungUpstarts

'Nexus 10 (S$668 for 32GB Wifi version, in charcoal gray). The Nexus 10 is the latest of the Nexus series, designed with the joint efforts of technology giants Google and Samsung. The powerful tablet device carries the best-of-class hardware married with the latest version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and the all of Google’s app goodness, and includes the world’s highest resolution tablet display (so far), as well as multi-user support.

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The way to do really big things is to do really small things and grow them bigger

The Equity Kicker

'I just read this in a post about learning to be an entrepreneur: Paul Graham promotes the view that it’s a bad idea to begin with big ambitions, because the bigger they are, the longer they are going to take to realize, and the longer you are projecting into the future, then the more likely you are going to be wrong. “The way to do really big things,” he says, “is to do really small things, and grow them bigger.”.

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7 Steps to Build Your Best Personal Brand

Up and Running

'You’ve know super brands like Coca Cola and McDonald’s—the minute you hear their name you can picture their logo, their product, their motto and what they stand for. This is instilled in to us from years of advertising, promotion and brand building. What if we could control our own personal brand in the same way? With the increasing popularity of social media sites, it’s now possible for you to control your own personal brand and how others perceive you.

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Welcome Satan?!?

Mike Michalowicz

'My Danish is not that good. But if I’m not mistaken, my ticket says “Welcome Satan.

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Some Things to Like About WordPress 3.6

Duct Tape Marketing

'Some Things to Like About WordPress 3.6 written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing WordPress 3.6, dubbed “Oscar” in honor of the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson released this week with some substantial, if not mind blowing, feature updates. You can read the entire announcement from WordPress here.

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Inevitability Thinking And Why You Need Genuine Belief To Succeed

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Inevitability Thinking And Why You Need Genuine Belief To Succeed… Plus Your Final 24 Hours To Grab My Mindset Guide Before The Price Rise… First up, if you haven't yet downloaded your copy of my brand new Master Your Mindset E-Guide , the price is going up tonight (Friday) at midnight Eastern US time.

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A lesson on authenticity from one of the top female leaders in the country

Jeff Hilimire

'Yesterday I had the great pleasure, along with several of my Leadership Atlanta classmates , to attend the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s signature CEO event with Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Sam’s Club. I had seen her speak before ( and blogged about it ) and wasn’t going to miss this chance to see her in action again. The setup was a fireside chat with Sam Williams, CEO of the Chamber, interviewing Roz in a very candid and open format.

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Twitter Link Roundup #190 – 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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Locket – getting paid to unlock your lockscreen

Jeff Hilimire

'The Android OS lets you do things with your phone that you’d never be able to do with the iPhone. You can change base level elements of the OS in some pretty cool ways. For instance, I use SwiftKey as a keyboard alternative on my phone, something I’d never be able to do with iOS. Which brings me to Locket. Locket, currently in beta, is an app that builds advertising into the lock screen on your phone.

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How We Created a Fake Vodka Brand to Promote Our Startup

The Next Web

'Editors note: This is a guest post by Kevin Bracken , founder of Speak Easy, a social space sharing marketplace. Whilst we by no means condone the act of selling alcohol without the legalities addressed before hand, the “hustle” in this is undeniably impressive. The month was January 2013. We had a product launch coming up in a little under three weeks – our events product.

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Reading and listening to a book with whispersync for voice

Jeff Hilimire

'I’ve always wanted to listen to books on tape but since I prefer reading them, I never really tried it. Until this guy told me that Kindle’s Whispersync for Voice allows you to use the Kindle app and the Audible app to both read and listen to a book. Whispersync will keep everything in sync so that when you start listening on your phone it picks up right where you stopped reading.

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