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Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

'Round 10 of the Framework Benchmarks project is now available! It has been a little less than a year since the previous round and in that time, approximately 133 contributors have made 2,835 git commits. These contributions have improved the project''s toolset and added many new framework test implementations. We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large instances.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

'On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Below is a summary of some of their answers in which they discuss the genesis of each company, their views on when MBAs should start companies, and more. On Launching and Finding Early Traction.

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5 Tips For Spring Cleaning Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

'By Evan Singer, General Manager for SmartBiz. It’s that time of year again, and even though the word “business” may not come to mind when talk about spring cleaning — it should. There are a lot of great ways SMBs can benefit from a small organizational facelift. 1. File your taxes on time. Don’t miss tax deadlines. Remember, if you owe taxes this year, the payment was due to the IRS by April 15th, regardless of whether or not you have filed your actual tax return.

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Empty calories at IBM

deal architect

'The WSJ profiles IBM CEO Ginni Rometty after its 12th straight quarterly decline in revenues and she calls some of her divested hardware units “empty calories” “These units were producing revenue but not profits” The WSJ adds a chart where.

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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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5 Reasons You Need A Wireless Home Security System

YoungUpstarts

'Why do you need home security? While intruders are an area of concern, if you live in the countryside, home security can warn you against unwanted wild animals entering your home too. Alternatively, you are protected from the number house break-ins America witnesses today. And if you actually work from home, such systems not only help you protect your personal assets but your business ones as well.

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These are the good old days

deal architect

'It’s hard to argue with Buck Showalter when he says in this MLB promo "These are the good old days" “These are the best 750 players in the world that the world has to offer” and “The game’s being played.

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Why Banks Are No Longer Lending to Small Businesses

Up and Running

'Remember the days when you’d need funding to start or grow your business, and you’d get in your car and head down to the bank on the corner? You knew your banker personally, perhaps even had kids in the same class at school, or would often see them at your favorite local restaurant. This personal relationship helped fuel a strong financial relationship; you knew exactly where to go to get the loan you needed.

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Why An MBA Can Be Important For Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

'Do you need an MBA to successfully launch a startup? Well, an MBA degree helps you acquire many life and business lessons. But how does an MBA helps you prepare for all the hurdles and challenges that come with launching a startup business? Read on to find out. Guidance and support. Running a successful business requires you to be resourceful and an MBA degree attract top talent in their field who have already started successful companies or have strong backgrounds in the financial industry.

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The emergence of managed marketplaces: greater opportunities but a lot more risk

Version One Ventures

'One of the more interesting developments over the past few years is the emergence of managed marketplaces. The term means different things to different people, but I consider it a marketplace that not only connects buyers and sellers, but takes on additional parts of the value chain to deliver a better overall experience. For example, Beepi , a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling cars, inspects every car listed on the platform – giving people a more trustworthy, stress-free way to b

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Considerations for would-be founders

The Equity Kicker

'One of the biggest reasons startups fail is that the founders give up. Sometimes that happens because the idea didn’t turn out to be strong enough, in which case “c’est la vie”, but sometimes it happens because the entrepreneur wasn’t sufficiently prepared for the journey, and in that case it’s a crying shame. The following quotes are from an answer I just read on a Quora answer from Justine Musk which sets out what it takes to be extremely successful (which

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Ignore what the teacher told you, and just make things up

Start Up Blog

'Watch a 5 year old kid play for half a day and you’ll see levels of creativity that’ll blow your mind. You’ll wonder in awe where their natural ability to ‘make things up’ comes from. You’ll be inspired by how they see the world and what it makes them think and do. We used to see the world that way too. But what happened was for the first 18 years of our lives we got told how to see the world.

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Shyp Raises $50m: Some Inside Baseball Notes

Hunter Walker

Obviously thrilled that Shyp raised a $50m B Round from Kleiner Perkins. As we noted on the Homebrew blog , this is a company with so much growth ahead of them, it’s great to put capital to work. Here’s some more detail on the round, our involvement and what I think it generally means for startups. Pro Rata. We remained enthusiastic supporters in this financing, making Shyp the first investment in our Moonshine fund.

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Growth Happens When You Say Ouch

Mike Michalowicz

'I meet with my mastermind once a month. We sit down together for five hours to discuss our business (and personal) challenges. This past week, I was the first to present. My challenge? My brand. I think it is time to grow (after all if you aren’t growing you’re dying). I think it is time to mature it. But how? I presented my thoughts to my peers and they gave their feedback.

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The Portugal and Austin Tech Connection

SiliconHills

'A delegation of business leaders from Portugal is in Austin this week to study the city’s technology startup ecosystem. The IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin is hosting the group of 40 people, which includes Portuguese companies, incubators, venture capitalists and angel investors. On Wednesday, the group visits Tech Ranch, the Austin […] The post The Portugal and Austin Tech Connection appeared first on SiliconHills.

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9 Reasons to Take Keyword Research Beyond SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

'9 Reasons to Take Keyword Research Beyond SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. When the marriage of Content + SEO + Social became official back in about 2009 (although some states still don’t recognize it) the act of keyword research became a vastly different animal. While SEO pros still use keyword research today as a means of identifying terms and phrases to use to optimize pages on a website, the act of keyword research implie

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What Employers Need to Know About Health Care Coverage

Early Growth Financial Services

'This guest post was contributed by Brandie Gasper, Associate at Locke Lord LLP. Starting a new business can be very stressful, and with any successful business comes the added stress of hiring and retaining employees. To attract good employees, employers generally need to offer health benefits. Employer-sponsored health care coverage is now so widespread that most employees have come to expect it.

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Following on in a hot market

This is going to be BIG.

'Conventional wisdom says that you follow on in your winners in venture capital, but I''m not sure you can always accomplish that so cleanly. In hindsight, if you were an Etsy investor, you would have wished you participated in every single round the company ever did, putting as much as you could in. But what if you had done the same thing with Fab?