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Whither technology journalism?

deal architect

'I write this as hundreds of media folk are in Austin at SXSW probably dissecting what happened to GigaOm. My perspective is more as media consumer – a voracious one who scrounges hundreds of articles for my blogs and my.

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10 Indications That Your Startup Role Is Killing You

Startup Professionals Musings

'If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and probably not working on an idea that’s worth doing. The challenge in to know when and how to ask for help, and not let bravado and ego mask anxieties. The best people know when they don’t know, and know how to find the right help.

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Is Your Company A Patriarchy? Seven Warning Signs To Watch For

YoungUpstarts

'by Dan Prosser, author of “ Thirteeners: Why Only 13 Percent of Companies Successfully Execute Their Strategy – and How Yours Can Be One of Them “. It sounds like a notion that should have gone the way of the gold watch, three-martini lunches, and the secretarial pool, but the truth is, patriarchy is alive and well inside of today’s companies.

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AppDirect Is Hiring After Closing a $50 Million Financing

Feld Thoughts

'Earlier this year, we took part in a $50 million Series D investment round in AppDirect. Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. That last part is particularly interesting from our perspective.

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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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Trilogy and the Extraordinary Power of a Great Network

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News No one ever really knew what Trilogy did, as Chris Taylor, CEO of Square Root and a former Trilogy employee pointed out on a SXSW panel Sunday morning. What they knew about was how Trilogy recruited, which was precisely the way a cult recruits. On a panel […] The post Trilogy and the Extraordinary Power of a Great Network appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Waking Up On The Other Side Of The World

Feld Thoughts

'Amy and I are spending the week in Dubai together. Today was our first day here and it reminded me of a great quote by Cayce Pollard in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. “Jet lag is your soul catching up with you.” That perfectly describes today. So, I’ll leave you with a bird’s eye view of Dubai starting from the Burj Khalifa, which is pretty epic at multiple levels.

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PayPal Shows Off Mobile Payment Technology at SXSW

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News No matter what kind of wallet a customer wants to use, PayPal plans to support it. “It’s exciting there are different people entering the industry,” said John Lunn, Senior Director, PayPal and Braintree Developer Relations. He spoke to Silicon Hills News at the PayPal Social Media Lounge […] The post PayPal Shows Off Mobile Payment Technology at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Weekend Favs March Fifteen

Duct Tape Marketing

'Weekend Favs March Fifteen written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. 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.

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Dell and Activist Adrian Grenier Building a Legacy of Good

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Dell is working on numerous social good and environmental sustainability initiatives including making packaging out of wheat straw and recycling the components of its discarded computers, according to a SXSW panel at the Dell Lounge 1101 E. 5th Saturday. The company has also connected with actor, director […] The post Dell and Activist Adrian Grenier Building a Legacy of Good appeared first on SiliconHills.

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