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Entrepreneurs Can Revitalize The Image Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

'Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. They have proven themselves unable to innovate, and they have lost more jobs than they create. My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it.

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[Sponsored] MyTransport.SG – A One-Stop Source For Commuting Info In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

'Commuting in Singapore can get tricky especially during peak hour traffic. To save precious time and optimize their travel routes, many a tech-savvy, smartphone-toting Singaporean would rely on various mobile applications to check on information ranging from bus arrival timings to available car park lots in a certain area. Some of these commute-related mobile apps are official ones provided for by local transport operators; a fair number are third-party applications put together by independent

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6 Tips For Entrepreneurs Who Think They Can Dance

Gust

'Image via Meetup.com. I’m not much of a television person, but my family loves one of the popular “reality” shows, called “ So You Think You Can Dance ,” so I’m sort of forced to watch it every week. Over time, I’ve concluded that even startup entrepreneurs can learn a few things from this one. Of course, you must ignore the pomp and circumstance of the TV staging.

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Bitcoins Bitcoins Everywhere

Feld Thoughts

'I woke up this morning to several articles about Bitcoins. From Dave Taylor’s explanation in the Boulder Daily Camera to a paywall article that you can’t buy with bitcoins (ironic) in the NY Times ( A Bitcoin Puzzle ) to Fred Wilson’s blog ( A Note about Bitcoin ), I was surrounded by words about them. We have an awesome CEO list that covers plenty of topics.

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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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Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013!

crowdSPRING Blog

'Every year I have to sit you down and explain to you the importance of preparing for the end of year madness that every small business is required to experience. There is a ton of work to be done, myriad details to attend, and fun that must be had; this I need like a loch in keppe , but hey, we make our own choices in life, right? The madness is best summed up in the Yiddish and there are several variations: meshuggah (which Merriam Webster defines as crazy or foolish, but also happens to be a

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Overcoming The Kiddo Factor

YoungUpstarts

'By Dana Kaye, owner of Kaye Publicity. I’m used to being the youngest person in the room. I graduated high school at seventeen, couldn’t legally drink at my college graduation, and launched my company before I could rent a car without a co-signer. As a publicist and owner of a PR company, my youth comes with its advantages: I grew up in the age of the internet, technology comes easy to me, and I have the creativity and energy needed to execute unique publicity campaigns.

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Rackspace Hosting Holds 7th Annual Thanksgiving Day Food Drive

SiliconHills

'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Despite the 40 degree weather and high wind, two turkeys and the Roosevelt Rough Rider mascot continued to dance to the music in front of Rackspace Hosting’s San Antonio headquarters. The normally hot and stuffy mascot suits now failed to keep them warm. “The thing that kept […] The post Rackspace Hosting Holds 7th Annual Thanksgiving Day Food Drive appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How much does it cost to develop an app? The true price of starting from scratch

The Next Web

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Want to be a successful founder? Not without these qualities

The Next Web

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