Fri.Apr 04, 2014

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How To Make Your Next Business Pivot More Graceful

Startup Professionals Musings

'You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. You can count on it and plan for it, or you wait for the next survival crisis brought your way by this rapidly changing world. You can even give it a more elegant name, like “market-focused reinvention,” but it won’t be graceful if you don’t take the lead.

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Wireless Network Security: What 802.11ac Means To You

YoungUpstarts

'The new wireless 802.11ac standard, or “Gigabit Wi-Fi,” uses new technology to launch wireless data rates into the stratosphere. Gigabit Wi-Fi will take the 802.11n standard, which enabled 450-Mbps data transmission, and raise the rate to as much as 6.93 Gbps on an eight-stream wireless device. Although the new standard has great implications for wireless network speed, organizations making the switch will need to update their wireless network security approaches.

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Patriot Boot Camp – May 2014

Feld Thoughts

'In the #GiveFirst spirit, Techstars supports those who have served our country by hosting Patriot Boot Camp. PBC is an intense three-day program that educates and mentors active service members, Veterans and their spouses to innovate, build technology companies, and create jobs. Essentially, they get a mini Techstars experience. The next PBC will be held at the Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York City from May 16 th to 18 th.

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Tips On Printing Posters To Help Communicate Your Message

YoungUpstarts

'With so much media existing solely in a digital format, it is easy to forget that traditional media can have just as much impact when used properly to get a message across. In the world of business, and especially advertising, you will need to use every resource and technique available if you want to make an impact. While we may spend a lot of our time staring at screens, sometimes seeing information displayed physically in the real world may help us to better absorb and understand what it is t

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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 4 Biggest Business Mistakes of All Time (and What You Can Learn From Them)

Up and Running

'When I was starting out in business I was naïve. Strike that—I was clueless. In fact, I knew less than nothing about running a business, and I didn’t even know that. Back then, in my 20s, I dove headfirst into everything I did, arms and legs flailing. I was all heart and no homework. I thought that, with enough passion and effort, I’d learn what I needed to know along the way.

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Shane Smith: Gonzo-Gunslinger

YoungUpstarts

'by Teddy Hunt. To understand Canadian-American journalist and web entrepreneur Shane Smith’s gun-slinging ways, first you must get familiar with the gritty bits that are Gonzo journalism. Glorified and Gonzo-ized by Hunter S. Thompson, this style of reporting comes from an embedded journalist who transforms into and grows with the characters that he or she writes about.

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Balancing the short and long term

The Equity Kicker

'One of the hardest things for entrepreneurs can be knowing whether to pay more or less attention to the short or the long term. It’s easy to go wrong doing either. I’m thinking about this today following a discussion I had with a portfolio company yesterday and after reading this quote from Index Ventures partner Mike Volpi in his post about why Criteo succeeded (it was the team): I always say startups shouldn’t think too long term, and just concentrate on the next milestone instead

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One Hundred Percent Satisfied?

Mike Michalowicz

'I just returned from my annual business retreat. This year we decided to go to Costa Rica. We wanted to experience the world class whitewater rafting. What I didn’t expect was that we would also experience world class customer service. The driver who took us to and from the airport, activities and the host of restaurants in between, demonstrated extraordinary customer service by ensuring that we all were fully catered to.

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Think Like a Marketer and Sell Like a Superstar

Up and Running

'Marketing and sales have changed dramatically over the past few years and every business, regardless of size, must adapt. Join John Jantsch, best selling author of Duct Tape Marketing, as he explains how business owners and marketers alike must take the best of marketing and best of selling to create the perfect mix that attracts and converts ideal clients.

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Never Been Easier to Become a VC. Never Been Harder to Stay One.

Hunter Walker

'Recently attended the Upfront Summit , an LA-area tech event put on by Upfront Ventures , which also serves as their annual meeting for LPs to get updated on the fund’s performance. As we approach Homebrew’s one year anniversary we’ll do a smaller scale meeting with our investors in San Francisco. Part of our presentation will be portfolio financials, which, because we’re relatively new, aren’t exceptionally volatile (LP speak: most of our investments are still c

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Codeup Bootcamp Aims to Turn Non-techies into Web Programmers

SiliconHills

'By ZACH REED Reporter with Silicon Hills News Nathaniel Medrano wrapped up a recent internship feeling that, while the experience gave him great exposure, the job’s DIY learning model-via telecommute no less-still had him looking for ingrained traction in the technology. His work setting up search engines for local directories at a telecommunications company had […] The post Codeup Bootcamp Aims to Turn Non-techies into Web Programmers appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mini Saga #134 – In a Fix

Life Beyond Code

'Mini Saga #134 – In a Fix. Jenny almost knocked off Rich as she rushed out of YMCA. She was on the phone, “Hey, sorry for the delay. I was with a client.” As Rich recovered, he found Jenny rushing back inside. She was still on the phone, “ Oh you are going to YMCA … let’s talk later then.”. Sometimes you are in a fix because you chose to be in one of them… Note: 1.

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Collision Hours

Bryce Dot VC

'About this time last year I found myself, a bit unexpectedly, in a large ball room in Santa Monica. On stage, was Tony Hsieh, of Zappos fame, recounting his story of building Zappos, his new book and his much publicized Downtown Project. Like most in the audience, I’d heard plenty about each; however, as he neared the end of his presentation on what he’s trying to build in Vegas, he struck on a principle that I’ve not been able to shake since.

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5 Questions for a CEO: Moira Vetter, Modo Modo

Jeff Hilimire

'This is the eigth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing; the fifth was with Rob Kischuk , CEO of PerfectPost; the sixth was Kyle Porter , CEO of SalesLoft; and the seventh was with Brett Jacobsen of Mount Vernon Presbyterian School.

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How Personalized Marketing Can Increase Your eCommerce Sales

ConversionXL

'Marketing doesn’t end after you’ve attracted new users to your website. Marketing doesn’t end after you’ve made the sale. If you’re interested in increasing customer lifetime value , know the real journey begins after that first sale is made. Personalized marketing – messages and actions tailored to the visitor based on their previous viewing & purchasing behavior- is the key to all of this.

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[Infographic] Miles Apart: How Women And Men Use Social Media And Mobile

YoungUpstarts

'If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, how do Martians and Venutians differ when it comes to using social media and mobile phones? As you can imagine, quite differently. Let’s take social media, for example. Men are more likely to use social media for business or dating, while women use it to maintain relationships, sharing, entertainment and self-help purposes.

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Sales Myths That Inhibit Entrepreneurial Success

Small Business Force

You have no business without customers and you have no customers without sales. But as important as sales are to the ultimate success of any entrepreneurial endeavor, there is no one area of business that is more misunderstood and more rife with myths and misconceptions than sales. Often, the main reason for this is that the entrepreneur, founder, originator of the idea or business concept upon which the business is based, more and more typically, comes from a non-sales background.

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