Thu.Feb 20, 2014

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

'Viktor Marohni? is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full c

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8 Tips For Getting Your Product Into Retail Stores

Up and Running

'If your new business is going to distribute products in the U.S. retail market, that means your business needs to get its products into what people call “the channel”—also known as channels of distribution, or retail channels. I’m talking about getting your product into stores. Big stores or little stores, Macy’s, Office Depot, Staples, Safeway, whatever—the common factor is that it’s very hard to get in.

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5 common mistakes to avoid in mobile commerce

The Next Web

'Matt Winn is Volusion’s Marketing Communications Manager, where he helps oversee the organization’s branding and communications efforts. Our current culture is riddled with mobile junkies addicted to their tablets and smartphones. While this newfound obsession has had quite the negative impact on dinner conversation, it does present a great opportunity for retailers to take advantage of this mobile fixation by providing a high-impact, enjoyable mobile commerce experience.

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Even dumber pipes

deal architect

'WhatsApp valued at $ 19 billion for 450 million users. In Asia, another text messaging service, LINE has another 300 million users and is expected to IPO in Japan this year. Facebook at $ 175 billion for 1.2 billion users.

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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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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

'by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay. Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. You can create and sell custom jewelry, find a room (or rent yours out) on Airbnb, drive your fellow citizens around with Uber, or find families that need some nanny help.

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Extreme Work/Life Balance

deal architect

'Katie Nittler. the latest contributor in the Tech in my Passion guest series, writes me “The column looks great - it was so much fun to do - thank you for thinking of me! Let me know when you want.

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[Infographic] Economy And Education: How America Is Falling Behind

YoungUpstarts

'There is ample evidence that the strength of a country’s economy is intrinsically linked to its expenditure on education and school participation rates. If that is so, the United States, once an education powerhouse, is seeing its advantages – the ones that powered the nation to its position as the world’s biggest and most dominant economy – being eroded over the past decade.

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Facebook Paid

Agile VC

'Like most folks in the tech ecosystem, I’m still slightly slack-jawed this morning by the announcement late yesterday that Facebook is buying WhatsApp for approximately $19 billion in total consideration. There are so many remarkable aspects of this event… from the sheer size, to founder Jan Koum’s personal story, to the way it caught most people by surprise, to Sequoia’s stunning return (more on that below).

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Five Tactics To Help You Snatch Record Profits From The Jaws Of Defeat

YoungUpstarts

'by Suzanne Evans, author of “ The Way You Do Anything is the Way You Do Everything “ Like many business owners, you rang in 2014 with great optimism. This was supposed to be the year you moved results to the next level. So, when you sat down at your desk this morning and saw the big gap between your projected Q1 goals and your current reality, you nearly spit out your coffee.

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Tweet, telephone, or text? A beginner’s guide to omni-channel engagement

The Next Web

'Jennifer Bowden is a customer service specialist currently contributing on behalf of numero , a world-class software solutions provider. The unrelenting emergence of new technology means that brands now need to be everywhere, all of the time. These days, it’s just not enough to have a dedicated call centre ready and waiting to take customer calls and complaints, brands must to be actively available via all forms of media.

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Tips For Leveraging Assets For Better Return On Financial Investment

YoungUpstarts

' A company with a greater ratio of fixed to variable costs is said to be using more operating leverage. This could put it at risk and make it vulnerable in the fast paced business world. Another way of saying this is that debt increases your risk. Financial leverage is how a company uses fixed income securities such as debt or preferred equity. Financial risk is caused by an increase in debt and equities in a company.

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One Day, One Punch

Mike Michalowicz

'It is easy to go really hard at something for a period of time, but the energy wanes. It reminds me of boxing. When those fighters start the first round, they come out hard! They throw hard punch after hard punch. They only win if they land a knockout fast. More often than not, the bout is determined after quite a few rounds, and goes to the guy who landed the most punches over the most time.

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Tips on Branding for Startups

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News What’s in a brand? Billions of dollars, said Bill Schley, branding expert and co-founder of BrandTeamSix. Rackspace’s brand “Fanatical Support” is worth one billion dollars per word, Schley said. “They said we will answer the phone in one ring at midnight on Christmas Eve,” Schley said. And […] The post Tips on Branding for Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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It’s mostly in the execution.

Berkonomics

'“Everybody’s got a plan – until they are punched in the face,” stated boxer Mike Tyson. My experience personally reviewing over three hundred executive summaries each year, all sent to me unsolicited, seems to bear out the truth in Tyson’s statement. Anyone can build a good – or great – plan. Investors have to look behind the plan and at the entrepreneur and his or her team, knowing that, over time, most of us have come to the conclusion that it is the execution of the ever-changing pl

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The Rapid Rise of Crowdfunding

Growthink Blog

'Every year I make predictions. I predict who will win the Super Bowl. I predict who will win this election or that. And so on. Like most people, sometimes I’m right. And often I’m wrong. However, I rarely if ever make predictions publicly. Unless, that is, I am extremely confident my prediction will come true. Maybe this is a psychological flaw; that I don’t want to feel publicly humiliated by making a wrong prediction.

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Sprinklr Acquires Austin-based Dachis Group

SiliconHills

'New York-based Sprinklr announced Wednesday its acquisition of Austin-based Dachis Group, which specializes in social and brand analytics. The combination creates a formidable company. Together, they “have raised more than $95 million in venture capital, acquired 11 companies, including three of the original 13 Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers and served over 50 percent of the […] The post Sprinklr Acquires Austin-based Dachis Group appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Five Ways You’re Not Going To Get An Investor For Your Startup

Duct Tape Marketing

'Five Ways You’re Not Going To Get An Investor For Your Startup 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 Weston Bergmann – Enjoy! There are a lot of ways to attract an angel investor to your startup. There are even more ways to turn them off.

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SXSW 2014 Launch: Perk

Austin Startup

'Today’s feature is with Adam Salamon, Chief Operating Office of Perk.

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Let’s get crazy

Jeff Hilimire

'Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world. Indeed, they are the only one end who ever have. - Margaret Mead. And my guess is that in every case, everyone around them told them they were crazy for even trying.

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7th Annual SXSW Kickoff Happy Hour

Austin Startup

'Sponsored by Spiceworks, Q2, and Equitable Commercial Realty (ECR).

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11 Business Models Your Startup Should Emulate

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally featured in Personal Branding Blog. What non-startup brand do you emulate most and why? Entrepreneurs were asked about the business models that most inspire their own startups. The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs.

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The Power of Connection

Scalable Startup

'Last week I witnessed again the difference between 2 people meeting in person compared all other forms of communication we currently employ. It’s amazing to see the power of the connection between 2 people in proximity to each other. In the startup world, it seems to be winning over the bits and bytes style. I’ve discounted the value of face to face recently as much as anyone, leaning heavily on asynchronous electronic communication for much of my business and personal life, and eve

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7 things you can (legally) steal from successful companies

The Next Web

'Denis Duvauchelle is CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , helping your team organize itself using simple #hashtags. The essence of innovation and the foundation of many start-ups are to imitate and adapt from existing concepts. New ideas are mostly incremental improvements of past ideas, just as we as a biological species have evolved improvements over centuries.

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Let your values lead the way

Version One Ventures

'A few weeks ago when Boris wrote about overcoming decision paralysis , I shared a comment that I make important decisions by evaluating my choices based on how they align with my core values. For years now, I have been encouraging nearly everyone that I meet to take some time to reflect on his or her values for this exact purpose (among many others).

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