Wed.Jul 10, 2013

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Be The Boss Of Your Business Even In Tough Times

YoungUpstarts

'by Justin Kemp. Whilst this generation is undergoing major progress in terms of science and technology, it is also suffering from economic instability. The every shifting ground on which businesses stand on are beginning to affect them in enormous ways; hence forcing them to come up with new strategies to incorporate with their working system. Nonetheless, applying and reapplying strategies whenever a crisis does occur will exhaust you and diminish your productivity.

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Startups Can’t Survive With ‘Downers’ on the Team

Startup Professionals Musings

'A “downer” is defined here as someone who seems to dwell on the negatives of every business challenge, and loves to highlight bad news or potential problems. No matter how smart or experienced this person may otherwise be, things must change or they will kill your startup. I’m not talking about someone who has an occasional bad day, but rather people who when asked, “How are things?

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Outdoor Patio Ideas For Your Office

YoungUpstarts

'by Angelo Digangi, a Home Depot sales associate. The key to productivity in the office is stepping outside of it every once and a while. If your employees are stuck inside all day, they will begin to feel burnt out and won’t be able to think as clearly. Building an outdoor patio area where your workers can take a breather will do a lot to increase both office efficiency and morale.

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Be A Better Networker By Playing Networking Solitaire

Mike Michalowicz

'The key to networking is not in the talking, it is in the listening and asking questions. This is true for a few reasons: 1. People like people who are interested in them. The more you ask questions about them, and simply listen, the more they will automatically like you. 2. You learn from listening, not talking. By asking questions you will learn about this person, and you can find if there is a connection for business or something else. 3.

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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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[Infographic] The Best And Worst Intern Candidates

YoungUpstarts

'Interns are a mixed bag, really – many are decent, some of them are quite mediocre, a handful reveal themselves to be downright rubbish while a few can turn out to be absolute gems. For business owners, it is crucial to be able to identify the talents who are worth cultivating – some interns can really turn out to really add value to the organization.

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What Is Leverage? (And Why It Is Your Only Path To Significant Wealth Online)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Tweet One of the aspects I enjoy the most about doing interviews with successful entrepreneurs, is feeding my own curiosity to find out things like -. How they attract traffic. How they make money. What a typical day in their life is like. …and so on. Knowing the answers to these questions can help you with your own business.

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Two different forces affecting the venture industry

The Equity Kicker

'In yesterday’s post VCs in the future of VC Pandodaily contrast the views of leading VC innovators Fred Wilson and Josh Kopelman that the ‘VC industry as we know it won’t exist in ten years’ with Menlo Ventures partner Mark Siegel’s view that the next few years look very promising. They explain the difference by pointing to the fact that Wilson and Kopelman’s comments are aimed at entrepreneurs whilst Siegel’s are aimed at entrepreneurs.

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Getting Funded On Kickstarter: The MIUSA Story

Up and Running

'Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is a non-profit organization with an idea for a product. They know they have a good idea— a striking, full-color book of 50 portraits of inspirational women with disabilities from 41 countries, taken by some of the world’s most talented photographers —but because MIUSA is a non-profit organization, they not only face all the usual difficulties of launching a new product , but also the particular difficulty of launching a product they don’t intend t

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HomeJoy Expands to Austin and San Antonio

SiliconHills

'The economy must be approving because now it seems like everyone is flush with cash to outsource all the annoying tasks of life like cleaning. And HomeJoy, a Y-Combinator tech cleaning startup from San Francisco, just launched its services in Austin. It launched last month in San Antonio. And the company got $1.7 million in [.] The post HomeJoy Expands to Austin and San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How I Got My First Customer: I Guerilla-Marketed My Way Onto TV

Up and Running

'This story is part of Bplans’ “How I Did It” series—true stories of real businesses getting started, solving problems and finding success. Greg at Berry Sleepy : . “We started selling our product online this January, and in the first week, we were just trying to get the word out with social media and guerrilla marketing. It was a humbling start. However, in week two, a local TV reporter needed a story to do and caught wind of our product.

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Appconomy Raises $2.9 Million More

SiliconHills

'Appconomy, founded in 2010 with operations in Austin and Shanghai, China, filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealing it has raised $2.9 million. The Austin Business Journal first reported on the funding. The Austin American-Statesman’s story says the company has completed $4 million in financing. The company says it plans to raise a [.

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Does Selling the Sizzle Get You Burned?

Up and Running

'I’ve lived for decades with the classic idea that good marketing sells benefits, not products. People want holes, not drills. They want a good-looking body, not exercise or diets. So marketers develop messaging about benefits, what people really want. Sell the sizzle, not the steak. . Unfortunately, in lots of business categories, people don’t want the work, the repetition, or the discipline it takes to get those benefits.

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Tech and Media Meetup at Molotov

SiliconHills

'On Monday night, The Tech Map and PR Over Coffee hosted a technology and media meetup at Molotov Lounge in Austin. Ricardo Sanchez and David Manzer organized the event and dozens of startup entrepreneurs and others turned out. The Austin Business Journal, Community Impact News and Silicon Hills News all turned out to meet and [.] The post Tech and Media Meetup at Molotov appeared first on SiliconHills.

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There Should be a Trader Joe's of Pharmacies

A Crowded Space

'I mean this is just ridiculous. I spent 10 minutes trying to find the right Advil for me - I’m sure it really makes no difference anyway. . Curate! Could probably cut the number of SKUs by 10x, make the experience 10x better, and each store would be 1/4th the size. .

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A Tale of Two Products: How Things Can Go Really Right or Really Wrong

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Refresh Austin presented two wildly different, compelling and entertaining perspectives on the process of designing and bringing a product to market Tuesday night at Capital Factory. The first talk, Creative Extinction, was about a robotic dinosaur. Pleo was the brainchild of Caleb Chung, co-creator of Furby, which [.

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Startup Valuations Revisited Again

ithacaVC

'I have posted on startup valuations a couple of times. First on October 12, 2012 and then on November 28, 2012. On June 27th Fred Wilson wrote a post called Valuation vs. Ownership. Great post. Here is the good news: if you read my prior posts and Fred’s post, I think you are about 99% of the way there in solving any mystery behind startup valuations for early stage financing rounds (i.e., Series Seed or Series A).

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Dr. Greenberg Takes Top Medical Job at UT

SiliconHills

'The University of Texas’ Health Affairs has a new leader. Dr. Raymond Greenberg of the Medical University of South Carolina announced today that he is leaving his post there to move to Austin to become executive vice chancellor for Health Affairs in the University of Texas System. Greenberg, who will leave in late August, will [.] The post Dr.

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3 reasons I still love the Samsung Galaxy S4, despite my recent issues

Jeff Hilimire

'The camera on this phone – Samsung Galaxy S4 – is so fantastic that at this point I’m still willing to put up with the problems I’ve been experiencing lately.

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Houston-based Idera Buys CopperEgg of Austin

SiliconHills

'Houston-based Idera has bought CopperEgg, an Austin-based startup that specialized in software to manage cloud-based applications. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. To date, CopperEgg has raised $4.1 million and it makes software that can monitor public, private and hybrid cloud configurations online. It’s available as a software as a service model to [.

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Features with a tiny "f"

deal architect

'Over a decade ago, Larry Ellison had derided younger vendors like Ariba, E.piphany and Commerce One: “These things aren’t companies, they’re features!” If those were mere features what to make of the millions of single threaded mobile apps and web.

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Use Direct Mail? Try A Postcard Mailing List.

YoungUpstarts

'by Alex Hart, LeadMonkeylists.com. Marketing is a basic need for running a business successfully. In this competitive world, everyone wants to be on top. In such a condition, taking the perfect strategy can lift your business to the top place. Direct mail marketing, as a part of internet marketing, has become very popular these days. Consider these two types: Direct mail marketing: This thing is an easy, simple and effective way of marketing.

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