Mon.Jan 28, 2013

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is Ricardo’s “post mortem” account of the life and death of a corporate entrepreneurship program.

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The end of the social enterprise?

deal architect

Peter Goldmacher at Cowen and Larry Dignan/Dennis Howlett at ZDNet have painted in the last few days a bleak view of the social enterprise. It is interesting to read their comments in a week which starts with the Connect event.

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is Ricardo’s “post mortem” account of the life and death of a corporate entrepreneurship program.

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Startups Need the Right Team Mindset to Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

Since the days of Henry Ford, mass production has been the Holy Grail of business, rather than build-to-order. Too many businesses haven’t noticed that we have come full-circle, where mass customization is required now to win. Customers have come to expect immediate and tailor-made responses to their needs, and the businesses that fail to deliver quickly fall behind.

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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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More Innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence log The Harbin Winter Wonderland E-Cigs The Pebble smartwatch Silicon Prairie Sundance – now technology to support the indie filmmaker Fragmenting Light to improve Solar Cell efficiency The Facebook Graph Cirque + Cameron = Cool as.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

We are surrounded by incredible digital experiences. Masterful design, branding and marketing. Yet, it would be fair to say we are also drowning in awful digital experiences – or, at the very minimum, experiences that seem to be stuck in 1991. As a Digital Marketing Evangelist you can imagine how much that pains me. When I work with companies, I do my very best to bring my deep and undying passion for creativity and digital awesomeness to them.

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Creating value in European companies by expanding to the US

The Equity Kicker

European companies that successfully launch in the US experience a step change in value and one of our investment strategies at DFJ Esprit is to be part of that process. We provide capital to finance the expansion and our networks and experience of how to do it right increase the chances of success. These thoughts are in my mind right now because I’m sitting on a plane to New York for a three day trip during which my diary is entirely filled with meetings related to a number of our portfol

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Boulder Startup Life Event Tonight at Riverside

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to be doing the first public Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur talk tonight at Riverside at 7pm. If you don’t know Riverside, it’s a new co-working, event, and cafe space on 1724 Broadway in Boulder. It’s a beautiful old building that’s been a fixture in Boulder for a very long time.

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Do you really know how to learn?

This is going to be BIG.

Tweet. As I finished up my weekly newsletter of NYC's tech events and classes , I thought a lot about some recent conversations I've had with some new entrants into the startup ecosystem--enthusiastic young professionals whose stated goals centered around learning. I sometimes find myself wondering in this world of classes, accelerators, and religious zealotry around methodologies if anyone is, in fact, learning anything.

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Want to be Powered by TechStars?

David Cohen

Both the Microsoft Accelerator and the Nike+ Accelerator are powered by TechStars, and both provide $20,000 in startup funding, intensive mentorship, and the chance to pitch to investors at demo day. Working on a quantified self startup? Or, are you on any startup that would benefit from integration with Nike? Need some ideas? Check out how Path integrated Nike+ and take a look at the Nike+ API developer portal.

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A Closer Look At The Quality Of Angel Returns Data

David Teten

I previously published this at Techcrunch. . The good news for Techcrunch readers: Every major study conducted to date has placed angel investors’ IRR between 18 and 38 percent, as summarized by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank in prior Techcrunch articles. The bad news: the data on angel returns has historically been difficult to obtain, analyze, verify, and therefore rely upon.

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80% 95% of Success is Showing Up

Mike Michalowicz

Woody Allen said 80% of success is showing up. That was clearly before Al Gore invented the Internet. Showing up today gives you 95% of success. I realized it this weekend. I was at a spin off event of TEDxHoboken , and it was nothing short of soul shifting. The speakers were amazing. The techno-violinist was mind blowing. The learning was infinite.

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Website Usability Testing: A Must for Boosting Conversions

ConversionXL

Usability testing is the black horse of boosting conversion. If your site is difficult to use or understand (= has usability problems), it kills conversions. Website usability testing helps you identify all the main sources of friction, and thus boost conversions. The premise is simple: observe real users use and interact with your website, pay attention to their experiences and try to spot patterns.

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What Do Sam Walton, Ray Croc, and Howard Schultz Have in Common?

Growthink Blog

Wal-Mart. McDonalds. Starbucks. What do they have in common? Well, for one, they are businesses that were not started and grown from scratch by their original founders. No, they were businesses started by others and then bought by ambitious and talented entrepreneurs who then propelled them to a new stratosphere of growth. And while high profile, statistically they are not atypical.

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Persuasion & Startups

Start Up Blog

This video was a nice reminder of what motivates people in life. I dig the animation, but I did think that the examples were kind of naff. In the spirit of de-naffing – I thought I’d list out the 6 key motivators, and then give an example of how a startup can employ it in a cool way that makes sense. According to the science these are the key drivers that persuade people to take action.

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5 Attributes of a Can’t Miss New Product

Duct Tape Marketing

This post brought to you by Grow America. Grow America announces its $35,000 Innovative Product Competition for passionate entrepreneurs. Enter the competition to get going and get growing. photo credit: Ric e Ette via photopin cc. There are lots of great product ideas floating around out there. Perhaps you’ve even scratched out you own invention and are waiting for the perfect time to get your big idea off the ground.

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The Five Characteristics of a Great Leader #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

This is a blindpost* from the Fast Company article, The Five Characteristics of a Great Leader. Basically, I read the title and write the article from my point of view, without ever reading the original article. So, here is my list of the five characteristics of a great leader. Obviously, this is pulled from my experience observing great leaders in action.

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Driving Economic Development with Inclusive Business

Business Plan Blog

'An Inclusive Business is a business model that strives to benefit the community by directly including low-income populations into their business cycles , whether as producers or consumers of the good or service. It is a strategy that aids a large and often forgotten section of the community through social initiatives while still fostering business growth and for-profit policies.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: January 14th – 27th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a few blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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Social TV Has Arrived…Is There a Business Model?

VC Cafe

Nielsen has made it official- Multi-tasking across screens, particularly while watching TV, is now the norm. With US Smartphone penetration on pace to reach 80% next year (Asymco) and 2012 tablet sales of 136 million units, the era of Social TV has arrived. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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[Hong Kong][Event] CARTES Asia And E-Commerce Asia Shed Light On Mobile Payment Revolution In APAC

YoungUpstarts

Mobile commerce is expected to continue its stellar growth in 2013, and Asia is expected to spearhead much of that growth. In fact, in Asia, the value of Asian non-cash transactions is expected to surge from US$191 trillion recorded in 2010 to some US$301 trillion by 2020, buoyed by payment methods such as mobile payment and the use of prepaid cards becoming increasingly popular in APAC.

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How to deal with the Series A crunch

Version One Ventures

Since CBInsights released its report in December, conversations have accelerated about the pending “Series A Crunch.” With headlines declaring that more than 1,000 seeded startups will soon be orphaned, it’s only natural that startups are concerned about the future funding landscape. While experts may differ on the implications or severity of the Series A Crunch, the numbers provided by CBInsights are straightforward.

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Israeli VC Fundraising In 2012 Down 30% but Micro VC Funds on The Rise

VC Cafe

We've been hearing that Israeli VC funds struggle to raise follow on funds, but the extent of their demise is now becoming clearer, and gloomier. A new report released by IVC Online, highlights that Israeli Venture Capital funds raised $607 million in 2012, 30% down from the previous year. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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[Review] How Pleasure Works

YoungUpstarts

Why does pain sometimes feel like pleasure? Why do we enjoy music and art even though there aren’t any adaptive advantages ? When does “one man’s meat” become “another man’s poison”? The answers to these human behavioral puzzles (and more) can be found in “ How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like “ Written by Yale’s evolutionary psychologist Paul Bloom , the book uncovers the “new science of why we like wha

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Great, Simple Cap Table Tool for Startups from SMARTASSET

Scalable Startup

One of the top 3 to 5 worries when launching a startup is is “Who gets how much stock upon start or joining? Founders, Co-Founders, next employees, Investors, Etc. The founders of SmartAsset went through this process and decided to open it up to the world. These guys put together something very cool and it follows the “Give before you get” rule.