Wed.Apr 16, 2014

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Tablets: Changing The Future Of TV Viewing

YoungUpstarts

'By Jessica Oaks. Tablets have quickly become a pervasive part of modern life since the original iteration of the Apple iPad was introduced in 2010. In fact, tablets have become so popular that they have created a phenomenon that many in the tech industry are referring to as the “second screen” – a screen that, increasingly, allows for interaction with apps, games and the Internet while watching television or a movie.

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Lessons Learned: Why My Kickstarter Campaign Failed

Up and Running

'Thousands of business owners have turned to Kickstarter , an online fundraising site, to help raise capital for new ventures. Raising capital for your business isn’t easy, which is why so many entrepreneurs are attracted to Kickstarter. If you’ve got an idea, you can create a page on Kickstarter, highlight your project, and ask backers to support the idea financially.

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Infor: Its a vertical world after all

deal architect

'Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor, is a sharp dresser. His lean frame and his attention to detail (he has designed his own shirt collars since he was young) certainly help. At dinner he politely explained to a few curious analysts.

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Is An Ideal Entrepreneur Right Brain Or Left Brain?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Traditionally, the majority of entrepreneurs have been logical thinkers, problem solvers, and pay attention to details. These are the stereotypical left-brain engineers. Yet I see a big shift from the knowledge age, with its left-brain foundation, to a critical focus today on visualization, creativity, relationships, and collaboration, which are more in the domain of right-brainers.

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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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[Infographic] The Potential Of Social Media For B2B In 2014

YoungUpstarts

'It’s often said that social media is much harder to crack for B2B businesses than it is for consumer-based ones. In many cases, it’s true – but increasingly social media platforms have become the choice for B2B marketers, and budgets have also correspondingly grown to take advantage of this space. For 2013, professional networking site LinkedIn has actually caught up with Facebook as one of the preferred social networks for B2B businesses at 86.4%, with Twitter coming in 3rd a

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More global innovation

deal architect

'Innovation from around the globe'' iElevation – Nepal A museum or a library? – Mexico Technology on the ICE Train – Germany Shipping ice cream globally – US, China Big Data of Long Lives – Italy, Greece, Japan Nokia alumni.

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What is appropriate for Investor’s Contracts?

Gust

'There is no standard thing called an “Investors Contract”, and it sounds as though you are trying to re-invent the wheel here. It also sounds as though you are doing all of this yourself, instead of using an experienced lawyer…which is a very, very bad idea. For example, in virtually every case I can imagine, the “contract” you are describing is an asset that absolutely would transfer to the investor’s estate in the event of his death.

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Shopify’s 50 Ways To Make Your First Sale

YoungUpstarts

'If you’ve just put together an online shop and are raring to make your first sale but have no idea how to do it, here’s a very useful guide put together by the folks at e-commerce website solution provider Shopify. Providing 50 useful pieces of advice covering topics ranging from leveraging social media to search engine marketing, from using paid ads to even employing traditional advertising such as print ads (gasp), the guide outlines 50 different strategies to help you make that

Sales 150
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Digital disruption is changing business, but technology isn’t the only answer

The Next Web

'Brian Solis is principal analyst at Altimeter Group, a research firm focused on disruptive technology. He’s also a digital anthropologist and futurist who studies and the effects of emerging technology on business and society. It’s pretty easy to get caught up in tech these days. It’s part of our life now and in many ways, it is our life. Obviously, if you didn’t care about what’s new or what’s next you wouldn’t be here.

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Business Partners Abroad: Are Financial And Credit Checks Necessary?

YoungUpstarts

'For many companies, adding an international component to business is an important part of their growth strategy. However, finding the right partners to make this a reality can be easier said than done. After all, there may be a very different business culture in your target country and factors may exist that you have not yet considered. There are several things to think about before making a commitment to a foreign partner.

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WhatsApp, Instagram and the new rules of marketing for the networked age

The Next Web

'Sangeet Paul Choudary is the author of the blog Platform Thinking. Patrick Vlaskovits is a NYT bestseller author and CEO of Superpowered. Welcome to the age of the zero-dollar marketing startup. WhatsApp, and earlier Instagram, have officially become a permanent part of startup lore for having built multi-billion dollar businesses without (reportedly) spending a dime on marketing.

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Be Honest. Would You Invest In Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

'by Stephen Pritchard, Funding Circle. If you want to accelerate the growth of your business, you’re likely to need to secure finance from somewhere to help you achieve this. Whether you approach friends and family, your high street bank or an alternative source of funding such as peer-to-peer lending, you’ll need to convince people that your business is worth lending to and your plans for growth are realistic.

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5 pitfalls to avoid when joining someone else’s startup

The Next Web

'George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Typically, entrepreneurs start their own business. But, from time to time, they will see a unique opportunity to join somebody else’s startup, either as investing CEO or as a new member of the executive team.

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SELLING YOUR COMPANY? THE 5 BIGGEST LEGAL MISTAKES

Scott Edward Walker

'INTRODUCTION. [link]. I did a brief video a few years back addressing the five biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make doing deals generally (see above), which covered the following topics: not diligencing the guys on the other side of the table (at 0:26). not building a strong transaction team (at 1:11). not running negotiations through the lawyers (at 2:10). not checking your emotions at the door (at 2:49) and. blinking first (at 3:28) .

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This Advice From IDEO's Nicole Kahn Will Transform the Way You Give Presentations

firstround.com

'“Stories are the way our teams get excited, aligned, and rallied around the same goal,” says long-time IDEO Project Lead Nicole Kahn. “But more importantly, we know that our designs don’t live on with our clients without a good story attached to them. This is something we wanted to shift — to ensure that all of our designers would also see themselves as storytellers.

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Dell Medical School Dean Expects Opportunities for Austin Tech Startups

SiliconHills

'By TIM GREEN Reporter with Silicon Hills News If the Dell Medical School were a startup, it would have cleared some important milestones. It’s funded. Construction will soon start on its campus. And it’s got a leader in Dr. Clay Johnston. Before being named dean of Dell Medical School, Johnston had been the associate vice […] The post Dell Medical School Dean Expects Opportunities for Austin Tech Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The 3 directions pulling on us

Start Up Blog

'There are always three forces pulling on us which have a significant impact on our future. Backwards – the pull of the past, the regrets, the waste, the mistakes and our history. The negative thoughts that tell us we’re not smart enough, not tall enough, not pretty enough, not rich enough, not connected enough, not disciplined enough. These are thoughts which steal our dreams by convincing us that it isn’t going to happen for us because of pattern of events which have already

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No

Mike Michalowicz

'“No.” It’s the password to the next level. The post No appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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I AM GOING TO CRUSH YOU

Jeff Hilimire

'It was early 2001 and we were a five person web design company. We’d been “in business” since late 1998 but we were still kids, having started Spunlogic from our dorm room at UNC-Charlotte. By 2001, one of our major strategies was to work with other firms to help them produce websites. There was one firm in particular, let’s just call it Blue Ocean, that was using us quite a bit.

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Rules For Modern Selling

Duct Tape Marketing

'Rules For Modern Selling written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Bill Caskey. The game of selling has not really changed that much – the job is to build relationships, provide value and help people solve their problems – in the end, if you are to succeed, that means selling things.

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Socialware Bolsters Leadership Team With New Vice President of Product Development

Austin Startup

'Social media compliance and marketing experts Socialware today announced Matt Roberts has joined the company''s leadership team as Vice President of Product Development, reporting to CEO Ken Naumann.

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Should you risk 3 years of your career on a startup?

The Startup Toolkit

'Should you give up 3 years of your career to try a startup? It’s a common concern from first-time founders, but the question is meaningless because it’s phrased to ignore a startup’s career benefits. Namely, that your employability keeps growing while you’re away. For example, when I first graduated university, I could only have been hired as an entry-level programmer.

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Context Matters! Lessons Learned From YouTube Personalized Recommendations (And Why This Matters For Twitter)

Hunter Walker

'“But what I do have are a very particular set of skills ; skills I have acquired over a very long career.” Was tweeting the other day about how Twitter’s “Who to follow” recommendations lacked context and speculated the inclusion of more information might increase conversion. Here’s what the web version looks like today: While the suggested accounts might be personalized by Twitter’s understanding of my interests, and in shel’s case it provides

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Forget The ‘Likes’ – How To Market Effectively Using Today’s Facebook

YoungUpstarts

'by Jonathan Sellers, social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations. It seems nothing changes faster than the big social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google+. No sooner do marketers figure out how to best promote a product or business than they change the rules! That’s been especially true for Facebook, which had to find new ways to make money after going public two years ago.