Mon.Jul 28, 2014

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The Right to Remember

Andrew Payne

'Earlier this year, Mario Costeja-González won the right to be forgotten. The Court of Justice of the EU ruled Google had to remove search results linking to a 1998 newspaper article about the foreclosure of his home (due to unpaid debts he later paid). In the ultimate irony, he’s now permanently and wide remembered for precisely what he wanted everyone to forget (the Streisand Effect ).

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Practice Entrepreneur Integrity As Seen By Others

Startup Professionals Musings

'As an entrepreneur, your personal integrity is critical for getting and keeping the support of investors and team members, and your company’s integrity is critical for getting and keeping customers and vendors. But in a practical sense, what does that really mean? Most definitions of integrity include something like “the quality of being honest and morally upright.

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Not All Startups Are the Same. 2 Minutes to Find Out Why

Steve Blank

'If you can’t see the video click here. Subscribe for more videos than you can ever watch here. Filed under: 2 Minute Lessons , Market Types.

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Starting Your Business, One Step At A Time

YoungUpstarts

'There’s an awful lot to think about when you’re starting up your own business; business plans, funding, partners, suppliers, premises, and that’s assuming you’ve already got your ideas and completed your market research. With so much to think about, where do you start? Starting a business is a little like eating an elephant, you have to go about it one bite at a time.

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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 to keep founders around after an acquisition

Version One Ventures

'Facebook , Google , Salesforce , Twitter…all the top players in Silicon Valley want to get their hands on the best talent around. That’s why we’ve seen example after example of “acqui-hires” in the past few years as well as some very large acquisitions where a big driver was the talent behind a start-up (e.g. Nest, Beats). However, only a few big companies have truly figured out how to keep founders around after the acquisition.

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When It’s Time To Expand Your Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Leah Rutherford, career development and entrepreneurial writer and blogger at JetFeeds. All successful small business owners – and there are more than 50 million according to the U.S. Small Business Administration! – faces a point when they have to make a big decision either to stay the course or try to expand their business. Unfortunately, many choose the former path rather than taking the latter, even when all signs point to the need for expansion.

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How Can You Find Free-Of-Charge Support For Your Company?

YoungUpstarts

'by Mike Mead of DigitMe, and head judge of Cartridgesave.co.uk’s 3D Print Cup. The great news is – there’s lots of help out there. You just need to invest time in finding it. Whether you’re looking for help with research, training or mentoring, there are numerous organisations like us, funded by the Government or European bodies, which have been set up purely to increase your profitability and safeguard jobs in the region.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

Feld Thoughts

'I woke up to an article in Daily Camera today titled Small Business Administration trying to bring SBIC funds to Colorado. There are so many things wrong in the article I felt compelled to write about it. This isn’t a knock on the writer (Alicia Wallace) – I like Alicia and think she does a good job. Rather, it’s an example of the difference between signal and noise in any kind of reporting around the VC industry.

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Merchandizing: The Last Mile Of Retail Sales

YoungUpstarts

'When a shopper is filling their cart, what makes them grab the 2-liter bottle of Coke vs. the 12-pack of Pepsi? Why pick up the Lays rather than the Golden Flake? Is Frosted Flakes really that much better than Sugar Smacks? What is the real criteria used to decide between Oscar Meyer and Ball Park Franks? All of these companies spend millions, if not billions of dollars in advertising their products to the public.

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Step Up

This is going to be BIG.

'I wrote this note to a young company that had recently raised some money and moved into a shiny new office after busting at the seams in a makeshift setup. The company was full of super young, vibrant, and incredibly talented people with a huge opportunity ahead of them--and a lot of difficult challenges. Congrats on moving into your new office. While I''m there are still a few bugs, bells, whistles, and bandwidth to work out, let me be the first to officially point out.

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How to Become an Entrepreneur Overnight

Up and Running

'A couple of weeks ago I tasked myself with writing this post. Unlike my recent musings on business cards , the idea didn’t spring full-formed from something that had happened, but was instead a question I personally wanted an answer to. Is it possible to become an entrepreneur overnight? By that, I mean, is there a switch you can flick? And if so, how do you do it?

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TEDx Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz

'The post TEDx Profit First by Mike Michalowicz appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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10 Apps to Save Time on Administrative Tasks

Up and Running

'In a business, administrative chores can stack up. It might only take 20 minutes to send an email, or five minutes to answer your business cell, but all of these little tasks can take up a significant amount of time. Before you know it, your day is nearly over and you haven’t done half of the things that you wanted to do. To get some of that time back, we asked entrepreneurs to help us compile a list of apps that can save time on administrative tasks.

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Tracy Raftl: How This Confident Adult Acne Blogger Makes $80,000 Year

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Long term readers of this blog may remember I published an interview with acne blogger Fran Kerr, whom I coached to help start her blog. Fran eventually became a leader in the field, making $4,000 to $12,000 a month thanks to her blog. Tracy Raftl came across Fran’s blog while. The post Tracy Raftl: How This Confident Adult Acne Blogger Makes $80,000 Year appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Why Apple and IBM’s new romance proves never is a very long time

Start Up Blog

'The recent strategic alliance of Apple and IBM is not really a surprise. But more than that it reminds us all of a few things about the times we are living through: - Sometimes our enemies become our friends. - Co-opetition is a better strategy than competition. - It’s impossible to service every segment of a market. - It’s difficult to serve both B2B and B2C markets simultaneously. - What we thought yesterday, might not a good thing to think today. - But mostly, that never is a ver

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Introducing NuHabitat: Comprehensive Online Real Estate Search Where Others Fall Short

Austin Startup

'Searching for a new home or investment property in Austin and Central Texas just got a whole lot easier, with today’s launch of NuHabitat, a residential real estate application (and Capital Factory Accelerator company) designed with ease of use, speed and 100% data accuracy in mind.

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How to keep founders around after an acquisition

Version One Ventures

'Facebook , Google , Salesforce , Twitter…all the top players in Silicon Valley want to get their hands on the best talent around. That’s why we’ve seen example after example of “acqui-hires” in the past few years as well as some very large acquisitions where a big driver was the talent behind a start-up (e.g. Nest, Beats). However, only a few big companies have truly figured out how to keep founders around after the acquisition.

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Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) Launches JumpStart Program for Early-Stage Startups

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published in PRWeb. Outsourced financial services firm adds low-priced, fixed cost offering to their suite of financial services to help support very early-stage startups nationwide. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2014 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, strategic finance, tax, and valuation services and support to small to mid-sized companies nationwide, has just announced the launch of their new JumpStart progr

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5 Simple Acts to Take Right Now

Duct Tape Marketing

'5 Simple Acts to Take Right Now written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: UGArdener via photopin cc. The months of July and August can be slower ones for many small businesses in the U.S. While we’ve got a thing or two to learn from some other cultures about taking a “real” holiday, many business owners and their clients take vacations and spend less time thinking about business during the summer months.

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