Mon.Dec 30, 2013

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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

'I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. Technology is no longer a thing: It’s almost not worth mentioning now it is so ensconced in human life. Business, political dn social activities are intertwined in technology as an organism.

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Stop chopping yourself to pieces

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

'My personal experience, confirmed by numerous studies, is: It’s faster to process email in batches rather than checking in 30 times/day. Humans cannot multi-task, they just complete both tasks slower, and with lower quality. (Texting and driving, meetings and email) The best ideas, new ideas, come in a flash when you’re not working. You are most productive when you’re “in the zone,” a contiguous period of focus, without interruption by human or computer.

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The Best of 2013

deal architect

'I have been running a series on New Florence of best of 2013 and things to look forward to in 2014.from a scan of over 50 magazine issues Here are the 2013 entries: Popular Mechanics – Breakthrough products Fortune –.

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Mile-High disruption: Why Denver should be on your tech radar next year

The Next Web

'Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost , a local advertising platform funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. In January, Denver will become one of the few American cities that allows its residents to purchase and recreationally consume marijuana, a move that is expected to create jobs and generate tax revenue. Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries.

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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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Lessons Learned: I Expanded Without Core Principles To Guide Me

Up and Running

'Eric Hannan says his first business failed because he expanded way too fast. At 25 years old, Eric Hannan was making a name for himself in the business world. As a rookie entrepreneur, he and a few friends launched a marketing company in Orange, California called BE Marketing Concepts. With great connections, the company landed Fortune 1,000 clients and enjoyed early success. “I couldn’t believe the numbers I saw coming in,” Hannan says. “We kept moving at a fast pace an

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5 ways to reach an empty email inbox (and keeping it that way) in 2014

The Next Web

'Dan Schoenbaum is the CEO of Teambox , a collaboration platform for task management, file sharing, and communication. . Before the year winds down and New Year’s resolutions begin to pile up, many of us look at our email inbox. Depending on the number of emails in your inbox, you either feel a sense of accomplishment or a deep sense of dread. If you’re in the latter camp, eliminating that sense of dread is an achievable goal, and now is the best time to do it.

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Keep Your Secret Sauce Secret

Mike Michalowicz

'When is the last time you whipped up a batch of Kentucky Fried Chicken at home? Not the time you tried and nearly burned the kitchen down, the time you actually replicated the Colonel’s sacred original recipe – perfectly? What’s that? You never quite pulled it off? How could you? You didn’t have the recipe. We all know the ingredients of the big food brands – read the label, smarty.

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Bee Cave Games Raises $1.9 Million

SiliconHills

'Bee Cave Games has closed on a $1.9 million round of debt financing, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Austin-based casino, social and mobile game developer previously raised a $1.3 million seed round of funding last summer. Founded in 2012, the company makes Blackjack Casino, its initial title, which is […] The post Bee Cave Games Raises $1.9 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Conversation with Music Industry Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Erin O. Anderson. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Conversation with Music Industry Entrepreneur appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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7 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2013

Duct Tape Marketing

'7 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2013 written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Like a lot of content producers I’m using the end of the year to look back and reflect on the body of work produced throughout the year. I’ve intentionally chosen to focus on the most “popular” posts as a way of illustrating a bit of what makes a piece of content popular.

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HAIL A CAB Releases 3.0 Adding Payment Features

Austin Startup

'Yellow Cab Austin, the city’s premier taxi service, announced the release of its HAIL A CAB™ app version 3.0.

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7 Questions Test Entrepreneur Focus Before Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

'The first question most people seem to ask when contemplating a new startup is where they will get investor money. That’s certainly a valid question, but all the money in the world won’t make your business work if you don’t have a plan to use it, or hate what you are doing. I suggest that there are several important questions before assuming that funding is the gate to your success.

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10 Tips On How To Stay Focused Through The Coming Year

YoungUpstarts

'by Robert Morris, NinjaEssays.com. We are wrapping up another year, so it’s time to review the 12 months that passed and start thinking of ways to improve ourselves and our lives in the year that comes. Many people make resolutions and they promise to realize them every New Year, but somehow those aspirations tend to fade away after the first few months.

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Some lessons on startup financing from Tren Griffin and Nassim Taleb

The Equity Kicker

'Nassim Taleb is one of the most visionary thinkers in modern finance. His books Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness are must reads for anyone in the investment business. Tren Griffin writes a good blog about investing, and this post is inspired by his article A dozen things I’ve learned from Nassim Taleb about optionality/investing. Thanks to Josh March for the pointer.

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The Standard Financing Document Pipe Dream

The Startup Lawyer

'There will never be a single standard set of financing documents, whether for seed or venture capital rounds. And interestingly, the variance in documents increases as the deals get smaller. The closest to a standard set is the NVCA forms, but those are for larger Series A/B/C type rounds. Regardless, it seems like each firm (or […].

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