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A Tale of Two Fundraising Stories

This is going to be BIG.

'Here are two contrasting startup stories I''ve seen firsthand. With one company, a founder and his super inspirational, creative, and established buddy hatch a plan to build a very strong content brand that serves as a platform for a lot of diverse revenue streams--events, ecommerce, advertising. You could think of it as a spin on Thrillist. With the author staying close as an advisor, they build a real, cashflow positive business and start to think about where they could go with some outside c

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Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast

Up and Running

'As noted in The New York Times’ “Corner Office” columnist Adam Bryant’s latest book, Quick And Nimble , the origin of the expression “culture eats strategy for breakfast” has mostly been linked to the legendary management thinker, Peter Drucker. However, there’s no proof that Drucker was the first person to make that statement. Though it would be nice to know who’s due credit, it’s not a necessary step towards reaping the benefits of its meaning.

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[Review] David And Goliath

YoungUpstarts

'Why do underdogs triumph over mightier enemies? How does one turn a weakness into a strength? In yet another entertaining trip of the intellect, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest volume “ David and Goliath “ tackles perennial paradoxes with much aplomb. Written in his usual captivating prose, Gladwell’s book – subtitled Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants - provides one with much food for thought while challenging conventional wisdom.

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Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast

Up and Running

'As noted in The New York Times’ “Corner Office” columnist Adam Bryant’s latest book, Quick And Nimble , the origin of the expression “culture eats strategy for breakfast” has mostly been linked to the legendary management thinker, Peter Drucker. However, there’s no proof that Drucker was the first person to make that statement. Though it would be nice to know who’s due credit, it’s not a necessary step towards reaping the benefits of its meaning.

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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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Ignoring Anonymous Coward and a Rant on Anonymous Apps

Feld Thoughts

'Suddenly anonymous apps are all the rage again. Secret and Whisper are the two that have recently made headlines, but there’s a cockroach like proliferation of them being funded by VCs. As one of my favorite BSG quotes goes, “All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.” I was generally ignoring this until I read a long post by Austin Hill titled On your permanent record: Anonymity, pseudonymity, ephemerality & bears omfg!

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Moving away from clicks and links to attention and quality

The Equity Kicker

'Tony Haile, CEO of analytics business Chartbeat has a great post up on Time with the provocative title What you think you know about the web is wrong. His point is that we have all been tracking clicks and links as a proxy for attention and intent, but attention and engagement are what really count. As a result publishers and advertisers often misunderstand their businesses and invest in clickbait and articles that people don’t read that don’t perform for advertisers.

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3 Picks For The Best Business File-Sharing Services

ReadWriteStart

This post is presented by Business Is Great Britain. It’s easier than ever for businesses to go global—even small ones. The death of distance has also killed off paperwork: Faxes and FedEx seem hopelessly archaic when our work product is increasingly digital. Cloud-based file sharing has gone from a pie-in-the-sky idea to an essential business tool for operating in a global economy.

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Life’s a Pitch

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Life’s A Pitch. Life’s a pitch so be ready. #startups #entreprenuer @talkapolis @entreprenurialmind @southernalpha. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Life’s a Pitch appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Tech Startup Scene in Kansas City Is Red Hot!

Duct Tape Marketing

'Tech Startup Scene in Kansas City Is Red Hot! written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Lots of tech start-up activity is taking place in Kansas City, home of Duct Tape Marketing, the Kauffman Foundation and the first city to receive Google Fiber in late 2012 in an estimated half billion dollar investment.

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Part 1: Why you should run your startup like a sports team

Jeff Hilimire

'This week I’ll be writing a 4 part series on the similarities of running a startup and a sports team. I started playing tennis when I was 12 years old and from that point until I was 21, tennis was my full time passion. I played in tournaments across Georgia and the Southeast as a teenager and then played for a Division I college on a tennis scholarship (UNC-Charlotte).

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"We leverage the billions of dollars spent on the consumer mobile phone business for most of our."

Bryce Dot VC

'“We leverage the billions of dollars spent on the consumer mobile phone business for most of our parts. Nothing here was prequalified to be in space. We bought most of our parts online.” - From a NYT profile of the team at Planet Labs. This. This is why we’re seeing surging breatkthroughs in new devices and hardware enabled applications.

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Book Short: Internet Fiction

OnlyOnce

'Book Short: Internet Fiction. It’s been a long time since I read Tom Evslin’s Hackoff.com , which Tom called a “blook” since he released it serially as a blog, then when it was all done, as a bound book. Mariquita and I read it together and loved every minute of it. One post I wrote about it at the time was entitled Like Fingernails on a Chalkboard.

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SXSW 2014: Edu, Music, and Pi Day

entrepreMusings

'This is the first time in several years that I did not attend any SXSW interactive events…not a single one. I don’t feel that I missed out on anything other than not seeing some folks in person who I usually “see” online. Instead I attended SXSWedu and finagled a wristband for SXSW music , and I had a great time. People will use this simply going online payment that viagra online without prescription viagra cialis be completely guaranteed and some lenders.

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The Upstart’s Guide To Boosting A Firm’s Sex Appeal

YoungUpstarts

'Sex sells. From Calvin Klein and Victoria’s Secret to Coca-Cola and Pepsi, the world’s biggest brands spend millions of dollars each year sexing up their goods in the quest for market dominance. However, if your firm flogs screwdriver handles or kitchen cleaning products, you’d be forgiven for thinking there’s not much wriggle room to increase your appeal to a wider audience.

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Getting Things Done Trumps Great Ideas In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

'When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up. Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software.