Fri.Sep 13, 2013

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5 Things You Should Know Before Hiring A Development Shop

YoungUpstarts

'by Stella Fayman, CEO and cofounder of matchist. You’ve decided to hire a development shop to build an MVP , give your product a facelift, or build that mobile app you’ve been wanting to build for years. If this is your first time hiring a dev shop, it can be confusing understanding the difference between competitors. However, you’ll be spending a lot of money on developing your product, so it’s important to take time to research and interview the firms that interest you.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

'Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia.

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Today From 9am–10am PDT: #askadeveloper Your Programming Questions

Up and Running

'In honor of National Programmer’s Day, we invite you to join us on Twitter with your computer programming questions today for the first-ever Bplans #askadeveloper Tweetchat. Simply tweet @bplans using the hashtag #askadeveloper between 9 and 10 am PDT , and our team of professional software and web developers will respond in real-time. No matter how big or small your question , Lara Fields or Shad Stafford will tweet you back with the answer you need.

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Most Startup Founders Spend Too Much Time Talking

Startup Professionals Musings

'When you are not presenting to investors or your team, try to spend more time listening than talking. You can’t learn anything new while you’re talking, yet many entrepreneurs seem to never stop. It’s a sad spiral, since the more you talk, the less people really hear, meaning they don’t learn anything either. If someone left this article on your desk, read extra carefully.

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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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Gutenberg is looking down in awe

deal architect

'Workday had a nice U shaped table configuration for the analysts it invited to the Technology Summit this week. It gave you a nice opportunity to easily and repeatedly scan the room for familiar and unfamiliar faces. As the day.

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[Infographic] The 5 Sense Guide To Inspiring Workplace Creativity

YoungUpstarts

'Brainstorming rooms, interactive co-working spaces – these are just some of the things that companies have introduced into the work space to help boost the creativity of their employees. But did you know that implementing simple changes that help to stimulate the five senses can actually lead to improving workplace creativity? While many offices tend to have whitewashed walls, did you know that people who work in white offices complain more about nausea and headaches than those who work f

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Has the NSA pushed people to finally do something about their privacy concerns?

The Equity Kicker

'Annotations A - DontTrack.us. B - SF billboard. C - DontBubble.us. D - TIME''s Top 50 Websites. E - USV investment. F - Visual Refresh. G - Google privacy policy change. H - Washington Post profile. I - Surveillance revelations. The chart above shows that query volume on privacy friendly search engine DuckDuckGo has risen dramatically since the NSA scandal broke.

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Your most powerful tool for attracting top-tier talent

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'There’s nothing better as a Venture Capitalist than to meet an exceptional entrepreneur; one who is driven to impact the world for the better and often, at the same time, build a solution to a personal problem. What I’ve realized over time though is that even the best entrepreneurs need a strong executive team to help make their vision a reality that is available to the masses.

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Social Good Summit Austin Seeks to Change the World

SiliconHills

'The second annual Social Good Summit Austin takes place on Sept. 24th at the Austin Community College Eastview Campus at 3401 Webberville Road. The event runs from 1:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The keynote speakers include Mina Chang, president of Linking the World, Carl Dorvil, founder and CEO of Group Excellence, Michael Cress, Chairman of […] The post Social Good Summit Austin Seeks to Change the World appeared first on SiliconHills.

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8 Alternatives to Google Keyword Tool

Duct Tape Marketing

'8 Alternatives to Google Keyword Tool written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Keyword research is vital. It’s an essential tactic for developing a powerful content strategy, targeting pay per click advertising campaigns and improving search engine optimization. photo credit: shawncalhoun via photopin cc For many years Google offered what was undoubtedly the most used free tool for conducting research on popular and not so popular keyword

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Why Should an Investor Invest in Your Business?

Small Business Force

Ever watch the TV show, "Shark Tank?" A bit over the top on both sides, but more than anything extremes are always great teaching moments. On the one hand, it shows the naivete of many of the entrepreneurs � expecting that these experienced investors will fall into a dead swoon when they hear their business concept, or asking for way too little money for way too high a valuation.

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Hope to Meet Up On the Road

Duct Tape Marketing

'Hope to Meet Up On the Road written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Well, summer is definitely over and that means fall conference season is in full bloom. I thought I would share some of the places I’m headed over the next few months in hopes of bumping into a few readers out there on the road – meetup anyone?

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File this in the Freaking Awesome, Never Gonna Happen category…

Jeff Hilimire

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How to Quit Your Job

OnlyOnce

'How to Quit Your Job. I sent an email out to ALL at Return Path a few years ago with that as the subject line. A couple people suggested it would make a good blog post in and of itself. So here’s the full text of it: ALL – This may be one of the weirdest emails you’ll see me (or any CEO write)…but it’s an important message that I want to make sure everyone hears consistently.

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Twitter Link Roundup #195 – 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!