Sun.Aug 04, 2013

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More innovation on the global beaten path

deal architect

'We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that it is refreshing to hear about innovations in other parts of the world. Ice Lab Spain’s High Speed AVE Trains Electronics on the Silk Road Global Landscape of.

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Technical Product Elegance is Not a Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

'Many entrepreneurs work hard on the proof of concept (technical), but skip any proof of the business model (revenue flow). In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. These days, the technical side may be the easy part. Proving the business model requires a different approach than proving the technical concept.

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Application Consolidation payback

deal architect

'While this Unilever case study is meant to highlight SAP''s HANA speeding up the monthly close, to me the bigger story is the large application consolidation "According to Béchet, Unilever is nearing completion of a project to run its worldwide.

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[Infographic] Have Phones Killed The Conversation?

YoungUpstarts

'How many times have your partner glared at you over the dinner table as you finger your precious mobile phone to reply to a text message or post that Twitter update? I know it’s happened to me quite a few times. It seems that we simply don’t talk as much anymore. In fact, the average phone call is now 50% shorter than it was just five years ago, corresponding with a massive increase in texting.

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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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An Indicator Of Passion

Mike Michalowicz

'I wake up many mornings, in a minor panic to write, or to speak, or to create a video, or to connect with someone who can help me (and I them) in spreading the word on authentic entrepreneurship. I have so much that I feel compelled to share that I am often in a slight terror about not being able to put it all out there before I die. Even if I live to 105.

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Match your strategy with your business situation

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

'After many suggestions from colleagues and friends, I finally got a chance to read The First 90 Days some time ago, a book about making significant impact in the first 90 days of a new role. In the book, there’s a section dedicated to the the progression of business situations (of company, org, or product). This is called the StaRS Model. Depending on the business situation, your strategy will be different – either learning more or doing more and either offense or defense.

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Match your strategy with your business situation

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

After many suggestions from colleagues and friends, I finally got a chance to read The First 90 Days some time ago, a book about making significant impact in the first 90 days of a new role. In the book, there’s a section dedicated to the the progression of business situations (of company, org, or product). This is called the StaRS Model. Depending on the business situation, your strategy will be different – either learning more or doing more and either offense or defense.

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The most MEANINGFUL competitive advantage

Life Beyond Code

'The most meaningful competitive advantage is. To scale your ability to care. Caring at scale is a clear competitive advantage because so many people out there pretend to care. It probably would be easy to scale caring if you have a LOT of money. It would be easy, yes, but one should still decide to do it. When you have a LOT of money, it is also easy to not care about anything.

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Everyone is lying to you (the book)

The Startup Toolkit

'false. Short version: I wrote a book about how to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea, even when everyone is lying to you. It will save you lots of time and money. If you’re doing any Customer Development, it’s a must-read. Learn more or just go buy it. Regular version: Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of Customer Development and Lean Startup, but it’s hard to do right and easy to screw up.