Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'[ Download MP3 | Download Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud ]. Jules had a previous life as a professional news photographer, then managed to find a backdoor into a career in television. He worked his way up to become a director and producer, working on such well known shows as Big Brother , My Sweet Sixteen and Pimp My Ride … Read the rest of this entry » The post Jules Watkins: Photographer, TV Producer & Director Gives It All Up To Teach Video Online (And Make

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Prototypes of various forms have been around for as long as we’ve been doing software, since the famous Fred Brooks quote: “plan to throw one away, you will anyway.” However, many things have changed. Not the least of which is that the tools and techniques we have for developing prototypes and testing them have developed dramatically.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Starting on January 13, there has been a gallery of 15 guest posts on New Florence about how science and tech are evolving people’s passions, hobbies, interests. Even more impressive few repeat the ones from the similar 2009 series. Please.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'by Jose Capelo, founder and editor of Marketingquery. About 60% of the business development plans fail to achieve their goals, and what is worse, many fail to materialize within the first year. These days, business development has become one of the main activities of the organizations, which continuously prospect the market looking for new niches to expand further growth.

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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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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'This Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Larry Gold is going to be special. If you don’t know Larry Gold , he’s just amazing. Larry is one of the originals in the Boulder biotech scene, having founded numerous successful companies including NeXagen (acquired by Gilead) and Synergen (acquired by Amgen). He’s been a professor at CU Boulder since 1980 and was the chairman of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department from 1988 to 1992.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'One would assume that the Chinese New Year weekend would see Singaporean Chinese flock to Chinatown to buy their Chinese New Year goods in the big way, as they stock up on traditional goods to celebrate that most important of Chinese holidays, over, say, visiting in the country’s famous Orchard Road shopping stretch. But the truth is often stranger than fiction – as numbers would show.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'For a sizeable minority of young people, the well-trodden path from school to university and into a career, working up the ladder slowly but surely, simply isn’t an option. Although it suits some people, working for someone else just doesn’t cut it for those who have a desire to set up their own business. It might be that you have a special skill, talent or passion that you want to make into a career, or that you simply hate the idea of making money for someone else and feel you could run a bet

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'My dad, after a 20 year career as a New York City firefighter, went back to school and became an accountant. He was an early adopter of technology in his practice, buying a computer in 1987 and getting some of the earliest versions of tax prep software. To do the bookkeeping for some of his business clients, he used a DOS-based program called One Write Plus.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Starting a business is a new and exciting venture. You’re full of enthusiasm, and all of your friends are supportive. But soon, the excitement fades, and long days and lonely nights set in. You realize that being an entrepreneur is challenging. There are successes and failures, excitement and frustration. You understand that you need discipline, focus, and resolve to carry you through.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'After a pitch I’m sometimes left with the feeling “well, that was a perfectly reasonable plan to build a business.” That sentiment always almost results in a pass. Why? Because the reality is I fear a reasonable plan. A perfectly reasonable plan usually represents a low risk path towards a forecastable outcome. An outlandish plan offered by founders with twinkles in their eyes is much more appealing to venture economics where I’m seeking large multiples on an initial inv

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'True story: I was doing a newsletter for a large company, and doing it well, meeting metrics and getting a lot of kudos from the target readers. I lost the contract to a competitor bidding three times more than what I was charging. I was a one-man band. The competitor had fancy offices and associates, and an account manager. My client, the manager in the large company responsible for the region, apologized. “Everybody really involved knows that you’ve been doing a great job,”

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'At the moment it seems everyone is talking about a blog post by Andreessen Horrozitz partner Zal Bilimoria titled Our love affair with the tablet is over. First, I love that he used the picture above to illustrate his point, and second, I think he is dead right. Bilmoria was formerly of Netflix. These are the three key paragraphs from his post: Post-launch, the new [Netflix tablet] app significantly increased retention and streaming hours.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Since in most cases, there was no revenue in many of these companies, all trying to gain market share at any cost, we had to invent the metric to use.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Every entrepreneur has been granted the same amount of time. It is, in fact, our biggest asset and it is granted to all of us equally. I have 24 hours in a day. So do you. So does everyone. Entrepreneurs who highly value their time become wealthy. Those who value their time poorly stay poor. The post The One Asset We All Have: Time appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'I’ve been a Vans off the wall fan since I did my first cross up on my BMX way back in 1982. My fav’s are the original checker board slip ons, as sported by main man from Ridgemont High – Spicoli. Well today in a classic web enabled distraction I decided to see if I could make a custom pair over the web. I found that Vans do have a design your own shoe service – like most shoe brands these days.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Why Small Businesses Still Need to Network in the Local Community 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 Deborah Sweeney – Enjoy! Despite the rise of social networking and the perceived crumbling of face-to-face interaction it has caused, community is not dead.

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Positive Energy inside a startup is the critical asset to make things tick. Building that Positive Energy is the job of the CEO and the senior team. Building comes in different forms. I love this example of Positive Energy. Fun, makes you smile, makes you think something is going right inside that company! Makes you want to work there. Go GiveGab!

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'We’re hosting a webinar today at 4 pm PT about equity investing in 2014, and you’re invited to attend. To register, click here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/638414410 On it, we will share some key statistics, especially that while from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones industrial average rose from 777 to 11,078, in comparison since 1999 it has moved only from 11,078 to 16,017 (approximately 44%).

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Why Your Sales Pitch Isn’t Converting 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 Jordyn Rickard – Enjoy! With call after call made to numerous businesses or advertisement after advertisement placed for potential customers and no results, you may be on the verge of a mental and emotional breakdown.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'This is a blindpost recommended to me by my friend, Stephanie. The original article was from Entrepreneur Magazine and titled, 3 Situations When You Should Shut Your Mouth. 1. Shut your mouth when you’re negotiating. Ah, the power of silence. This is a tough one, but if you’re negotiating with someone, the more you can get them talking the more they will negotiate against themselves.

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Early Growth Financial Services

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'I’ve met so many founders and early-stage teams who spend too much time worrying about the wrong things. These misguided concerns are a time-suck and not productive. So I thought it’d be helpful to point out the three main “red herrings” that startups get caught up in—and shine a light on the things that, in my experience, have a far greater impact on future success.

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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Over the past few days, someone has been sending tiny amounts of bitcoin (one satoshi) to thousands of addresses. Those transactions are unlikely to be confirmed, but they do show up on blockchain.info for now. Here’s one example: The satoshis come from two vanity addresses: 1Enjoy… and 1Sochi… If you click on the first address as I write this, you will see that its most recent transaction contains a link with the text “Play and win BTC” The link leads to what look

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'by Hunter Hoffmann, Head of US Communications at Hiscox Insurance. The start of the year is already in the rearview mirror, but small business is about continual reinvention. Have you accomplished your New Year’s resolutions yet? Here are some tips you can use now to make your small business a success in 2014. 1. Join (or start using) Google+. While Facebook’s 10 year anniversary is getting quite a bit of buzz, we have our sights set on Google+.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'According to digital marketing firm Lyris, you should expect to lose 30% of your email subscribers every year. The two main reasons behind losing subscribers are: They change their email address. Your content is no longer relevant to them, so they stop opening your email or they unsubscribe. The first case is just your bad luck. Perhaps the subscriber was using their work address and got a new job, or they got bored with their username and got a new one.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Amassing customer data is pretty meaningless if you have no organized way to analyze it. There are so many tools out there for startup founders, however, that I wanted to find out which were actually being used to deliver the kind of practical insight a business owner needs. So I asked eight founders (all members of YEC ) the following: What is the best SaaS product on the market for managing large amounts of customer data for your business?).

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