Sat.Jun 21, 2014

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The Power of Getting the Band Back Together

Both Sides of the Table

'Startups are hard. You’ve heard that a million times. Those that we survive with become family. It’s something you can’t know unless you’ve ever been in the trenches. Working hard together at a big company just isn’t the same. The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad.

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The Maker Movement Is A New Mecca For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

'Back in the early 2000s, the Maker Movement took hold in California, based on the emergence of such do-it-yourself (DIY) tools as 3-D printers, Google''s SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop, with all the tools you need to make almost anything. Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment.

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The one hire every startup desperately needs to make

The Next Web

'Nick Marsh is the founder at Makeshift. This post originally appeared on Medium. I want to introduce a new concept?—?‘talent hacking’. I define this as the creative application of technology and data to the problem of building new teams. I’m trying to coin this phrase in part to highlight how we’ve bizarrely neglected the ‘people’ part of the startup stack.

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Why are the majority of angel investors focused on opportunities with large TAM?

Gust

'Because of the economic realities of angel investing, not greed. The hard and unforgiving facts are that the majority of all angel-backed ventures fail completely, losing all the money of all the investors. Of the remaining investments, most will return either the same amount that was originally invested, or perhaps be a moderate success and return two or three times the investment.

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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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The publishing industry isn’t dead – but it is evolving

The Next Web

'Joe Hyrkin is the CEO of Issuu, the world’s fastest growing digital publishing platform. The rumors of the publishing industry’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Long-form content is experiencing a resurgence thanks to new technologies that create new monetization opportunities for the publishers. The ongoing and recently resurfaced, “Amazon versus the publishing industry” debate coupled with the recent news of Time Inc. going public seemly highlighted one thing: the publishing industry is

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Happy 21st Anniversary @abatchelor

Feld Thoughts

'Lots of people get married on the summer solstice. To all of them – including those getting married today – congrats and welcome to the club! It’s a particularly sweet club on your 21st anniversary if you are a numerophile, which is a word that Amy and I just made up that describes people who love numbers. And blackjack. And Dragons.

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Let No Pro Rata Go to Waste: How Smaller Funds Make Their Money

Hunter Walker

'One question entrepreneurs sometimes don’t ask when raising seed financing is “will this investor be able to follow on in future rounds.” That is, assuming they have pro rata rights, will they look to maintain their ownership stake in the A Round, B Round, etc. Most VC financial models assume they are going to “double down on their winners” which means reserving capital from their fund to put additional dollars into a company.

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Happy 21st Anniversary @abatchelor

Feld Thoughts

'Lots of people get married on the summer solstice. To all of them – including those getting married today – congrats and welcome to the club! It’s a particularly sweet club on your 21st anniversary if you are a numerophile, which is a word that Amy and I just made up that describes people who love numbers. And blackjack. And Dragons.

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“Do You Really Want To Succeed?”

Scott Edward Walker

'“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar. Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball

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Weekend Favs June Twenty One

Duct Tape Marketing

'Weekend Favs June Twenty One written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. photo credit: nichameleon via photopin cc.

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This week the White House hosted their first ever Maker Faire.

Bryce Dot VC

'This week the White House hosted their first ever Maker Faire. You didn’t read about it on Techcrunch. Or Mashable. But make no mistake, this was an historic event. I recall running into Dale Daugherty, founder and CEO of Maker Media and spiritual leader of the maker movement shortly after President Obama’s 2009 inaugural speech. Dale giddily asked “did you hear it?

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