Tue.Apr 15, 2014

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The 21-Day Job Search: 5 Tips To Ensure Success

YoungUpstarts

'by Teddy Hunt. In 21 days, you can redecorate your home, form a new habit, lose enough weight to not feel guilty about indulging while you’re on vacation, or find a job. With all the horror stories about people going jobless for months or years at a time, the idea might seem absurd. It is possible, however, if you diligently apply the following tips: Make Your Job Search Your Job.

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New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes

Steve Blank

'Our Stanford and Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes are over for this year, and as usual we learned as much from teaching the teams as the teams did from us. Here are a few of the Lessons Learned from these two classes. — Have each team talk to 10 customers before the class starts. Each year we learn how to move more of the Lean LaunchPad class logistics outside our classroom so teams have more time for in-class learning.

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Proven Tips That Will Help You Promote Your Mobile App

YoungUpstarts

'by Greg Fisher, founder of Berkeley Sourcing Group . There was a time when any good idea could make you rich with a mobile app. Back then the market was far less saturated and there were big gaps that needed filling. People were searching for apps that just weren’t there yet and this meant that you could easily come along, meet that need, and make it big without even needing any promotion or marketing.

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Getting to $100M+ revenue: Understanding the 3 phases of a startup

The Next Web

'Mitchell Harper is the co-founder and co-CEO of Bigcommerce. He tweets at @mitchellharper. In order to be successful as a first-time entrepreneur, it’s important to understand that as your business grows, what got you to where you are won’t necessarily keep moving you forward. In his excellent book The Hard Things About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz explains why it’s important to be almost short-sighted when hiring people into your business.

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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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[Review] The Economy Of You

YoungUpstarts

'We’ve heard it all before – the economy is in its doldrums, and the best way to prevent being retrenched from your job is to actually have a backup plan… to be an entrepreneur. But that’s easier said that done – not everyone is so inclined to start their own businesses, and even fewer are actually good enough to ensure their business survives beyond their first year.

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12 gadgets we’d love to see a startup re-engineer

The Next Web

'Smartphones? Can’t live without them. 3D printers? Why not. When it comes to bringing the extraordinary into homes and workplaces, ideas are never in short supply. Even still, it’s amazing how many devices we rely on daily that seem like they are stuck in decades past. With that in mind, I asked a panel of 12 successful entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What is one everyday device or gadget you’d love to see totally re-engineered by a startup and why?

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Why advertisers should target personas, not segments, on Facebook

The Next Web

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and a freelance writer. This article originally appeared on the Adknowledge blog. It’s a misconception among advertisers and media buyers alike that they should be targeting different audience segments when using the advanced targeting features available from the Facebook platform. In actuality, it’s important to target the various personas of your audience online, as opposed to generic segments.

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Today’s Fun – Gnip, Twitter, Uncommon Stock, and Pre-Seed Rounds

Feld Thoughts

'FSA (Feld Service Announcement) – my version of a “public service announcement”: Moz is on the hunt for a VP of UX and Design. This role is one of our most crucial hires this year. The ideal candidate will come to us with experience and examples to show of very complex, technical projects that s/he made simple and fun. I would love for you to share this job description with your network or if you have anyone in mind I would love for you to send them our way.

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Break These Rules for Better Public Speaking

Mike Michalowicz

'For audience members, typical is boring. Watching a performer take risks is exciting. The best of the best break the rules. However, they don’t break the rules just to break the rules. They break the rules to make the show better, to advance a story, to raise the stakes, to get you to sit up and take notice. Here are a few rules that you can break.

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You Don’t Need As Much Traffic As You Think

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'In the previous lesson I debunked the myth that you need to be everywhere , on many different platforms, to succeed with a blogging business. If you have not read it, begin here: Part 1: The Myth Of “Being Everywhere” And The Smarter Path To Traffic. Now in part two we continue to explore a better model to grow a … Read the rest of this entry » The post You Don’t Need As Much Traffic As You Think appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Answers to the 5 Most Common Angel Investor Questions

Growthink Blog

'On Wikipedia, I found the word "angel" defined as "a supernatural being or spirit, often depicted in humanoid form with feathered wings on their backs and halos around their heads." While this might depict an "angel," it certainly is a far cry from the definition of an "angel investor." Below I define exactly what an "angel investor" is along with answers to the other most common angel investor questions. 1.

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Don’t create what you ran away from

Start Up Blog

'I’m betting that everyone reading this blog, either works in a business they helped build, or is planning to escape their corporate cubicle some time real soon. And the people who are planning exit from the big nasty industrial conglomerate they work for, are planning, most often – build a corporation. (Sounds a lot uglier than the word ‘startup’ – doesn’t it?).

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Agile Immersionists Meetup Offers “Hands-On” Experience at Geekdom

SiliconHills

'By ZACH REED Reporter with Silicon Hills News After work, Punit Sheth taught himself how to build mobile apps. “It all started when I realized how much we rely on mobile applications; in almost any industry, you can see how mobile apps have helped streamline and optimize the processes they’ve been using for many years.” […] The post Agile Immersionists Meetup Offers “Hands-On” Experience at Geekdom appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The next frontier of digital services

Cracking the Code

'Six secular trends will shape the future of ecommerce in the coming decade: mobile becoming a dominant channel, emergence of one click services, rise of the sharing economy, deep personalization, instant delivery and Asia becoming a major market. I remember when the first ecommerce sites launched in the late 90’s with poor dial up connectivity and everyone thinking that a few years down the road everything would be bought online.

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Bazaarvoice Buys Austin-based FeedMagnet

SiliconHills

'Bazaarvoice announced Tuesday its acquisition of FeedMagnet, a social media curation company in Austin, for $9 million in cash. The privately-held company, FeedMagnet, lets brands collect, curate and display consumer generated images, video and social content on their websites and other marketing properties. With the acquisition of FeedMagnet, Bazaarvoice reported it wants to harness the […] The post Bazaarvoice Buys Austin-based FeedMagnet appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Virtual Classroom

Start Up Blog

'The thing that we are fortunate with today, is that it is easy to catch up. If we haven’t been paying attention to the world we make our living in, someone usually has been. And of those people who have been paying attention, these days they are often generous enough to share what they’ve seen. If we’ll take the time to invest a few minutes with a sharp mind, they can teach us what took them years to uncover themselves.

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Bazaarvoice Acquires FeedMagnet

Austin Startup

'Bazaarvoice, the network connecting brands and retailers to the authentic voices of consumers wherever they shop, today announced that it has acquired FeedMagnet, a privately-owned social media curation company that enables brands to collect, curate and display consumer-generated images, video and social content on their websites and other marketing properties.

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How to Get Sales and Marketing On the Same Page

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Get Sales and Marketing On the Same Page written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The title of today’s post became one of the major sub themes of my upcoming book Duct Tape Selling. It didn’t start out that way, but in working with more and more sales departments it became clear that the move to inbound and social selling occurs much more effectively when there’s a culture of cooperation and integration within sales and marketing depart

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

'Keith Rabois famously quipped , “I don’t know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.” That was five months ago, and people are still talking about it. And agreeing. But why? Sure the usual exceptions are trotted out – Rand Fishkin , Joel Gascoigne , etc. But the examples outweigh the exceptions 100-to-1.

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I’m starting to realize that this one thing might be the most important factor in creating a successful business

Jeff Hilimire

'Tonight I’m giving the keynote address at the Founder Institute (FI) graduation. FI is “the world’s largest entrepreneur training and startup launch program.” I’ve been a mentor and speaker throughout the current class and I’m excited about getting them pumped up about graduating tonight. As I’ve been reflecting on what to say, while at the same time going through a very pivotal moment in Dragon Army’s young history – we launched our first

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Strong B2C biz models – moats, bars, alerts, and habits

The Startup Toolkit

'Strong B2C business models have moats, bars, alerts, and habits. Moats keep your competitors out. Bars keep your customers in. And alerts remind them to keep coming back until they develop a habit. Here’s how it fits together: The most dramatic moats are in winner-take-all markets and are built from user activity, which means they grow stronger as your business scales.

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