Fri.Oct 10, 2014

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Twitter Link Roundup #238 – 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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Founders Finding Funding From Friends May Be Fools

Startup Professionals Musings

'In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. Other entrepreneurs never start their adventure, because they can’t face the prospect of even approaching friends and family for an investment kick-start.

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Developing The Best Workforce With Video Conferencing

YoungUpstarts

'Today’s workforces are increasingly mobile. According to Global Workforce Analytics, telework grew nearly 80% since 2005. Thanks to the growth of modern communications technology , writers, sales teams, designers, and accountants are able to organize and coordinate, regardless of location. Not only are they able to, but in the case of large corporations with interests spanning the globe, they must.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Launching a Food Truck Business

Up and Running

'The food truck craze is sweeping the nation. From thriving cities to rural downtown areas, food-on-wheels is the hip new trend. It’s not just drawing a new crowd of eat-on-the-street customers, it’s bringing in big bucks too. The food truck business pulls in an estimated $804 million in revenue every year, according to an industry report from IBIS World.

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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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Debt Or Equity To Fund Your Start-up: Which Is Better?

YoungUpstarts

'By Jenny Q. Ta , entrepreneur, author and CEO of Sqeeqee.com. Loan financing and equity investment are two common methods of funding a new business start-up, assuming you do not have the capital on your own. Each strategy has advantages. The right choice depends on your short-term and long-term financial goals and personal preferences. Debt financing is the better choice when you prefer to retain control of your operation, and you do not mind the tradeoff of greater risk for higher earning pot

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What every business can learn from Apple’s mistakes

The Next Web

'Ran Rachlin is the co-founder and CEO of Ubertesters, a global provider of a comprehensive, cloud-based, process management tool for mobile applications beta testing. App developers definitely learned something important from Apple’s latest product release: even the titans of the industry deal with programming bugs and release disasters. Well, we all knew that.

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How To Make Your Office Space More Efficient

Mike Michalowicz

'Have an office space that isn’t all that effective? Don’t feel bad. It happens to us all, from time to time. The good news is that there are things you can do right now to make a difference and help things moving along more smoothly. Here are 13 ways that you can make your office space more efficient: 1. Kill the air. Many offices are kept so cold that the employees are wasting time talking about how cold they are and trying to keep warm.

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Why Do We Still Have Airplanes?

Feld Thoughts

'I’ve been listening to the Hyperion Cantos on my iPhone while I run/bike (it’s amazing – I’m almost done with book two) and I’ve been wondering why we still have airplanes. We’ve already figured out how to go from analog form to digital form back to analog form. Consider the telephone. We’ve already figured out how to go from atoms to bits to atoms.

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How hard should founders work?

The Equity Kicker

'This thread on Quora got me thinking about how investors should think about the work rate of the founders they invest in. The first answer is that it shouldn’t matter. If a founder finds a way to build a valuable business in two hours a week we’d be delighted for her. Everybody wins. In a world of perfect information it would be that simple.

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If you have customers, you need customer success!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Once every few years, the combination of a couple of macro trends allows for a new software category to emerge. At Lightspeed, we believe such a confluence of macro factors is coming together to create the next big software category: Customer Success Management. And today, I am thrilled to announce Lightspeed’s investment in the leading startup in the customer success management space, Gainsight.

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Let’s Meet: How to Prevent Big Companies from Wasting Your Startup’s Time

Hunter Walker

'“Big companies most effective asymmetric warfare tactic against startups: requesting endless meeting.” That was the tweet which started a funny back and forth of corporate-speak that Pando’s Michael Carney summarized in S**t Big Companies Say. My original quip was prompted by a lunch with a friend who works at a BigCo CorpDev and often meets with startups.

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FBombs, The Startup Week Panel on Failure

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News In a panel dedicated to failure in starting up a business, the audience seemed to be most focused on one thing—the risks inherent in picking a co-founder. Panelists shared stories about enormous, botched business deals thanks to people they trusted, horrible lawsuits, embezzlement, and then the more […] The post FBombs, The Startup Week Panel on Failure appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Tech Happy Hour, Thurs Oct 16th

Austin Startup

'As you make your morning commute, you can feel the cool air. That usually means football season, ACL, Halloween, and our October Austin Tech Happy Hour! We''ll have cool drinks and warm introductions for your networking pleasure. Stop by and network with all your friends from the technology community.

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Austin Startup Week’s Werewolves Vs. Villagers

SiliconHills

'BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Mercury Fund director Aziz Gilani says he uses it in board meetings because the premise isn’t who’s right, but who is most persuasive. Ali Syed of Justworks said it helps with pitch competitions. But mostly the 30 or so people who convened to play Werewolf at Techstars […] The post Austin Startup Week’s Werewolves Vs.

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StackEngine Launches out of Stealth to Manage & Automate Docker, Raises $1M

Austin Startup

'StackEngine, the platform that gives organizations the power to simply and massively deploy, manage, and scale resilient Docker applications, today formally exited stealth mode and announced $1M in seed funding from Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners. StackEngine is currently in private alpha and plans to use the current round of funding to move towards general availability later in Q4 of this year.

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On getting advice

Jeff Hilimire

'I find that sometimes the answer is obvious, you just need someone else to tell you. This photo really captures that. Want to know if its windy? Is the rock swinging? Then its probably windy ;). I remember the importance of my advisory board with my first company, Spunlogic. They saved us from making a lot of big mistakes, like the time we thought we should open a second office in Charlotte.

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I’ve just started reading Essentialism by Greg.

Bryce Dot VC

'I’ve just started reading Essentialism by Greg McKeown. . This image arrives early in the book and is reenforced throughout. Our Energy, Time and Attention are limited resources. We can chose to spread them wide and shallow or go narrow and deep on a small number of things. Essentialism is built around the latter. Doing Less, Better.

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Zuckerberg Backed Org Launches Contest to Help Grow Internet in India

Campus Entrepreneurship

'A massive 69% of India’s population does not have access to the Internet. A non-profit back by Mark Zuckerberg — probably the most successful student entrepreneur of the past 10 years — has put up $1 million in prizes for creative solutions to this problem. From TechCrunch : The contest from Facebook-backed Internet accessibility partnership Internet.org could help millions of people recognize the value of the Internet, pursue access, and gain knowledge and opportunities that

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The Key To Ideal Customer Service: Making Exceptions

Duct Tape Marketing

'The Key To Ideal Customer Service: Making Exceptions written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Duane Forrester – Enjoy! . photo credit: Copyright: kbuntu / 123RF Stock Photo. It was a dark and stormy night as I entered the store.