Sun.Sep 29, 2013

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

'If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business.

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An Epson 3D Vision Of A Projected Future

YoungUpstarts

'Three dimensional representations of visual information, better known as 3D, has been riding on the forefront of technology innovation in recent times. From 3D televisions that were all the rage just four years back (which has but pretty much died down), to the current craze over 3D printing, these new technological methods of stereoscopy utilize the latest of technologies that is only beginning to offer the depth of (virtual) reality promised by computer games decades back.

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PayPup Wins PayPal’s Battle Hack in Austin

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Jeff Lindwood, a software developer with Biscotti Labs, loves dogs. He and his wife even adopted one from the Austin Pets Alive shelter. But helping one dog wasn’t enough, he said. He wanted to do more, but he couldn’t adopt any more dogs. That’s where he got […] The post PayPup Wins PayPal’s Battle Hack in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Does raising money mean you should start scaling?

The Next Web

'Howard Marks is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director of LA tech accelerator StartEngine. Before StartEngine, Howard co-founded Activision and founded Acclaim Games. . Raising money and spending it wisely are two different games. In startup-land, people seem to think raising money is a signal that their business is sound and they should start scaling as soon as possible.

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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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How To Measure The Health Of Your Business Instantly

Mike Michalowicz

'I suspect you don’t check your income statement every day. You likely don’t check it weekly either. Maybe you check it monthly. Maybe. But probably not. For many entrepreneurs the income statement is the only way to measure the businesses health. More often than not, your learn about your businesses profitability during that annual call with your accountant.

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Paul Berberian Interview on This Week In Startups

Feld Thoughts

'I’m a big fan of Jason Calacanis’ show This Week In Startups. I usually run naked (no headphones) but when I listen to something it’s usually an interview or a book. Amy and I had dinner last night with Paul Berberian and his wife Renee and Paul mentioned Jason had interviewed him at Techstars FounderCon in Chicago a few weeks ago.

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Small Business and Startups: What Would Mom (and Pop) Do?

crowdSPRING Blog

'In the world of startups and entrepreneurism, we spend a great deal of time discussing, funding, modeling, online marketing, lean principals, minimally viable products, goals and strategy and tactics, data analysis, ROI, CPC, and CPM (IMHO). We learn a great deal by reading various theories of business, analyzing principles of leadership, dissecting case studies, creating gantt charts, flow charts, bar charts, cartesian charts, and venn diagrams.

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Business Communication Is So Much More Than Words

Startup Professionals Musings

'Effective communication is an absolute requirement for successfully starting a business, but it doesn’t come naturally to many entrepreneurs. Communication is considered a social skill, and inventors and engineers, for example, are not known to be social butterflies. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team.

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The Benefits And Drawbacks Of A Virtual Workplace

YoungUpstarts

'Once upon a time businesses operated out of single spaces – single buildings with a few or possibly dozens of interconnected offices. Even if that single space had “satellite” locations, there was still a single mother ship at which most of the company worked. This isn’t true anymore. Now thanks to the internet, advances in computing and cloud technology, huge multinational corporations can be run from thousands of independent locations.