Fri.Sep 26, 2014

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

'I spent the day yesterday at the Disney Accelerator meeting with each of the teams and then had dinner with the CEOs and a lead mentor for each company. While I’m proud of all the Techstars programs, some of what I heard yesterday, especially around mentor engagement in the Disney program was remarkable. Our premise when we started doing branded accelerators with large companies was that we’d get deep mentor involvement from execs at the company we are partnering with.

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Twitter Link Roundup #236 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Is Your Business Ready For Curves In The Road Ahead?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the market is changing so fast these days that any upward climb can level off quickly, as the core business growth begins to stall. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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[Infographic] 7 Tips For Creating A Great Place To Work

YoungUpstarts

'Many companies claim that they build a nurturing and caring environment and culture at the workplace, not quite that many actually walk the talk. While you have companies such as Google and Facebook place so much emphasis on employee welfare that professionals and interns alike are tripping over themselves trying to apply for jobs in those cutting-edge companies , others are mere sweatshops that employees can’t wait to knock off from work and run back home.

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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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Don’t let your startup fail for a preventable reason

The Equity Kicker

'CBInsights analysed 101 startup post mortems and found the following reasons for failure: Many of these can be prevented with discipline. My friend Stephen Allott who was CEO of Micromuse, a UK startup that peaked with a $3bn valuation on NASDAQ, once described managing a startup as a process of identifying problems, putting a box round them and then finding and implementing solutions.

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How e-Commerce Keeps Up With Back-to-School Uptick

YoungUpstarts

'By Amanda Bayane, Marketing Communications Director at Hostway Services, Inc. It’s that time of year again: Time for students to clear the cobwebs left over from summer and prepare themselves for some new knowledge. For many parents and college students, “Back to School” means it’s time to go shopping for spiral notebooks, pencils and pens, folders and everything else pupils need to be successful.

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7 Business Lessons from the Golden Gate Bridge

Up and Running

'“Rushing Home” by Ann Rea. The Golden Gate Bridge is iconic, and it warrants instant recognition. But have you ever thought of it as a brand? Below, I’ll discuss seven business lessons you can learn from one of the world’s most well-known pieces of architecture. 1. Keep building your brand. I live less than a mile from one of the world’s most enduring brands, the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Austin Technology Council Battle of the Bands: Geeks Who Rock

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News There are moments in a person’s life when the stars line up and they are—at least for that moment—totally cool. Take geeks. Geeks used to be completely uncool, juxtaposed against people who played in a band who were inherently cool. But now, geeks are just about the […] The post Austin Technology Council Battle of the Bands: Geeks Who Rock appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Self editing & the thought police

Start Up Blog

'I remember reading the Cluetrain Manifesto over 10 years ago, and it is fair to say it changed my life. It made me see that technology was creating access. I believed for the first time that the proletariat (like me) could buck the system and the power brokers. The over-riding theme of the book was this: Hyperlinks circumvent hierarchy. While I still believe this to be true, I think it is at risk.

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4 Steps to Leveraging Your Network to Build Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

'4 Steps to Leveraging Your Network to Build Your Business written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Jonathan Greechan – Enjoy! Networking doesn’t have to be about luck, but most people I work with treat it that way. Like any marketing endeavor, some simple planning can greatly increase your chances of success.

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Startup CEOs should not play the odds

Jeff Hilimire

'I’m in the middle of the book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers , by Ben Horowitz, and I LOVE IT. It will almost definitely make my list of books I recommend. The above quote is spot on about the mindset that a CEO / entrepreneur must have. People mistake this mindset – not paying attention to the odds – as optimism.

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How to Create the Happily Ever After with a Genuine Business Referral

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Create the Happily Ever After with a Genuine Business Referral written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Lisa at PA Promotions – Enjoy! photo credit: flickr. Once upon a time, an apple was a crunchy fruit available in red or green, but now ‘Apple’ is a global brand that has changed the way people communicate.

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