The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

'Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. The thing is, everyone is actually working toward the same end goals – or at least they should be. So why is it so hard to get these departments on the same page, collaborating in peace?

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deal architect

MARCH 6, 2014

'At New Florence, the coverage covers a wide swatch including health tech, greentech, nanotech so end up researching obscure journals and magazines for stories. But you have to scan today’s USA Today, a mainstream newspaper, to see how tech coverage.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2014

'Singapore loves innovative technologies, and the number of conferences and exhibitions that take place each year in the city state that celebrate the latest in technology solutions for almost every industry can be staggering. InnovFest - organized by the University of Singapore and NUS Enterprise - is likewise one of the festivals that put together innovation-focused activities aimed at boosting investments, technology transfer and partnerships within Asia’s academic, business and technology c

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

'Richard Price is the founder and CEO of Academia.edu. My philosophy is that the best way to find your passion is to experiment until you get there. I began my career selling banana bread and started several businesses before I finally decided to found Academia.edu, a startup that has raised $18M in venture funding and provides a platform for academics to share their research papers freely.

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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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SiliconHills

MARCH 6, 2014

'“Sweat equity is the best startup capital” – Mark Cuban A banner bearing Cuban’s quote hung on the wall at Rackspace’s event center Thursday as it hosted its third annual StartupBus event featuring teams from all over the country and Mexico. All of the StartupBus participants riding on the eight buses for the past 72 […] The post SmartHost of New York Wins the StartupBus 2014 Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 6, 2014

'I am calling b t on the productivity experts (and myself) for saying you need to block out time to get certain things done. For example, to write my book, I need to block out a few eight hour days every week to get stuff done. Well guess what, my clients don’t know I have blocked out the time, or don’t care. And why should they? When they have an emergency, it is far more important to them, than if I got a few more chapters done on my newest book.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 6, 2014

'Yesterday I wrote about how building a startup is increasingly an exercise in disciplined application of process. Creativity and flair will always be important, but whereas that used to be most everything and charismatic sales driven entrepreneurs with huge personalities were common, these days implementation of processes like ‘lean’ and ‘customer development’ are increasingly important and the personality profile of entrepreneurs is changing.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 6, 2014

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The British Airways direct flight that just started its inaugural journeys back and forth from London to Austin isn’t your average plane ride. It has been calibrated to reduce jetlag. For example, the lighting is different from other planes. The air pressure was set for 6,000 feet […] The post British Airways Dreamliner: The Wellness Plane appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2014

'In my second year as a Wharton MBA student, I secured $4,000 to launch my start-up PopInShop —an online platform that connects brands and boutiques to facilitate short-term, cross-promotional shopping events. The money came in the form of two grants from the Wharton Innovation Fund, an entity that was created in 2012 to fund student ventures and keep the school competitive with other academic institutions investing in entrepreneurial programs.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2014

'by Suzanne Evans, author of “ The Way You Do Anything is the Way You Do Everything “ According to a recent Gallup poll , Americans now consider unemployment — not the economy, or healthcare, or the national debt, or dissatisfaction with the nation’s leaders — to be our country’s number one problem. And since some estimates place the actual (as opposed to the official) unemployment rate as high as 37.2 percent , the poll’s results are certainly justified.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 6, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In 1984, Michael Dell dropped out of the University of Texas to found Dell Computers. “At the time, it didn’t seem like that big of a risk,” Dell said. “I didn’t have anything to lose.” He saw a really compelling opportunity to launch a company focused on […] The post Michael Dell on the Past, Present and Future of Technology appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 6, 2014

'Most innovations come from responding to a customer’s needs, or finding a niche where products need improvement or extension. It is rare to innovate using a blank sheet of paper in a room with bare walls and no other contributors. Imagine the room in which several graduate business school student groups have gathered, tasked with coming up with an idea for a business plan competition.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 6, 2014

'By Stacy Alexander Evans Reporter with Silicon Hills News A recruiting event that features a cover band playing ’80’s era glam, staff avatars swiped from the Street Fighter video game, leadership who are not shy about proclaiming their love of beer: clearly the Bigcommerce team knows how to have a good time, yet their revelry […] The post Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Bigcommerce Mixes Business with Pleasure appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2014

'In my second year as a Wharton MBA student, I secured $4,000 to launch my start-up PopInShop —an online platform that connects brands and boutiques to facilitate short-term, cross-promotional shopping events. The money came in the form of two grants from the Wharton Innovation Fund, an entity that was created in 2012 to fund student ventures and keep the school competitive with other academic institutions investing in entrepreneurial programs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2014

'The Missing Ingredient From Your Content Marketing Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Mark Middo – Enjoy! photo credit: Craig Garner. “I’m writing blog posts almost on a daily basis, but I am getting zero traction from social media and my conversions are terrible,” said Adrian, the director of a large software company in Australia.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2014

'Access The Night is a social discovery app that instantly connects you with local entertainment options.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 6, 2014

'Balance is something that I think a lot about these days. Having a startup requires a great deal of balance. There are so many moving pieces and decisions that need to be made on a daily basis. Decisions like: Where do you focus your time? What initiative or feature is most important? How soon do you ship and at what sacrifice? What is the best use of your money (staff, marketing, rent, etc.)?

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Early Growth Financial Services

MARCH 6, 2014

'Originally published in FullStart. There are many great reasons to pursue entrepreneurship—with the most important reason being that you have a real solution to a real problem, an idea for something that can improve a situation and, consequently, improve people’s lives. But there are a whole host of bad reasons that motivate people to pursue entrepreneurship.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MARCH 6, 2014

'Originally published on PRWeb. EGFS presenting in day-long “Equipping Entrepreneur” workshop at Googleplex to support startups in the autism space. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) March 05, 2014 Autism Speaks is holding its second annual Autism Investment Conference (AIC2014), March 4 and 5, 2014 in San Francisco. As a value-add, Google is offering entrepreneurs a day-long boot camp on March 6 at Googleplex in Mountain View, California for which Early Growth Financial Services’ (EGFS) partner Steven Olson

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