Fri.Oct 04, 2013

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Twitter Link Roundup #198 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Oracle Cloud HCM

deal architect

'While Workday and many of the talent management vendors get plenty of analyst attention and will get even more at Bill Kuitk’s HR Tech Show next week, it was good to see Oracle provide its HCM applications a separate track.

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Are You Ready For The Entrepreneur Lifestyle Move?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Deciding to be an entrepreneur is a lifestyle move, and should be part of a long-term strategic plan. You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks it’s a good idea. In these changing times, if you already have a startup, with no plan, maybe it’s time to think ahead for a change.

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Revved up like a deuce

deal architect

'Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite was quoted earlier this year about SAP “Larry (Ellison) has them on such a tilt that they don’t know how to think about things.” He meant every little quote from Larry sends SAP into a.

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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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Focus On Repeatability

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'In the early days of a startup, every business component, from what to pay employees to new product features seems critical. But what are the most important measures of success for a startup? This week, I shared an article on the topic with the Wall Street Journal. In my experience, I’ve have found that the most important aspect for success is relentless focus on establishing a repeatable customer acquisition process.

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What the End of Coworking at General Assembly Means for New York

This is going to be BIG.

'Nothing. Yeah, it doesn''t mean anything. Chill out. General Assembly isn''t really a coworking company. It''s been an education business for quite a while now, if you haven''t noticed--and it''s a business they''re damn good at. By professionalizing startup education in NYC, GA has made a huge impact in the community. By number, most of the people who pass through its doors are there for classes, not to work.

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The importance of feeling in control

The Equity Kicker

'Anyone who works in the startup industry knows that most success comes from a combination of blood, sweat, and tears and a dollop of good luck, and when I look back at the successes I’ve been involved with luck has definitely played its part. Yet I am pretty sure that I will have more success going forward and when I say to people that I have been lucky they generally say that I deserve it.

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FBI Busts $1.2 Billion Silk Road Illegal Online Marketplace with Ties to Austin

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The crazy tale of Ross William Ulbricht, also known as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” after a masked fictional character in the movie “The Princess Bride,” sounds like a HBO series on a renegade Internet entrepreneur gone wrong. Ulbricht, 29, allegedly operated the Silk Road, a sprawling $1.2 billion […] The post FBI Busts $1.2 Billion Silk Road Illegal Online Marketplace with Ties to Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The “It’s Easy” Sucker Punch

Mike Michalowicz

'If anyone tells you that “ it’s easy, just follow my formula,” they’re throwing you a sucker punch. If anyone tells you “I am living the easy life, and you can too. Just buy my system,” they are lying. Every successful person has, and continues to work their ass off to get where they are. Yes, they may have a formula or a system or a process.

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Is There Any Value in Using Meta Description?

Duct Tape Marketing

'Is There Any Value in Using Meta Description? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Friday is “Question of the Week” day here at Duct Tape Marketing. Each Friday I’ll tackle a specific question I received via readers or in places where I’m speaking. Submit your question here and if we use it we’ll highlight you and send you a signed copy of Duct Tape Marketing.

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Help support (and be a part of) the National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Jeff Hilimire

'I was so excited when it was announced that the National Center for Civil and Human Rights would be built in downtown Atlanta. And I’ve gotten to know the CEO, Doug Shipman, who’s an inspiring and passionate guy with the monumental responsibility of bringing this center to life by the middle of 2014. I’m happy to help them with fundraising by sharing with you guys the ability to buy a tile with your name on it to be displayed on the walls of the Center forever.

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NEXT by Startup Weekend in Boulder

Feld Thoughts

'I’ve been a big supporter of Startup Weekend , locally and nationally, since the very beginning and I’m continuing to do so by both sponsoring and mentoring in the NEXT Boulder program. NEXT by Startup Weekend is a wonderful next step for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their idea or early business, while heavily leveraging the Lean methodology.

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Beginning the begin

Jeff Hilimire

'One of my favorite startup dudes, Dr. Payne , shared this with me and it really sums up where I am at the moment in my startup life (and of course, the name of this blog): Needless to say, at Dragon Army we’re beginning the sh&t out of the begin.

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Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Business Plan Blog

'Aligning the Startup Team Strategy with the Capitalization Strategy. The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. A bonafide team is the assurance that the idea can be executed and that the business can scale when the time is right.

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Is the cost of starting a business less than zero?

VC Adventure

'There has been a well documented and discussed deep decline in the cost to start a technology business over the past ~ 15 years. From the days where every website was custom and each site element was a de novo build to today where virtual servers are easily and cheaply spun up and down and where frameworks exist for just about every feature and functionality that you could imagine building, the cost of starting a tech business has gone from $5- $ 10M to maybe $ 50k or less.

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Is the cost of starting a business less than zero?

VC Adventure

There has been a well documented and discussed deep decline in the cost to start a technology business over the past ~ 15 years. From the days where every website was custom and each site element was a de novo build to today where virtual servers are easily and cheaply spun up and down and where frameworks exist for just about every feature and functionality that you could imagine building, the cost of starting a tech business has gone from $5-$10M to maybe $50k or less.

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