Wed.Oct 16, 2013

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[The Philippines] Harnessing Apps To Tackle Traffic

YoungUpstarts

'Traffic in Southeast Asia’s megacities can be notoriously bad – for example, traffic in central Bangkok or Jakarta can come to an absolute standstill by 6pm. In Manila, a study by the University of the Philippines National Center for Transportation Study (UP NCTS) last year placed the average annual losses incurred due to traffic congestion in Metro Manila at over P137 billion as of 2011.

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Startup Founders Need To Manage Their Optimism

Startup Professionals Musings

'I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases,” based on their own unique background of experiences, training, and mental state.

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Beyond the Business Plan: “Lucky” 13 Essentials You Won’t Learn In Business School

YoungUpstarts

'by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “ There are a lot of different beliefs about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. When you look at famous, crazy-successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey, maybe you feel more discouraged than inspired.

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Is bootstrapping right for you? Five important tips for successfully funding your business

The Next Web

'Yoav Hornung is an award winning young filmmaker and entrepreneur, who mixed cocktails and managed some of the best bars in Tel Aviv. He is the cofounder and CEO of Veed.me , a video production marketplace. He’s also an avid Instagram addict. The Next Web’s Entrepreneur channel exists because there enough people like us who are tired of working dead end jobs, yearning to be our own bosses and run our own companies.

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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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[Sponsored] Supporting Grand Ambitions: Santander

YoungUpstarts

'Getting a bank loan to support business growth isn’t always easy, especially in the current credit market when recession is casting doom and gloom over every sector of the economy. Despite the general outlook, financial services company Santander is continuing to help quite a number of businesses – both large and small – fight the economic downturn by supporting their financial needs in this dire time, whether it’s an emergency cash infusion that provides a lifeline du

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I’m A Talking Rubber Duck

Feld Thoughts

'Phin Barnes at First Round Capital just nails it today with his post To get the most out of your investors, turn them into rubber ducks. . Go read it – I’ll wait and will be here when you get back. I love Rubber Duck Debugging. I use this approach when writing, which I call “Writing with Yoda.” I have a little Yoda figurine staring at me at all times and when I stall out I just talk to him for a little while and then get started again.

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A Simple Trick To Listening To Your Gut

Mike Michalowicz

'The Old Quarter Trick. How many times have you looked back at decisions and wish that you had simply trusted your gut? If only you would have listened to yourself. If only you hadn’t over thought things. The next time you are facing a decision, narrow it down to the two best options. Then take out a quarter. Assign one of the options “heads” and the other option “tails.” Then flip the coin.

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Advanced robotics will transform retail

The Equity Kicker

'Advanced robotics offers what is perhaps the most exciting near term investment opportunity that I learnt about at Singularity University last week. Let me illustrate with an example. It is now possible to measure someone for a very high quality custom bike frame, and then have robots cut the steel tubes and then weld them to produce a finished product in under an hour.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. That is, once you’re no longer a small company and you have some success, how do you execute and continue to grow through innovation? Next Tuesday, October 22 at 10a PT, we’ll take a look at this advanced entrepreneurship question.

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Refresh – know more about your next meeting

Eric Friedman

'I found an interesting app recently called Refresh that shows you interesting insights into the person you are about to meet with based on a calendar sync. Refresh works like rapportive in gmail (for those that use it) leveraging a persons emails address to show you insights about them. By giving access to your calendar and synching social networks, Refresh summarizes important information in a digestible format.

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San Antonio Youth Code Jam Gets Kids Into Coding

SiliconHills

'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News You have probably heard of sports camps, science camps, or math camps — events designed to both spark interest and teach the subject material. But what about kids who like to write code? Up to a year ago, there was no such event geared towards young programmers […] The post San Antonio Youth Code Jam Gets Kids Into Coding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Q&A Wednesday :: PayPal BattleHack Winner Jeff Linwood

Austin Startup

'I saw that PayPal was putting together a Battle Hack, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to integrate payments into an application to help people make donations to the shelter.

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An Evening With Josh Baer: On Obama, Lionel Ritchie, and Not Getting Everything Right

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Josh Baer is living something of a charmed life right now. When ACL was rained out last Sunday, he managed to get Lionel Ritchie to give a private performance for 50 people at the home of a friend. His brainchild, Capital Factory, was visited by President Barack […] The post An Evening With Josh Baer: On Obama, Lionel Ritchie, and Not Getting Everything Right appeared first on SiliconHills.

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What Happens When You Cross Social Media with Stand Up Comedy?

Duct Tape Marketing

'What Happens When You Cross Social Media with Stand Up Comedy? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Scott Stratten. So here’s the money question really. Have we gotten more stupider or has social media just made it seem so? photo credit: Merlijn Hoek via photopin cc.

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Launching a startup? Read this advice from successful entrepreneurs and leaders

The Next Web

'For me, one of the highlights of the recent The Next Web Conference USA was a chance to chat on stage to Soraya Darabi , co-founder of Foodspotting and now her new venture Zady.com , about the lessons she’s learned from launching two startups. As part of her preparation, Darabi asked a variety of Internet entrepreneurs for their own tips and picked out a couple of quotes from notable leaders.

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