A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 10 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. — Tom Cargill, Bell Labs. However long the project took to get “close to done,” it will probably take that much time again to really be done. It’s funny because it’s true.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'This week I wrote about obsessive and competitive founders and how this forms the basis of what I look for when I invest. I had been thinking a lot about this recently because I’m often asked the question of “what I look for in an entrepreneur when I want to invest?” I look for a lot of things, actually: Persistence (above all else), resiliency, leadership, humility, attention-to-detail, street smarts, transparency and both obsession with one’s company and a burning desi
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'Isn’t it amazing that some people you know always seem to be working hard, but never seem to get anything done? As an entrepreneur, you need to avoid partnering with these people, or hiring them into your startup. The challenge is to find people who get things done, as well as work hard. LinkedIn profiles and resumes still focus too much on responsibilities rather than results.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'I am honored to be part of Bill Kutik’s 7th annual videocast about trends in enterprise software, especially around HCM and Financials. Sponsored by Workday, I will join Naomi Bloom and Brian Sommer live on December 16 at 11 am.
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
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'Firas Kittaneh is the CEO of One Mall Group. Coffee, late night email and the snooze button sap people of energy, compromising an employee’s overall performance at work. Though these things seem innocent, an evening cup of Joe, one quick reply to a colleague and an extra 15 minutes of shut-eye in the morning can drastically diminish the quality of one’s sleep.
Life Beyond Code
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'A thankless assignment is one where there is a limited upside for doing a great job on the assignment, but there is a serious downside if something goes wrong with it. You (or someone you know) have been tasked with thankless assignments not once, but many times over unless you have been “Vegas-style lucky” – meaning VERY VERY lucky.
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Babbling VC
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'This is one hell of a biased post so let me get that out of the way right off the bat. Being that I am from Slovakia and was just there for the Slovak Startup Awards , there is no way that this post could be considered impartial. But so be it. . Having spent the past 2,5 days in Bratislava to attend the awards show as a jury member, I had the opportunity to get around a bit in town.mostly for meetings.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'Late Night Dream Anxiety Re: Self-Expression. I had a dream last night about self-expression. I dreamed about writing a blog post. I wish I could recall exactly what I wrote in my dreams. The gist of the dream had to do with how pervasive a concept the lack of self-expression is in our lives — so much so that we usually ignore it. The elephant in the creativity and innovation room is a lack of full self-expression.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
'Weekend Favs November Twenty Nine written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting.
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