Wed.Dec 11, 2013

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The Bully In Your Business: Five Types Of Bullies To Watch Out For

YoungUpstarts

'by Bill McBean, author of “ The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don’t “ There has been a lot of news coverage lately about bullying between teammates on the Miami Dolphins. And by all accounts, it’s an ugly situation — the team in disarray, sponsors canceling contracts, season ticket holders canceling tickets, the Dolphin brand becoming a punch line for comedians’ jokes, and an overall loss of value for the franchise.

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Don’t be an Annoying VC Associate

Rob Go

'Ed Zimmerman wrote a nice article in the WSJ about the value of VC Associates. It’s a great read, and as a former VC associate, I agree with many of his points. But VC associates continue to get a bad reputation, and I totally understand why. It’s not that VC associates are bad or ineffective. But some are. And almost all are prone to some bad behavior at least sometimes.

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SaaS as legacy?

deal architect

'Rob Desisto, my former Gartner colleague, observes This means there is no ability for a SaaS customer to pay for what they use, something we commonly see with infrastructure as a service or in many lower end consumer or SOHO.

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How To Make Sure Your Success Leads To Fulfillment

Startup Professionals Musings

'Is it possible to be successful in business and not fulfilled? The answer is a resounding yes today, and I’m convinced that it will be even more true tomorrow, as young idealistic entrepreneurs try to adapt to the long-standing business culture if success is only measured in the money you make for yourself and your business. That isn’t very fulfilling to the growing number of entrepreneurs whose vision and satisfaction comes from making the world a better place, and enjoying a leisurely lifesty

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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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The real milestone at GM

deal architect

'Congratulations to Mary Barra, the new CEO at GM. While everyone talks about the first female leader in a male dominated industry, the other milestone is she reflects the ascendancy of engineers and technicians in auto world. The car, more.

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[Singapore] Daylight Studios To Tap Growing Mobile Games Market With Two New Titles

YoungUpstarts

'Despite the country’s modest size, the tiny island of Singapore seems to be producing game development firms at a prodigious rate. Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007.

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Five Tips For Landing A Job In The New Year

YoungUpstarts

'by Thomas Moran, CEO of Addison Group. The New Year is right around the corner and with it comes an array of fresh opportunities. As part of a yearly tradition, individuals are preparing their 2014 resolutions and looking ahead to a fresh slate in January. For many, obtaining a job or entering a new career field is on the top of their resolution list.

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What are the top VC firms and angel groups in Seattle/Portland/Vancouver (or Pacific Northwest area)?

Gust

'The Pacific Northwest has some of the best and most active angel groups in the country (and I say that coming from New York!) Check out: Alliance of Angels - Seattle, WA ( [link] els.com/ ). Bellingham Angel Group - Bellingham, WA ( [link] els.com/ ). Boise Angel Alliance – Boise, ID ( [link] iance.com/ ). Eastern Idaho Angel Group – Rexburg, ID ( [link] org/idah… ).

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Startup Boards Is Shipping

Feld Thoughts

'Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors is shipping. It was so satisfying to see this today. This was by far the most difficult book to write so far. The title we came up with should have tipped me off – it ended up be extremely challenging to make a book about “boards” not be “boring.” If you are up for it, give me some opening day love and order a copy of Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors.

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5 Shark Tank Lessons Every Startup Should Understand

Up and Running

'I’m a member of an angel investment group based where I live in Oregon. And I watch Shark Tank, the TV show, in which a select group of seasoned investors (the sharks) pick and choose investments from business pitches. And the TV show has a lot in common with the normal flow of angel investment. So much so, in fact, that if you’re thinking about seeking investment for your business, you should watch enough Shark Tank episodes to understand these three key concepts. . 1.

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What does a COO actually do?

The Equity Kicker

'Last Friday Cem Guralp hosted the latest in our series of events for our portfolio companies and the wider startup community. This one was about the the role of the COO and sought answers to the question “what does a COO actually do?” As with previous events Cem had collected data to inform the debate. In this case he had asked a bunch of COOs a range of questions and looked to draw some insights.

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Geekdom Gets a Hip Makeover at its New Digs in the Historic Rand Building

SiliconHills

'Converting a historic building into a modern-day tech coworking space to incubate hot new startups in downtown San Antonio isn’t an easy task. But Irby Hightower of Alamo Architects and his team have managed to do just that. They took a former bank building and are transforming the seventh floor into a modern day workplace […] The post Geekdom Gets a Hip Makeover at its New Digs in the Historic Rand Building appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How To Massively Leverage Your Super Talents

Mike Michalowicz

'I was forwarded an email that was a forward of an email, that was forwarded from Dan Sullivan. All credit for the process that you are about to learn goes to Mr. Sullivan. Of course, that is unless he forwarded the email from someone else. Then the credit goes to that guy. Here is my summary: We all have talents , yet few of us have the talent of determining what our talent is.

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7 simple concepts

Start Up Blog

'Had a few ideas in my mind for blog posts. But thought I’ll just soundbite them now and go deep later: 1. Selling Potatoes: Startup ideas are often far too clever. Often they represent what is technically possible, rather than what is technically needed. I keep coming back to the idea of selling potatoes. That is, selling something demand already exists for.

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Don’t Let an Unsecured Credit Card System Bankrupt Your Business

Up and Running

'If your business accepts credit and debit cards, do you know about the security risks? Are you properly protecting your business from the potential of tens of thousands of dollars in fines? And are you protecting your customers from fraud? Credit and debit cards are easy and convenient, and accepting them has been proven to increase revenue by as much as 30 percent.

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The Zebra Completes Funding

Austin Startup

'The Zebra, a real-time online auto insurance comparison platform, today announced that it has raised an additional $3 million to complete its seed financing round, bringing the company total to $4.5 million to fuel a nationwide expansion of its auto insurance comparison services.

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Catching Up on Bylines: Lies & Hacks

Mucker Lab

'Making fun of myself and the b t I spew on a daily basis. It’s almost been two years since I co-founded LA-based accelerator MuckerLab and since then, I’ve gotten pretty good at lying. Not the “pants on fire” kinds of lies, but more like “Pretty Little Liars” ones. These are the types of lies that VCs and accelerators dole out to entrepreneurs because they are somewhat true, mostly innocuous, often keep people from crying, but are most definitely misinterpreted by entrepreneurs. read more at Bu

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Apptive Raises $1 Million and Expands its Partnerships

SiliconHills

'Apptive, a mobile app maker, announced it has raised $1 million in the last year. The Austin-based company plans to use the funds to expand its partnerships with e-commerce platforms and online merchants. “With close to half of time spent on e-commerce sites coming from smartphones and tablets, online merchants understand the importance of taking […] The post Apptive Raises $1 Million and Expands its Partnerships appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Catching Up on Bylines: Lies & Hacks

Mucker Lab

'Making fun of myself and the b t I spew on a daily basis. It’s almost been two years since I co-founded LA-based accelerator MuckerLab and since then, I’ve gotten pretty good at lying. Not the “pants on fire” kinds of lies, but more like “Pretty Little Liars” ones. These are the types of lies that VCs and accelerators dole out to entrepreneurs because they are somewhat true, mostly innocuous, often keep people from crying, but are most definitely misinterpreted by entrepreneurs.

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Business Books You Won’t Find in the Business Section

Duct Tape Marketing

'Business Books You Won’t Find in the Business Section written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I love to read all kinds of book. These days I read a ton of business as a bit of an occupational hazzard, but I love to find those non business books that contains tons of unique ideas that I can apply to business. photo credit: Stuck in Customs via photopin cc I wrote this month’s column for OPEN Forum and shared ten such books that have

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Smart Customer Success

Guy Nirpaz

'Yesterday I’ve had a pleasure to co-host a webinar with John Broady, GM of thismoment a great brand management company. The focus of the webinar and the case-study John shared was about creating and ensuring value to customers as the blood-line of a SaaS company. I’ve enclosed the slides just below – enjoy!

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Why Audience Development Must Come Before Business Development

Duct Tape Marketing

'Why Audience Development Must Come Before Business Development written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Jeffrey K. Rohrs. I was recently asked to help a mid sized software company devise a marketing plan. This organization claims they just don’t get marketing, and no one at the organization really owns it, so they struggle. photo credit: marfis75 via photopin cc.

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Daily Podcast with EntrepreWired: David Ehrenberg on Early Growth Financial Services

Early Growth Financial Services

'EntrepreWired | Interviews with successful entrepreneurs. As an experienced C-level executive, David Ehrenberg brings a lot to the table for entrepreneurs at Early Growth Financial Services. After graduating from Georgetown University with degrees in accounting and finance, today’s guest started his career on Wall Street doing mergers and acquisitions and then went on to earn his MBA from the University of Washington.

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What Y Combinator, SV Angel & a16z Can Do to Help SF [Updated]

Hunter Walker

'Fake Google Employees. Startup founder Facebook ranting about the filth of San Francisco. This week has seen two foolish flashpoints in the important discussion of how San Francisco can remain vibrant, diverse and welcoming. The question around civic obligations, personal responsibility and evolution of American economy/politics won’t be addressed by me here.

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Thank you Israel for welcoming our British startup (Guest post)

VC Cafe

'By Daniel Abrahams *. I’ve always been intrigued by the success of the ‘Startup Nation.’ In this post, I want to share my story. That of a British startup which naively arrived for three months in Tel Aviv and hasn’t looked back since. Around February of this year, I asked Eze if he minded a quick chat at the Google campus cafeteria. It’s fair to say, this impromptu conversation helped change the course of both my personal and professional life.