Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2013

'Helpers do what you say, while good help does what you need, without you saying anything. People who can help you the most are actually smarter than you, at least in their domain. Top entrepreneurs spend more time putting the right team in place to accomplish their objectives than they spend on any other components of their job. Some entrepreneurs are so in love with themselves (narcissistic) that they insist on answering every question, and making every decision.

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JUNE 29, 2013

'"You know what’s really outrageous? There are billions of unrecorded conversations every day, and the people having them don’t even have the decency to permalink them." said this snarky commenter on a blog post on Link Rot. Could not put.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2013

'My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. A new custom bike getting assembled at Mission Bikes in San Francisco.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2013

'Google+ turned two this week and by all accounts Google has won over critics with a compelling social network experience. I have been a fan from day 1 and perhaps what I admire most about Google is that they ignore the pundits while playing a very long game of their own making… so while my initial reaction that Twitter and Tumblr would be the biggest losers, which obviously was not the case, there are other factors that are worth looking at.

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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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Small Business Force

JUNE 29, 2013

Whether it's in the early stages of your business' life, or in order to grow your business beyond simply what you can generate from cash flow, at some point, you'll probably need to raise capital to better fund your business. However, there are more mistakes made in the funding process than almost any other aspect of a small business. And few entrepreneurs approach this very critical undertaking with the kind of planning, precision and discipline it requires.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 29, 2013

'In Dan Ariely’s TED talk , he explains the power of the Ikea Effect. The concept is this: If you can get the customers to do some of the work to create the final product/service, they become more loyal to it. Ikea manufactures the furniture. You assemble it. As a result, the piece becomes more important than if it came fully assembled, without you needing to lift a single Allen Wrench.

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