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Twitter Link Roundup #220 – 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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Book Short: Culture is King

OnlyOnce

'Book Short: Culture is King. Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love , by Richard Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations, was a really good read. Like Remote which I reviewed a few weeks ago, Joy, Inc. is ostensibly a book about one thing — culture — but is also full of good general advice for CEOs and senior managers. Also like Remote , the book was written by the founder and CEO of a relatively small firm that is predominately software engineers, so there are some limitati

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Lead Generation Is Still The Lifeblood For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

'Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Successful Investor?

YoungUpstarts

'How can some people get rich off the stock market while others flounder or even just get lucky for a while before losing most or all of what they invested? According to superstar investor Warren Buffet , “Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ … what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”.

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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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A Little Techstars Video History

Feld Thoughts

'I got asked today for a picture of the four founders of Techstars together (me, David Cohen, David Brown, and Jared Polis.) I did a search and came up with a few, but also stumbled upon this beauty. This is the original promotion video for the first Techstars program, filmed at the end of 2006 and apparently uploaded to Youtube on January 14, 2007.

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5 Tips For Recruiting World-Class Talent

YoungUpstarts

'Now that you’ve acquired funding and gotten that startup off the ground, it’s time to staff your business with the best of the best. For your fledgling company to succeed, you’ll need applicants with a propensity for going above and beyond the call of duty. Unfortunately, you may inadvertently overlook some of the best candidates while navigating a sea of lackluster resumes.

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Tips For New Graduates From A Successful Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

'by Monica C. Smith, founder and CEO of Marketsmith Inc. and I.Predictus. Everyone has heard hand-me-down stories that start out with, “When I was your age.” I have one for the Class of 2014. When I was your age – back in 1990 – the world was very different. The Internet as we know it didn’t exist, and it was a pre-9/11 world. Our modern inventions were ATM machines and the Sony Walkman, precursors to the mobile wallet and iPod.

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Labster wins Sanoma’s Startup Challenge 2014 at TNW Europe

The Next Web

'Labster, an educational startup company specializing in laboratory experiment simulations, has won a cash award of 25,000 Euros as part of a competition sponsored by Sanoma Ventures. The prize was announced today at our TNW Europe 2014 conference in Amsterdam. Sanoma invited European digital learning startups to participate in the Sanoma Startup Challenge 2014, its initiative to support the future of primary and secondary education.

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Why Even Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Need a Business Plan

Up and Running

'The cast of “Silicon Valley” Image credit: HBO. Silicon Valley is a crazy place. I’ve lived and worked there, first through the late 90s and the dot-com bubble while I worked at Yahoo!, and then again helping to start a company that eventually got bought by eBay. As the dot-com bubble was bursting, I left to work in the U.K. and founded a company there.

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Meet 4 more of Europe’s fastest-growing tech firms:  Leetchi, MAG Interactive, Run a Shop, and Hailo

The Next Web

'The Next Web has been hunting down the fastest-growing startups in Europe. These startups include companies from France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden. These companies represent the best their respective countries have to offer and have gathered at the TNW Conference Europe as part of the Tech5 competition. The companies presenting were chosen from hundreds of startup submissions from seven European nations.

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Eleven Startups Launch out of UT’s Longhorn Startup Lab

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News For six semesters, the Longhorn Startup Lab has focused on turning undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin into entrepreneurs. Some of the students, with companies like Burpy, a grocery delivery service, Lynx Labs, a 3-d modeling camera, MSpaces, an Airbnb apartment rentals, and Clay.io, an […] The post Eleven Startups Launch out of UT’s Longhorn Startup Lab appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Twitter is a Content Platform So Why is the Content Experience Lacking?

Hunter Walker

'I blog about Twitter almost as much as I tweet because it’s a product, a company and a team that I’m fond of (and in one case, very very fond ). Also, their strengths and weaknesses remind me so much of YouTube – expression and communications platform with worldwide base and wide variety of uses, where 99% of content is uninteresting to a given user but their 1% is gold.

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Personal Finance Tracking Apps

Eric Friedman

'I recently read the NYTimes writeup of a ton of personal finance tracking apps and wanted to share my own thoughts. My conclusion is that there are a ton of apps out there, all take a ton of work, and none do the job quite right. This is a big opportunity as these apps can look at your personal spending habits, see SKU level data, and piece together very interesting demographics about a person.

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Turning Social Media Followers Into Customers and…

Mike Michalowicz

'The post Turning Social Media Followers Into Customers and… appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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Affinegy’s Simpler and Lancaster Named to Top 100 Wireless Technology Experts by Today’s Wireless World

Austin Startup

'TodaysWirelessWorld.com, a highly respected e-magazine that has been reporting on the wireless technology industry for almost a decade, has named Affinegy CEO Melissa Simpler and CTO Art Lancaster to its list of the top 100 most influential wireless technology experts for 2014.

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Model Cap Table

ithacaVC

'I thought it might be useful to post up a model cap table ( Cap Table Model with Waterfall ). This cap table can be used by a pre-funded startup and then a financing can be layered in. In other words, it shows both pre-money and post-money very clearly. It is a simple model and NOT perfect, but it will work very well in most situations for you. Here are things to note: 1.

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Creating a Strong Online Presence for Marketing Success

Duct Tape Marketing

'Creating a Strong Online Presence for Marketing Success written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Lucy Godwin – Enjoy! . According to Google, 97% of consumers use the web to search for local businesses – and if the vast majority of your potential customers are online, you should be, too.

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Repair Jungle Brings Online Auto Repair Service to Austin

Austin Startup

'Repair Jungle launches in Austin today to help connect car owners with the best local auto repair shops.

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"Try out a bunch of different places. Try Berlin, try London, try New York, try San Francisco. You."

Bryce Dot VC

'“Try out a bunch of different places. Try Berlin, try London, try New York, try San Francisco. You may not be able to stay in a given place because of visa issues but just the exposure that will give you, the context, it will give you the mindset it will give you will be invaluable.

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This is Another Test

entrepreMusings

'I think we are coming closer to figuring out the spam issue in my blog. I’m crossing fingers this post comes through without any weirdness, other than normal blog posting weirdness.

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5 Questions For a CEO: James Yancey, CloudTags

Jeff Hilimire

'This is the tenth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The list so far: Raymond King , Zoo Atlanta. Devon Wijesinghe , Insightpool. Mark Feinberg , Uruut. Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing. Rob Kischuk , PerfectPost. Kyle Porter , SalesLoft. Brett Jacobsen , Mount Vernon Presbyterian School. Jacqui Chew , iFusion Marketing. Joe Koufman , AgencySparks.

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Seven Ways To Make A Flying Start With Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Keith Tully , a partner at business rescue specialists Real Business Rescue. Starting a business and making a success of it is not easy. But there are certainly ways you can aim to maximize your chances of success. 1. Find a unique selling point. The number of possible company models is infinite. If you are an imaginative thinker, you can set up a company which will have no competition, for the simple reason that yours will be the only one offering a particular niche product or service.

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Circuit of the Americas is One of Austin’s Biggest Startups

SiliconHills

'BY LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Don’t put too much pressure on picking a particular career in college, said Bobby Epstein, founder of the Circuit of the Americas. “You might pivot a couple of times,” he said. Epstein gave that advice at Longhorn Startup Lab’s Demo Day Thursday night to hundreds of people […] The post Circuit of the Americas is One of Austin’s Biggest Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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