The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'This is a guest post by Mike Lemovitz which originally appeared on his blog. He lives in Central Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. He works in marketing for a large healthcare organization, and moonlights as a photographer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Learn more at [link]. Now that SantaDispatch is in the app store , I thought fellow entrepreneurs would be interested in what it was like to have an iPhone app developed through Elance.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'The recent PwC decision to acquire Booz took me back to younger days when I was an reluctant accountant at PW (the C came later after it merged with Coopers). I had little desire to do time in auditing or.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and Founders being replaced, to their chagrin.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'Image via TheSocialRobot.com. Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. That’s not bad, but who wants to be average? Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'If you’re a little of a health freak, you may have heard of Boost Juice , the international chain of juice bars with over 6000 employees and $160million in global sales that started from a humble little store in Adelaide, Australia. Founded by Janine Allis, Boost Juice was inspired by the juice bar fad that was sweeping across United States in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'I woke up late today (yay – 12:06 hours of sleep) to the last 15 minutes of the elite women in the NYC Marathon. Watching them finish and then watching Mutai crush the men’s field over the last six miles was pretty inspiring. I haven’t run a marathon since October 2012 when I ran the Detroit Marathon but after a year of struggling to get into a rhythm I’m once again motivated – and interested – in doing another marathon.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'Eric Mathews is an entrepreneur and investor. He founded Start Co. , one the fastest growing venture development organizations in the United States developing, accelerating, and investing in high growth startups in logistics technology, information technology, and medical device as well as women-led tech startups. Whether you are driving a car or running a startup, looking ahead is oftentimes more important than looking behind.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'He owns the biggest house. He has the nicest cars. He has all the material things you can imagine. He’s earned it. His family doesn’t know him. He’s never there. When he’s there physically, his mind isn’t. He hates his business and hates his work. He doesn’t own his business, it owns him. He hates himself, because he can’t be himself.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'It''s kind of funny that I''ve already been out of the VC game as a partner for almost two years and regularly still get referred to as one. At the same time, I always revert to my favorite comment that a VC career ended has a shelf-life of about six months. You are still kind of relevant in that world for that amount of time after leaving but then the telltale signs start to appear.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'AngelHack takes place next weekend at Capital Factory starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday. This is the second time AngelHack has held a hackathon in Austin. The first one took place last June at Mass Relevance’s headquarters. This hackathon is focused on mobile apps. AppHack takes place in 30 cities worldwide and focuses on building […] The post AngelHack on Mobile Apps Takes Place Next Weekend at Capital Factory appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'With so much information abundance , it takes a certain skill in knowing what to know. Many emerging trends and changes in our economy and social structures are vital points of knowledge. We need to know them intimately, know how to use the technology and have a detailed domain expertise or we’ll miss out in a business or social context. But many things, maybe even most things, knowing about them is enough.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'Every year, tech startups look forward to the highly selective South by Southwest Accelerator competition at the Startup Village. The 2014 SXSW Accelerator marks the sixth year for the competition. The organizers are expecting more than 500 startups to apply for the 48 slots available. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 8th. “This event […] The post Deadline to Apply for SXSW Accelerator is Nov. 8th appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'This post was originally published on the ooomf blog. Over dinner a couple months ago, one of my friends said he needed some help coming up with a name for a new website. He told me a bit about the site and asked if I could help think of something over dinner. He also asked my other friends to join in so we could get a whole bunch of ideas on the table and choose the best one.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'“Thanks for contacting us with your question. We’ll reply within 3 business days.” When people discuss the “helping” careers , they are usually referring to honorable fields such as social work, teaching, and psychotherapy. Rarely does selling shoes come into the mix. Yet Zappos has built an online empire, growing in little more than a dozen years into one of the largest retailers of shoes in the world.

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