The Next Web

JULY 18, 2013

'If you think about the UK tech startup scene, London’s Tech City in the east of town will probably jump to mind. But look a little closer and you’d realize that while most focus goes on the Silicon Roundabout area of the city, there are other parts of the capital, and country, with a burgeoning startup scene. One of these hubs of new activity is Croydon, just on the southern outskirts of Greater London, which saw the official launch of Croydon Tech City (CTC) six months ago.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

'Can businesses be helpful without getting paid? After all, they are created to make money by selling a product or a service to a customer. Well, Jay Baer , author of “ Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype “, seems to think so. And if you read his book, you’re likely to agree with him too. I first blogged about Jay’s notion of helpful marketing last year after hearing his engaging podcast on Copyblogger Radio.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2013

'In recent years the retail industry–and small retailers in particular–have come to see the internet as something of a threat to their livelihoods. Industry experts have blamed high profile businesses (such as Amazon or Nordstrom) for the rise in popularity of online shopping, claiming that consumers now have no need to visit physical retail shops. In fact, the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) in the U.K. has forecast that one in five High Street shops will close by 2018.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

'3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Andy Hayes – Enjoy! I know what you’re probably thinking: oh, great, another trends post. Personally, I think trend-watching is interesting because it can give you new ideas for your business.

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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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deal architect

JULY 18, 2013

'I think Jim Snabe, co CEO of SAP is creating his own new terminology for reporting numbers when he says about 1H13 numbers "First of all, we don''t like to be in the category of traditional software players. We''re now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2013

'Starting a business is usually the result of a personal dream or need. Investors tell me that they invest in people, more than the idea. Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at the startup stages. That’s why it’s important to build a personal brand, in parallel and before your business brand. This will kick-start your business, and improve your odds of success.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 18, 2013

'My partner Jason Mendelson sent me a five minute video from Wired that shows how a Telsa Model S is built. I watched from my condo in downtown Boulder as the sun was coming up and thought some of the images were as beautiful a dance as I’ve ever seen. The factory has 160 robots and 3000 humans and it’s just remarkable to watch the machines do their thing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

'By Amy Johnson, community coordinator for A Small Orange. Your business’ website is arguably one of the most important aspects to getting an entrepreneurial venture off the ground. It’s therefore imperative that yours is a smashing success – it should be clear and informative as to what your business is and does, and it should encourage the user to want to engage in business with you and your company.

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Rembrandt Communications

JULY 18, 2013

'Search Engine Optimization is About Content In your quest to get to the top of the search engines using search engine optimization (SEO) keywords, coding and linking, it can be easy to forget the “Big O” of SEO – Optimization! The whole reason you conduct SEO is to optimize your Website for the search engines. [.].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

'by Danny Maloney , CEO and co-founder of PinLeague. Pinterest should be an accessible channel for everyone – not only brands who can invest millions in building up their presence. At PinLeague , we pride ourselves on serving businesses and organizations of all sizes, from local businesses to Fortune 100 megabrands. With small businesses, there are two recurring themes that crop up: “Resources are tight.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 18, 2013

'No Need To Interrupt. Have you ever been talking about something, and then someone interrupts you saying “I gotta ask something before I forget.” It could be a juicy question, or more often than not its just an annoying distraction. You don’t want to be that guy. You don’t want to be the one who constantly interrupts. But how do you remember a question, without interrupting and when you can’t jot it down?

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 18, 2013

'Pitching to a VC can be like trying to have a conversation with a three year old. We''re constantly distracted, off on tangents, difficult to keep focused. We also get bored really easily. That''s why you need to start off every pitch--be it in an elevator or in a meeting--with a hook. A hook captures the audience''s attention and gets them leaning in.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 18, 2013

'Three or four years ago I adopted two techniques to speed up my reading. Firstly I guide my eyes with a finger or mouse and secondly I skip and skim if with abandon. For a while I tried the trick of stopping the eyes from going all the way to the edge of the page, but whilst that does make reading faster it takes too much concentration for me. I just read about a simple third trick – to follow the finger of the left hand (or use the left hand to control the mouse).

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 18, 2013

'Your first startup is special for you and everyone else in your team. It is hard work in whatever way you look at it. I am not suggesting that this article will provide a full recipe for cooking up your first startup. That is not the intention. If after you read this, you will discover ONE or TWO things that you will pay attention to beyond whatever else you are doing, I have done my job.

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2013

'Health 2.0 is an international organization working to revolutionize Healthcare by supporting new medical technologies and startups around the globe. It has 70 chapters worldwide, and hosts conferences and code-a-thons to support medical innovation. It also collects research on the healthcare industry. Now, under the leadership of Cynthia Phelps, Ph.D., San Antonio can claim one [.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2013

'I live on the internet because of my profession, and I see business trends come and go. Lately, the hot topic has been failure. It seems like everyone is suddenly willing to admit the ways that they’ve failed, and they’re encouraging other entrepreneurs to fail, too. On the surface, this sounds like a terrible idea—who wants to fail? What is it about failure that make it such an appealing topic for entrepreneurs?

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Gigabot is Austin startup re:3D’s printer that builds objects thirty times larger than most consumer 3D printers, and costs less than $6,000. For comparison: The Makerbot Replicator 2 printer that can build objects of 410 cubic inches (roughly the size of a human head) costs around $2,000 [.] The post Austin Startup re:3D Creates Gigabot 3D Printer appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Berkonomics

JULY 18, 2013

'Substitute the word “money” for “water” and we have an explanation for most all of the reasons why successful products move from concept through early adopters through mass market. Money flows to the cheapest effective solution to a problem. Fighting this fact will just extend the misery of accepting a product or marketing failure in the marketplace.

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2013

'The Texas State Small Business Development Center will kick off its new Spectrum Technology Assistance Program on July 23rd. The program will take place at the Texas State University Round Rock Campus from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. It’s free to attend, but registration is required. Texas State is collaborating with the IC² Institute at [.] The post Texas State’s SBDC Launches Technology Assistance Program appeared first on SiliconHills.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 18, 2013

'Book Short: The Little Engine that Could. Authors Steven Woods and Alex Shootman would make Watty Piper proud. Instead of bringing toys to the children on the other side of the mountain, though, this engine brings revenue into your company. If you run a SaaS business, or really if you run any B2B business, Revenue Engine: Why Revenue Performance Management is the Next Frontier of Competitive Advantage , will change the way you think about Sales and Marketing.

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2013

'MeetMeTix has redone its site and expanded along with its partners Red Carpet Tickets and Ludus Tours. The Austin-based company, which also has operations in Atlanta, offers a variety of tickets to sports and entertainment events for sale including those by people, though a peer-to-peer listing, and listings to tours such as Oktoberfest and a [.] The post Need a Ticket to an Event?

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 18, 2013

'Last week I posted the first in a series of posts about my startup experience with Get Satisfaction. The first post focused on hiring and was appropriately the first in the series because hiring decisions will make or break your company. However, it doesn’t stop there and once you have a team of smart capable professionals you have to create an organization structure that breaths and grows with them as the team accomplishes key objectives and develops an operational cadence around key bus

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2013

'Those crazy folks at SpareFoot have done it again. First, they created the SpareFoot calendar. Now, they’ve launch a new recruiting campaign featuring an over-the-top “mockumentary” documenting the exploits of human resources to attract new employees. One of my favorite parts is the shock collar on the employee to keep him from gorging on the [.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 18, 2013

'Entrepreneurial Density and Venture Capital. The chart below looks at the total amount of dollars spent by venture capital firms as well as the total number of deals on a per-capita basis. As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. The map below provides a visual depiction of the chart above: Maps and statistics provided by TheAtlanticCities.

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2013

'Chaotic Moon Studios, an app development and software company, has bought ThoughtLeadr, a digital ad service based in San Francisco. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Austin-based Chaotic Moon focuses on mobile content development and ThoughtLeadr, founded in 2011, thought that was a good fit. ThoughtLeadr has created an advertising platform that reaches more [.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 18, 2013

'So often—too often—I see the position of CFO as misunderstood or undervalued in smaller companies. In such companies, there needs to be a paradigm shift as the company grows. Early-stage companies need to understand how a CFO can positively impact the company’s growth from every angle. CFOs can help lead the charge when it comes to growing your company.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 18, 2013

'I’ve read before that in any given industry there are typically 2-3 “winners” The companies at the top that everyone is trying to catch. Look at the mobile phone industry – Google, Apple and Samsung. Or the soda industry – Coke and Pepsi. Fedex and UPS. Home Depot and Lowes…the list goes on. What caught my eye last week was an ESPN article that shows how sports apparently tracks the same way.

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