Mon.Sep 19, 2016

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Oracle IaaS opportunity is much bigger than Amazons

deal architect

Three things were striking about Larry Ellison’s kickoff keynote at Oracle OpenWorld last night a) he was at his late night host best – I must have been a sight as I burst out in humor every few minutes b).

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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees. The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create

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Convenience as a Service

Venture Chronicles

I hate going to the gas station. It not a painful experience but it’s never convenient, it’s one of those things that I’ll do at odd hours to try to make it as painless as possible. For a few months now I have been using Filld. This startup has a fleet of roaming gas delivery trucks that will show up between 9pm and 4am to fill your car for you.

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The Innovation Insurgency Scales – Hacking For Defense (H4D)

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees. The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create

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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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How Two Wheels Made Me a Better Entrepreneur – The “Cycling Intervention”

YoungUpstarts

By Marygrace Sexton, CEO of Natalie’s Orchid Island Juice Company. When I was a small child, one of my favorite things to do on a crisp fall morning was to hop on my bicycle and ride up and down the streets of our neighborhood. I would go for miles and miles, always trying to see how fast and far that small, worn out bike could take me before it was time to go home.

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From Wall Street to Entrepreneurship: 6 Hard Lessons Learned

Up and Running

The transition from the corporate world to entrepreneurship is jarring for anyone who takes the leap. The work, structure, and indicators of success are different in many ways. Things you became adept at while working at a company—like keeping your boss happy and navigating office politics—lose their utility when you’re on your own. I can attest to this dramatic change after I took the leap.

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How To Sell And Not Reek Of Desperation

YFS Magazine

As a service-based business owner, you cannot afford — nor do you want — to alienate a prospect just because they're not buying today.

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Your (Startup) Work Or Your Life

YoungUpstarts

by Rick Sliter, President and CEO of BioClarity. Congratulations, you took the risk and now have your own start-up company! While I’m sure you are already enjoying some of the benefits of your new life as a business owner, it doesn’t take long before your new start-up can take over your life. Gone are the 8-hour work days, overtime pay and paid holidays.

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How To Create Irresistible Content For Your E-Commerce Website

YFS Magazine

Content marketing is critical for every e-commerce site these days. It is not just enough to offer a good product at the right price.

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How Fintech Can Benefit From Virtual Reality

YoungUpstarts

Since the internet was first introduced in the mid-1990s virtual reality has remained a hot topic. While the concept is still latent in the majority of industries, this is not a trend that is expected to continue. While the entertainment and gaming industry are grabbing VR technology and running with it, there are a number of businesses that are also seeing the benefit that this technology has to offer, including financial technology (fintech).

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Our future should be one where we sell our data

Start Up Blog

In an age where data is money and we have no choice but to give it in order to participate in the modern economy, it’s about time we worked out who owns what. Call me a technology utopian, but here is my starting point: All data put in a web platform by an end user should be owned and controlled by those who created the data via their content.

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Monday Motivation – Lone Wolf

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start the week off on the right foot. The toughest climbs always lead to the best views. The wolf on the hill is never as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

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Our future should be one where we sell our data

Start Up Blog

In an age where data is money and we have no choice but to give it in order to participate in the modern economy, it’s about time we worked out who owns what. Call me a technology utopian, but here is my starting point: All data put in a web platform by an end user should be owned and controlled by those who created the data via their content.

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Silicon Hills News Publishes its Third Annual Life Sciences Edition

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News NarrativeDx is an Austin startup pioneering a social-based feedback system that gives hospitals and clinics timely information about their patients’ experiences. The Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin selected its inaugural class of 50 students this past summer. They are working to transform […] The post Silicon Hills News Publishes its Third Annual Life Sciences Edition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Words of Wisdom from Peter Thiel

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Peter Thiel , co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, and the first outside investor in Facebook. In this brief, three-minute clip (via Fortune Magazine), Peter shares some words of wisdom for entrepreneurs, including the following: “The most critical thing for every start

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How to Give and Get Good Email

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: September 19, 2016 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Episode 114 – Profitable Mistakes with Josh Patrick

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we interview Josh Patrick. Josh gives us the elements of mistake making and why they actually help make business more profitable. Discover the can do, will do, fit in rule, along with other rules to make mistakes the most profitable opportunity in your business to date. Welcome to Episode 114 of the Profit First Podcast!

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Why Employees Lie and Companies Make Dumb Decisions.

Austin Startup

And How We Plan to Fix It. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How To Stretch Your Comfort Zone For Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur looking for an idea, it makes sense to explore problem areas within your knowledge comfort zone, but when you are building a business with the solution, you have to stretch your comfort zone to keep up with the market and stay ahead of competitors. I haven’t found a successful and satisfying venture yet that was a comfortable and easy win.