Sun.Dec 01, 2013

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Enterprise Adoption Laggards?

deal architect

'The pace of technology innovation continues to accelerate - New Florence just had a record month of posts. But innovation without adoption = duds. This Harvard Business Review article and the graph from it below show technologies are getting adopted.

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Don’t Limit Your Startup Marketing To Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

'Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The answer is yes to all, and the challenge is how to choose how much of each, and how to integrate them for maximum impact and the least cost. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing.

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Standing Tall

deal architect

'Every month the New Florence blog averages 50 to 60 posts. 2 a day is not bad. But November out did its peers with 90 posts. December looks just as promising. In 2005, when this blog started the whole year.

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Corporate Perks Will Doom Your Entrepreneur Dreams

Gust

'Image via ExecutiveSky.ch. I hear many executives and professionals in large corporations talking about their dream of jumping ship, and starting their own company. What they don’t realize is that the longer they wait, the more big-company habits they are acquiring, which will make their eventual decision harder and entrepreneurial efforts less and less likely to succeed.

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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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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

YoungUpstarts

'by Tom Panaggio, author of “ The Risk Advantage: Embracing the Entrepreneur’s Unexpected Edge “ It’s time to open a second retail store branch — and you fully intend to — but you’re not quite ready yet. You found a possible location but it doesn’t seem perfect, and besides, you’re not sure if the local marketplace conditions are right. Maybe next year would be better.

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Small Business and Startups: Where to Learn

crowdSPRING Blog

'Resources for entrepreneurs are widely available and easy to access, but you need to know where to look and who to visit. First time entrepreneurs in particular have tons of questions and hunger for mentors, confidants, cronies, and fellow travelers. Anyone with an idea for a business can find a place to turn, an article to read, a war story to listen to, an online discussion, or a local entrepreneurship program or incubator to provide guidance.

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Amazon, Apple, Kickstarter and Everyone Else

Hunter Walker

'I didn’t buy anything on Black Friday besides a coffee but the barrage of email offers did remind me of one thing: how little I care about most ecommerce retailers. Reflecting, there were only three sites where I spent >$500 in 2013: Amazon, Apple and Kickstarter (add Honest if you include our household’s diaper subscription. I’m not including airline, hotels, tickets because focused more on the delivery of a physical good). .

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Odd Song Lyrics That Yield Business Success

Growthink Blog

'The other day on my drive to work I heard a song on Pandora. The song was called "Just the Girl." And it''s by the band ''The Click Five.'' I''d never heard of the band nor the song, but one of the lyrics caught my attention: "She laughs at my dreams. But I dream about her laughter" This line caught my attention because it reminded me of two extremely important mindset principles for entrepreneurs. 1.

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Texas Intrepid Ventures’ David Spencer on Startup Grind San Antonio

SiliconHills

'David Spencer is an advocate for San Antonio’s technology community. Spencer was a founding board member and co-chair of the now defunct San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative, known as SATAI. He also served a two year term as chairman of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, which invested in early stage technology companies in Texas. Aside […] The post Texas Intrepid Ventures’ David Spencer on Startup Grind San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Thanksgivukkah and Black Friday

entrepreMusings

'This year Thanksgiving and Hanukkah collided. In the US, apparently the retailers decided to start the crazy sales activity just that much earlier and open up Thanksgiving eve. I guess the news folks will tell us if it was worth it. I didn’t venture out or even online to purchase anything on “Black Friday,” Thursday, or whatever.

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