Sun.Jul 26, 2015

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

The hardest thing about starting a company is that from day one you emerge as this completely vulnerable entity trying its hardest to project success, power, trajectory and inevitability while you secretly know that you’re one knock-out blow from extinction. Think about it: You start with nearly no money, you bring on some co-founders and if they quit it could completely derail your mission, you talk to journalists who if they decide to be cranky can ruin your reputation, you pitch investo

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7 Steps To Starting Your Business In Singapore 

YoungUpstarts

By Roman Yarovyi, PR and Communication Manager for One Visa Ltd. If you are reading this article, you are: a) an entrepreneur who values simplicity and innovative approach to business; b) you have gone through the whole Internet looking for the ideal conditions for your startup, and you already know that Singapore, which offers unparalleled boosts, is a bargain alternative to the expensive Silicon Valley (or at least Hong Kong).

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Book: Armada

Feld Thoughts

Ernst Cline’s second book, Armada , is almost as wonderful as his first book, Ready Player One. While plenty of folks on Amazon are giving it mediocre ratings, I think it’s because they don’t understand what Cline really did here. Both books are scifi. Both books are heavily gamer influenced. Each moves fast. However RPO is complicated while Armada is straightforward.

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Samsung’s Innovations That Disrupted the Smartphone Industry

YoungUpstarts

Samsung shipped 83.2 million smartphones around the world and captured 24 percent of the marketshare in Q1 2015, according to Strategy Analytics. The market share jump puts Samsung in the lead over its U.S. rival, Apple. Samsung climbed to the top by focusing on innovation and releasing new designs and features that disrupted the smartphone industry.

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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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Surprising Video Marketing Lessons From 90’s Sleeper Hit ‘Clueless’

YFS Magazine

Videos are meant to show—rather than tell—the highlights of your brand, so put enthusiasm and creativity into your video marketing efforts with these key lessons from Clueless!

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Fat Guys In The Woods’ Knife Rig (Hosted by Creek Stewart)

Mike Michalowicz

A great product lesson comes from The Weather Channel’s wildly popular TV show, Fat Guys In The Woods. The show features survival expert, Creek Stewart , as he demonstrates to the three “fat guy” participants techniques necessary to survive outdoors with only a knife and their own wit and skills. Throughout the show Creek Stewart carry’s his favorite survival knife and sheath.

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% and the Nasdaq (which includes Apple, Google, Intel and other tech stalwarts) gained 4.2%.

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8 Entrepreneur Principles For Managing Your Destiny

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe starting a new business isn’t your passion, but in these days of rapid change, where everyone is dealing with uncertainty, I believe that thinking and acting like entrepreneurs will help you get ahead in any profession. In simple terms this means taking control of your life, going after something you love to do, and taking action. Stop letting life decisions happen to you.