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Iā€™m Back. Why I Love January

Both Sides of the Table

It’s January. Happy New Year! My last post was December 17 – nearly a month ago. I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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Why tech commercials need domestic content disclosure

deal architect

You know how autos have a sticker which show what percentage of the car is actually made in the US. I would like to see how much Verizon technology is actually used in this firefighter app. The Golden-i headset is.

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Nurture 5 Top Entrepreneur Success Characteristics

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup wants to be a predictable success, yet so few ever achieve this enviable position. In reality, getting there is not a random walk, and requires an understanding of the stages that every business must navigate and the organizational characteristics necessary at each stage. Les McKeown, in his book ā€œ Predictable Success ā€ outlines these stages and characteristics for any business.

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For god and country, Geronimo

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It is one of the most poignant quotes ever in the heat of the moment, and to me ranks with Neil Armstrongā€™s ā€œOne small stepā€¦ā€ among others. And it only shows up in passing in the last 15 minutes of.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick NoreƱa, 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 NoreƱa 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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Build Entrepreneur Credentials Early and Wisely

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Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard via ShinyShiny.tv. Many believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. There are people who are natural musicians, but that doesn’t mean we don’t try to teach them music.

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More Innovation

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on the New Florence blog Santaā€™s Mobile/Social Gifts Technology and Christmas Eve The Santa Math Project Waterford Arbitrage The Foti Fire Show Never Stop Searching Tim Cook: Timeā€™s Runner-up for Person of the Year The Mobile Apps economy.

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Concentrate Mostly On One Company

Feld Thoughts

This first appeared in the Wall Street Journalā€™s Accelerator series. A few our entrepreneurial heroes work on more that one company at a time. Steve Jobs (Pixar, Apple), Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), Jack Dorsey (Twitter, Square), and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn, Greylock). And we regularly hear of entrepreneurs who are working at companies that acquired their first company who are now working on new companies while still at their acquirer.

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[Review] The Book of Business Awesome/The Book Of Business UnAwesome

YoungUpstarts

Have you wondered what works (and doesn’t) in Facebook? Or how you can undo an ill conceived tweet let loose in a fit of anger? Maybe you need to stand out in a sea of fiercely “social” competitors? Well, now you can. Written in tongue-in-cheek fashion with unabashed directness, “ The Book of Business Awesome / The Book of Business UnAwesome ” is a unique two-in-one volume by “UnMarketing” consultant Scott Stratten.

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How to Raise Funding From Venture Capitalists

Growthink Blog

Venture capitalists (VCs), unlike angel investors, are professional investors that invest other people's money. Similar to angel investors, their goal is to earn a solid return on this money. In fact, VCs are judged and compensated by the performance of their investments. As a result, they are extremely rigorous in their investment decision-making process.

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Small business Congress-watch: Two Reasons to Call Your Representative!

crowdSPRING Blog

On occasion we take a look at recent legislation coming out of our Federal government in Washington. While the news is often discouraging and the activities of our politicians typically frustrating, there are those times when truly great ideas are put forth and, every so often, these idea become actual laws. Hard to believe, but it is true. Right now you are probably asking yourself, “What has Congress done lately that is helping small business?

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The Impermance of all That Exists

entrepreMusings

This weekend I went to the Blanton Museum of Art exhibit that showcased Tibetan monks building a sand mandala. After spending days and hours creating this mandala out of fine, colored sand, they “ dismantle the mandala, sweeping up the colored sands to symbolize the impermanence of all that exists.” I wonder if entrepreneurs who achieve the most success, not only in dollars but also impact on the world, truly understand that everything is impermanent which results in a shift in how

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The downside of the internet

Start Up Blog

I was recently watching this documentary about break dancing and its evolution in the Bronx of New York. You may remember from previous posts that I was very much into the activity, before the main stream media and taste makers decided it was over. They pulled the albums from the shelves, stopped showing it on TV (I had 3 channels to chose from) and let it evaporate into history as a fad we can all look back on.